That’s all that goes on with Republican reps these days, is that another RINO comes out. The whole GOP is shit. Republican voters really have to start getting better with their votes in the primaries. I still come across republicans here in Arizona who think McCain was great, not because they like RINOs but because they don’t about McCain, only what MSM retells them. Too many Republican voters have no clue in who they vote for, they just vote for the party.
As a Navy vet myself who has a lot of respect for the Marine Corp, you did the right thing by standing up for your principles and your rights. Don’t ever doubt yourself. You served and were willing to fulfill your term of enlistment but they canceled it, not you. Way to go for standing tall, wish their were millions more like you.
I can believe that. When I was recruiting for the Navy back in the mid 80s there were plenty of people willing to join but after checking for eligibility it was hard getting 3 people in a month. It was either they had a health problem like asthma or over weight etc…, no H.S. Diploma a GED wouldn’t do, they had an arrest record, couldn’t pass the pre-ASVAB test we gave them right there in the recruiting office, if they couldn’t pass that no need to take them downtown to MEPs to take the ASVAB test. I used to get pretty frustrated with thinking I had some pretty good candidates just to watch them all go away for one problem or another.
The things I liked about Reagan: He built back the military after Carter tore it down. He gave the men and women in the military good pay raises. During the Carter years some of them were having to get food stamps to help feed their kids. He brought the pride back to military. Brought back the WW2 battle ships too. I joined the Navy in 83 and the petty officers, chiefs, officers above me that served under Carter expressed many times how better the Navy was under Reagan. The Cold War finally ended with Reagan with his help in getting Russia to collapse, with the help of “Star Wars” and military spending making Russia try and do the same to stay up which they ended up collapsing, Eventually, the USSR couldn’t even pay their military men and women. The Berlin Wall came down and so did the old Soviet Union. He loved America, it could be seen and heard in his speeches like that can with Trump. They were from the heart. He brought back pride to be an American after Carter, like Obama, tried to make being an American shameful. He brought back respect for America because other nations knew Reagan wouldn’t be pushed around like Carter was. Iran hostages were released when Reagan was inaugurated because they knew he’d take some real action if not.
Things I didn’t like about Reagan: #He signed the amnesty bill, 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. Which gave amnesty to millions of illegals for the promise of stricter border security that never happened. I don’t like it that government spending took off and he couldn’t get a balanced budget. It can be argued to a degree that his tax cuts mainly benefited the rich like Buffett, Soros etc…and that rather than many of the rich invest their savings in the U.S. with expanding production it mainly went over seas and down the Mexico. I know it was during some of these tax reforms when waitresses were to start paying taxes on their tips. “In 1983, for example, he signed off on Social Security reform legislation that, among other things, accelerated an increase in the payroll tax rate, required that higher-income beneficiaries pay income tax on part of their benefits, and required the self-employed to pay the full payroll tax rate, rather than just the portion normally paid by employees.” I also didn’t like after he was shot he joined the CFR. I also dislike the kids he had with Nancy in Ron jr and Patti, both flaming liberals.
You also have to take into consideration if there weren’t so many ahole husbands and fathers back then, beating their wives and drinking up their paychecks leaving little for bills and groceries, like my father, the feminist movement wouldn’t have gotten the support it did. Have to be fair.
I agree. It’s the character of the person and not the race of the person that counts. I had bosses that were black and were awesome to work for. They showed no bias or hate for any other race. They treated the people working for them according to their characters as workers. Some of the best officers I worked for in the Navy were black. I also had a few that weren’t good to work for, just like with whites and other races. I had workers that worked for me that were black and Mexicans that were loyal hard workers, some weren’t but most were. I had whites that were loyal and hard workers too with some not being so also. It’s the individual person that matters when determining their character.
I think they laugh at it for being the joke it is when accused of such nonsense. I do when I’m called something stupid like that. I laugh because I know I got the better of that person to make them resort to stupidity name calling.