Posted on 11/09/2012 6:28:43 PM PST by Hootin Aggie
A Simple Proposal:
Let it be know that the house will rubber stamp whatever the senate can pass with regard to taxes and spending cuts, but that the debt limit WILL NOT BE RAISED. We can make a big scene about cooperating with the one. He can decide how the budget will be balanced. They can run wild with tax increases. The only catch.....all tax increases expire on 01 Nov 14. We need to teach America what all the "bennies" cost while there is still hope. In this way "the one" will be responsible for the economy. Let BO decide how to balance the budget, but NO MORE borrowing. Better to make a stand now than to kick the can down the road and brown out 5 years from now.
Ya’ know....HA, your title to the thread pricked my ears. Because it’s not what you think. Yesterday, I thought about half of the dumb masses. Yes, we DO need to ‘teach America’....about the Founders and about tyranny...and our escape from it. Even thought about a billboard campaign and PSA’s. Of course....if there is enough money left in the US to fund it.
I don’t think we’ll end up like Greece for awhile. Because unlike Greece, we have an overseas military presence and power projection that we can liquidate to buy us some more years of fun and goodies. Foreign nations who have relied on the American taxpayer for national defense since 1945 will be the first to lose the American dole.
it seems to me like a bunch of idiots think that “if we just tax the rich the debt and deficit will go away”. Let’s show them how math works. Most of us are already prepped for bad times. Let’s jump off the cliff.....My chute will deploy.
If the SHTF, they will all do just like Denise Rich and fly the coop.
We are “sympatico” my FRiend - I came to this thread hoping to have the discussion you describe, for the same reason.
From your tagline, I suspect you will agree that there are few who can deliver a full-throated explanation and defense of liberty, conservatism, and American exceptionalism than Rush. OK, there are a few others like Mark Levin but why are there so few? Or so many who perhaps know it intellectually but are too timid to speak it boldly?
I read that exit polls said 71% of voters agreed that big government is bad because it leads to corruption - but then they voted for Obama anyway! That is nuts! My conclusion is they are so poorly informed that they don’t or can’t connect the dots. They agree with that conservative statement but they vote for the guy who will DO just the opposite - maybe because he’s “got a nice family”??
So there is a major need for education. It can’t be just Rush because the people who listen to Rush already know it.
Billboards, why not? A full-time conservative cable TV channel? How about our pal Clint Eastwood making a movie or two? Recruit and nurture pop music performers who embrace conservatism - they are out there.
There’s plenty of money to fund it - just get the Adelsons, Koch Brothers, etc to pay it forward rather than dumping it all in after then next RINO has been ordained.
The education WILL have to be at the grass roots level.....which is there, now, with the Tea Party. We KNOW that the libs OWN the MSM AND the schools. The ‘founding’ is NOT being taught in schools. PERIOD. My kids have told me they were taught NOTHING about the Pilgrims. NOTHING. And, home schoolers.....don’t start bitching at me about yanking my kids out of school. We have to INFILTRATE the public schools. I have many great friends who do home school.........but we need to activate in the school boards of our local councils. I know many great teachers who teach ‘in secret’ the principles of our founding......with a wink and a nudge. I talk to them frequently, and they are frightened in my area.
The education WILL have to be at the grass roots level.....which is there, now, with the Tea Party. We KNOW that the libs OWN the MSM AND the schools. The ‘founding’ is NOT being taught in schools. PERIOD. My kids have told me they were taught NOTHING about the Pilgrims. NOTHING. And, home schoolers.....don’t start bitching at me about yanking my kids out of school. We have to INFILTRATE the public schools. I have many great friends who do home school.........but we need to activate in the school boards of our local councils. I know many great teachers who teach ‘in secret’ the principles of our founding......with a wink and a nudge. I talk to them frequently, and they are frightened in my area.
Agree. I checked the numbers the other day and right now about 35 million kids are in K-8 public schools and about 4 million in private/home school. So that’s a lot, but obviously we have to do what you say and reform the public schools as well as other tactics.
Private schools are far more cost-efficient (2-3X from the data in Wisconsin). We need to tell local school boards that and make them drive change.
We need to volunteer and mentor kids outside of schoool.
Who is teaching kids today the American values we learned? Not some mamby-pampy wussified PC textbook taught by a unionized teacher. Not the church (because far to few attend church). Not the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4H, etc as they don’t reach enough.
