Pat Caddell: Country's Mood Is "Pre-Revolutionary"

Rana said:
No, as soon as something more promising comes along, she will bail! Write another book about it.
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That makes no sense. She wrote the book because she needed the money to pay for her attorney fees. Now she can just write a check.
 
Ice Dancer said:
Question:

I have read that the three fifths provision in the 13th amendment was created not to deny invidual rights, but to limit the representation of Southern States in Congress. Is this true? That only 3/5 ths of a stes slaves could be counted for representation?
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It was to abolish slavery, period.
 
Southern Man said:
"Appeal to Ridicule". Awesome that's all you got. :good4u:
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Naw, it's not alls I got but I don't need any more then that. Go ahead, nominate Palin, make my day! LOL

If Republicans are stupid enough to nominate Palin then Obama will crush her in the biggest landslide since Wally and the Beaver lost to Reagan.

I can't believe Republicans would be stupid enough to nominate her though.
 
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Threedee said:
It got all of the states in the Union, regardless of character (MA, CT, et. al. vs. SC, GA, et. al.) to legally recognize slaves as "persons."
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No, it got them to legally recognize slaves as 3/5th a person. Have you ever met a 3/5th person or even a 1/2 or 5/8th person? Neither have I. ;)
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I haven't forgotten the oil and I aint even brave enough to bring up sheep.
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The sheep thing belongs in another thread all together. Such things, as for,,,,,, as I can tell are recorded a lot in northeastern states. Especially early accounts.

Of course I know they brought it over the Atlantic, etc.
 
If you want to discuss sheep, I'm sure Charver won't mind if you strike up the chorus over in the "Why we're Doomed" thread, which he currently owns. :cool:
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Naw, it's not alls I got but I don't need any more then that. Go ahead, nominate Palin, make my day! LOL

If Republicans are stupid enough to nominate Palin then Obama will crush her in the biggest landslide since Wally and the Beaver lost to Reagan.

I can't believe Republicans would be stupid enough to nominate her though.
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Your analogy about Reagan is correct: the conservative crushed the one-term liberal, because they despised what he did to this country. Now its time for a radical conservative to crush the radical one-term liberal. Most Americans despise The Obama for what he has done to this country.

2012 will be the year for a radically conservative candidate.
 
It's not about parties, it's about government and its costs:

http://online.wsj.com/article_email...09733776372738-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwODEwNDgyWj.html

AUGUST 9, 2010
Why I'm Not Hiring
When you add it all up, it costs $74,000 to put $44,000 in Sally's pocket and to give her $12,000 in benefits.
By MICHAEL P. FLEISCHER

With unemployment just under 10% and companies sitting on their cash, you would think that sooner or later job growth would take off. I think it's going to be later—much later. Here's why.

Meet Sally (not her real name; details changed to preserve privacy). Sally is a terrific employee, and she happens to be the median person in terms of base pay among the 83 people at my little company in New Jersey, where we provide audio systems for use in educational, commercial and industrial settings. She's been with us for over 15 years. She's a high school graduate with some specialized training. She makes $59,000 a year—on paper. In reality, she makes only $44,000 a year because $15,000 is taken from her thanks to various deductions and taxes, all of which form the steep, sad slope between gross and net pay...

Because my company has been conscripted by the government and forced to serve as a tax collector, we have lost control of a big chunk of our cost structure. Tax increases, whether cloaked as changes in unemployment or disability insurance, Medicare increases or in any other form can dramatically alter our financial situation. With government spending and deficits growing as fast as they have been, you know that more tax increases are coming—for my company, and even for Sally too.

Companies have also been pressed into serving as providers of health insurance. In a saner world, health insurance would be something that individuals buy for themselves and their families, just as they do with auto insurance. Now, adding to the insanity, there is ObamaCare.

Every year, we negotiate a renewal to our health coverage. This year, our provider demanded a 28% increase in premiums—for a lesser plan. This is in part a tax increase that the federal government has co-opted insurance providers to collect. We had never faced an increase anywhere near this large; in each of the last two years, the increase was under 10%.

To offset tax increases and steepening rises in health-insurance premiums, my company needs sustainably higher profits and sales—something unlikely in this "summer of recovery." We can't pass the additional costs onto our customers, because the market is too tight and we'd lose sales. Only governments can raise prices repeatedly and pretend there will be no consequences.

And even if the economic outlook were more encouraging, increasing revenues is always uncertain and expensive. As much as I might want to hire new salespeople, engineers and marketing staff in an effort to grow, I would be increasing my company's vulnerability to government decisions to raise taxes, to policies that make health insurance more expensive, and to the difficulties of this economic environment.

A life in business is filled with uncertainties, but I can be quite sure that every time I hire someone my obligations to the government go up. From where I sit, the government's message is unmistakable: Creating a new job carries a punishing price.

Mr. Fleischer is president of Bogen Communications Inc. in Ramsey, N.J.
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Southern Man said:
Your analogy about Reagan is correct: the conservative crushed the one-term liberal, because they despised what he did to this country. Now its time for a radical conservative to crush the radical one-term liberal. Most Americans despise The Obama for what he has done to this country.

2012 will be the year for a radically conservative candidate.
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Yea I know and Santa's going to bring me that little red wagon I've always wanted too! LOL LOL LOL LOL
 
Mott the Hoople said:
No, it got them to legally recognize slaves as 3/5th a person. Have you ever met a 3/5th person or even a 1/2 or 5/8th person? Neither have I. ;)
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No it did not, it was a compromise. It meant that for purposes of taxation and representation every 3 out of 5 slaves were counted. It was a compromise because the Southern states wanted all the benefit of counting slaves for the purpose of increased representation, but did not want them counted for purposes of taxation...
 
Southern Man said:
When folks get angry they vote, and they are angry. The politician who promises to restore America back to its Constitutional greatness will do very well. These types are unlikely to pander to the country-club Republicans that have let the Democrat Party do what it has done.

I'm optimistic.
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Every Republican should be taken out and slaughtered. You have proven yourselves too great a danger. You're worse than terrorists. You will destroy America and inflict an unimaginable amount of suffering and evil. It's the only choice. Kill conservatives.
 
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