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What is the fastest and cheapest gas route to Kansas from California by car?
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I'm traveling from Los Angeles to Kansas City in a Mazda 626 '96. I get 25 miles a gallon. I usually take the Southwest route. I.E, LA to Needles to Flagstaff to ABQ to Gallup to Liberal KS et cet.

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Interstate 15 through Las Vegas and into Utah. Then Interstate 70 directly into Kansas City.

People in the western states... Have you ever been attacked by tumbleweed?
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My engeneering teacher told me this hilarious story about him driving through Liberal, Kansas. He was driving on an empty road with no cars from miles away. All of a sudden out of nowhere a gigantic ball of tubleweed rolled out into the middle of the street and he hit the brakes. He hit the thing hard and it really messed up the appearance of his vehicle. He had to spend an hour cleaning the debris of the tubleweed off of his car.

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Man if you're driving at night they will scare the heck out of you .Driving down some dark 2 lane road doing 75mph BANG ! out of nowhere there's this huge object in front of you, which immediately disintegrates into a million pieces as soon as you hit it. The first question that you immediatley ask is who or WTF did I just hit ? We can all laugh about it now but the first couple of times it happens it almost gives you a heart attack.

How do I keep my wife from becoming bored on roadtrip from Minneapolis to Phoenix?
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My wife gets bored on long car trips. We're driving from Minneapolis to Phoenix via Des Moines, Kansas City, Wichita, Liberal, Sante Fe. Going in December. Any interesting or oddball stops along the way? Or unusually good restaurants? Need something to look forward to other than boredom.

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not on that route but if you take I-35 to I-80 and then take 80 west to julesberg NE take I-76 to Denver and the follow I-70 over the Rockies through grand Jct Co use the Arches National Park Exit- 204 explore arches and Moab UT . next day follow US163 south into monument valley At kayenta AZ make a right on 160 - once you cross the San Juan river at mexican hat Ut you will be smack inthe middle of the Navajo Nation all 26000 square miles of it [ btw just before you get to mexican hat there is a side road that will take you to the goose necks of the san juan state park- use it the views are spectacular] take 160 all the way to the jct of US 89 - just before you reach the jct of 89 you will see a sign for dinosaur tracks. yes there are real honest -to -god tracks from three toed dinosaurs >the problem is that some of your " tour guides " may have ingested a fermented beverage prior to showing you the tracks, have several singles readily available and use due dilegence. left on 89 when you get to cameron az you have a decison to make if you make a right on sr 64 it will take you to grand canyon National park and if you plan to visit more than one NP buy the $50.00 golden eagle pass Immediatley after you cross the little colorado river bridge you will see the Cameron trading post on your right - a good spot to get lunch and do some shopping. They have an amazing collection of pendelton blankets. In this part of the world it is a tradition to give a pendelton blanket as a goodbye present,so they sell a lot of them. exactly six miles up on 64 from cameron is a native american jewelery sales area all prices are negotiable and the view of the little colorado river gorge is spectacular Out of the park south on 64 at Valle you can eiter go straight to williams and take i-40 east to I-17 2 exits[ airport] use 89A south through oak creek canyon and into sedona or you can make a left at valle and take 180 into flagstaff There are some really weird shops in valle you will see a lockheed constellation parked just north of that is an interesting rock/curio shop There are some really interesting shops and restaurants in flagstaff centered on the jct of san francisco st and rt 66 La Fondas is a favorite mexican restaurant ask the local how to find it. Anyway out of town 66 when the road splits keep left and follow directions to sedona If you chose not to make the right to the canyon and go straight 89 to the top of the pass make a left when you see the signs for sunset crater volcanos and fresh lava back to 89 south to I-40 west to I-17 south or you could still head into down town flagstaff ask somebody at the car wash across from sears where la fondas' is to leave sedona make a left at the major intersection in town and then back to I-17 south to PHX There is a really great and expensive french restaurant in sedona called L' Auberge If you're in the mood I highly recommend it this route from the denver to grand canyon takes you across some of the greatest scenry in america have fun

