[TheForge] Read it and weep.

jim poulmas poulmas at gmail.com
Sat Nov 15 18:25:41 EST 2008


We call this Bush Derangement Syndrome. (I'm not a fan but the level of
absurd rhetoric surrounding Bush seems to have no limit.)

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Cindy and James <jallcorn at suddenlink.net>wrote:

> That (those type powers) is nothing new.  I spent a 30 year career as a
> manager in USDA, of all places, and we had little books of regulations here
> and there, mostly resulting from the cold war, that had procedures on how we
> would operate in certain situations of national emergency, either natural
> disaster or more importantly nuclear attack.  This involved control of food
> and farming tools, repair parts, fuel, etc. up through the wholesale level.
>  You had to (in the event of these situations) have permission from Uncle
> Sam to buy a new bolt, for example.  And I'm not kidding.  In the early 70's
> we instituted fuel rationing for farmers, this lasted about 8 or 10 months.
>
> You (and I) would probably be aghast at the things our govt. would do
> to/for us in those situations.  Let's pray nothing like that ever happens.
>
> James
>
>> Here.  Read it and weep.
>> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55824
>>
>> Let's just hope Bush does vacate office.
>>
>> BTW, this thread was not about either current candidate.  You may
>> think you know who I voted for, but I never said anything about it in
>> this thread.
>>
>> And I've always been in favor of hitting the user with paying for
>> "social costs."  Why should everybody else have to clean up your
>> trash?
>>
>>
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Jim
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