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| the time is right for a new center right party | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 12 2016, 12:41 PM (423 Views) | |
| Tesla | Jun 12 2016, 12:41 PM Post #1 |
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The right has gotten too extreme, too intolerate and too corrupt to be a viable alternative to the center left Dems. Right wing moderates are finally starting to fight back. Romney and Meg Whitman are just the beginning. I long for the day a true Conservative party emerges. One that's socially liberal, who believe government should stay out of people's bedrooms and doctors offices and one that's is truly fiscally responsible. You know, if you want war you raise taxes. If you want fixed roads and bridges you raise taxes. You want tax cuts you cut spending elsewhere (crazy concept I know) |
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| Attaburnsinhell | Jun 12 2016, 12:47 PM Post #2 |
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We already got a center right party. It's called the Democratic party |
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| estonianman | Jun 12 2016, 12:55 PM Post #3 |
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Here's the thing - if you look back through the debates and elections, anyone that hints at shutting down the shrimp treadmills is considered a far right anarchist. You will never be fiscally responsible if you can't even cut future growth. |
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| CautionaryTales | Jun 12 2016, 01:03 PM Post #4 |
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Take the case of the "shrimp on a treadmill." Burnett says the senator's report linked that work to a half-million-dollar research grant. But that money actually went to a lot of different research that he and his colleagues did on this economically important seafood species. The treadmills were just a small part of it, a way to measure how shrimp respond to changes in water quality. Burnett says the first treadmill was built by a colleague from scraps and was basically free, and the second was fancier and cost about $1,000. The senator's report was misleading, says Burnett, "and it suggests that much money was spent on seeing how long a shrimp can run on a treadmill, which was totally out of context." http://www.npr.org/2011/08/23/139852035/shrimp-on-a-treadmill-the-politics-of-silly-studies |
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Have you paid your internet taxes? | |
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| Harambe4Trump | Jun 12 2016, 01:05 PM Post #5 |
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The country is going to go bankrupt. It won't be the end of the world. |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| estonianman | Jun 12 2016, 01:06 PM Post #6 |
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Its a common meme that represents over-spending in government. But thanks for the info. |
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| CautionaryTales | Jun 12 2016, 01:14 PM Post #7 |
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Yes...those common memes are often half assed representatives of the truth, aren't they? |
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Have you paid your internet taxes? | |
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| estonianman | Jun 12 2016, 01:15 PM Post #8 |
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You just aren't very bright. In this case - the forest for the trees. |
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| CautionaryTales | Jun 12 2016, 01:17 PM Post #9 |
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Im not bright?... But you use half assed memes to make your points? Where does that leave you? |
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Have you paid your internet taxes? | |
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| estonianman | Jun 12 2016, 01:19 PM Post #10 |
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Like i said - forest for the trees. You are stuck talking about shrimp treadmills when the discussion is about fiscal restraint on the government. Whether you are purposely trying to dodge the discussion or just a dog staring at the stick I am about to throw - that's your problem. Edited by estonianman, Jun 12 2016, 01:19 PM.
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| CautionaryTales | Jun 12 2016, 01:33 PM Post #11 |
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You brought up the shrimp treadmills. I pointed out that the shrimp treadmills discussion is an out of context argument, which you agreed to when you admitted it to be nothing more than the right wing meme that is suggested. |
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| estonianman | Jun 12 2016, 01:36 PM Post #12 |
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Shrimp Treadmills represent rampant waste and resource misallocation by the federal government. A true right party would advocate for the resources to remain in the marketplace where they can be used more efficiently. However this is impossible - because as soon as a candidate brings this into the discussion - muh' roads, muh' children', muh' womenz is the coordinated chorus from the left. |
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| philly rabbit | Jun 12 2016, 01:49 PM Post #13 |
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When do you graduate law school? |
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| grannyhawkins | Jun 12 2016, 11:03 PM Post #14 |
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I say that big talk's worth doodly-squat
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Actually, the world has gotten too extreme, too intolerant and too corrupt!!! Which all goes back to our leadership!!! Voters on either side of the political spectrum are just workin stiffs an only respond to what's goin on around them. Voters react to the morning paper an the evenin news, they have a pretty durn good grasp of what's goin on an bein worried about everybody's feelins for a generation ain't worked, political correctness ain't worked, an the war on poverty has worked just as well as the war on drugs. Don't need no feel good "center right" "center left" "fruit loop left" or "fruit loop right"!!! Time fur some tough love!!! |
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