Truly, when was the last time a liberal went on a political killing spree?
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911 was perpetrated by muslim religious conservatives who believed in religion in government, hated gays and liberals, had conservative social values, and wanted to turn back the clock to an idealized past that never existed. ========================== Richard Poplawski, loser who lived with his mom, killed three cops he thought were Obama people trying to take his guns away. He was stockpiling a mini arsenel of guns and machine guns. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512560,00.html Jim David Adkisson, right-wing loser who wrote his "I hate liberals" letter and massacred a bunch of liberals at a Unitarian church. He was found with a bunch of right-wing idiot books from Micheal Savage and Bill O'Reilly. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jul/28/church-shooting-police -find-manifesto-suspects-car/ James Von Brunn, white supremecist who believed Obama was created by jews and shot up a Holocaust museum and killed a black employee. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/06/11/20 09-06-11_holocaust_museum_guard_.html Scott Roeder, the latest anti-abortion extremist murdered Dr George Tiller. http://www.kansas.com/2010/04/01/1249310/roeder-to-be-se ntenced-thursday.html Byron Williams, another right-wing loser was on his way to kill a bunch of liberals at the progressive Tides foundation and the ACLU. He targetted the Tides Foundation because that was one of Glenn Beck's favorite targets. He said Glenn "blew his mind" by supporting all his wacko conspiracy theories. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/1016/Did-Gle nn-Beck-s-rhetoric-inspire-violence Keith Luke, white supremecist who killed two minorities and raped and attempted to kill a third. His targets were minorities and jews. As a white supremecist he believed liberal jews are trying to exterminate the white race. http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_the_news/White_Supre macy/Keith+Luke.htm? LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremis m_in_the_News And of course, this loser who tried to assasinate a Democrat and her supporters. He was extremely anti-government, thought the government was trying to brainwash people, and believed in the "new world order" single currency conspiracy that was not "backed by gold or silver". He also called a classmate a terrorist and a baby killer when her poem was about abortion. Timothy McVeigh, registered Republican and NRA member who blew up a federal building killing 168 Americans. Eric Rudolph, anti-abortion murderer. John Salvi, anti-abortion murderer. Paul Hill, anti-abortion murderer. The anthrax letters sent to Democrats and the media. Joseph Paul Franklin, right-wing serial murderer of minorities and liberals. All the 911 attackers who killed in the name of religion, who believed in religion in government, conservative social values, and a return to an idealized past that never existed. All the civil rights murderers of 1960s. The Greensboro massacre of American communists by the KKK and the American nazi party. The unabomber, right-wing idiot who thinks liberals are losers. He sounds just like a conservative in the manifesto he wrote. I quote: "Words like "self-confidence," "self-reliance," "initiative", "enterprise," "optimism," etc. play little role in the liberal and leftist vocabulary. The leftist is anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. He wants society to solve everyone's needs for them, take care of them. He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs. The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser." http://cyber.eserver.org/unabom.txt No sooner, This jared wacko was anti-government, believed in the new world order single currency conspiracy that was no backed by gold or silver, and called a classmate a terrorist and a baby killer when she read her abortion poem. Can't you read? Muslims can be left-wing or right-wing. The right-wing kind believe in religion in government, prayer in schools, conservative social values, and guns and god, much like christian conservatives. ================== poems, All those eco-terrorists. Ok. When? What shooting spree are you talking about? Who got killed?

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ranty ranty.

this doesn't make sense?
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i think that all my facts are right. I'm conservative and pro-life. I also support the alexa law. It states that if I kill you/unborn baby i can get charged with 2 murders. here's what doesn't make sense. a liberal woman in kansas is 1 month preggers. she wants an abortion. all her liberal friends/family are like oh it's ok go 4 it. she does it. another liberal woman is 1 month pregnant, but this time she wants the baby. i get in a car wreck w/ her and kill her and the baby. i get charged w/ 2 murders. my point is it's murder only if the woman wants the baby, yet the supreme court stated that unborn children aren't people some 30 years ago i believe. am i the only person that says this law contradicts itself? I don't believe in abortion except in the case where the 9 y/o was raped and got pregnant. she needed the abortion to save her live, also, no 9 y/o should have that kind of trauma. thanks to right you are ken, i didn't mean murder for the accident. i meant manslaughter. but i also want to throw in that i shot the woman 7 times in the stomach and killed her and the baby.

