New Border Patrol Uniforms Made in Mexico (1 Viewer)

[Cyrylek]

You have to be kidding. He sold it to a conservative congress as a means to move tanks around, but he was rolling his eyes when he did so.

Nonsense. The Eisenhower's team were card-holding anti-Keynesians and fiscal conservatives of the highest probe. They have promoted the Interstate Highway System because it had to be done, in the modern geopolitical situation. And HOW they did it is not something our current "invest in pork...eh...we meant ...infrastructure!" benevolent overlords (both Dem and GOP) would ever want to recall.

 

[Cyrylek]

It's hilarious that you actually took his Cold War tongue in cheek rhetoric seriously.

Maybe because for me, there was nothing rhetorical, tongue-in-cheek, or unserious about the Cold War.

 

[Fog hit]

So do social-democrats ("liberals") and conservatives. Libertarians differ from each other substantially less, since they have a consistent political philosophy.

Try to sell that dogma to the Irish... it almost buried all of them. As it was, it buried a third of the population.



Of course. If personal computers were a "government program", they would still were the size of a small car and cost ten times more.

Quite an outlandish reach of an example, which has nothing to do with health care.



All things considered, the best post-war president, tied with Ike.
Excellent on foreign policy and immigration. Good on the economic issues. Escalation of the Idiotic War on (some) Drugs is a huge minus.

If you only knew how much he was involved in bringing cocaine to this country, part of your blinders might come off.

Why? You know some parlor trick for telling people's age from their reaganology?

Yes... I do. You are not alone, there are many in your age group, that deify Reagan, and Rand. Blind as a bat to both individuals. One gave you a dogma, the other... a beginning to run away debt. And your age group loves them both.

 

[head of joaquin]

Maybe because for me, there was nothing rhetorical, tongue-in-cheek, or unserious about the Cold War.

Yeah, I know: it shows just how out of touch you are with the facts and history.

Eisenhower, however, wasn't. I guess you have conveniently forgotten that whole "military-industrial complex" speech of his, arguably the most courageous political speech by a US president in history.

 

[Cyrylek]

Yes... I do. You are not alone, there are many in your age group, that deify Reagan, and Rand. Blind as a bat to both individuals. One gave you a dogma, the other... a beginning to run away debt. And your age group loves them both.

I don't deify Reagan - I am still breathing and I am a citizen of the United States of America because there was Reagan. In the country where I was born, they have a saying: If Carter were re-elected, Brezhnev would be still alive.

As for Ayn Rand - I couldn't care less. She did what she had to do, in the context of her times and her personal experience, and she was pretty effective, so it seems. I haven't learned about her contribution until my late twenties, and my first (and second) reaction was rolling my eyes and shaking my head. My liberalism (libertarianism) owes more to Lao Tzu or Michelle Montaigne than to Ayn Rand, really.

 

[Muddy Creek]

Border-Control-Agent-at-U.S-Mexico-border-AP

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) approved uniform contracts with an apparel company that produces most of its garments in Mexico, reportsCNS News:

The latest contract with the company was awarded on Dec. 20, 2012, to
make “uniform and insignia items” for the CBP at an estimated cost of $6,157,997.57, and a ceiling of $8 million.

The CBP, which is responsible for protecting America’s borders, told CNSNews.com that items from VF Imagewear, a subsidiary of VF Corporation, are manufactured in a number of locations, “including Mexico.” […]

(continue at the Free Beacon) New Border Patrol Uniforms Made in Mexico | Washington Free Beacon[/QUOTE]

And your point is?

 

[Cyrylek]

Yeah, I know: it shows just how out of touch you are with the facts and history..

By "out of touch" you mean "having actually lived it", I presume?

I guess you have conveniently forgotten that whole "military-industrial complex" speech of his, arguably the most courageous political speech by a US president in history.

Forgotten so firmly that I keep calling for reduction in military spending at very turn?

 

[Jetboogieman]

Talk about a misleading headline.

Alas one can expect as much from the OP on a regular basis.

