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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (7803)	11/21/2001 1:31:12 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

I don't recall the exact numbers that the tourist industry attributed to the Royal Family in tourism, but it was big. Sounds like a piece of flattery to me. Somehow I doubt many tourists go to Britain expecting to meet or even see the RF. Germans were happy being Germans also, they just thought everyone should be German. No, they thought everyone else should be German slaves People in Ohio, seem to like Ohio; no taste. I know some people you shouldn't say that around. People in Ohio would fight for the USA; they wouldn't fight if some piece of Ohio became part of another state. There would be polls, elections, sound, and fury, but little or no violence. They would still be Americans. My wife is short as well Pitbull? The money comes out one pocket or another. Does it really make any difference? Absolutely. You often have the choice of whether or not you mail something; you have NO CHOICE about paying taxes. In some ways, taxation is theft that is legal because the organization that decides what is legal- -the gov't- -says it is legal. And in this country, USPS has competition. You have the choice of using FedEx or UPS. These minor points are often forgotten by liberals. But they're really not minor at all. They are the difference between having a choice and having someone else's choices shoved down your throat. Just out of curiousity, I'll see if the Royal Post is one of those [sort of] private operations, unless you happen to know. Hmmm, your post implies that you do know. Do you? No. I'd be surprised if the Royal Post wasn't entirely gov't , though. I'd like to have Congress butt out of micro-managing the post office. If the post office needs to raise postage rates to be "profitable", leave them be. Let the USPS raise postage rates to cover the costs of anti-terrorism; don't take it out of general revenue. Which reminds me of another position....<s>. Interstate highways. The Feds have done a fabulous job in putting a Interstate Highway infrastructure in place over the last 50 years. Starting with nothing the Eisenhower Defense Highway threads through every part of the country. It would be appropriate for each of the States to send a thank you note and a box of chocolates [preferably dark] to the appropriate Fed project manager associated with the specific Interstate project. After that, it's about time that the States take over the responsibility and costs of maintaining the Federal Highways and building any new ones that the States desire. Take it out of the Federal Budget and let the States tax their own people. Which leads me nicely to my next position. The category of Federal Funding referred to as "Federal Grants to State and Local Governments"; Subtitle: Stick your earmarks here. In the FY-2000 Budget this category was approaching $300 Billion. Unless the States can show that there is a direct National benefit, screw'em, the States have their own people that they can tax for their own projects. If the citizens of that State don't want to pay for their own projects, don't ask for handouts from the US general revenue. [Note: A museum in Nevada that shows how the people of Nevada survived nuclear testing is NOT of direct National Benefit; funding that provides for interoperability of communications between state and local law enforcement and the FBI is of National benefit.] I have no problem with any of that.