Obama, Clinton clash on foreign policy, plagiarism charges

I am not going anywhere, dammit.Feb 23rd, 2008 - 06:32:54

'If the government is obliged, by whatever means, to feed you, clothe you and see after your health, the government is going to find it necessary to control your lifestyle, right down to fining you for eating more than one hamburger in week. If you think I am kidding you about this, take a look at what welfare driven political correctness is doing to the United Kingdom. Personal liberty is all but moribund there.'

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(London, England) According to a study by the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), smart people are leaving Britain. It's being called the largest exodus in 50 years.

As an analogy, I'd call it a correction, in Wall Street terminology, where people are investors and Britain is a stock. People (investors) are moving away from the stock (Britain) because they see more returns in other stocks (nations). Britain needs to improve its prospectus.

In any event, the rate of departures is alarming. One highly-skilled university graduate left Britain for good every three minutes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, throughout 2006. Of all the nations in the study, only Mexico had more people emigrate.

The most popular destinations are English-speaking countries such as Australia, America, Canada and New Zealand and holiday areas including France and Spain.

Almost 60 per cent of those leaving take jobs, although hundreds of thousands of retired people live abroad.

The report is a statistical analysis which does not study the motivation for leaving Britain. However, high house prices and taxes and poor climate are frequently cited.

The shadow Immigration Minister said people are leaving due to high taxes and government regulation imposed by a decade of Labor Party rule.

Even so, isn't it odd that so many people want to leave a nanny state and give up all the cradle-to-grave goodies?

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NoharnessFeb 23rd, 2008 - 06:39:42

Thanks, but I am not a candidate and likely never will be, but there is something I would like to hear Senator McCain say.

'I am not here to be your savior. I am not worthy to be such a thing and make no pretense that I am or ever could be! What I am here to do is to fight for mine and your freedom! That is what I have been doing for all of my adult life. I have fought in battle torn skies and I have fought right here at home. I will not promise you a free ride. I do promise to safeguard your freedom to take reign over your own life. That is what the United States was founded to do and any who claim otherwise are lying. What I can and do promise is to keep right on fighting for the freedoms that make you and me, Americans! But...But, I am just one man. If you want to stay free, then you have to help me do this job. I know you can do it because you have always done it before. The American people have always stood for themselves and wath they have always dearly believed and I know you can and will do it again.

We are not a nation of hapless boobs fit only to wear chains the doomsayers would forge for us. We are a free people and we will remain a free people and we WILL adapt and we WILL overcome, no matter what sort of trouble confronts us. We have no need for crutches. We are a strong, self-reliant people ready and able to fend for ourselves.'

I am sick unto death of hearing the weepy-eyed, limp-wristed bullshit the Democrats insist on espousing. Enough is, by Jove, enough!

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NoharnessFeb 23rd, 2008 - 06:53:32

RE:'Even so, isn't it odd that so many people want to leave a nanny state and give up all the cradle-to-grave goodies?'

The United States was founded by men and women willing to leave comfort in favor of opportunity and those kind of people have always been our best leaders. Making an effort to escape misery is a no-brainer. Making an effort to achieve something more than enforced comfort will allow is greatness.

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Mary AnnFeb 23rd, 2008 - 22:58:43

The thing that worries me the most is that Obama says if he gets elected he will take the cap off social security taxes meaning that our taxes for that go up and he also wants to raise income taxes. If you read Class Matters, it says that it is the upper middle class, some of whom are not within reach of purchasing their own homes, who pay the highest percentage in taxes. So this just means that the people who already are bearing the greatest tax burden will bear an even higher tax burden and never be able to buy their own howm or send their kids to college. It's a type of slavery and it bothers me that a black person would be imposing this on us.

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NoharnessFeb 24th, 2008 - 02:45:50

It isn't the color of a man's skin that matters, Mary Ann. It's what goes on between his ears. The Clintons have the exact same thing in mind. Fortunately, they are not nearly so slick when it comes to peddling their goo. Senator Obama will not get away with it either.

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SP4:Feb 24th, 2008 - 19:00:35

'...in slavery, everyone has a job...!' - Rev. Jesse Jackson

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