Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read through the various topics, it becomes clear that the NRA is stressing two main themes; good citizenship and the importance of our second-amendment rights. On the surface, this is hardly a disturbing agenda. But when one asks oneself why these people are so single-mindedly dedicated to the right to bear arms that they'll select their representatives based solely on their stance on this issue, something slightly darker emerges...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The web of federal programs costs over $120 billion per year to educate citizens on everything from the disposal of boat sewage to citizenship...Money spent on redundant programs is money not spent on our children...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Do not compare the District of Columbia to Detroit, New York, Atlanta or San Francisco, unless you give the people I represent the same citizenship rights and the same aid those cities...
...injury." Several Senators have threatened to filibuster the final bill if it contains the provision when it emerges from conference committee. Most cruise lines are already exempt from many U.S. regulations. Carnival founder Ted Arison--a billionaire who gave $100,000 to the G.O.P. in 1988--renounced his U.S. citizenship in 1993, thereby escaping U.S. estate taxes...
...short speech, which concluded with, "Tomorrow we greet the dawn and begin our work anew"--as if six long months of a nation's listening to Bob Dole's gothic baritone and Clinton's pleading lilt had been a sideshow that ended in one brief act of citizenship. Now the President and the people could return to the course they had agreed upon. Is this what the election was all about...