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All I know is that unless and until government is smaller and more manageable, we will continue to spend like crazy and get ourselves into more and more debt. The alternative is huge, huge taxes.
huge taxing, huge spending, huge government, sending troops abroad.........doesn't sound like change to me. sounds like bush.
You guys can whine all you want and have your tea-bagger parties. The market is up, the economy shows signs of recovering, and Obama has a very good chance of extending his power base in 2012. It positively sucks to be a Republican.
You guys can whine all you want and have your tea-bagger parties. The market is up, the economy shows signs of recovering, and Obama has a very good chance of extending his power base in 2012. It positively sucks to be a Republican.
Geez - you missed the part where a lot of Democrats were also participating at the "parties"?
In the 1787 most food was supplied by susbsitence farming, but nonetheless, the nacscent Department of Agriculture can trace its origins as early as 1836:
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, a Yale-educated attorney interested in improving agriculture, became Commissioner of Patents, a position within the Department of State. He soon began collecting and distributing new varieties of seeds and plants through members of the Congress and agricultural societies. In 1839 Congress established the Agricultural Division within the Patent Office and allotted $1,000 for "the collection of agricultural statistics and other agricultural purposes."
How large was this department as a % of GDP compared to today?
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As for communicable diseases... oh, puleeze! The understanding of communicable diseases in the 18th and mid-19th Century was barely better than their understanding of space travel.
The world didn't have an understanding of how the plague was communicated? Ah, ok!
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I have never voted for a republican.
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You guys can whine all you want and have your tea-bagger parties. The market is up, the economy shows signs of recovering, and Obama has a very good chance of extending his power base in 2012. It positively sucks to be a Republican.
Rlchurch - do you ever think for yourself? Or just blindly follow your master like a good slave?
All of my views cannot be aligned perfectly with any politician....at least I THINK and don't merely accept the crap some ultra-special leader shoves down my throat.
Rlchurch - do you ever think for yourself? Or just blindly follow your master like a good slave?
All of my views cannot be aligned perfectly with any politician....at least I THINK and don't merely accept the crap some ultra-special leader shoves down my throat.
That's exactly what you do and then barf it back for us..
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