Ike

[maxx]

David Eisenhower reminds people how the Republican used to think. He mentions Ike's platform.
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/20...ing-home-glory

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2...party_plat.php
"A blogger at Daily Kos highlights some of the planks found in the 1956 Republican Party platform that would be deemed commie pinko by today's Republicans. Like this one:

We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs--expansion of social security--broadened coverage in unemployment insurance --improved housing--and better health protection for all our people.

How about the environment:

We favor a comprehensive study of the effect upon wildlife of the drainage of our wetlands. We recognize the need for maintaining isolated wilderness areas.

Or regulation of business:

A continuously vigorous enforcement of anti-trust laws Legislation to enable closer Federal scrutiny of mergers which have a significant or potential monopolistic connotations;
Procedural changes in the antitrust laws to facilitate their enforcement..."

[kenp]

Interesting read, havent seen nor heard from the, "Fortunate Son", in years.

[Papasito]

It reminds us how far and how fast both parties have nose dived since the glory days of our greatest generations.

[gibran]

Ike was a great president... and a repbulican in the truest sense. I liked Ike...

beware of the industrial military complex...he would have added the neocons to that analysis today

[Ray1936]

One could almost say Ike was a liberal Republican. And Harry Truman, before him, was a conservative Democrat.

Strange that they disliked each other.

[GOAT]

It reminds us how far and how fast both parties have nose dived since the glory days of our greatest generations.

Yup and you can blame JFK for it. HE was the first pres to fly around in a jet to get place to place, bypassing all the smaller towns and cities. He also used media for this own advantage by putting pomp over substance. Since then there hasn't been a decent president since. All we have now is a celebrity race between rich men and women.

[maxx]

Right. It's all JFK's fault that TV turns everything into a beauty contest. But the Republicans could pick candidates with some brain power once in a while. Looks like the inmates have taken over the GOP now.

[rb336]

As I have said, Ike was pretty close to the definition of a moderate. Obama is to the RIGHT of Eisenhower. The extremes of the republican party have totally skewed our political perceptions

[GOAT]

Maxx, no it was JFks fault to change the rules of the game and introduce zero substance to the way the voting would be made. The suckers [[us) have just followed suit.

[oladub]

Under Ike, Operation Wetback was a 1954 operation by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service [[INS) to remove about one million illegal aliens from the southwestern United States, focusing on Mexican nationals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html

[TKshreve]

How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html

Good read Oladub! Thanks. It would be a cold day in hell when a polly has the brass balls to follow through with something like this. All we have is lying, pandering puppets who will say anything to get the job. Yet we still vote....... sheesh.

[maxx]

Originally Posted by oladub

How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html


"...Mr. Coppock says he "cannot understand why [President] Bush let [today's] problem get away from him as it has. I guess it was his compassionate conservatism, and trying to please [Mexican President] Vincente Fox."...

No mention of the U.S. farm bills that dump cheap corn in Mexico and run small farmers out of business there. Maybe that's why W felt a need to please Pres. Fox. Mexico could have been the manufacturing giant China is with some investment. At least that way, our biggest competitor would be right next door.

[rb336]

How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html

I agree with every point at the end of the article.

Employers should be charged, first time, $20K for every illegal, $40K the second time and the entire operation should be seized on a third offense.

Set up a system where employers would have to go through the unemployment offices in the various states to hire workers before going the guest worker route. if the people who are able won't take the job, bye-bye benefits. if they can't then fill the positions, then they would get the certain number of permits for guest workers [[permits would run out after a set period), they would be required to provide fit housing, health insurance, etc., for those workers.