04-16-2009, 11:54 AM
Vanraw Wrote:If we did it, I think we should charge the owners for the services. I'm tired of America being expected to clean up the worlds mess for free.
I'm willing to put my tax dollars toward protecting American citizens at sea or abroad. I don't care who owns the ship. If Americans are attacked or in danger of being attacked, I don't mind having our tax dollars go toward securing our citizens.
"Hamilton is really a Colossus to the anti republican party. Without numbers he is an host within himself. They have got themselves into a defile where they might be finished but too much security on the republican part will give time to his talents and indefatigableness to extricate them. We have had only middling performances to oppose to him. In truth when he comes forward there is nobody but yourself who can meet him. His adversaries having begun the attack he has the advantage of answering them and remains unanswered himself. For God's sake take up your pen and give a fundamental reply to Curtius and Camillas" - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison