Main diff between Europe and USA

Mottleydude said:
Go ahead and salmon that sturgeon for yourself. You mess with me and I'll snapper you like a dry twig!
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Having just found a roach to put in my reefer shark i am in an altogether more amiable mood and am prepared to bring my short temper to eel.

Besides, there's a rather attractive young lady outside with a skirt on so short i swear i can coelocanth LOL!!!1!!11!!1!!SOUNDSABITRUDE!!!!1!!!!11!1!!!
 
charver said:
This is no plaice for puns.

Now kindly refrain from this nonsense as you're giving me a haddock.
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Hake no, we won't refrain. The pun wars on our previous board were legendary. Sometimes they were the sole topic for days. Feel free to join in, just for the halibut.
 
Southern Man said:
LOL The big Lie! How is it that Southern Democrats spent generations subjugating the black man, even going to war against Republicans in a Civil War, then suddenly decided to become members of the Party that they and their families fought against for so long? :cof1:
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That's a great question. Why did you morons join my Party?

Mottleydude said:
Good point! I stand corrected. Southern Dixiecrats were just as reactionary as their present Republican counterparts. Guess you own SM on this one.
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The South of the 19th Century was led by leftists such as Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson. In fact, during that period there was no such thing as a Dixiecrat, because the South and the DP were virtually interchangable words, the exception being that South was a much broader term.
 
Southern Man said:
Would you expect a son to join a political movement that his father fought against? It took several generations for the resentment to subside.
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I respect only consistency and good character. The GOP was founded on expanding industrial free market capitalism (Whigs) and keeping slavery out of the West (Free Soilers). The South was opposed to both of those, including the state's rights of the Kansans (supporting the Lecompton government).

The Dems/South continued to oppose industrialization, sound currency (bimetalism), and Cleveland even came into office and removed bonuses that Grant had awarded to veterans (anti-military).

In the 1920s, the GOP supported lower taxes, while the South continued to support the party of Wilson (70% tax rates during the war). The GOP was clearly the party of limited government for decades before the South came over and hijacked it from sound minds up North...
 
Threedee said:
I respect only consistency and good character. The GOP was founded on expanding industrial free market capitalism (Whigs) and keeping slavery out of the West (Free Soilers). The South was opposed to both of those, including the state's rights of the Kansans (supporting the Lecompton government).

The Dems/South continued to oppose industrialization, sound currency (bimetalism), and Cleveland even came into office and removed bonuses that Grant had awarded to veterans (anti-military).

In the 1920s, the GOP supported lower taxes, while the South continued to support the party of Wilson (70% tax rates during the war). The GOP was clearly the party of limited government for decades before the South came over and hijacked it from sound minds up North...
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There seems to be an American obsession with the size of your government. The limits, I guess are just about infinite, i.e. from zero government to a government of 300 million citizens so it is unlikely that everyone will ever agree. But that is not really the point. The point is that the 'size' of the government has become a partisan matter and is used to create spurious argument for the simple sake of ridiculous point scoring.
A government should be of sufficient size to efficiently govern.
 
Threedee said:
I respect only consistency and good character. The GOP was founded on expanding industrial free market capitalism (Whigs) and keeping slavery out of the West (Free Soilers). The South was opposed to both of those, including the state's rights of the Kansans (supporting the Lecompton government).

The Dems/South continued to oppose industrialization, sound currency (bimetalism), and Cleveland even came into office and removed bonuses that Grant had awarded to veterans (anti-military).

In the 1920s, the GOP supported lower taxes, while the South continued to support the party of Wilson (70% tax rates during the war). The GOP was clearly the party of limited government for decades before the South came over and hijacked it from sound minds up North...
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What happened to those sound minds up North?
 
Lowaicue said:
There seems to be an American obsession with the size of your government. The limits, I guess are just about infinite, i.e. from zero government to a government of 300 million citizens so it is unlikely that everyone will ever agree. But that is not really the point. The point is that the 'size' of the government has become a partisan matter and is used to create spurious argument for the simple sake of ridiculous point scoring.
A government should be of sufficient size to efficiently govern.
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I believe what the Founders believed, that the Federal government should be of limited size and power, letting the People and the States have maximum possible freedom to do what they want (Amendments IX and X, respectively). I have no problem with say, the State of California having universal health care. It will either fail or prosper, and its citizens can vote with their feet.
 
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