Re: [twuug] Space Shuttle Columbia blows up on reentry!

[Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:19:48PM -0500, James wrote:
> On Saturday 01 February 2003 10:16 pm, Robbie Wells wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeff Self" <jocknerd@mac.com>
> > To: <twuug@twuug.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 8:57 PM
> > Subject: Re: [twuug] Space Shuttle Columbia blows up on reentry!
> >
> > > On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 07:08 PM, Charles Shannon Hendrix
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:19:33PM -0500, James wrote:
> > > >> I sure wish I could withdraw my support of NASA. Unfortunately this is
> > > >> impossible because NASA is hugely subsidized by the taxes extorted
> > > >> from me.
> > > >
> > > > We pay less for NASA than the cost of a single squadron of B2 bombers.
> > > > NASA is about research, and that means failure.  It's funding needs to
> > > > be increased.
> > >
> > > Expect funding for NASA to go down in the future. Bush has already
> > > announced he wants to increase defense spending another 4%.
>
> > Extorted huh? Yeah guess your right, I mean who wants to pay for the nice
> > roads, schools and police force that we have. What about all those other
> > cute government programs? Like national defense and junk. Lets all stop
> > paying taxes and just let the country sink into oblivion.
> 
> Actually national defense and protection of our rights are what our
> government is based on, but is currently failing at miserably. 

Failing at?  Yes.  Based on?  No.

Common defense and protection of rights are part of the Consititution.
It was not what the government was based on.

> If government would focus on its core competentcies instead of shooting
> people to Mars and back we would be a lot safer today. 

I can't tell if the drugs are wearing off or you've taken too many...

> Instead we are faced with ever increasing acts of violence against Americans
> in the world. We have gang wars in our inner cities to make us all feel safe
> at home and Oh Yeah, give us more cute governmet programs like welfare, the
> drug war, our interventionist foreign policy, the UN, a flag on the moon.

I'd agree outside of the flag on the moon, which was a very good thing.
It taught us that we have no boundaries.  It's giving up on glory that
leads to those other things.

In all your ranting about the original purpose of our government, you seem to
forget that a large part of its purpose was to band together for common goals.  

> I'd love to see your copy of the constitution. None of those things are in
> mine. 

Neither is the Internet, the highway system, or computer technology.

I suspect you make use of all three, all of which were funded by our
government.

I think we are overtaxed, but our nation and its agenda are not defined
soley by the Constitution.  

> This country prospered in it's first 120 years with no tax on income and if
> we don't get back to that kind of government we are all going to be sorry.

This country used fiat-monetary policy to build itself, income tax was
just more of the same kind of unethical crap.  Andrew Jackson was the
last president to resist current fraudulent monetary policy.

The US wasn't very prosperour until the end of the 19th centry, after
the Civil War.

That's not to say it was the fault of government, but that your statement
about 120 years of prosperity is bunk.


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