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Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by Artem256, Jun 1, 2019.

  1. wl704

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    HAPPY SAINT PATRICKS DAY EVERYONE!
    This Irish gal has a house filled with the aroma of corned beef ,cabbage, taters, carrots, and spices in onion. Simmering in broth and beer.
    Enjoy what ever tradition you have
     
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    I’m anti communism. But what sanely can we do temporarily to fix this debt ? The problem is if we fix it, Democrats will seize upon it to increase it more knowing it can be lowered.

    My idea is to frack oil and export it, send the profit to the debt. Highly uncapitalistic. But here’s a rub. Liberals hate oil fracking. Would they replicate this ? Possibly not.

    Therefore on Federal lands fracking by our ARMY corp of engineers. Sell it off, pay the debt down instead of selling the leasing rights off ?

    Possible dangerous repercussions if it even could be legalized but the quickest way to get us out of debt. Must be a government sponsored and owned entity paying off its debt.

    In the end ? Laws must be laid out to never permit Congress to allow us to debt out like this again.

    Not a good answer I know not a legal one neither. Just a desperate hail Mary.


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    Oil is private industry. Nationalization of oil was what Venezuela did (socialism) and Libya (dictatorship)...in either case it ends poorly. There's also not necessarily oil under national lands...where there is, it's already tapped. Plenty of exploratory rigs across the west.

    Step 1 50% budget cut to all agencies.
    Step 2 Elected officials: elected offices pay raises will become election decisions; Benefits for elected officials will only be for their term; house and senate will have a max of x terms/yrs.
    Step 3 Bills and authorizations -Need to eliminate blanket programs and pork. Something like bills being single issue or line item veto.
    Step 4 all authorizations must be funded for no longer than the Exec admin term
     
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    Eliminate base line budgeting.
    Term limits.
     
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    A three day trip license is only $20, but by May that lake will be almost un-fishable unless you bring a boat. The uncontrolled vegetation gets so bad that even with a boat every cast will bring in weeds or moss unless you throw a frog or a d as pinned sit on the weed edges.

    The weeds are already getting bad there.
     
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    Uh,….. I’m from the south.

    Southern fried is the only acceptable way to eat fish here. :lol:
     
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    Y'all don't have walleye is why you eat bass.
     
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    Yes, and southerners will pretty much eat anything fried.
     
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    Bull Shoals in Arkansas has walleye. I’ve caught quite a few by accident while bass fishing and while they’re pretty good, I prefer bass.
     
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    You come to my house and deep fry a walleye you will get tossed. battered deep fried fish is a sin. IMHO
     
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    Good ole Northern Walleye fried up and on a bun with some tartar sauce :rock:

    Wish we could have another meet and greet weekend with a cookout, would love to taste all the different recipes!
     
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    Jalapeño hush-puppies on the side….
     
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    Brandon wearing running shoes for whe he breaks out in those little jogs he does
    he still walks like his adult diapers chokka block though

     
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    Yes that’s what I was saying. You federalize it, it becomes Communist and we are mostly communist supporters (democrats out number us scarey huh )

    I saying on top of cutting government spending which is far out of control. But it’s still communist not capitalist. But it would cure fix us a ton quickly. Maybe executive order ? But if communist democrats do it, they’d weaponize it against us. It’s not a winner because communist would flip it on us so bad, we’d never recover. Just dreaming. Cutting 50% is great. But democrat communists will triple it, raise more taxes.

    Remember Harry Reid changing the voting needed to confirm to hob nob Obama ? Well ? We can thank him for our SCOTUS Gorch, Kav, and Amy. We stuck the knife into Reid. We federalize oil it will end democracy I’m afraid. Communists would use it to buy up elections everywhere and raise taxes on top of all that.

    We’d work right into Soros’ hands for the final kill.

    But a man can dream. What do liberals call that ? Ideologue? Haha debt free ideologue. Only a Republican POTUS can use it. Then Communism will overtake the GOP. lol you can’t win. Because what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

    Therefore truly our only way out is to become biggest exporters of USA made products. I’m not a fan of using the weapons wing to make up our debt. China will get their hands on our technology eventually. Even to NATO allies. Make your own boys. We got ours. That’s why we’re great. They stay in house.


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    Largemouth bass fried in beer batter from deep clear water, not the dark green hydrilla bass. Deep South Florida LM in rock pits are almost all white silver belly faint green back, eat mostly craw bugs and shad. Meat is white as snow.

    Everglades LM a bit different. They eat everything and anything. Meat is still white but it tastes different.

    But with so much salt water fish, there’s no need to eat a sport fish like LM here. Yellowtail snapper are out on the first reef and eat awesome. Not to mention Wahoo, Mahi, Grouper, and Tile fish which are plentiful.

    We now have a Snakehead problem in our freshwater that’s gotta be hurting LM.


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    Yes Sir!
     
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    I am hungry for some reason!
     
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    Jealous of the saltwater fish you have for eating. I love snapper and grouper everytime I visit Florida
     
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    Golden Tile, Monkfish(super rare) and Yellowtail

    Grouper are great as well as Wahoo and Mahi but for me pale.

    BTW I never caught a Monk but they are here and caught by Swordfish fishermen

    Forgetaboutit


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