Say Goodbye to Texas

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete , to whose benefit had a 80 black corvette. It needed a lot of work when he got sick and I think his brother is going to either sell it for scrap or I told him to donate it to a school that teaches car mechanics, I’m sure someone would love to restore it. It still has an 8 track in it.

He called it the bat mobile

@Gefn

It's a Corvette,so it will never be worth nothing. It's worth more if it has never been modified,though.

I used to drive a 80 Corvette back and forth to work. Was a Ca car with a 305 so you could almost outrun it with a bicycle,but it sure did handle good,and was also VERY comfortable.
I sold it after hitting a deer with it. Was working 12+ hour days 6 and sometimes 7 days a week,and just didn't have the time or energy to fix it. Turned around and bought a new 87 Mustange GT Convertible. That one was fast,but didn't handle all that well.

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe

I am likely the oldest person here and some people here make fun of me due to being old.  If they are lucky, maybe they will be as old as I am now.  Due to being old, I have lived in a time of freedom from government control, and government control now.

How government grows:
Each person who wins election to a state government office (Republican or Democrat), or national government office (Republican and Democrat), must show something they did while in office to win the next election.  Laws are passed by these entities and making new law gives the office holder a reason to be reelected (See what I did - elect me again).  Therefore, the number of laws grow from one election season to another.

I have said before if I was elected to such an office, when reelection came, I would run on "I didn't write any new law and voted no on every new law others wrote."

Growing up in the 1930s, I did not hear my parents complaining about government - it was not an issue.  They paid income tax and that was it.  They paid the doctors themselves.  We grew our own food, had chickens and grew two pigs a year; the pigs were killed in late Autumn, had a room outside for the hanging meat; mom canned food all summer and fall.  Had fig trees and peach trees.  Not much bought at a grocery store, animal meat, butter, milk, but that was done on credit.  The store kept a list of what you bought and you paid for it at the end of every month.  Social Security was started later in their life.  That is the only government law that affected them except the income tax.

"...the states (but not the federal government) began collecting sales taxes in the 1930s. The United States imposed income taxes briefly during the Civil War and the 1890s. In 1913, the 16th Amendment was ratified, permanently legalizing an income tax."

Any person of any age could drink alcohol, smoke, drive a car, etc., it was your life and you could do what you wanted.  Driver's licenses came about in 1935 when I was two years old:

"1935: The Texas Department of Public Safety issues free licenses; after two years these expire, and the Texas-sized card (3.25 x 4.25 inches) costs 25 cents. It includes perforated sections for removal by the patrolman after any driving violations."

There were no telephones in houses then.  Most houses had outhouse toilets, which is what we had. There were pots called "slop jars".  This large jar was put by the bed so in nighttime, if one needed to urinate or have a bowel movement, the slop jar was used and emptied the next day.

This was life before government passed so many laws, we are burdened down by them.  It isn't going to stop due to what I wrote at the beginning

@Victoria33
We have reached the point where a solid campaign might be made on the promise to repeal certain laws which have been passed in those intervening years. Just think of the agencies which could be eliminated, the rules lifted and discarded, the nonsensical encumbrances which could be cut like chains from the ankles of Americans at all levels.
Time to end the slavery of submission and dependency on Government. Let my people go!

(Great God Almighty, Free at last! Free at last!)

[Gefn]

@Gefn

It's a Corvette,so it will never be worth nothing. It's worth more if it has never been modified,though.

I used to drive a 80 Corvette back and forth to work. Was a Ca car with a 305 so you could almost outrun it with a bicycle,but it sure did handle good,and was also VERY comfortable.
I sold it after hitting a deer with it. Was working 12+ hour days 6 and sometimes 7 days a week,and just didn't have the time or energy to fix it. Turned around and bought a new 87 Mustange GT Convertible. That one was fast,but didn't handle all that well.

I know he said he drove it down that highway in California where you can see the ocean on one side, and it’s very beautiful. Is it the pacific coast highway?

The new corvettes seem to be cookie cutter cars without souls. No appeal imho. Not like the old corvette, the firebirds, the old mustangs, etc. Or I could just be waxing nostalgic for the old 80s cars, especially since the 80s was the best decade of my life.

[sneakypete]

Or I could just be waxing nostalgic for the old 80s cars, especially since the 80s was the best decade of my life.

@Gefn

You have my sympathy.

