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Dion said:
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It's been brought up before.

I said then and I said now --

I have zero problem with any of this so long as we return to the scope of government which existed when he was President. Which means everything the government does now, which it didn't do in 1960, gets chucked.

If you balk at that, then putting this up is bull****.
 
Harshaw said:
It's been brought up before.

I said then and I said now --

I have zero problem with any of this so long as we return to the scope of government which existed when he was President. Which means everything the government does now, which it didn't do in 1960, gets chucked.

If you balk at that, then putting this up is bull****.
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long as we return to the scope of government which existed when he was President
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But you see, it's the 1960s any more.
 
Back then partisanship didn't matter as much as it did today. Kennedy, a Democrat, lowered taxes IIRC. It wasn't about following a strict party platform, it was each president doing what he thought was best for the time.
 
madman said:
meant to say NOT the 60s anymore
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It's not the '50s anymore. Thus, comparing what anyone does now to what Eisenhower did THEN is specious at best.
 
Depends on the definition. He was also criticized for tolerating the New Deal-era policies.
 
I don't think that just because time moves on that the government should grow. It's obviously grown beyond it's means and needs to be drastically cut back. It may not be in the 60's, but in the 2010's government has grown far too much and we need to cut it back.
 
MadLib said:
Back then partisanship didn't matter as much as it did today. Kennedy, a Democrat, lowered taxes IIRC. It wasn't about following a strict party platform, it was each president doing what he thought was best for the time.
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This is a bit romantic. Partisan politics mattered a great deal back then as well. Just as much, if not more so.
 
Fiddytree said:
This is a bit romantic. Partisan politics mattered a great deal back then as well. Just as much, if not more so.
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Which is how LBJ got to be Veep. Electoral balance is nice, but it was also important to have someone who knew how to twist a few arms once in office.
 
madman said:
meant to say NOT the 60s anymore
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Really?!? Who told you this! What year is it?!!? How did this information escape me! :shock:

No really... So? You can roll back spending without rolling back civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, technology, workplace safety regulation or any knowledge gained since.
 
Jerry said:
Fun Fact: The US interstate highway system was inspired by and based off of the Nazi autobahn.
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Not to side track on the autobahn yet the autobahn was long before Nazi Germany. However evil Hitler was ... german engineering of highways was cutting edge from beginning to end.

AVUS and the World's First Autobahn
But the Cologne-Bonn superhighway was not the world's or Europe's first superhighway. The credit for that goes not to Hitler but to Benito Mussolini. The 80-mile autostrada from Milan (Mailand) to Varese was the world's first limited-access motorway. Designed and developed by Piero Puricelli, the Italian autostrada opened to traffic in 1924. Unlike the later autobahn, the Milan-Varese expressway was a toll road and did not have divided lanes until years later.

But the earliest precursor of the autobahn was German. Construction of the "intersection-free" AVUS (Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße) began in Berlin in 1912. Not fully completed until 1921, the AVUS was essentially a closed race and test track. The industrialist Hugo Stinnes later purchased the roadway and expanded it to four lanes running a distance of almost 20 km (12 mi). Only much later did the AVUS connect with Berlin's public road network. Today it is part of the A115 autobahn
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Eisenhower was an extraordinary leader to invest in the United states and create jobs while doing so.
 
Dion said:
Eisenhower was an extraordinary leader to invest in the United states and create jobs while doing so.
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Let's just make sure we don't start throwing money at infrastructure projects for the sake of throwing money at infrastructure projects. There was a strong pre-existing need for an interstate highway. There is no need for a high-speed rail or another bridge to nowhere.
 
Jerry said:
Let's just make sure we don't start throwing money at infrastructure projects for the sake of throwing money at infrastructure projects. There was a strong pre-existing need for an interstate highway. There is no need for a high-speed rail or another bridge to nowhere.
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I was thinking more along the line or repairing our crumbling infrastructure and RE instead of finite resources.
 
Jerry said:
Let's just make sure we don't start throwing money at infrastructure projects for the sake of throwing money at infrastructure projects. There was a strong pre-existing need for an interstate highway. There is no need for a high-speed rail or another bridge to nowhere.
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How about modernizing and fixing what we have? Is that off limits too?
 
The way the stimulus is being used in my city to repair our crumbling infrastructure is that they're putting big tin green fish, with holes in them, along the freeways. They also have some tin birds and on some freeway islands they've constructed big tin elk and other strange animals. They're also painting the concrete a light brown color and installing no-jump metal panels on one side only of raised walkways. Murals are probably on the way.
 
Lachean said:
Really?!? Who told you this! What year is it?!!? How did this information escape me! :shock:

No really... So? You can roll back spending without rolling back civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, technology, workplace safety regulation or any knowledge gained since.
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go back and re-read what i wrote. It appears that you are mis-understanding me.
 
Jerry said:
Right after the deficient is painful and we owe no other nation a dime.
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I agree, no more wars or militray involvement ANYWHERE until we pay off our debts.

ohh, does that put you out of a job? sorry about that.
 
madman said:
I agree, no more wars or militray involvement ANYWHERE until we pay off our debts.

ohh, does that put you out of a job? sorry about that.
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The military doesn't lay people off. Jerry will be fine.
 
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