Comments on: Chris Mooney nails it, Part 2

By: KaiYeves

KaiYeves — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:37:15 +0000

It’s okay, Gary Ansorge, I’m a SPACE NUT, too. In the future, our exploration NOW of places we will THEN live will matter more than any of our wars, or other fobiles. I sometimes have a daydream of children in a school on Mars. The two most important names from our era that they learn are Spirit and Oppertunity.

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Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:06:33 +0000

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By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:24:41 +0000

Gary,

WPA stands for Works Progress Administration, which provided jobs and income for the unemployed during the Great Depression. Most of the jobs involved building infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and libraries. The War Powers Act was signed in 1973.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:27:29 +0000

I believe FDR also invoked the War Powers Act during the depression, in order to deal with that bag of worms unimpeded and as far as I know, the WPA was never rescinded, allowing succeeding presidents to exercise exceptional power. We’ve essentially been on the slippery slop to Imperium for nearly 70 years. I am put in mind of the decline and fall of the roman empire. It (the Republic) didn’t fall in a day. It actually took centuries. As far as our US of A is concerned, I expect the FAll will take a LOOOONG time. Slow enough that citizens will not feel the boiling until it’s to late to do anything but run or die,,,
Hopefully, by then we’ll have somewhere to run to,,,(ok, I admit it, I’m a SPACE NUT,,,)

GAry 7

By: jrkeller

jrkeller — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:16:05 +0000

Brian,

What you said is what I was implying. I you look through the various executive orders you will see plenty of constitutional questionable orders or those that violate existing laws.

For example, FDR siezed coal mines, the railroads, and the rubber industry. He also increased the work week to 48 hours.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:15:33 +0000

jrkeller,

On rereading Ibrahim’s post, I see that you were supplying an example for his last paragraph and weren’t necessarily implying anything beyond that.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:40:31 +0000

Lurchgs: is there ANYBODY in power – in any one of the three legs of our government – who isn’t a self-serving, lying sack of bovine excrement?

Yes.