 

[Fog hit]

I don't deify Reagan - I am still breathing and I am a citizen of the United States of America because there was Reagan. In the country where I was born, they have a saying: If Carter were re-elected, Brezhnev would be still alive.

As for Ayn Rand - I couldn't care less. She did what she had to do, in the context of her times and her personal experience, and she was pretty effective, so it seems. I haven't learned about her contribution until my late twenties, and my first (and second) reaction was rolling my eyes and shaking my head. My liberalism (libertarianism) owes more to Lao Tzu or Michelle Montaigne than to Ayn Rand, really.

I thought you, or your parents, were from Eastern Europe... By the name of your Avatar.

We have two things in common... Come from Eastern Orthodox, and an understanding/appreciation of Lao Tzu.

If you're a Libertarian/Sosh... Then we have three things in common.

I've enjoyed our dialogue.

 

[Cyrylek]

I thought you, or your parents, were from Eastern Europe... By the name of your Avatar.

We have two things in common... Come from Eastern Orthodox, and an understanding/appreciation of Lao Tzu.

Well, I was a Catholic my youth. But I am a Pole (with German, Lithuanian, Swedish and Russian ancestors mixed in) who grew up in Moscow. Came to America in 1985 (hence my unabashed Reaganism, I guess). My grandmother was an Orthodox though - an Old Believer.

 

[polgara]

I thought you, or your parents, were from Eastern Europe... By the name of your Avatar.

We have two things in common... Come from Eastern Orthodox, and an understanding/appreciation of Lao Tzu.

If you're a Libertarian/Sosh... Then we have three things in common.

I've enjoyed our dialogue.

Good morning, Fog Hit. :2wave:

My grandparents came from what is now called The Czech Republic. I do speak Slovak and Russian, which are similar, although I'm slowly losing the knowledge simply because there are few people these days to talk with, especially in the Slovene language. Sad... I still know how to bake strudels and other goodies, though---that I won't forget and I'm passing the knowledge on to the younger members of my family..... Looks like I may have to consider changing to Libertarian soon...the other two parties are just not what they used to be. :thumbdown:

 

[Fog hit]

Good morning, Fog Hit. :2wave:

My grandparents came from what is now called The Czech Republic. I do speak Slovak and Russian, which are similar, although I'm slowly losing the knowledge simply because there are few people these days to talk with, especially in the Slovene language. Sad... I still know how to bake strudels and other goodies, though---that I won't forget and I'm passing the knowledge on to the younger members of my family..... Looks like I may have to consider changing to Libertarian soon...the other two parties are just not what they used to be. :thumbdown:

Hi good Lady, you have an interesting background. Like most Americans, nowadays, we are mutts, who's ancestors tried their best to kill each other in Europe.
Thank God our ancestors left that crap in Europe. Never been to Europe, but I've read enough to know that the old cultures still don't like, or trust each other.

Never had a strudel, but I know I would like it.

 

[Fog hit]

Well, I was a Catholic my youth. But I am a Pole (with German, Lithuanian, Swedish and Russian ancestors mixed in) who grew up in Moscow. Came to America in 1985 (hence my unabashed Reaganism, I guess). My grandmother was an Orthodox though - an Old Believer.

Welcome to "Muttsville"... Also known as America. :2wave:

 

[Dragonfly]

If it saved the US taxpayer some money, I'm all for it.

Awesome dude. Let's ship more and more jobs overseas and out of the country so we can save the taxpayer even more money.

Yeah....there's way to many jobs in America. It costs us way too much money.

It's obviously much better for the country to have less jobs here and just buy all our stuff from outside our borders.

Yeah.......awesome.

 

[polgara]

Welcome to "Muttsville"... Also known as America. :2wave:

Good Morning, Fog Hit. :2wave:

In cooking, when you stir a big kettle of different ingredients together, the result is a combination of all the flavors. I think America is like that, and that's what makes us unique! No wonder we are called "The Melting Pot" of the world. All cultures bring their customs and ethnicities with them when they settle here, and I have eaten so many foods that I never would have a chance to experience, unless I traveled to their countries, and that is both educational and interesting, IMO. I draw the line at eating dog, though! :thumbdown: Just can't do it....