And worst of all - not the family, too many of whom rely on text messaging to communicate and the DVR for information.
We need to nurture and encourage the teachers you describe and step up to help - it’s a battle for hearts and minds.
There HAS to be an ‘education campaign’. That’s where it starts. Into the hearts and minds of the population. There HAS to be a way. It is they KEY. A ‘re-kindling’ (for the older who have forgotten), if you will....or a ‘Renaissance’ (for those who are ignorant).
‘New media’ is the newest way to disseminate information. I’m even thinking that some old methods need to be used. On the ground. Woven into culture. The problem is......people have become so ‘ADHD’ with the Internet...that memes come and go week to week. The news media works the same way.
Something needs to ‘stick’. Something lasting. Something solid.
The Dead Vote so why not have them eat too
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2957570/posts
If the dead can vote...
If the Dead can vote then the dead gotta be able to eat and do many other things that a normal person can do, well except hold a job and be a productive memeber of society.
The Dead Gotta Eat...
It just occured to me, all those dead voters need to eat too, I mean if you are dead and you just spent a long election season voting several times for your favorite democrat president, the food stamp president and you get bupkiss for your your vote, well nuts to that, why not sign your corpse-y self up for some government cheese? I mean if dead people gotta vote, dead people gotta eat too?
If Obama is gonna double down in his second term, why not double down on his food stamp numbers by making sure that his favorite voting block is asking “what can government do for me”....
So grab a shovel and a piece of paper and pencil and an acorn clipboard and head down to the local cemetary to sign up the dead tired, starving to death, and those who are just dying to get a good meal or two...
The dead gotta eat, and voting is hungry work.... Starve the beast by feeding the dead...
The Dead Gotta Read...
You gotta be able to read to vote and the dead are no exception. I would suspect that the dead read things like the New Your Slimes, Washington Compost, Mother Bones, and the Rolling GraveStones... So every single magazine subscription card you get need not be thrown away, instead fill it out with name of the dead voter and the address of their residence which would be the cemetary. The dead have got to be able to read all the liberal crap magazines because after all they vote Democrat Every Single Time....
The dead gotta read, cause you gotta read to vote... Starve the lieberal MSM media beast...
The Dead need a Phone...
Besides Voting the dead gotta be avle to take phone calls, how else are they supposed to respond to pollsters asking them which way they will vote. It is so very hard to get a landline installed at your gravesite these days but there is a solution, the magical Obamaphone is just the thing. Sign up all these poor “Living Impaired - Americans” to an Obama Phone or two, heck they may need more phones as after the batteries run out in their first phone they can’t recharge them, I haven’t seen too many electrical sockets in graveyards.
The Dead gotta be Polled... Starve the Beast by Picking up the Courtesy phone...
Many may thik this is humour but it is not supposed to be funny, and many here have talked about “Going Galt”....
To heck with “going Galt” it is too slow, instead of going just over their heads by going Galt and refusing to be a maker, Go WAY OVER THEIR HEADS and “Poll Vault” by becoming a SUPER TAKER, or an “Under Maker” and sign up the dead to as many social programs and government freebies as undead-humanly possible.
If it is good enough for an election system that the UN observers from craphole countries are suprised about how insecure it is. But the left cries “voter supression” like a stuck pig when a simple fraud prevention measure like photo ID is required by a state, then why the hell should the welfare state and the aparatus that supports it be any different.
When you are fighting against people who’s playbook is dedicated to satan (rules for radicals), you have to start using the playbook written by cuthulu!
Trying to play Mr. Rogers doesn’t work when the Civil Society has been destroyed by the “Great Society”, it is time to play Mr. Macavelli.
To hell with Civil Disobedience, it is past that now, it is now time for Economic Disobedience, and Social Program Disobedience.
They want Communism, Maybe we should give them so much damned communism they choke on the damn stuff by collapsing the socialist systems they have “frog boiled” us into taking. We MUST shove that communism they love so DAMNED MUCH so DAMNED far down their DAMNED throats that they will still be crapping out hammers and sickles after they become the “Voting Dead” because they will be ANYWAY.
But is must be done SOON, because once they take away certain parts or all of amendments 1-10, the quick reset option will not be possible, just misery and Soviet style decline.
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