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It does seem to be a paradox. I guess the mother gets to decide if life is viable or not.

How many Americans would consider the president's childhood a healthy environment?
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ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL VERSION OF THE STORY: President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. President Obama's mother was Stanley Ann Dunham, born in Wichita, Kansas on November 29, 1942. She was named Stanley because her father was also named Stanley and he had hoped for a son. She used the name Stanley throughout her childhood, which caused her intense embarassment. By the time she entered college, she switched to using her middle name instead. In high school, she was known as the "original feminist," in a Seattle area school that was known for its liberal teachings. As a teenager, Ann Dunham declared that she did not desire to be married, and she did not believe in dating boys. Her father had suffered the severe trauma of discovering the body of his 26 year old mother after she committed suicide when he was 8 years old. Then his father abandoned him and his older brother, and they had to live with their maternal grandparents. As a teenager he allegely punched the principal of his high school, and during the Depression he lived as a railroad hobo, travelling from Chicago to California and back by hopping rail cars. Ann's mother was an honor roll student from a strict Methodist family, but she liked to go to Wichita for big band concerts. When she met Stanley he was a furniture salesman, with a reputation for being very charming. She married Stanley on May 5, 1940, on the night of her senior prom. The president's father was Barack Obama, Sr., born in Kenya on April 4, 1936. His own father had at least three wives. He married at age 18, then he got a scholarship to study in the West under an "airlift" program funded by prominent African Americans in the USA, including several well known entertainers and activists. He became the first African student admitted to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where Ann Dunham was also a student. He had been a Muslim when he was young, but reportedly he was an athiest by the time he left Kenya. When Barack Obama, Sr. went to Hawaii at age 23, he abandoned his pregnant wife and infant son in Kenya. So by age 23 he had already created one baby mama back home when he met Ann Dunham in Russian class in 1960. Ann, who had no experience with dating, met a man with one baby mama under his belt already. Working backwards from the President's stated date of birth, Ann conceived little Barry in December, 1960, just weeks after her 18th birthday, and less than a year after meeting the daddy of her baby. Apparently Barack, Sr. was pretty slick with chicks, even as a recent arrival in the country. Ann married Barack Obama, Sr. on February 2, 1961. She was 18 years old and already 3 months pregnant. Little Barack Obama, Jr. was born six months later. By January 1962, when little Barry was 5 months old, Ann Dunham had moved back to the Seattle area and enrolled in college there, while her husband remained in Hawaii. Barack, Sr. enrolled in Harvard in the fall of 1962, where he later graduated with a master's degree in economics. Ann divorced her husband in January 1964, and she went on food stamps. She became Barack Obama, Sr.'s second baby mama. Barack Obama, Sr. returned to Kenya in 1965 and married a American born woman he had met in the USA. In that year, he published a paper "Problems Facing Our Socialism" in the East Africa Journal. He had two children with his third wife, then he divorced and married a fourth time, and had one more child. During his lifetime, Barack Obama, Sr. fathered at least six children with four different women. In 1966-7, Ann met and married Lolo Soetro, and they moved to Indonesia when little Barry was 6 years old. Barry returned to Hawaii when he was 10 to live with Ann's parents. Barack, Sr. fell from political grace in his native Kenya, and he fell into drinking and poverty. He suffered a leg injury in a car accident sometime before he visited his 10 year old son Barack, Jr. in Hawaii in 1971. It was the last time little Barry saw his biological father. Barack, Sr. lost both legs in a second car accident, and he later died in a third car accident in Nairobi in 1982. Ann left Lolo in 1972 and moved back to Hawaii. They divorced in 1980. Ann earned a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Hawaii in 1992. She died from uterine cancer in 1995, after the symptoms had been misdiagnosed as indigestion when she went to the doctor with stomach pains in Indoneisa in 1994. Barack Obama, Jr. led a severely disrupted childhood, starting in early infancy. He moved constantly from place to place, suffering constant changes in his caregiver arrangement. His mother seemed incapable of establishing a stable home environment. His father seemed unable or unwilling to stay in a committed relationship with one woman, so he likely would have left Ann if she hadn't beat him to it. With role models like these, and with the constant disruptions of his childhood, it's no wonder that President

