Monday, January, 12, 2009 4:06 PM
drpete
writes:
a contrarian view, with apologies:
There is the 1st amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That alone indemnifies the New York Times. Far be it from me to agree with the publisher and the editors of the Times on anything. And apparently – given declining advertising revenues, declining subscriptions and declining readership – many also find little of value in the “newspaper of record”.
The federal government is bureaucratic, bloated, unionized, liberal-dominated, and employing more people who are anti-America than pro-America. Two-thirds of what that government does and spends is unconstitutional. A high-ranking Democrat senator was removed from the Intelligence Committee because he gave away highly-classified military secrets . . . and got caught. As a Democrat, of course, he was not censored, much less impeached.
Anti-America officials at State, Defense, CIA, National Intelligence, etc., as well as both house and senate staffers are providing the information to the Times, et al. It is they who are guilty of treason.
My Contract with America II – among much else – calls for elimination of the not enumerated U.S. Departments of Education, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Labor, Commerce, and Transportation; along with AID, FEMA, IRS, the FRB and FDIC, the EPA, FDA, SEC, CFTC, NLRB, FTC, FCC, FERC, FAA, CAA, OHSA, CPSC, NHTSA, EEOC, BATF, DEA, NIH, and the Federal Reserve Bank, as well as Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae. Cut the numbers of federal government employees, including managers and bureaucrats by more than two-thirds, and we’ll have sent lots of leakers packing.