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What’s Happened to America’s Pioneer Spirit?
genfringe.com ^ | November 14, 2012 | Claire Montgomery

Posted on 11/19/2014 7:06:33 AM PST by ilovesarah2012

Many Citizens continue to feel that the government OWES them everything. The self- reliance and ‘Pioneer Spirit’ that we once had seemed to be gone. Urban Americans had gone feral. Like wild dogs, they begin to prey upon each other almost immediately. People had no preparations. They had no water. They were forced into scavenging from dumpsters for survival food. FEMA never came. Where was the American ingenuity and enterprise we are famous for all over the world? Are people so lazy and dependant on government hand outs that they no longer take any responsibility for their own welfare or that of their families?

Fifteen people in the Far Rockaway section of Queens and nine in Coney Island were charged with burglary and other offenses in connection with looting at stores,” chief spokesman for the Police Department Paul J. Browne said. Mayor Bloomberg said the National Guard, with support of the Obama Administration, would round up any looters.

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From two years ago, but still relevant.
1 posted on 11/19/2014 7:06:33 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

We’ve gotten feminized, “homo”-genized, criminalized, and immoralized, by liberalization.


2 posted on 11/19/2014 7:25:18 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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Who needs a pioneer spirit when the government will take care of you?


3 posted on 11/19/2014 7:30:14 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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Well when the SHTF it will be survival of the fittest/prepared. So the problem will take care of itself. Illegal immigrants and the urban ferals will be in the first die off.


4 posted on 11/19/2014 7:30:51 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

A lot of Americans have signed on to the declaration of dependence. The socialists gave them the pens for “free”.


6 posted on 11/19/2014 7:46:41 AM PST by PGalt
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To: ilovesarah2012

America’s Pioneer Spirit was off-shored by lowered import tariffs and cheap overseas labor.


7 posted on 11/19/2014 7:55:26 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: ilovesarah2012

America’s Pioneer Spirit was off-shored by lowered import tariffs and cheap overseas labor.


8 posted on 11/19/2014 7:55:27 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: ilovesarah2012

What’s Happened to America’s Pioneer Spirit?
Laziness and it spreading.


9 posted on 11/19/2014 9:15:24 AM PST by Vaduz
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And colorized.

Sorry, but I don't think that literally applies.

10 posted on 11/21/2014 5:06:08 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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