REPARATIONS for all - more Dems. gone wild - Page 3 - New England Patriots Forums

Patriot_in_NY · 05-08-2007, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Seymour93

The Japanese refuse to even admit they did anything wrong in WWII so the people of Guam will never get a penny from them.

Absolutly -FALSE- . Japan has many times offered public apoogies and statements of remorse for their actions during the WW2 era.

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Originally Posted by Seymour93

This is what we get for taking on a internationalist approach promoted by the Republicans of the Progressive Era. We annexed this island so we're now responsible for it. If a foreign occupier who were as brutal as Imperial Japan landed on the shores of the Continental United States, we'd still be feeling the effects today just as Guam are.

Ha, this is laughable. The Japanese invasion was the best long-term thing that ever happened to Guam. It's Per Capita PPP- GDP (an economic indicator) stands at -$19267- (last column - sort most/least). This puts it in the top 10 of all countries/colonies along the Pacific rim.

Among their peers, they are doing fine. They don't need our "reparations" for stuff we didn't do.

Out of control spending is what it is, plain and simple.

Real World · 05-08-2007, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by BelichickFan

The amazing part is that the majority of voters in BOTH parties oppose all this spending (not Patters but he's a fringe left wing nut) and, yet, the people we vote for continue to increase everything and cut nothing. I don't get it.

A good start would be for each bill to be a single line item event - every vote would be for one thing and one thing only. That way spending on bull***** couldn't be hidden in some bill that's highly favored for it's main features.

That's never going to happen. Just look at the bill the Dems passed trying to set a date for troop withdrawl. It was LOADED with pork to buy votes. When a pol has a chance to get a couple of hundred million dollars to his district, he's going to take it, especially if he thinks he has a tough race ocming up in 2008, or was recently elected in 2006. They only care about themsleves first, party second, with everything else being insignificant.