Life is too short.
Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness.
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should and
let go of what you can't change.
Love deeply and forgive quickly.
Take chances.
Give everything and have no regrets.
Life is too short to be unhappy.
You have to take the good with the bad.
Smile when you're sad,
love what you got, and
always remember what you had.
Always forgive, but
never forget.
Learn from your mistakes but
never regret.
People change, and
things go wrong but
always remember...
life goes on!
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(Cato Institute). In case you missed it, the IRS is punishing grown children for the alleged unproven sins of their long-dead parents.
If you think that's bad, just wait until Generation Next starts picking up the bills for Baby Boomer senior entitlements...
(IPI). Don't miss Sen. Rand Paul in Chicago on April 22. Tickets are going fast: http://illin.is/1m41tjf
calling all neo nazis, your hero is in town. He took money from Stormfront, who helped him get elected. If you don't know who stormfront is, it is the political arm of David Duke, of the KKK. You have google bright boy, look it up. Over and above his being a anti semite, he also is a conspiracy kook, and just like al sharpton, accused VP Cheney of pushing the Iraq war to benefit Haliburton. He's not a conservative, he is a neo fascist, and those who support him are rank ignorant, ill informed, and the reason moderate swing voters will vote for democrats, other than the GOP.
A troll calling Rand Paul a fascist is confusing his image in the mirror with Rand Paul's. Rand Paul is a more pragmatic version of his father, whom, like the Founding Fathers, is a non-interventionist in foreign affairs. Rand Paul, like his father, believes in limited government, not an expansionist State to which individuals rights are narrowly defined exceptions.and where the State tolerates the private sector provided they play by the State's rules.
I would have called you yet another dim-witted "progressive" except you seem upset over someone criticizing Saint Cheney, and Democrats would not object to voters crossing the line to vote for Hillary... No, I infer you are simply a pedestrian ill-bred neo-con. Let there be no mistake where I stand: I stand with Rand Paul, he is the best senator since Robert Taft; if he runs in 2016, I'll be the first in line to vote for him. The neo-cons have done more damage to the GOP brand except for maybe the "Know-Nothing" anti-immigrants.
(IPI). See Coolidge quote above.
Here is the example: a new road is necessary. The cost for the road is not in the funds. Is it better to borrow the money and build or save the money by taking in more than is necessary for current operations to build the revenue necessary to build the road? The problem for government isn't in taking in more than is necessary. The problem is the use of incremental budgeting instead of rational budgeting.
You buy into the nonsense progapanda that the preponderance of wasteful spending, an artifact of government monopoly, is an "investment", a conjecture that won't pass Accounting 101; even a college freshman knows the difference between period expenses and assets. As the current and previous legislatures have mishandled off-balance sheet unfunded pension liabilities, the state is incapable of honest accounting. The private sector can handle just about everything the public does faster, cheaper, and better.
(Reason). Rand Paul responds to Jeb Bush on #immigration: "People who seek the American dream are not bad people.…However, we can’t invite the whole world."
Quite frankly, Rand Paul's pragmatic fusion politics I feel reflect a similar attempt by George W. Bush to learn from his father's political lessons. We have had nearly a century of failed restrictive immigration policy. The last thing we can expect is an open immigration policy from this Congress and President. (Obama has always taken his cue from his labor-protectionist crony unionist bosses.)
We need radically liberalized immigration laws that don't stand in the way of aspiring entrepreneurs and businesses with a need for willing hard-working, qualified workers. Whereas Paul is clearly trying to posture himself to the right of potential 2016 rival Jeb Bush by citing populist strawman talking points, I would prefer to hear him push the win-win economic story behind immigration, its part in our melting pot culture, etc. There's already too much negative rhetoric on immigration in the GOP. We need less political posturing and more positive leadership, like Reagan.
We can encourage immigration - and we should - and at the same time ask our visitors and new residents to check in at the front door instead of sneaking in. We have every right to keep the riff raff out while encouraging hard-working, virtuous, and talented people to become Americans. This is not racism, xenophobia, or any of that BS.
Methinks the xenophobe doth protest too much. Only Statists and their gullible economically illiterate crony unionist/protectionist allies could argue the status quo is not the consequence of perverse government policy. Instead of trusting the people, the elitists chose to declare war on alcohol and drugs; the government tries to restrict immigration, which I call the War on the Economy; should we be surprised that organized crime is looking to profit on huge profit margins?
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