Kerry gets gunowner voteGrant Hibbard, his immediate superior at the time of the incident. "While in Cam Rahn Bay, he trained on several 24-hour indoctrination missions, and one special skimmer...
Destroying millions of jobs isn't going to help anyone, except for the public employees in the welfare departments.
-- When...government gets into difficulties it can raise money by seizing it, in the form of taxes, from those who have earned it. So long as such persons confine their resistance to academic protests, it will continue well-heeled, and ready for ever new and worse extravagances. Even when it finds, on trying to shake them down, that their pockets are quite empty, it can still borrow on the security of their future earning power. Legally speaking they are its slaves. It can dip into their bank account whenever it pleases, and if those bank accounts turn out to be too scanty for its needs, it can mortgage whatever money they seem likely to accumulate tomorrow, or next month, or next year...It is a millstone around their necks that grows heavier every time they try to throw it off...The Bill of Rights gives a long list of things that the government may not do to the citizen in his person...There is only one provision dealing with his property: the government is forbidden to take it without paying for it. It seems me that there is a hint here. Why not a new Bill of Rights, definitely limiting the taxing powers of the government? Why not...an Amendment restoring it to its simple and proper functions, and forbidding it forever to collect or spend a cent for any purpose lying outside them? - H. L. Mencken