From VOX: Cantor wasn't beaten by the Tea Party Eric Cantor wasn't beaten by the Tea Party. He wasn't rejected by Republicans. He was beaten by 36,000 of the roughly 65,000 people who voted in last night Republican primary in Virginia's 7th congressional district. Put that in context. Virginia's 7th district has about 758,000 residents. In 2012, 381,000 of them voted in the congressional election. 223,000 of them voted for Eric Cantor. Cantor's loss last night came at the hands of about 5 percent of his constituents. It came at the hands of about 9 percent of the total number of people who voted in the district's 2012 congressional election. It came at the hands of about 16 percent of the people who voted for Cantor in that election. And though Cantor's defeat is national in its effects, less than three-hundredths of 1 percent of the people who voted in the 2012 House elections voted against Eric Cantor last night. -------------- -------------- So this was a fluke.
The leftist loonies are already out trying to paint this intelligent professor as an extremist... when if they listened to him... he was just a professor of economics who believes in free markets for us and the third world. Freemarkets Balanced budget Rule of Law here are some of tweets... don't forget Cantor was one of 28 Rs... giving Obama his clean debt ceiling... and we cant stop illegal immigration unless we stop Cantor A tweet in support of Milton Friedman Unlike Eric Cantor, I fully oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...icially-Backs-Amnesty-For-DREAMers-Who-Enlist ⦠#tcot #tlot #lnyhbt #NoAmnesty 5:44 PM - 14 Apr 2014 I believe the first step to solving our nationâs healthcare problem is to repeal #Obamacare #tcot #tlot #lnyhbt Dave Brat VA 7th @DaveBratVA7th Follow I am running on free market principles. We must stop the government from picking winners and losers. http://goo.gl/WjIOGZ #tcot #tlot http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/43481_Dave_Brats_Batshit_Wingnut_Twitter_Feed State of the Union? $4 Trillion Budgets, $17 Trillion in Debt, $127+Trillion in unfunded liabilities. It's time to #TermLimit them all.
Not worried at all. The really amusing thing here is that Covertibility's prediction ability (of lack of) ranks up there with the Jem Algo.
You did admit you were worried, much earlier, but not for yourself, for your kids. Which at the time I thought was fair.
He said he was a Calvinist? or just admires him... here is some background... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calvin John Calvin (French: Jean Calvin French pronunciation: â[ÊÉÌ kalvÉÌ], born Jehan Cauvin: 10 July 1509 â 27 May 1564) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530. After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France, Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where he published the first edition of his seminal work Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536. In that year, Calvin was recruited by William Farel to help reform the church in Geneva. The city council resisted the implementation of Calvin's and Farel's ideas, and both men were expelled. At the invitation of Martin Bucer, Calvin proceeded to Strasbourg, where he became the minister of a church of French refugees. He continued to support the reform movement in Geneva, and was eventually invited back to lead its church. Following his return, Calvin introduced new forms of church government and liturgy, despite the opposition of several powerful families in the city who tried to curb his authority. During this period, Michael Servetus, a Spaniard regarded by both Catholics and Protestants as having heretical views, arrived in Geneva. He was denounced by Calvin and executed by the city council. Following an influx of supportive refugees and new elections to the city council, Calvin's opponents were forced out. Calvin spent his final years promoting the Reformation both in Geneva and throughout Europe. Calvin was a tireless polemic and apologetic writer who generated much controversy. He also exchanged cordial and supportive letters with many reformers, including Philipp Melanchthon and Heinrich Bullinger. In addition to the Institutes, he wrote commentaries on most books of the Bible, as well as theological treatises and confessional documents. He regularly preached sermons throughout the week in Geneva. Calvin was influenced by the Augustinian tradition, which led him to expound the doctrine of predestination and the absolute sovereignty of God in salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation. Calvin's writing and preachings provided the seeds for the branch of theology that bears his name. The Reformed, Congregational, and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world. ... Political thought The aim of Calvin's political theory was to safeguard the rights and freedoms of ordinary people. Although he was convinced that the Bible contained no blueprint for a certain form of government, Calvin favored a combination of democracy and aristocracy (mixed government). He appreciated the advantages of democracy.[108] To further minimize the misuse of political power, Calvin proposed to divide it among several political institutions like the aristocracy, lower estates, or magistrates in a system of checks and balances (separation of powers). Finally, Calvin taught that if rulers rise up against God they lose their divine right and must be put down.[109][110] State and church are separate, though they have to cooperate to the benefit of the people. Christian magistrates have to make sure that the church can fulfill its duties in freedom. In extreme cases the magistrates have to expel or execute dangerous heretics. But nobody can be forced to become a Protestant.[111][112] Calvin thought that agriculture and the traditional crafts were normal human activities. With regard to trade and the financial world he was more liberal than Luther, but both were strictly opposed to usury. However, Calvin allowed the charging of modest interest rates on loans. Like the other Reformers Calvin understood work as a means through which the believers expressed their gratitude to God for their redemption in Christ and as a service to their neighbors. Everybody was obliged to work; loafing and begging were rejected. The idea that economic success was a visible sign of God's grace played only a minor role in Calvin's thinking. It became more important in later, partly secularized forms of Calvinism and became the starting-point of Max Weber's theory about the rise of capitalism.[110]
"Freemarkets" - simplistic. Everyone wants this. Unless you mean totally free, which only whackjobs want. "Balanced budget" - simplistic. Do you mean "to the penny", or some degree of perpetual surplus or deficit, or a running average? "Rule of Law" - simplistic. Everyone wants this, but disagree on which laws. Rule of Chaos: if you don't get what you want, smash your toys, shut down government, mar the country's credit rating. Have a 51st vote on repealing Obamacare!
exactly my point... even you can't find those thoughts extreme... so you called them simplistic. Which they are. Commonsense the cronies and their drones can't stand. Note... Obama and Reid shut down the govt when the Republicans sent over the budget in pieces. My belief was they should have sent it all over in pieces. Your team smashed the toys and put up the gates to parks and monuments at great expense.