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Posts Made By: Peter K. Rallis

August 21, 2004 07:40 AM Forum: Star Parties

would you attend ?

Posted By Peter K. Rallis

I would certainly consider it. Much would depend on the dates. If it didn't conflict with Rocky Mountain Star Stare or the Okie-Tex Star Party or Weekend Under The Stars Star Party, I think it would stand a possibility of drawing a crowd. The Nebraska Star Party would also be competition so that pretty well eats up all the new moon periods between June and October.

Do you have a club to sponsor it? I'm on the RMSS organizing committee and we have ten members but still need a lot of support from the general CSAS membership to pull it all together.

Good luck,

peter...

August 21, 2008 07:12 PM Forum: Polls

THE QUESTION - some of you shouldn't look - you have been warned

Posted By Peter K. Rallis

No it isn't the reason we have a huge national debt. We have a huge national debt because the government spends too much. Additionally, NO COMPANY PAYS TAXES Their customers pay the taxes. Taxing companies is a sneaky way of raising individual taxes without the public realizing it. Companies just raise their prices to take into account the amount of taxes that they have to pay. The only fair tax is a consumption tax. That is why lowering income and capital gains taxes produces increased revenue. Kennedy, Reagan, and Bush all proved that. Deficits grew because Congress insisted on spending more than the increase in revenue.

August 21, 2008 06:56 PM Forum: Polls

THE QUESTION - some of you shouldn't look - you have been warned

Posted By Peter K. Rallis

I too have to agree that direction is not a valid or answerable question. As a Conservative I am not a McCain fan nor am I an Obama fan so I will not vote for McCain but against Obama who shows me little in the way of experience in areas that a leader of the United States must have. His refusal to acknowledge progress in Iraq and denial of numerous flip flops,
campaign financing, gun control, just to name a couple and his "attack rebels in Pakistan" and total misunderstanding of when, why, and how to expand forces in Afghanistan, worry me. The question as asked was the correct one as the previous respondants pointed out.