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Originally Posted by uno
Illegal immigration is down, deportations are up.
Iraq has wound down (50k troops, still too many, imo). Afghanistan is set to start winding down in July. Pakistani operations are and have been an extension of the war in Afghanistan and they certainly seem to have proved to be effective. You simply cannot call lybia a war.
I completely agree that we need more of our troops home. My brother-in-law was just deployed to afghanistan and he's had 2 tours in iraq, others in the balkans, spent years on the DMZ.
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I think immigration is down because the economy is down, but read back, I acknowledged that.
As forthe countries we are fighting with, either we are fighting or we are not,people are still dieing and we can't afford the military cost
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Originally Posted by theking
The Congress gave that power to President Bush/the Presidency/the Commander in Chief when they overwhelmingly voted to allow the President to prosecute the "war on terror" as he/she sees fit. That power has never been withdrawn from the Presidency.
If you do not like the President having that power...how many times have you notified your Congressman that you want that power revoked or have notified the President that you do not like drones being used in Pakistan.
You can "believe that the government has been overstepping it's power"...that is your right to do so...but it is the third coequal branch of Government...not you...that has the power to decide if "Government is overstepping it's power"...and that is the Supreme Court.
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Everytime I send an email, I get a form letter response from a staffer
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Originally Posted by Coup
I dislike barrack more than you.. for valid reasons. ;)
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I think mine are valid, ok well making fruit flavored rolling paper illegal is kinda petty
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Originally Posted by uno
I'm not referring to the recent deal late last year for the extension of the Bush tax cuts for everyone. I'm talking about his first round of tax cuts in his first year.
I agree, unemployment: Bad, but you are still ignoring the fact that job creation is going up quarter by quarter. It's not where it should be nor where I'd like it to be yet, but things take time and we are RECOVERING from a huge recession.
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you'll have to start using tietime lines then about tax cuts
Yes there is job creation, but there is also job lose, thats why we are at 9% still
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
think about that