Rush is moving to Costa Rica?

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kokonut said:
He'll make more money as president and afterwards. Still, as president, the 2009 earning is $400,000/yr.
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Plus perks, such as free housing, food, health care, transportation, and retirement plan.
 
souggy said:
Okay...

Most of the Republicans are conservative by Canadian and European standards...

All conservatism and (social) liberalism is just a spectrum. There's no solid definition of what being conservative and being liberal is.

Generally, being politically conservative means you like status quo.
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More conservative than Canadians? Many Canadians strike me as more conservative than Republicans but then I don't know much about how Canadians politics work or the context despite what you have told me about your country.

You're quite correct though about Republicans being conservative by European standards. By most countries' standard in Europe, Obama is to the right of the center.
Given some of the trends that I see in this country, I'm much more concerned about the USA becoming plutocracy or an oligarchy; some aruge that it is one already.

I don't think it's likely that we'd go socialist or communist - just the opposite.
 
deafskeptic said:
More conservative than Canadians? Many Canadians strike me as more conservative than Republicans but then I don't know much about how Canadians politics work or the context despite what you have told me about your country.

You're quite correct though about Republicans being conservative by European standards. By most countries' standard in Europe, Obama is to the right of the center.
Given some of the trends that I see in this country, I'm much more concerned about the USA becoming plutocracy or an oligarchy; some aruge that it is one already.

I don't think it's likely that we'd go socialist or communist - just the opposite.
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Referring to Stephen Harper? He's from Alberta, the most right-winged province in the country; also one of the most vocal ones as well.
 
TXgolfer said:
How about zero pay for congress and the Prez???? True public service.
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Um, they gotta make a living too, you know?

It's like demanding that teachers get no pay to prove their true public service.
 
souggy said:
Referring to Stephen Harper? He's from Alberta, the most right-winged province in the country; also one of the most vocal ones as well.
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I am referring to Canadians that I have met.
 
netrox said:
Um, they gotta make a living too, you know?

It's like demanding that teachers get no pay to prove their true public service.
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The goal was to have short-term government leaders on a rotating basis, not long-term chair warmers. The low pay was supposed to be enough to sustain them until they returned to their "real" lives at the end of their terms.

Teachers usually sign up for the long haul, and that is their full-time, permanent career. So, that can't be compared to elected public office.
 
Reba said:
The goal was to have short-term government leaders on a rotating basis, not long-term chair warmers. The low pay was supposed to be enough to sustain them until they returned to their "real" lives at the end of their terms.

Teachers usually sign up for the long haul, and that is their full-time, permanent career. So, that can't be compared to elected public office.
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It's what happen when politicians are allowed to give themselves a raise.
 
Reba said:
Individual Republicans and policies, yes.

Republican party as an entity, no.

He still believes the party is conservative and salvageable.
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In fact, he has criticized the GOP party as an entity, yes, for trying to be that "moderate" party many times. Classic example of his criticism was when the GOP picked Scozzafava, a classic RINO, for the NY 23 District race over Doug Hoffman, a straight up conservative that Rush said the GOP should've picked in the first place and warned the GOP on their attempt to be be that "moderate" party. It took awhile but it was too late when GOP finally realized their mistake, dropped Scozzafava in favor of Hoffman but many Absentee Ballots had her name on it and were already sent in that affected the already narrow voting result. Scozzafava in the end endorsed the Democrat contender, Owen, in the race against Hoffman. Rush has discussed many times about the ascendancy on conservatism and has criticized the GOP party over a variety of issues.
 
souggy said:
Then there would be equilibrium because of inflation in response to the fact everyone got more money to spend.
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And the price of everything would sky rocket!
 
One could argue that when you become a politician, it's a crapshoot if you're destined to be a president or not.

Obama could had very easily been Hillary... or another politician could had been president, and he would still make less as a senator than a lawyer.
 
Costa Rica is a very poor country, I've been there and at least what I saw indicated very poor except for the churches and they are magninificent. As to high cost of health care in the U.S.A. look at the cause. Attorneys and people wanting something for nothing. We need some realistic caps of rewards. We need to realize that there are still such things as accidents. I personally do not know of one person that had an accident on purpose. Lets treet it as such and be responsible for ourselves for a change. Unable to use experience, every one has to cover the back side and make sure every I and every T is dotted and crossed and then checked and re-checked. Insurance is high due to lawsuits and also they do have to make some profit and I do think that keeps escalating as a % of costs. Medical costs are high for same reason in my opinion. England had a brain drain in the 50's and many of the best doctors moved to this country. If you read any of the BBC stuff you will see that they are currently worried about loosing many more top people due to 50% income tax due to be put into affect shortly on the higher income people. In the U.S.A. you are starting to see less and less general practioniers and more specialists as specialists are exclued from the current package as it is written so won't have the pay caps. All the insureance in the world is worthless if there is no one that will honor it. Most people work and try and do their best to earn more money, take that away and soon all will be in poverty. You can legislate poverty but you can not legislate prosperity.
 
souggy said:
One could argue that when you become a politician, it's a crapshoot if you're destined to be a president or not.

Obama could had very easily been Hillary... or another politician could had been president, and he would still make less as a senator than a lawyer.
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How much was Obama earning when he working as a lawyer?
 
TXgolfer said:
Most of his income was as an Author.
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So did he take a pay cut or get a pay raise when he became President? I mean, as a lawyer. He can still write books while he's President.
 
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