The Nations Tavern: Ethical ?

From the Great Chesty

"Our country wont go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!"

"Paper work will ruin any military force"

"You don't hurt'em if you don't hit 'em"

Chesty on the other forces:

When an Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat, Chesty turned to his tank commander, gave him the Army position and orderd: "If they start to pull back from that line, even one foot, I want you to open fire on them" Turning back to the captain he replied "does that answer your question? We are here to fight." At Koto-ri Korea

"The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war"

In a letter to his wife while in Korea

When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22 enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty ratio on and enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the process.

An enemy division is 16500+men while a Marine Division is 12500 men.

When a Journalist asked him about being surrounded by 22 enemy divisions. Chesty replied.

"They are a damn site better than the U.S. Army, at least we know they will be there in the morning"

"They are in front of us , behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away now!"

"there are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go"

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Ethical ?

Ethical ?
as a consevative or not? To all of us who beleve in small government and less taxes yada yady yada
when a big government program is out there that we can beneffit from should we use it? Is that hipacridical? or unethical?
Ill make this argument as a capitalist business man, in business you use anything to get ahead. If i can use the government bonds and grants to move my business ahead. Why not? If I am a farmer why not use the subsadies? If i can qualify for medicad why not use it? or WIC, CHIP, or food stamps
To all of us who just paid are taxes. I hate paying taxes and then hearing later how goverment spend 2 Billion on a project to see how fruit flys F$^#. But the person down the street who realy needs a little help was denied her food stamps clam or medicad and now has outrages medical bills on top of all there other problems. Why cant i just give my tax money to them. Something i think alot of us would rather do. You say well charitable donations are a tax right off you could have. No charitable donations are only if you are in a certian tax bracket.
I hate when it comes down to well we got to go purchase a new truck so we don't eat it on taxes this year. Well in alot of cases I would rather do somthing else with that money but I refuse to pay taxes if i can avoid them. So i say if you can take some money back threw a goverment program use it becouse we we always spend that money better then they will. But dosn't that mean some buricrate is going to take you as a number and next years say well demand is up so we have to raise taxes to cover it.
I would love to see how much taxes is taken and then how much actuly reaches the people in the programs. Charity's have to report those figures like. For every dollar brought in 40 cents gets to the kids. Well i would love for government to tell us how much gets to the people that the taxes are taken for.
So my delema do i use government programs to take my money back and use it more effectivly or do i take a moral stance that no one will see and say no. do i use the cheat in Mario to skip to the castle or do i play all the levels and concor the game.