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| Just shut yer yap, leave me alone, and stop raising my blankety-blank taxes! |
By Steve Erbach on
Monday, December 15, 2003 6:41 AM
What's your reaction to the capture of Saddam Hussein?
(published 22-Dec-2003, Appleton Post-Crescent)
I appreciate the tough policy President Bush followed: keep searching until Saddam Hussein is found. Not one that was easy to pitch to critics as time went by. But American troops stuck to their mission and accomplished it. Flat out fantastic. But how would the critics respond? Howard Dean said at a fundraising concert, "He's a bad person and we're all better off with him in captivity. But you should know that my views on Iraq have not changed one bit." Swell. And the Reuters news agency ran this paragraph in a story about Palestinian gloom: "The former Iraqi ruler was a hero to many Palestinians for his stand against Israel and its U.S. ally, as well as for helping families of Palestinians dead in an uprising." This is the kind of thing I was expecting: "helping families...dead in an u ...
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By Steve Erbach on
Friday, December 05, 2003 6:50 AM
Who wins and who loses with the new 10-year, $400 billion Medicare prescription drug benefit?
(published 8-Dec-2003, Appleton Post-Crescent)
The party of limited government, eh? Sure. The passage of this bill ensures that seniors in Florida, who vote en masse, can be steered towards voting for a strong Republican Senatorial candidate to replace Bob Graham, who's already declared he won't run again. Pretty much everywhere else in the country the Medicare drug bill is a non-issue. In Florida it's number one. When President Bush began twisting arms for this bill, the first man he called was freshman Representative Tom Feeney of Florida. When Feeney protested, "I wasn't sent to Washington to increase the size and cost of government!", the President replied, "Neither was I, pal!"
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By Steve Erbach on
Friday, November 21, 2003 7:16 AM
What is the most destructive force at work in the U.S.?
(published 24-Nov-2003, Appleton Post-Crescent)
Faith in government, by far. Juvenal described it as "Bread and circuses". Take the recent furor over the proposed Medicare prescription drug bill. What do we see in the news? "Any bill is better than no bill" or "No bill is better than a bad bill." Never any argument that this would turn into another monstrous and costly albatross around our necks. Social Security will run out of money very shortly. So why do we want to saddle ourselves with another extremely expensive program? The answer is simple: our leaders want us to vote for them. They want to nurture the belief that the government can solve all our problems. They want us dependent upon government for everything. Some of us believe it already. We are rapidly approaching what Rudyard Kipling foresaw as the time "when al ...
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By Steve Erbach on
Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:51 AM
What is the most constructive force at work in the U.S. today?
(published 17-Nov-2003, Appleton Post-Crescent)
What it has always been: inventiveness and American know-how. Any American -- even victims of government-funded public schooling -- can come up with a long list of American inventors. Thomas Edison: phonograph, incandescent light; Alexander Graham Bell: telephone; Eli Whitney: cotton gin; Henry Ford: assembly line; Bill Gates: DOS and Windows; Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs: Apple Computer; William Nelson Beck: ultrasound; Clarence Birdseye: frozen food; Robert Fulton: the first successful American steamboat; Jack St. Clair Kilby: hand-held calculator; Bill (not Al) Gore: Goretex; Ben Franklin: bifocals, lightning rod, Franklin stove, odometer; Bill Shockley: transistor; Philo Farnsworth: television; George Crum: potato chips; Gary Dahl: the Pet Rock; James Wright: Silly Putty; Harold Melvin & the ...
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U.S. Congressman, Maxine Waters, says that the TEA Party "can go straight to hell." Well, after you, Maxine!
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