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sounds like a typical life in the hood. After all how many people get to go to harvard for free

Is this the best Obama can do in a speech?
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"From Kiev to Cape Town, prison camps were closed" The Berlin wall came down in November 1989, the apartheid was officially over in 1994, typical liberal rewriting history, but what can you expect from someone who is in-experienced and thinks we have 57 states. "As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya." Wow yet another global warming nutcase comment, and how many more times does Obama mention Kenya? "Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris." Obama preparing his war plans on attacking Pakistan again? "These now are the walls we must tear down." Poor Obama has to plagerize a REAL Patriot's speech, Ronald Reagan. Stay tuned for more of the not so great speech by the not so great Obama. How come there is NO bounce in the polls?

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Granted he is trying to win an election. But since when do you go to another country to campaign for office--those people can't vote for him.The speeches by Reagan & Kennedy were made AFTER they were in office.

Do cons really expect liberals to sit quietly while right-wing extremists murder liberals?
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Richard Poplawski, loser who lived with his mom, killed three cops he thought were Obama people trying to take his guns away. He was stockpiling a mini arsenel of guns and machine guns. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512560,00.html Jim David Adkisson, right-wing loser who wrote his "I hate liberals" letter and massacred a bunch of liberals at a Unitarian church. He was found with a bunch of right-wing idiot books from Micheal Savage and Bill O'Reilly. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jul/28/church-shooting-police -find-manifesto-suspects-car/ James Von Brunn, white supremecist who believed Obama was created by jews and shot up a Holocaust museum and killed a black employee. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/06/11/20 09-06-11_holocaust_museum_guard_.html Scott Roeder, the latest anti-abortion extremist murdered Dr George Tiller. http://www.kansas.com/2010/04/01/1249310/roeder-to-be-se ntenced-thursday.html Byron Williams, another right-wing loser was on his way to kill a bunch of liberals at the progressive Tides foundation and the ACLU. He targetted the Tides Foundation because that was one of Glenn Beck's favorite targets. He said Glenn "blew his mind" by supporting all his wacko conspiracy theories. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/1016/Did-Gle nn-Beck-s-rhetoric-inspire-violence Keith Luke, white supremecist who killed two minorities and raped and attempted to kill a third. His targets were minorities and jews. As a white supremecist he believed liberal jews are trying to exterminate the white race. http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_the_news/White_Supre macy/Keith+Luke.htm?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in _the_News And of course, this loser who tried to assasinate a Democrat and her supporters. He was extremely anti-government, thought the government was trying to brainwash people, and believed in the "new world order" single currency conspiracy that was not "backed by gold or silver". He also called a classmate a terrorist and a baby killer when her poem was about abortion. Timothy McVeigh, registered Republican and NRA member who blew up a federal building killing 168 Americans. Eric Rudolph, anti-abortion murderer. John Salvi, anti-abortion murderer. Paul Hill, anti-abortion murderer. The anthrax letters sent to Democrats and the media. Joseph Paul Franklin, right-wing serial murderer of minorities and liberals. The unabomber, right-wing idiot who thinks liberals are losers. He sounds just like a conservative in the manifesto he wrote. I quote: "Words like "self-confidence," "self-reliance," "initiative", "enterprise," "optimism," etc. play little role in the liberal and leftist vocabulary. The leftist is anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. He wants society to solve everyone's needs for them, take care of them. He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs. The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser." http://cyber.eserver.org/unabom.txt Primo, What are the left-wing extremists doing? Tell me the people they have killed in the last 10 years. Alex, Here's that list. - threw oil on fur coats - walked around naked with protest signs - liberated test animals - chained themselves to trees - yelled chants that rhymed and got arrested and at worst - burned SUVs I guess you could put that asian guy who got killed at the Discovery building, but he didn't kill anybody. ===================== Sequestered, He was a conservative who hated the government, believed in the "new world order" single currency conspiracy that was not "backed by gold or silver" and called a pro-choice classmate a terrorist and a baby killer. This nut case targetted a Democrat. Who he shot at afterward was random.

