Talk is Cheap?

I disagree. The president and his administration talk a lot, deliver little and the costs are enormous. Look at all they say then match that against what those words cost in blood and treasury and lost opportunities. I think Republicans in general like to be thought of as good guys and wince when others call them mean or mean spirited or only interested in the interests of the big money special interests. As a result, with "big government is bad," as a back drop, they speak of good things, under fund them, blame big government for that failure.

This is not skepticism. This is cynicism. A much more corrosive view. An example is this most recent dust up in Alaska and the BP pipeline. No federal regulation allowed. They were to be "self policing." Of course BPs self interest in free market capitalistic environment would compel them to inspect and care for a valuable asset. No regulation, no oversight, no accountability, profit motivator, no unfunded mandates, and now 400 thousand less barrels of oil flow each day to west coast refineries. Alaska doesn't receive their royalties. Alaska, the home of the independent go-it-alone in the wild iconoclast. I'm sorry those are just words. Reality sets in and one finds Alaska sucks more federal money than any "blue" state by far. Dependent more on big oil and screw the environment in their favor, Alaska. You know those folks who want to drill "responsibly" in ANWAR? Ya those guys. Talk is not cheap. Then BP gets on the tube and says their inspection process was up to standards and their QC was swell. If that were true would they be taking off-line all the petroleum from the north slope?

W and his boys never fail to speak about "honoring our vets." yet Veteran's Affairs is woefully under funded. Big government failure, remember. So the vets resent the government and loose confidence in the leadership for their unmatched rhetoric and get dissolution's and drop out of the process and, how good is that for the well being and health of our republic?

States rights and Terry Shivo. A lot of talk. Officials diagnosing, pontificating, profiling, and styling, belly up to the bar and take a shot for the good folks back home. Do it on the national stage. Be intrusive in an intimate family tragedy. Trample on privacy for your own gain. Disregard everything your states rights founders revered. Don't deal or talk about things that really matter and effect millions of citizen. Opportunity costs, poof gone forever. For what? Talk is not cheap.

Health care, guaranteed pensions, education, war, contracts, Katrina. One needn't even explain or repeat the words that go with these concerns and topics to conjure up the falsity of talk and the failure of delivery. 12 billion dollars of subsidies to big oil in something they have the nerve to call an energy plan.

Fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here. If I were a predator would I walk one mile for a meal when I can walk 2 steps and have a feast? You're with us or against us. They hate us for our Freedom. Talk is not cheap.

Ironically, this administration won't talk to our... Their perceived enemies. Haven't done much with Palestine and Israel until crisis. They taked about the bad guy in Venezuela, antagonized him and forgot about him. He however did not forget about us or fail to remember how much oil he controls. Bush said during his 2000 campaign that we did not need any more laws about immigration. All we needed to do was enforce the ones that were already on the books. Talk is not cheap.

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