[thackney]

i]In the early 1970s, Texas was around 70% non-Hispanic white and roughly 20% Hispanic. If current trends continue, within the next ten years it will be about 35% white and 40% Hispanic. [/i]Texans used to brag that “everything is bigger in Texas,” but if current demographic trends continue, the state is getting shorter and shorter.

I am amazed how these articles keep talking about Texas turning blue, especially with the rising Hispanic population.

Look at the reality of the election results in Texas.  Hispanic population, percentage of Hispanic has been rising right along with a rising Republican control. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Texas

You can have your theories.  I like the election results.

[Smokin Joe]

I am amazed how these articles keep talking about Texas turning blue, especially with the rising Hispanic population.

Look at the reality of the election results in Texas.  Hispanic population, percentage of Hispanic has been rising right along with a rising Republican control. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Texas

You can have your theories.  I like the election results.

Divide and Conquer. If the Dems can convince the 'pubbies that Hispanics will vote Democrat (because Hispanics have a better tan than most European stock), the 'pubbies might respond to Hispanics with hostility, which would drive the Hispanics into the Dem camp.

What the Dems have missed is the strong sense of family that goes with Hispanic culture, something the Dems have largely destroyed in the Black community. That family is better promoted and far better nurtured in a conservative environment, so it is natural that Hispanic folks would seek that from the Republicans, who are closest to that sort of philosophy. As long as Republicans and Conservatives greet that warmly instead of make assumptions about people based on a language in their country of origin, the opportunity to swell the ranks without giving ground on principle is outstanding.

It is self evident what the ministrations of the Democrats.Progressives/Socialists/Communists have done for the Black community in the past 60 years, and the picture is ugly, with the family torn down (huge rates of out of wedlock births), rampant drug abuse, and tens of millions of babies aborted since Roe, the economic malaise in the cities, and, in general, the destruction and governmental enslavement of any and all who would buy into the Dems shtick.

 
This is why the Dems, Soros, the open Borders people and the Global Communists are subsidizing and organizing waves of invader from Socialist leaning and Socialist Central American countries, as well as a host of others who do not share American values (NOT Mexico), who don't give a rat's patoot about opportunity, except the opportunity to milk another country to death.

[austingirl]

I am amazed how these articles keep talking about Texas turning blue, especially with the rising Hispanic population.

Look at the reality of the election results in Texas.  Hispanic population, percentage of Hispanic has been rising right along with a rising Republican control. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Texas

You can have your theories.  I like the election results.

Excellent analysis.

[Fishrrman]

thackney wrote:
"You can have your theories.  I like the election results."

You mean "election results" like Cruz v. the dirt eater?
How'd that go?

Prediction:
Put up a halfway-decent democrat-communist against Cruz NEXT time, and there's a very good chance he'll lose.

Same thing with Cornyn.
Probably MORE likely with Cornyn...

[sneakypete]

thackney wrote:
"You can have your theories.  I like the election results."

You mean "election results" like Cruz v. the dirt eater?
How'd that go?

Prediction:
Put up a halfway-decent democrat-communist against Cruz NEXT time, and there's a very good chance he'll lose.

Same thing with Cornyn.
Probably MORE likely with Cornyn...

@Fishrrman

I agree. I think Cruz knows this too,and that explains the sudden right turn he has made. He is establishing his credentials as a conservative in order to put himself in a position to be a talking head on tv news and political programs. Maybe even a think tank position.

He either does that,suddenly registers as a Dim,or is looking for work. Texas is going Dim and will be Dim until the NWO dissolves the US to create the North American Economic Zone. The only elections after that will be which bankers sit on the board and it will only be our Masters voting.

[thackney]

thackney wrote:
"You can have your theories.  I like the election results."

You mean "election results" like Cruz v. the dirt eater?
How'd that go?

Prediction:
Put up a halfway-decent democrat-communist against Cruz NEXT time, and there's a very good chance he'll lose.

Same thing with Cornyn.
Probably MORE likely with Cornyn...

The Democrats tried their best to buy that election and still failed.  More money raised and spent on that race than any other senate race in history.

https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topraces.php

Only a hand full of senate races spent more than half the money in that race.  Democrats raised and spent nearly double that of Cruz and still lost.  Beto spent nearly $20 a vote to lose that election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_Senate_election_in_Texas#Results_3