nope, then the city workers union will complain, they did that a few years ago when boy scouts were doing walking trails and such.

Here in VA, the state closed down the rest areas and laid off the maintenance workers but no bureaucrats got laid off, a few furloughs  for some state emplyees but that is all.  There is lots of fat to cut but somehow police, fire, and schools are always cut by the bureaucracy.
Hmmm, must be good to be king....... wait, aren't THEY the public servants? or the masters?

Amen to that !!!  Serowbot and I agree - whadda think of that?

JohnBoy wrote on 11/05/10 at 13:23:50:


I agree with this, I like a republican congress and a democrat white house.  

LA -

I too don't mind divided power, but if we have to have it, I prefer an R in the White House.  The Pres. has the power, enormous power, in foregn policy.  Pres. can mainly act alone in the foregn policy arena; far more than he can do domestically.

While people can whine about GWB and the wars, historically, Rs are more sensitive to what matters for the U.S. abroad - they are broader thinkers.

Nixon opened China after decades of its isolation, ended the Vietnam war.

Reagan ended the Cold War with the Soviets.

Bush One had the guts to throw Saddam out of Kuwait.

Dem Presidents since Truman :

Kennedy and Johnson got us in the mess in Vietnam; left it to Nixon to end it.

Clinton was always bombing somebody - Bosnia, and other Balkans mainly.

Carter was a disaster in foreign policy - could not get the Iranian hostages out; Reagan did in a matter of days.  Carter's only foreign policy achievment was the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt - give him kudos for that.

So, I'll take an R on foreign policy over the long run.

 Nixon got us trading with China best thing that ever happened to us. Reagan almost got our debts payed off. Clinton blew all the money the republicans saved bombing other countries.Iran was afraid of Carter, By not freeing the hostages it got him out of office just what Iran wanted.I'm sure happy that we had some republican presidents, Other wise our country would be in bad shape.

Jerry the American workers don't have jobs because of China working kids 12 hour days for low wages,I just heard last night 45% of the blacks getting out of high school can't fine a job,Their not on the unemployed list because they never had a job.Our top CEO's along with Congress is doing us in,Why do they care they benefit from the low wages.The Chinese,Mexicans .and a few Muslims are bankrupting out country.The Muslims by us spending billions of dollars on wars.Our Congress has been outsmarted.

mick wrote on 11/05/10 at 15:49:41:

+1 You can't buy love