There are places for political discussion on the internet. This is not the place. She has right wing views, which, while I do not agree with, are the views of many. Our job is to keep politics of the nation off the list except for defending our rights to own and breed and show our dogs. She also has no patience for the new administration, but that also does not belong here. I have asked her to both leave it off the list and to have some patience with Obama, and to read some history, especially about Hoover and FDR. And what FDR was faced with and how he tried to deal with it, and how he was swayed by the far right to give up his spending plan, even though it had started to show results. The spending into deficit brought on by WWII is what ended the Depression. And the interstate highway system is what ended the recession post war. We need to do what is being done. And we need to keep it off this list. We can go to cnn, Huffington Post, and many other places to express our views of the world. Here we talk about saving our right to own, breed and show our dogs. sheila --- On Tue, 2/3/09, Amy Greenhut <genoaktortoise@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Amy Greenhut <genoaktortoise@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: ILLUSIONS v. REALITY To: Elsyd1@xxxxxxx Cc: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 6:45 AM I totally agree. That has NO place on this list. What is wrong with her. You should not go anywhere Syd. The people who send this awful stuff need to be banned or moderated before they can post. Amy Greenhut Justrock German Shepherds Gen Oak Leopard Tortoises & Tortoise Rescue Behold The Turtle, He Makes Progress Only When He Sticks His Neck Out A Quote By James B. Conant ----- Original Message ----- From: Elsyd1@xxxxxxx To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 1:54:12 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: ILLUSIONS v. REALITY Not only is it not worthwhile, it is vile, inflammatory, defamatory, and clearly shows the writer's infatuation with hatred. Ginger, you disappoint me. Throw me off, Admin, I am not sitting still for this. Syd In a message dated 2/2/2009 6:09:27 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: -----Original Message----- ILLUSIONS v. REALITY Thirteen years ago today (2 February 1996), the coldest temperature ever recorded in the State of Minnesota - 60 degrees below zero - was recorded in Tower, Minnesota. "Musta been" before "carbon footprints" and while ex- Vice President Gore and his allies were busy with other things "environmental". This morning's news on the TV featured a Doctor from a clinic in Georgia, billed as an expert on "in vitro fertilization", explaining the ethics and policies that govern episodes like the recent singular birth of eight artificially implanted embryos. The "Georgia" Doctor sported a very noticeable British accent. Why is a Doctor from Britain practicing medicine in the US? Could it be because he makes and keeps more money here and therefore leads a freer life? I wonder if there are any or many Doctors in Britain that sport a USA accent? Could it be because only "missionary" doctors and nurses from the US choose to practice in poor countries in Africa or Asia or South America and only a miniscule number, if any, choose to practice where medicine is "nationalized"? Why is that? If the "socialized medicine" of Europe and Canada and Australia is so desirable that it is a campaign promise of the current President, why don't American doctors go there? Since they do not go there, could it be that this "universal" (AKA "socialized") medicine neither produces nor maintains the high quality Doctors Americans enjoy today? If we "socialize" medicine like Britain and the rest of Europe and Canada and as our new President promises, will we have their long "waiting lists"; will we have their bureaucratic decisions about "you're too old for care" or "that child is imperfect and therefore should be aborted (AKA "killed") or "the ONLY specialist left (since 'specialties' no longer pay enough to justify all the additional study, time, and debt) that can treat XXXX is across the country and is not available for 3 years; and will all of our Doctors eventually be 3rd world natives and 3rd world medical school graduates like the two British Health care Doctors of (Pakistani?) descent that recently tried to blow up or burn down that airport in Scotland? I am repeatedly reminded that there is a "national economic crisis". If that is so, why are the President and Congress obsessed with spending Billions on birth control, gun control, more Wilderness (both from a non-use and management aspect as well as the catastrophic fire aspect), and giving Billions to law-breaking and socialist-oriented urban groups like ACORN? Why are they considering the unbelievable long-range expenses of "national" health care when Social Security is going broke and the national deficit mortgages our future and risks national "foreclosure"? While the central government spends money like drunken sailors, the heretofore hidden and growing subservience of State governments to an increasingly all-powerful central government can no longer be denied. For instance, here in Minnesota a popularly described "fiscally conservative" Governor is attacked for the slightest attempt to bring state spending in line with state revenues. The teachers and parents moan that he hates children when he proposes school funding cuts. The urban Doctors and Hospital staffs publicly proclaim that he hates the poor and the delivery of medical services (presumably to everyone but himself) because he "dares" to propose cuts in medical subsidies and assistance. The "Conservation, arts advocates cry foul over proposed cuts" because the Governor proposes a 2.2 percent cut in such funding after our recent election where Minnesotans voted to earmark increased sales taxes for such work (of course everyone conveniently forgets that it was several weeks AFTER the vote for something "we all loved" that the state announced the Billions of dollars of deficits forecast for the next few years). So our Governor is denounced as a bum for attempting to "cut" spending and the President and Congress are lauded for increasing spending. Everyone is confidently "looking to Washington" for "help" that will keep things just as they were. What "crisis", if all we need are more federal largesse, power, and intervention to make everything better? So the Governors, including Governor Palin of Alaska, are supporting the national "Bailout" or "Stimulus" proposals to sprinkle a TRILLION or so of our children's tax dollars across the "fruited plain". In this they join urban Democrat politicians in jockeying at the trough for the greatest share possible of these "federal" dollars. Like 12 puppies going after 10 teats, urban mayors and Governors of both parties vie for the promise of federal funding. The fact is that all the large cities are constantly on the verge of bankruptcy because of the promises made by their entrenched Democrat "machines" for the votes to keep them in power. State governments have likewise spent and spent and spent as the "good times (i.e. 'tax collections') rolled". State bureaucrats will now be evaluated by their bosses and receive bonuses based on "how much" and "how quickly" they get "every dime available from the federal piggy bank" just like state highway personnel and state fish and wildlife agency and state education bureaucrats have been for some time. Forget about "strings": if Robert Reich and Congressional Committee Chairman Wrangel (another national urban politician tax evader) get the legislation to say (as they have discussed in Congressional testimony) "NO FUNDING FOR WHITE MALES OR SKILLED WORKERS" so be it, the Governors will just take the money and run. ============ ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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