Mortgages for a Brave New World (Sarcasm)

[swampy]

Seems to me that if the Dems hadn't decimated the military throughout the 90's we might not be need the NG as much.

[JoeH]

swampy wrote:
Seems to me that if the Dems hadn't decimated the military throughout the 90's we might not be need the NG as much.

The process of converting the NG mission to being direct support and active duty as needed started under Reagan and Bush I. But I guess you were not paying attention. Besides, the Repubs had a majority in Congress starting in '94. But don't let facts get in the way of your idiocy.

[swampy]

JoeH wrote:
The process of converting the NG mission to being direct support and active duty as needed started under Reagan and Bush I. But I guess you were not paying attention. Besides, the Repubs had a majority in Congress starting in '94. But don't let facts get in the way of your idiocy.

Clinton's loathing of the American military led to his failure in his primary responsibility: the protection of the American people. His actions with regard to military preparedness speak for themselves. In less than three years, deployments increased while manpower decreased from 2.1 million to 1.6 million. That decrease was the foundation upon which stood Al Gore's purported "reinvention" of government. Of the 305,000 employees removed from the federal payroll, 286,000 (or 90%) were military cuts.The statistics for America's defense during the Clinton years reveal the deep-seated animosity of the administration toward those who served in the military. The Army was cut from 18 divisions to 12. The Navy was reduced from 546 ships to 380. Air Force flight squadrons were cut from 76 to 50.

While the U.S. military was used as a 'meals on wheels' service by the Clinton administration in its nation building adventures, the military had its own humanitarian crises at home on its own bases. The pay freeze instituted by Clinton was imposed on a military in which 80 percent of all troops earned $30,000 per year or less. Food stamp applications soared and re-enlistment rates dropped.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/indiv...?indid=644

[Wags]

swampy wrote:
[quote=JoeH]
The process of converting the NG mission to being direct support and active duty as needed started under Reagan and Bush I. But I guess you were not paying attention. Besides, the Repubs had a majority in Congress starting in '94. But don't let facts get in the way of your idiocy.

Clinton's loathing of the American military led to his failure in his primary responsibility: the protection of the American people. His actions with regard to military preparedness speak for themselves. In less than three years, deployments increased while manpower decreased from 2.1 million to 1.6 million. That decrease was the foundation upon which stood Al Gore's purported "reinvention" of government. Of the 305,000 employees removed from the federal payroll, 286,000 (or 90%) were military cuts.The statistics for America's defense during the Clinton years reveal the deep-seated animosity of the administration toward those who served in the military. The Army was cut from 18 divisions to 12. The Navy was reduced from 546 ships to 380. Air Force flight squadrons were cut from 76 to 50.

While the U.S. military was used as a 'meals on wheels' service by the Clinton administration in its nation building adventures, the military had its own humanitarian crises at home on its own bases. The pay freeze instituted by Clinton was imposed on a military in which 80 percent of all troops earned $30,000 per year or less. Food stamp applications soared and re-enlistment rates dropped.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/indiv...?indid=644
Brought to you by the lunatic from the extreme right of everybody except perhaps Mussolini, David Horowitz. Gee, lets see if I can cut and paste, too.

Chip Berlet, writing for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights organization, devoted to "combat racism and promote civil rights through research, education and litigation," identified the CSPC (now DHFC) as one of 17 "right-wing foundations and think tanks support[ing] efforts to make bigoted and discredited ideas respectable." Berlet accused Horowitz of blaming slavery on "'black Africans ... abetted by dark-skinned Arabs'" and of "attack[ing] minority 'demands for special treatment' as 'only necessary because some blacks can't seem to locate the ladder of opportunity within reach of others,' rejecting the idea that they could be the victims of lingering racism."[4] Responding with an open letter to Morris Dees, president of the SPLC, Horowitz stated that his reminder that the slaves transported to America were bought from African and Arab slavers was a response to demands that only whites pay blacks reparations, not to hold Africans and Arabs solely responsible for slavery, and that the statement that he had denied lingering racism was "a calculated and carefully constructed lie." The letter said that Berlet's work was "so tendentious, so filled with transparent misrepresentations and smears that if you continue to post the report you will create for your Southern Poverty Law Center a well-earned reputation as a hate group itself."[5] The SPLC refused,[16] and subsequent critical pieces on Berlet and the SPLC have been featured on Horowitz's website and personal blog.[6][7]

The liberal advocacy group People For the American Way(PFAW) points out that FrontPage Magazine picked up the columns of Ann Coulter after she was fired from National Review Online for her anti-Muslim comments after 9/11. For his part, Horowitz has said that he considers Coulter a satirist, and "a national treasure".[17]

PFAW also quotes Horowitz as saying "Everybody knows -- but no one wants to say -- that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students -- mainly African American and Hispanic -- are denied a shot at the American dream. It is the party of race preferences which separate American citizens on the basis of skin color providing privileges to a handful of ethnic and racial groups in a nation of nearly a thousand. The Democratic Party has shown that it will go to the wall to preserve the racist laws which enforce these preferences, and to defend the racist school systems that destroy the lives of millions of children every year." –David Horowtiz, "Challenging the Racist Democrats in California," August 5, 2003" [18]

[swampy]

Wags, what does slavery and racism have to do with Clinton's reduction of the military forces??

Stay focused!

[Spock]

swampy wrote:
Hey, Spock.. she's a Governor. What are you?

Unlike Caribou Barbie, I'm not functionally illiterate.

[swampy]

She's functionally illiterate? That's a real broad brush you've got there, Spock. It's not even logical. How could she be a governor and be functionally illiterate? Doesn't make sense.

And here I thought you were Spock the logical one. Ya let me down.

[Wags]

swampy wrote:
Wags, what does slavery and racism have to do with Clinton's reduction of the military forces??

Stay focused!

About as much as your cut and paste has to do with the topic of this thread.

[Spock]

Hey swampy, read the dolts answers in the Katie Couric interview, then get back to us.

[swampy]

Deer in the headlights, Spock. Let's put you on center stage nationally and I doubt you would do any better. Of course she knows Africa is a continent and not a country. And she said so in later interviews.