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  • What happened to the Republican party?

  • Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
 #162994  by Julius Seeker
 Wed Feb 26, 2014 6:13 am
Particularly with the policies they've been pushing for over the past 15 years. This is fairly well exemplified with Cheney recently saying the US should cut food stamps for the poor, not the military.

But the Republicans were a little different in the past:



"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
 #163962  by Replay
 Sun Sep 28, 2014 9:31 am
The Bushes took over on behalf of the Rockefellers and fired every honest Republican of the Reagan and Eisenhower eras, if you want the short version.