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Kentucky Prisoner Release |
The crew of an atomic submarine spends months without
going into port. During those months each crewman is
allotted half the space Federal regulations require
for each convicted felon in prison.
Since extra space is allotted to officers on the
nuclear sub, a lot of those aboard nuclear subs do
hard and complicated work with even less than that
one-half of the space required for a convicted felon
in prison.
Kentucky is releasing convicted felons because its
prisons are overcrowded.
Kentucky also says it is releasing prisoners because
each prisoner costs about $30,000 a year to maintain.
A sheriff in North Carolina keeps his prisoners for
seven dollars a day. Kentucky can't do that because
the courts and activists force them to spend $30,000 a
year to keep those sweet people comfortable enough.
Kentucky's example will be followed by other states.
Liberals constantly complain that too many people are
in prison. The implication is that the way to deal
with crime is to be nice to felons. That's the way
they treated law breakers in the 1960s and 1970s.
Needless to say the crime rate skyrocketed during the
1960s and 1970s.
No liberal policy ever works.
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Kentucky Prisoner Release is Moderation in Action
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Rush Limbaugh tells us there will always be liberals
and conservatives. Both are legitimate points of
view. This is one of the ways Limbaugh and other
conservatives remain respectable to enough to be
permitted.
When you treat the left as if it were a legitimate
point of view you must compromise with it. So while
Kentucky has rejected the leftist policy of soft on
crime it retains the Limbaugh respect for leftism. If
prisons are too crowded you must compromise by letting
prisoners loose.
The fact is that leftism is not merely mistaken, it is
ridiculous. To be partly mistaken is not a way of
being smart. It is a form of insanity.
For decades Republicans tried moderation. They said
that there was a left a right and a center, so the key
to victory was to be in the center. That sounds so
good everybody repeated it like a mantra.
The Republicans had a bare majority in both Houses of
Congress for two years after the landslide victory of
war hero Dwight Eisenhower in the presidential
election of 1952. From then until 1980 Republicans
stuck to the middle of the road strategy, half liberal
silliness and half a rejection of liberal silliness.
If you say "middle of the road" it sounds really
Shrewd. If you say it as I just said it, ", half
liberal silliness and half a rejection of liberal
silliness", you get a realistic view of what
moderation really is.
This so-called "moderation" doesn't work in real world
politics. If you look at the real congress and the
real legislature where people are really elected, they
tend to be on the right or on the left.
Those who preach moderation never look at the real
world. They just kept mumbling "middle of the road".
In 1952 the Eisenhower landslide gave Republicans a
razor-thin majority in both Houses of Congress for two
years. After that one two-year majority that
Eisenhower won for them in 1952, Republicans lost both
Houses of Congress for the next quarter of century.
All that time Republicans followed that "middle of the
road" nonsense.
Finally in 1980 Republicans went Reaganite and won the
presidency and solid control of the Senate for six
years. Then Bush, Senior took over the party
leadership in 1989. He was elected as Reagan's
successor in 1988, but lost when he took over as his
moderate self in 1992.
It was not until 1994 when Gingrich led a hard right
strategy for Republicans that they won both Houses of
Congress.
Liberalism does not work. Moderation does not work
because it takes liberalism seriously. To be a moron
is forgivable. To deliberately be half a moron is
true insanity.
To be a Moderate is to be a half moron on purpose.
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If we ARE at War, then we WERE at War
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We are now fighting a Moderate
War, a Middle of the Road War.
You see, in our Modern Age only dangerous extremists
DECLARE war. In the Falkland Islands Britain and
Argentina were in heavy combat.
But the very idea of declaring war never came up. If
the Authorities say it's war, that's enough for
Europeans and South Americans.
But Americans should not act like Europeans. We have
a Constitution, and that Constitution tells us what a
war is.
Liberals disagree, moderates disagree, respectable
conservatives disagree. They tell us they can take
away civil rights because we are in a war, but they
refuse to declare war.
There is a practical way to call them on this. If
America in combat is a war without any declaration,
then Korea was a war and Vietnam was a war.
If Vietnam was a war Jane Fonda committed treason.
There is no statute of limitations on treason. We
can prosecute the Jane Fondas for crimes committed in
the 1960s if we can punish Germans who committed War
Crimes in the 1940s.
Hundreds of thousands of today's liberals marched on
the streets with the enemy flag, the Viet Cong flag.
A person who marched with the swastika in the 1940s
would have been prosecuted.
If we are at war now we were at war in the 1960s.
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