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General Comments / Re: State of the Union response
« on: February 01, 2018, 08:01:10 PM »
Get it. If we could just get them to govern least.
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General Comments / Re: State of the Union response
« on: February 01, 2018, 06:33:36 PM »
Does this argue for a parliamentary form of government with its own problems?
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General Comments / Re: State of the Union response
« on: February 01, 2018, 05:58:27 PM »
Don't hang here often but thought I would chime in. Here we are, two days later and Trump is blowing away all the conciliatory credits he might have gotten. Twitter is alive. Having said that, the Dems didn't even wait that long to blow these ideas away. So as usual, we are back where we started before this farce called the SOTU happened. Historically, it was a letter from the Pres.
Few, if any opinions were changed. Polls aside.
Trump will rise or fall on the tax cut. Sidebar:mine are going up. If it drives real wage and GDP growth, along with debt reduction, he will be king. Immigration is a neat diversion, but ...
Dems can't figure out a message. Identity politics ain't it.
Few, if any opinions were changed. Polls aside.
Trump will rise or fall on the tax cut. Sidebar:mine are going up. If it drives real wage and GDP growth, along with debt reduction, he will be king. Immigration is a neat diversion, but ...
Dems can't figure out a message. Identity politics ain't it.
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General Comments / Re: anyone other than DJQuag believe "the Civil War wasn't about slavery"?
« on: March 30, 2017, 12:26:10 PM »
Probably the best insight to the South's motives comes from the Cornerstone Address by the Confederacy's VP, Alexander Stephens. Clearly, slavery was paramount. Ironically, Abraham Lincoln's letter to Horace Greeley suggests Lincoln wasn't as committed to emancipation as some might believe.
"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union."
"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union."
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