that's a lot of hummers. it did work when WWII brought us out of the depression.
--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Kendall D. Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Kendall D. Corbett <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Okay, now that the election is over...
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 1:36 PM
> Kyle, et al.,
>
> And by placing the economy on a war time footing we could
> consolidate the
> gains made by a WPA, except war funding would need to come
> first. Could we
> build enough Hummers to rescue GM?
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Cleveland, Kyle E. <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Oh, I don't know...Reagan's ending of the Cold
> War comes to mind. Bush
> > Sr.'s signing ADA legislation into law worked for
> me. Eisenhower's
> > Interstate Road System seemed like a good idea. Nixon
> opened China's
> > economy to the west (not sure how positive that is in
> retrospect, but we
> > got a few less nukes pointed at us out of the deal).
> >
> > Who knows, maybe Obama will be another FDR. Another
> WPA could rebuild
> > our crumbling 60+ year-old infrastructure.
> >
> > Economically, one of the issues that we face that no
> one wants to admit
> > is that we ARE at war. And as such, our economy needs
> to be placed onto
> > a wartime footing. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
> sound
> > expensive--and they are. But they're actually
> being fought on the
> > cheap. That's why it's taking us so long to
> achieve our strategic
> > goals. Tactically, we're fine. Strategically,
> we're not; and I place
> > the blame for that solely at the feet of Don Rumsfeld.
> Want someone to
> > blame for the morass in the sandbox? He's your
> man.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> > Of Michael H. Collis
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:40 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Okay, now that the election is over...
> >
> > I have a question: Looking back over the history of
> this country, are
> > there many positive initiatives started by people we
> would consider to
> > be conservative today?
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> Kendall
>
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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