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It is good to see that people decide to make there own rules and justify them by saying how important they are to the program. Thanks.

Is it just me or does it seem like summer camp administrators really don't like to talk about the salaries they offer. P.S. It might help to post your email address.

Well said! I cringe when I hear people who get a refund and say they didn't have to pay anything this year.

Amen, Adrianvs We should not worry about what earrings work "right" with our uniform. We should wonder about how we can help the boys.

One has to give Bush the credit for his Social Security Program. Like it or not he put his neck on the line for it. A President can not work magic by himself though. Democrats AND Republicans in Congress showed little determination to put ANY plan through.

Good point. Such systems would never be possibe in the US. Think of how much the federal, local, and state governments are paying for entitlements now. They are busting budgets on all levels. In our paper today it said that all pork spending amounts for $97 million, 1 % of the federal budget, projected Iraq spending is another 2 %. The rest of it is the problem. The federal budget has huge structural problems.

Lisabob, Winston Churchill also once said "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." I don't know what countries you have had experience in but several points. I live on the Canadian border and our paper just did a feature several weeks ago about the problems the plague of problems Canadas public health system. Furthormore, many of the socialist European countries find it much easier for such government initiatives because they are ethnically and racially homogeneous, relativly wea

I would go with Kahuna on this one. Though Lisabob's reasons for government activism sound good in theory in reality, government action is often riddled with partisanship, corruption, and waste. The private sector does things so much better. Compare the waitng times and quality of care in the Canadian pubic health care system and ours and there is no comparison. For these reason many countries have privatized or partially privatized their mail systems such as Japan and Sweden. Even the United Kingdom is debating selling off Royal Mail.

It seems odd that in one thread we talked about how uneducated voters are, and in this one we criticize the news and radio, which have a potential for educating them. It seems that you don't like news that doesn't meet your standards . . . thats democratic.

If there aren't offices, there aren't offices. An alternative is to have them do the "scoutmaster approved leadership project" which also fits the requirement.

If Sparta and Rome perished, what state can hope to endure forever? Jean Jacques Rousseau

Bush also has federal education funding at an all time high.

Bush and the Republicans are definatly more conservative than the Democratic Party. However the Conservative movement, all others has different branches which I believe have only been widened by the success of Conservatism in the last 20 years. The main gulf is between the neoconservative and the paleoconservatice movement. Many call Bush a "NeoCon" but few know what they actually mean. Most of the conservative sentiments here are are old fashioned paleoconservatism. Both thoughts are conservative, just different branches of the philosophy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoc

I got to admit I really don't understand the "L" and "C" thing. It seems a bit childish and only seems to confuse intelligent debate.

True, but just by claiming to follow Reagan's legacy doesn't mean they ARE following it. People (especially politicians) may claim whatever they want.

"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is our problem." -Ronald Reagan

Well Said

What if the voter likes Hannity's views and trusts his opinions and votes for a canidate for that reason. What business of yours is it why someone votes for a canidate.

Why should a voter not be able to vote for a canidate because they like his personality and/or trust him?

I think voter qualifications should be decided by the people, through their elected state legislatures. That way the values and traditions of each locality can be respected. This was how it was done for over a century until the federal government got involved and stuck its nose in like it does with everything else.

My feeling is that we should trust the private market which has treating us so well in the past. When the day comes that we need other energy sources American ingenuity and private funding will combine to come up with the best possible solution. Until then the government will continue to pour billions of dollars into inefficient research.

True, but Conservatism would ask, is the government the best agent to do the job? It is a slipperly slope. First the government steps in to build energy infrastructure, what is next? And where does it stop? "They also knew those Founding Fathers did, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does no thing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy." -Ronald Reagan

captainiron14, We used to have literacy tests in parts of this country but they were branded as racist and were finally made illegal by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (which many civil rights leaders are demanding gets extended as it appeals sometime soon). Apparently there are many in this country who don't think one should have to be literate to vote.

Gern, I saw you mention in another friend that you consider yourself a paleoconservative, which I consider myself as well. With all do respect though, I find it odd that you also advocate a Manhattan or Apollo project style energy initiative. This seems like the antithesis of paleoconservatism and something I would see from the mouth of FDR.

Though I do not embrace the nonpartisan idea, such a system does exist for the Nebraska legislature. There is a primary and the top two canidates make it to the general election. No party labels are used in the election or in the legislature itself. To quote the legislature's website, http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/learning/history.htm "Another unique aspect of Nebraskas legislature is its nonpartisanship. Before becoming a unicameral, the Nebraska Legislature was a partisan one. The change to nonpartisanship was included in the successful 1934 unicameral amendment. Being a