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You need to figure out why libs decided seriously mentally ill people could be left to roam the streets instead of getting help they need in a setting safe for them and for society. You also need to learn to get the facts instead of listening to speculative twaddle. The guy who shot the AZ congresswoman was a devotee of The Communist Manifesto, hardly "right wing." And known to be unbalanced for an extended period, he did not get mental health help he needed. This is not a matter of politics. This is a matter of deranged mentally ill people not getting help and endangering others.

Rules of the South!?
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Rules of the South A friend just moved from Southern California to North Carolina and he e-mailed this. He said they gave it to him at the state line. If you are going to live or visit in the South, you need to know these rules: 1. That farm boy you see at the gas station did MORE work before breakfast than you do all week at the gym. 2. It's called a "gravel road." No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Navigator. Drive it or get out of the way. 3. The red dirt -- it's called clay. Red clay. If you like the color, don't wash your car for a couple weeks -- it'll be permanent. 4. We all started hunting and fishing when we were seven years old. Yeah, we saw Bambi. We got over it. 5. Go ahead and bring your $600 Orvis Fly Rod. Don't cry to us if a flathead breaks it off at the handle. We have a name for those little 13-inch trout you fish for -- bait. 6. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot. 7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of mallards (ducks) are making their final approach, we will shoot it (the phone). You might want to ensure it's not up to your ear at the time. 8. No, there's no "Vegetarian Special" on the menu. Order steak. Order it rare or, you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the two pounds of ham and turkey. 9. Tea - yeah, we have tea. It comes in a glass over ice and is really, really sweet. You want it hot -- sit it in the sun. You want it unsweetened -- add a LOT of water. 10. You bring Coke into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served over ice. 11. So, you have a sixty thousand dollar car. We're real impressed. We have a quarter of a million-dollar combine (it's farm equipment) that we only use two weeks a year. 12. Let's get this straight. We have one stoplight in town. We stop when it's red. We may even stop when it's yellow. 13. We eat dinner together with our families. We pray before we eat (yeah, even breakfast). We go to church on Wednesdays and Sundays and we go to high school football games on Friday nights. We still address our seniors with "yes, sir" and "yes, ma'am," and we sometimes still take Sunday drives around town to see friends and neighbors. 14. We don't do "hurry up" well. 15. Greens - yeah, we have greens, but you don't putt on them. You boil them with salty fatback, bacon or a ham hock. 16. Yeah, we eat catfish, bass, bream (pronounced brim) and carp. You really want sushi and caviar? It's available at the bait shop. 17. They are pigs. That's what they smell like (money). Get it -- pig farms -- income -- money? Get over it. Don't like the smell? Interstate 85 goes two ways Interstate 40 goes the other two. Pick one. 18. Grits are corn. You put butter, salt, and maybe even some pepper on them. If you want to put milk and sugar on them, then you want Cream of Wheat -- go to Kansas . That would be I-40 west. 19. The "Opener" refers to the first day of deer season or dove season. Both are holidays. You can get pancakes, cane syrup, and sausage before daylight at the church on either day. 20. So every person in every pickup waves? Yeah, it's called being friendly. Understand the concept? 21. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don't hit in the water hazards. It spooks the fish and bothers the gators...and if you hit it in the rough, we have these things called diamondbacks, and they're not baseball players. 22. That Highway Patrol Officer that just pulled you over for driving like an idiot...his name is "Sir," no matter how young he is. 23. We have lots of pine trees. They have sap. It drips from them. You park your Navigator under them, and they'll leave a logo on your hood. 24. You burn an American flag in our state, you get beat up. No questions. The liberal contingent of our state legislature -- all four of them -- enacted a measure to stop this. There is now a $2.50 fine for beating up the flag burner. 25. No, we don't care how you do things up North. If it is so great up there, why not stay there? 26. And no, down here we don't have an accent, you do. In God We Trust. YA'LL COME BACK!

