Comments on: Morning Bell: The Emerging Consensus for Victory http://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/02/morning-bell-the-emrging-consensus-for-victory/ The Foundry promotes conservative policies and principles by offering the best in public policy research with the day’s current events. The Foundry is published by The Heritage Foundation. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:54:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: E Paul Lian, Scottsdale, AZhttp://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/02/morning-bell-the-emrging-consensus-for-victory/#comment-2111 E Paul Lian, Scottsdale, AZ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:30:14 +0000 http://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/02/morning-bell-the-emrging-consensus-for-victory/#comment-2111 Senator Obama saves $300/month on his mortgage paynent? Doesn't sound like much, let's see, that's $3,600 annually, $36,000 over ten years, $72,00 over twenty years. Not a worry to me. Hey, he's got college expenses coming up, weddings to pay for, fuel & groceries to buy, just like most of us. Question....how can I save $300/mo on my mortgage....have impeccable credit or become a U.S. Senator? Senator Obama saves $300/month on his mortgage paynent? Doesn’t sound like much, let’s see, that’s $3,600 annually, $36,000 over ten years, $72,00 over twenty years. Not a worry to me. Hey, he’s got college expenses coming up, weddings to pay for, fuel & groceries to buy, just like most of us. Question….how can I save $300/mo on my mortgage….have impeccable credit or become a U.S. Senator?

]]> By: Danny Grimes Central Floridahttp://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/02/morning-bell-the-emrging-consensus-for-victory/#comment-2094 Danny Grimes Central Florida Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:20:15 +0000 http://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/02/morning-bell-the-emrging-consensus-for-victory/#comment-2094 My comment on Nuclear power plants is this: There are good personal options immerging,and being used today. It makes more sense to protect the enviroment,and prevent disaster-than to spend billions of dollars only to have spent reactor waste, sold back as irradiated food, and poison absoulutely anyone, who ingests such treated foodstuffs.It only takes one chernoble disaster to ruin the enviroment-and the lives of most Americans. My vote is on personable control of energy- not in the control of profiters in the long run. Saving only the availiability of a needed energy source not moral, or ethical standpoints. I vote no. But i do vote for sane soulutions not ones that represent serious destruction of land, people ,and the Earth. My comment on Nuclear power plants is this: There are good personal options immerging,and being used today. It makes more sense to protect the enviroment,and prevent disaster-than to spend billions of dollars only to have spent reactor waste, sold back as irradiated food, and poison absoulutely anyone, who ingests such treated foodstuffs.It only takes one chernoble disaster to ruin the enviroment-and the lives of most Americans. My vote is on personable control of energy- not in the control of profiters in the long run. Saving only the availiability of a needed energy source not moral, or ethical standpoints. I vote no. But i do vote for sane soulutions not ones that represent serious destruction of land, people ,and the Earth.

]]> By: test » Blog Archive » Morning Bell: The Emerging Consensus for Victoryhttp://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/02/morning-bell-the-emrging-consensus-for-victory/#comment-2090 test » Blog Archive » Morning Bell: The Emerging Consensus for Victory Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:51:40 +0000 http://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/02/morning-bell-the-emrging-consensus-for-victory/#comment-2090 [...] Woody Coleman wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptSamantha Power, before she resigned from the campaign for making an indiscreet remark about Hillary Clinton, told the BBC, “He will, of course, not rely upon some plan that he’s crafted as a Presidential candidate or a US senator. … Read the rest of this great post here [...] [...] Woody Coleman wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptSamantha Power, before she resigned from the campaign for making an indiscreet remark about Hillary Clinton, told the BBC, “He will, of course, not rely upon some plan that he’s crafted as a Presidential candidate or a US senator. … Read the rest of this great post here [...]

]]> By: Ed Smithehttp://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/02/morning-bell-the-emrging-consensus-for-victory/#comment-2087 Ed Smithe Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:57:28 +0000 http://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/02/morning-bell-the-emrging-consensus-for-victory/#comment-2087 Well, now that things are going so well in Iraq, we should be able to draw down some of our forces to pre-surge levels and send additional personnel to prevent Afghanistan from slipping away, right?Moreover, shall we care to venture a guess as to when the Iraqi government will complete all of the 18 benchmarks that they had agreed to some time ago? When one considers the amount of money that we spend every day in Iraq, and the toll that it is taking on our national defense, it would be rather prudent to know just how much blood and treasure we are planning to spend to ensure that the Iraqis keep their promises to the United States--especially as Iran continues to develop nuclear weapons, Pakistan continues to ignore al Qaeda, China continues to build its military and North Korea continues to implode.We demand as much from our domestic programs, why not our foreign policy? Well, now that things are going so well in Iraq, we should be able to draw down some of our forces to pre-surge levels and send additional personnel to prevent Afghanistan from slipping away, right?

Moreover, shall we care to venture a guess as to when the Iraqi government will complete all of the 18 benchmarks that they had agreed to some time ago? When one considers the amount of money that we spend every day in Iraq, and the toll that it is taking on our national defense, it would be rather prudent to know just how much blood and treasure we are planning to spend to ensure that the Iraqis keep their promises to the United States–especially as Iran continues to develop nuclear weapons, Pakistan continues to ignore al Qaeda, China continues to build its military and North Korea continues to implode.

We demand as much from our domestic programs, why not our foreign policy?

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