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By that logic should we prepay for our meals in sit-down restaurants? What if you decide you want dessert after... a second bill?
I have pumped gas in countries outside the U.S. and never have I had to prepay, only in the U.S. In Canada it is pay at the pump or if you are paying cash, pay after you pump. It is interesting to note that the gas stations near the border in Michigan are post-pay as well.
Well if someone thinks it's a hardship to prepay for gas then I don't know what to tell you. There's a reason for it. Most of us don't live in Barney Fifeville. Even small towns up north require you to prepay for gas. Big deal.
Riiiiiiiiiiight. I'd LOVE to see your proof Joe was a "big fan" of Hitler. What Joe wanted was to keep the US out of the war. JFK disagreed with his father.
By that logic should we prepay for our meals in sit-down restaurants? What if you decide you want dessert after... a second bill?
I have pumped gas in countries outside the U.S. and never have I had to prepay, only in the U.S. In Canada it is pay at the pump or if you are paying cash, pay after you pump. It is interesting to note that the gas stations near the border in Michigan are post-pay as well.
The only place I have seen a lot of pre-pay in the US is in high-crime areas. I have been a public health nurse, so yes, I've been in many of these areas. I have also seen "pre-pay after dark" in some places, again, usually in areas that could be described as "sketchy". For the most part, at the gas stations I usually frequent (am no longer a PHN), it is as you describe in Canada. Many places let you to elect to pay with a credit card at the window after pumping as well.
Yes--that was the best thing about the 'good old days'. Many Republicans liked Kennedy and Reagan liked many Democrats. That was before being a "real" Republican meant you have to hate anyone with differing ideas or policies and never compromise. Reagan would have been called a RINO today.
Better to be called a RINO than to automatically be labelled a racist if you don't stand in line with the socialist Obamacrats.
I hear lots of people saying that, here on CD, and occasionally IRL, but I grew up in the 50s/60s and that's not how we lived. My brother and I used to worry that Santa couldn't get into the house b/c we locked our door at night and we had no chimney. My parents would assure us they'd leave the door unlocked, and we checked before we went to bed on Christmas Eve!
Lands, yes, the smoking in hospitals. Nurses, and even some doctors smoked, sometimes a lot. It's funny that people now complain about men wearing hats indoors, when Kennedy, as said above, made it OK for them not to wear one outdoors.
To school and work, we wore boots and carried the shoes in a shoe bag. Going to church, out to dinner, etc, we just winged it.
Correlation does not equal causation.
That story about worrying for Santa is the cutest thing ever!
What's extreme about it? You pay for a product first before you leave with it. Same as with anything you purchase.
Your'e analogy is like paying $20 dollars to enter a store, before I bought anything, because their are so many shoplifters.
In the town I live in, you pull up to a gas pump, and if you don't insert a credit care the person inside the store politely says "pump #6 is turned on" over the intercom. You pump your gas, and go in and pay for it by putting your money into the hand of the person behind the counter, no little sliding bank teller type drawer, no communicating to employee behind the bullet proof plexiglas over a little speaker.
In my town, during the winter time, people even park their car, and leave their engine running when they duck into a convenience store to buy their morning coffee and donut. It's a small town of about 50,000 people, and their is almost no crime to speak of.
Yes--that was the best thing about the 'good old days'. Many Republicans liked Kennedy and Reagan liked many Democrats. That was before being a "real" Republican meant you have to hate anyone with differing ideas or policies and never compromise. Reagan would have been called a RINO today.
This is just the liberals trying to marginalize Reagan. He was disliked and marginalized by the RINOs of his day for expressing conservatism, the same as they are trying to marginalize Tea party folks today for expressing conservatism.
Now these same RINOs are trying to claim Reagan as their own. Sorry, but the truth is that a liberal establishment Republican in 1980, is a no different then the liberal establishment Republicans in 2013.
For forty odd years, before Reagan, the establishment Republicans in Washington just went along to get along, with the Democrats in power. Today, the establishment Republicans are going along to get along with the Democrats of today. And just like in the 1970s when Reagan dared to interfere with Washington politics, the RINOs despise the Tea party types for interfering in their "me give up" Washington politics of today.
This is the second time you have posted this tripe. Can you please cite your sources? Also--how old were you when Kennedy was assassinated? It's quite easy to post all the BS you want about someone long gone. You act like you are an expert on this subject--did you work in the media? Did you work in his administration? What expertise in political science of the 50s and 60s qualifies you to make these absurd statements?
A very reasonable request to Little Acorn.....SOURCES. I'd like to see those sources as well.
Maybe LA worked as a CIA agent as part of the Cuban exile contingent in South Florida, or perhaps the "sources" of the information LA posted were stories from parents or relatives who were Cuban exiles back in the late 1950s early 1960s. I'm guessing that no sources will be provided but a "translation" of our posts will be made. lol
If you are retired now you should remember 1963 and not have to rely on TV for images.
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Sorry, but the truth is that a liberal establishment Republican in 1980, is a no different then the liberal establishment Republicans in 2013.
