BS: Positive things about US presidents

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 07:57 PM

If people relly want Socialism they should pass ammendment to the US Constitution that allow such activities.

What on earth is there in your constitution that's incompatible with Socialism as such?

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 08:03 PM

Indeed. I'm in favour of both socialism and capitalism, and I think it takes a healthy mixture of the two to run a modern society effectively. Matter of fact, that should be obvious by now, but it's apparently not to people who can only think in stark extremes of black and white.

Since I am in favour of both socialism and capitalism, pdq, and do not find them mutually exclusive but find them harmoniously complementary, what does that make me? Am I a "socialist"? ;-) Am I a "capitalist"? ;-)

I am neither. I'm a human being.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: robomatic
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 08:10 PM

"Socialism is a great theory, the only problem with it is it CAN be realized" a witty person once said, and how right I was!


Above entire sentence was writted by Ephraim Kishon in an imaginative Israeli tale wherein he meets an embittered Karl Marx who laments that the only real Communists left are the Chinese

Yeah, it was a long time ago!

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: GUEST,Dickey
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 10:50 AM

I see what you mean Amos. You think QWB is even more intellectually challenged than you.

Where is this impeachment you said would happen?

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:26 AM

Thanks, pdq. And here is the question to your answer: "Richard Nixon, for getting term limits on the Presidency." Bunnahabhain 9:56

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 12:02 PM

Yes, I got I wrong, Presidential term limits came in in 1948, not with Nixon. I can't figure out for the life of me what the other thing I was thinking of at the time, but it was really profound, or something like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: Amos
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 12:18 PM

I did not say it would happen, Dickey head. I said it should happen, and I reported on many voices who were sounding off with similar sentiments. I provided pointers to voters in many states who felt strongly that it should happen. None of that was a prediction,merely a hope.

And the hope is still present; but not with a high estimate of probability.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 12:21 PM

Read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman", by John Perkins, Dickey.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: khandu
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 09:17 PM

March 4, 1849:
David Rice Atchison was technically president for one day.
While president, he did not embarrass us...he slept.

k

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: alanabit
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 02:35 AM

Positive thinking!

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: kendall
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:24 PM

I was born right in the middle of the great depression. FDR saw what had to be done and he did it. Can you see what would have happened if he had not been so courageous?
What the republicans said about the depression and what FDR said sums it all up for me.
Republicans..."This depression will cure itself in the long run."
FDR..........."People don't EAT in the long run."

Neither Hoover nor any other republican had a clue what to do, and actually, FDR came in without a plan of his own. He simply knew that something HAD to be done, so he called in people who DID know what to do.
I and my siblings ate because my father had a job with the WPA, and that was just the beginning which you wouldn't be interested in I'm sure.

Here is an old quote from the greatest republican, Abe Lincoln. When he was asked which is more important, labor or capital, he said "Capital is the result of labor, therefor, labor is more important." I'm too lazy to look it up so I paraphrased him.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: Riginslinger
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 01:08 PM

Well, since "supply-side" economics was put into place, capital has been the only thing that mattered. Ingenuity and hard work has very little value.
          It's hard for me to find anything positive to say about Ronald Reagan.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: RangerSteve
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 03:14 PM

The white house chef was on "Today" this morning. She revealed that Bush likes grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch, or peanut butter and honey on cinnamon-raisin bread. That's the first positive thing I've ever heard about him. Probably the last.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: GUEST, heric
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 03:30 PM

Bush Jr. positively set us back decades on foreign relations and on domestic policy issues (by debt burden).

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 03:42 PM

At least one site says the David Rice Atchison President for a day story is a myth.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 04:46 PM

It appears that all a politician has to do to get himself or herself branded a "socialist" is to try to do something both essential and decent for the population at large rather than merely catering to the wishes of corporate special interest groups.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
From: GUEST,Leftwing
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 05:02 PM

All a politician has to do to be branded socialist in the USA is to be left of George Bush or fundamentalist religions.