Neil Abercrombie
Neil Abercrombie
Neil Abercrombieis an American politician who served as the seventh Governor of Hawaii from 2010 to 2014. He is a member of the Democratic Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 June 1938
CityBuffalo, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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We are talking about the survival of this country.
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He formed Democracy for America, which took what was the foundation -- the Internet foundation -- and the enthusiasm, reaching out to the grassroots for his campaign and made it a national campaign,
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Once Howard Dean lost the Iowa primary, there was no licking of wounds; there was no baying at the moon. There was, let's move to another stage now. We've got the right idea here.
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When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.
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Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.
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Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
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With troops in combat, the Congress has a non-negotiable obligation to weigh in heavily on the side of immediate and near-term needs of the military, particularly the Army. In some cases, this means cutting funds from pie-in-the-sky programs that may work out down the road and funding things that we know work today.