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Be prepared for second recession in Calif.
Replacing the camp follower supply chain with uniformed soldiers and American flagged ships might perhaps be more expensive, but it is necessary. If we need to pay our military what our police and fire make to recruit the numbers needed we should do it regardless of the deficit. They will be collecting unemployment or welfare if we don't.— June 28, 2010 3:16 a.m.
Be prepared for second recession in Calif.
Ike appeared humble, and used this persona to outfox many egomaniacs with more apparent genius at self promotion, from Patton to Montgomery to MacArthur, to McCarthy. At the key 1952 Republican Convention, the GOP chose the cold war approach of Eisenhower over the nuclear attack strategy advocated by MacArthur. The GOP liked Ike, but many loved MacArthur. Eisenhower was the cool head who won the day, and united a splintered party lurching towards disaster. Because of his humble demeanor, he was the second choice of fanatics who hated each other. Certainly he was talented and incredibly ambitious, but somehow he seemed to be an Everyman, just doing his duty. Since the great men of history are usually connected with wholesale slaughter, perhaps he was nobler than the great. The Nation should celebrate him for the wars he avoided.— June 27, 2010 7:20 p.m.
Be prepared for second recession in Calif.
Eisenhower hated unnecessary spending, and kept our government lean and effective. Though he never signed a balanced budget, (I don't suggest he should have), he tried to get our money's worth. Though he supported the military, he fought waste and avoided war. Perhaps it's best he didn't live to see our military defeated again and again by bloated ineptitude. He did see our nation driven into the paranoid jingoism of Nixon and Kennedy, and blamed the rejection of his moderate foreign and military policy on war profiteers. This was astute if not complete. By 1980 his memory was ridiculed by left and right. We miss him now.— June 27, 2010 1:57 a.m.
Be prepared for second recession in Calif.
If economics ruled there would be no war. I don't endorse defense spending for economic reasons, I do believe that years of transferring procurement and supply from the government to the private sector has left us weaker, and created a war lobby that did not exist when the military made weapons. Republicans were Isolationist Pacifists before the Military started contracting out production, instead of seizing factories and shipyards and doing it themselves. Schemers told that private enterprise would bring us war on the cheap, we got war and economic disaster. Our military must be able to feed, clothe and supply itself, regardless of the cost, otherwise we risk being the Athenians at Syracuse or Cornwallis at Yorktown, defeated by a failed supply line.— June 26, 2010 8:59 p.m.
Be prepared for second recession in Calif.
I agree that war spending is central to the present fiasco. The bloated defense budget is the first place I would look for savings in the federal budget. Right now, in the middle of two wars and a recession, I wouldn't look to save on the total bill, but to cut out the idiocy of continuing failed programs designed to fight the Soviet bloc. We need to end the use of mercenaries and reverse our return to the camp follower system of supply. We need an all American supply train. We need to restore our Merchant Navy even if it costs more than foreign flagged ships. We should remember that mercenaries and camp followers failed the British in our then rugged terrain, and we won our first war because the British supply line failed. George Washington won very few battles. By the end of the nineteenth century European nations abandoned the camp follower system. Outsourcing our supply train might be a reason we have recession and war at the same time. Our defense dollars stimulate the home economies of mercenaries rather than our own.— June 26, 2010 10:21 a.m.
Be prepared for second recession in Calif.
The federal government has no choice but to run a bigger deficit RIGHT NOW, to put money in the pocket of consumers who must buy the surplus inventory to restart the world economy. Foreign investors now are sucking up the stimulus money, refusing to spend, because of doubts about other currencies, such as the Euro. Even with our record deficits, the world sees our currency as a hold or buy, even with no real interest paid. I can't say these buyers are wrong. Our currency is backed by huge tax receipts, and an incredible real estate portfolio, as well as vast mineral and energy resources on our public land. We are not too poor to spend our way out of this mess. We may be too stupid, cheap and mean spirited. Those that complain that our grandchildren will pay this debt should reflect that those grandchildren will be living on the street if we cut their parents unemployment checks now. We should increase the deficits until the inventories empty and inflation returns, THEN we should balance the budget.— June 26, 2010 1:18 a.m.
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to 156 I will prefer to believe that the bat biting was stage magic until someone auctions the dead bat as memorabilia, Music often reverses the normal topic of your columns, instead of criminals posing as businessmen, businessmen pose as gangsters. It would break the heart of many young people to learn that their heroes successfully borrow and lend at interest, and no longer shoot at each other, mostly. I thought Roy Rogers shot bad guys and roped beef, only to learn that my cowboy heroes were fraud. Today's youngsters face similar disapointment when they realize so many of their pimp and ho heroes live in big happy families, and rely on lawyers to enforce their contracts.— June 24, 2010 5:52 p.m.
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to 149 We call that improvising new lyrics. I fear sometimes, during my performances, that people will realize I haven't been drinking.— June 23, 2010 10:13 p.m.
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to 140 My Rock Band could use that DUI publicity. it could only improve my street cred. This publicity stunt seems too pricey though. The price of the liquor necessary to get my dinosaur body over the legal limit alone would blow my promotion budget, and when drunk I might forget the scheme and drive home safely.— June 22, 2010 11:23 p.m.
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Now all this screams for parody. LA JOLLA DEBUTANTS BALL 2010 Cell phone bells all over La Jolla announced the departure of Mrs. S and Mr. B for their Las Vegas vacation, and the beginning of the Debutants Ball. Miss Kimberly S., resplendent in a gown provided by Mother Nature, commenced the dancing with Mr. Juan S., CEO of Windansea Gardening.... I suspect that in the old days, underneath the crinoline, all was exactly the same as today.— June 21, 2010 5:31 p.m.