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Some of these are true but they dont really pass this out of course. But we dont like it in the south when the northerners sell there house for 400,000$ and then move down here and buy the same house for 150,000$ and then complain about everything down here.

So what exactly is Obama and Congress doing that you agree with?
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Most major banks are now nationalized--that is, government owns a controlling interest. So government has a controlling interest in most mortgages. Obama is appointing a panel to restructure the auto industry. Obama promises to have all health records kept electronically (which was already in the works under Bush, btw). CDC website has an experiment in Kansas where they conduct biosurveillance--that's the term they use to say they need your pertinent info to find outbreaks and epidemics by subverting patient's rights under HIPPA. Congress has just passed a bill that NO ONE READ in it's entirety that is about to spend a year's worth of GDP. People: I don't care if you're liberal or conservative, who is going to put the brakes on this idea that the government is in charge of YOUR wallet, your health, your food, your mind (schools), your car, your house, etc? How many of you are actually paying attention to the ACTIONS and not the spin? Impress me with some facts about what you specifically support with this administration. --BTW, before I get the personal attacks, I do not have a party affiliation. thehoydojo: so do you actually understand the ramifications of all those actions you just spammed us with? --Biden was a senator, he could take foreign trips, woopdy doo --Closing Gitmo without a plan, great idea --lobbyist controls? he has already submitted 12 exceptions to his own rule --complying with Freedom of Information Act: um, it was already law --equal pay was already law too...just extended the window of opportunity --auto emission standards--who the hell gave the government that power? --family "planning" in foreign countries helps the US how?--oh that's right, we preempt killing terrorists by killing the unborn --1rst interview on Arab tv/talking to the mideastern leaders...just getting pointers from our new shari'a leaders on how to implement socialism here in America and on and on and on...you may agree with all this crap, but WHY??? Floyd G: Here are my ideas: 1) Repeal NAFTA...get our manufacturing and IT jobs back into the US 2) Enact trade tariffs: make our goods cost the same as foreign goods imported into our country 3) Buy American: after those manufacturing jobs come back 4) Enact the 10% flat tax for all...no loopholes, nothing, just 10% off the top. This will lower prices of goods and leave more money in the hands of the people and the states to do what needs to be done in the economy. 5)Back the Dollar with silver or gold. Give value to back to our money so that it's actually currency again. 6) Dissolve the Federal Reserve...we have a Treasury (albeit empty), let's get it full again with real money. 7) Shrink Government: remove redundant agencies, consolidate responsibilities into smaller sized agencies, and make social programs a state level issue. 8) Let businesses fail that do not make good decisions or provide for what the people need (based on what they consume). Yeah, there will be job loss, but that is the opportunity for someone new to build a new business that meets the needs of the market. Laisse Faire all the way!

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Nothing, they are leading this Country into Socialism and next it will be Communism. A great Analogy: Who worries about "the cow" when it is all about the "Ice Cream? The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year. The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest. I decided we would have an election for a class president.We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote. To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members. We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have.We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot. The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids. I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support. I had never seen Olivia's mother. The day arrived when they were to make their speeches Jamie went first. He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He ended by promising to do his very best. Everyone applauded. He sat down and Olivia came to the podium. Her speech was concise. She said, "If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream." She sat down. The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice cream." She surely could say more. She did not have to. A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn't sure. Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it? She didn't know. The class really didn't care. All they were thinking about was ice cream. Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a landslide. Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and fifty-two percent of the people reacted like nine year olds. They want ice cream. The other forty-eight percent of us know we're going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess.