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American Collapse
National Review ^ | August 6, 2011 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/07/2011 9:40:21 AM PDT by george76

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To: ctdonath2
the Obama is not prone toward violent solutions.

Three things:

1) Did ya ever notice how much is NOT KNOWN or kept secret about Zer0's life and associations.

2) He came into politics through Chicago.

3) Bill Ayres et all.

41 posted on 08/07/2011 2:25:36 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Holy flippin' crap, Sarah rocks the world!)
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To: PGR88; allblues

42 posted on 08/07/2011 4:54:39 PM PDT by 4Liberty (88% of Americans are NON-UNION. We value honest, peaceful Free trade-NOT protectionist CARTELS)
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To: Texas Eagle
I'm glad I don't live near a city.

Flash mobs and what happened in Madison WI are only the beginning if the dollar and our economy continue to deteriorate.

43 posted on 08/07/2011 5:09:00 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Obamadollars - Currency of Acorn Nation.)
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To: george76

Sometimes you finish reading something and feel like the pilot has just told us to assume the crash position. God help us.


44 posted on 08/07/2011 5:22:53 PM PDT by redpoll
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To: george76
"...the man (or woman) elected in 2012 will be the last American president to preside over the world’s leading economy."

Wishful thinking from the nonproductive granted funds from debt by royalty. There will be several very brief episodes of the current kind of leadership, then a more nationalistic leadership. History repeats itself, except that subgroups won't be turned against each other here, exaggerations in contemporary propaganda to push that sort of thing notwithstanding (e.g., mainly only the elite politicos who are anti-Israel). If you live in a big house, find a smaller, more humble abode in the country.


45 posted on 08/07/2011 6:00:04 PM PDT by familyop ("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" --Deacon character, "Waterworld")
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To: ex-snook

“We are broke. Defend America, not the World.”

Absolutely.


46 posted on 08/07/2011 6:09:05 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Jacquerie
"I'm glad I don't live near a city."

Agreed. But if the city rats see that comment, they'll surely start writing about how they'll go out in gangs to the country to invade your home. Be sure to let 'em know that while canning food, you'll put some jars of botulinum in a separate place (not to be touched by family) for invaders. ;-)


47 posted on 08/07/2011 6:10:49 PM PDT by familyop ("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" --Deacon character, "Waterworld")
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To: george76

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BILLIONS FOR JIHAD

Obama’s 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc gives billions http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/obamas-supplemental-bill-passes-gives-billions-to-enemies/
of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support Sharia law and/or harbor, hide and support those who want to destroy the U.S. and our allies.
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• $3.6 billion, matching the request, to expand and improve capabilities of the Afghan security forces

• $400 million, as requested, to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistani security forces

• Afghanistan: $1.52 billion, $86 million above the request

• West Bank and Gaza: $665 million in bilateral economic, humanitarian, and security assistance for the West Bank and Gaza

• Jordan: $250 million, $250 million above the request, including $100 million for economic and $150 million for security assistance

• Egypt: $360 million, $310 million above the request, including $50 million for economic assistance, $50 million for border security, and $260 million for security assistance

• Pakistan: $1.9 billion, $591 million above the request

• Iraq: $968 million, $336 million above the request

• Oversight: $20 million, $13 million above the request, to expand oversight capacity of the State Department, USAID, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan to review programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq
• Lebanon: $74 million

• International Food Assistance: $500 million, $200 million above the request, for PL 480 international food assistance to alleviate suffering during the global economic crisis

• Refugee Assistance: $343 million, $50 million above the request, …including humanitarian assistance for Gaza. Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency programs in the West Bank and Gaza is limited to $119 million (Note: Gaza = Hamas)

• Disaster Assistance: $200 million to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally displaced people around the world, including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Middle East and South Asia

•Peacekeeping: $837 million for United Nations
peacekeeping operations, including an expanded mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new mission in Chad and the Central African Republic

• Department of Justice: $17 million, matching the request, for counter-terrorism activities and to provide training and assistance for the Iraqi criminal justice system
The mainstream media remains silent on this but the International News has now picked up the story http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22164
— and then there is Obama’s $108 billion IMF bailout scheme http://michellemalkin.com/2009/05/13/obamas-100-billion-imf-bailout-scheme/
in addition to the Supplemental.
And THIS is what Obama is doing to American taxpayers:
THE BIGGEST TAX HIKE IN AMERICAN HISTORY:
http://www.atr.org/days-thebr-largest-tax-hikes-history-a5370
PDF Version:
http://www.atr.org/files/files/090310pr-jan2011taxes.pdf
Obama gives your tax dollars to rebuild Muslim mosques around the world
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/26990#

ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL GIVE AWAY NEARLY $6 MILLION OF AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS TO RESTORE 63 HISTORIC AND CULTURAL SITES, INCLUDING ISLAMIC MOSQUES AND MINARETS, IN 55 NATIONS. See the State Department document here.
http://exchanges.state.gov/media/pdfs/office-of-policy-and-evaluations/ambassadors-fund/afcp2010list.pdf";;

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48 posted on 08/07/2011 6:19:01 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: patriot08

“Obama gives your tax dollars to rebuild Muslim mosques around the world
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/26990# “

THAT STATEMENT SAYS IT ALL.....Does anyone doubt this spending has been intentional, because an S&P downgrade was intentional...how else could China get their YANG as the World Currency, until USA gets way down there. The man I saw from S&P as no doubt a Democrat, since he was against a Balanced Budget Amendment, and criticized the tea party....ALL DEMS IN CAHOOTS IMHO


49 posted on 08/07/2011 7:38:41 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: Kackikat

“Obama gives your tax dollars to rebuild Muslim mosques around the world
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/26990# “

__________________

I don’t know when anything has made me more furious than this.


50 posted on 08/07/2011 8:25:17 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: ken21
Unfortunately for him, his signature legislation in Massachusetts looks awfully like a pilot program for Obamacare.

Other way around. Why do you think Obamacare resembles Romneycare so closely?

You're right in your major claim, though. They really are "the stupid party".

51 posted on 08/08/2011 3:45:19 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: ken21

I know, our little Republican voters are as clueless as their Democrat cousins.


52 posted on 08/08/2011 4:04:22 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: ken21

Ken21, I think Palin is totally unelectable, a Goldwater of 2012 if she runs. She’s mostly a celebrity, not a politician.


53 posted on 08/08/2011 4:06:02 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: RC2
The people of this country can change Washington. Won’t be easy but it can and will be done.

Given the fact that there are more tax MOOCHERS dependent on a government check than there are tax PAYERS in this country, and the MOOCHERS outnumber us at the ballot box, the "change" you speak of isn't possible any longer at the ballot box.

Forget about gold as an investment, high velocity lead is what's going to be needed in the not too distant future.

Here's a word to the wise: these "flash mobs" are nothing more than "urban males" (read that: black youths, thugs and gang-bangers) practicing their craft for the 2012 elections and beyond. Y'all better get prepared to defend yourselves.

54 posted on 08/08/2011 4:13:15 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: george76

.Warren Harding figured it out in 1920...

Congress and the Executive Branch have lots to do.

So far they’re not doin’ it right..

Its been done before..

Harding cut the government’s budget nearly in half between 1920 and 1922. The rest of Harding’s approach was equally laissez-faire. Tax rates were slashed for all income groups. The national debt was reduced by one-third. The Federal Reserve’s activity, moreover, was hardly noticeable. As one economic historian puts it, “Despite the severity of the contraction, the Fed did not move to use its powers to turn the money supply around and fight the contraction.” 2 By the late summer of 1921, signs of recovery were already visible. The following year, unemployment was back down to 6.7 percent and was only 2.4 percent by 1923.

http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=1319&loc=r

BTW..ole Warren ALSO fixed immigration...

Mr. Harding signed into law the Emergency Quota Act[3] which sought to control immigration following World War I and preserve the distinctive American culture by ensuring the majority of immigrants came from the historically compatible cultures of Northern Europe. This law aimed to bring wages of hard working Americans under control by limiting immigration to 3% of the 1910 census. It was followed on by a similar act in 1924, after Mr. Harding’s death.[4]

A Warren Harding prescription...if filled ...would ignite the afterburners on the US job machine and the economy. However DC would have to yield on a tremendous amount of power. Our job as We the People...is to persuade them of the “utlitity” ..shall we say..of doing so.


55 posted on 08/08/2011 4:16:19 AM PDT by mo
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To: mountainlion
The world banks are at it again trying to collapse our economy and make trillions of dollars. Their robberies of billions were not enough so now in their greed they are after trillions.

Might want to point that finger in the other direction. Are you debt free? even if you are, do you vote for the same spineless pols who promise you bridges to nowhere?

56 posted on 08/08/2011 4:19:46 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: palmer

I am debt free. I have to repair my own roads. We export money to the county seat, state capitol, and to the thugs in DC. I pay my own way and support several others. I do not vote for liberals. I did not support the thefts of public monies by congress and the fed. I do not support the locking up of national resources by the sierra club and government. I do not support Soros, the new world order of democrats. Don’t blame me. Are you guilt free?


57 posted on 08/08/2011 6:18:41 AM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: patriot08

Me either, and check out how the adminstration is selling taxpayer owned (fed buildings) properties to highest bids? This is horrible, check out this housing for coast guard, that is being sold, and it’s practically new:

https://propertydisposal.gsa.gov/ResourceCenter/PRHomePage/searchProperty.do?statename=NORTH CAROLINA

It’s on beach, and would make great beach rentals, for some elite democrat, and how many of these properties are being handed to Zero’s friends? We need an investigation of how many federal properties owned by taxpayer have changed hands in past three years. It’s bad enough the dems have stolen our AAA credit rating, and spent us into oblivion, but are they ripping off our best properties for private use, without us knowing it?


58 posted on 08/08/2011 1:38:28 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: patriot08

Check this one out:
https://extportal.pbs.gsa.gov/ResourceCenter/PRHomePage/loadProperty.do?propId=19627


59 posted on 08/08/2011 2:09:59 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: mountainlion
I don't vote for liberals either, but I am under no illusion that party makes any difference. My own stupid rep, Wolf, voted for the European Bank Bailout (TARP) in 2008 after responding to my letter (and those of other constituents) with an amazingly stupid form letter ("if we don't borrow and spend, we'll have to borrow and spend"). I have some debt and you hold it (in Freddie Mac) so I owe you for that. But I am good for it, and will pay out of my retirement if I have to cover it (and I have more than enough 401/IRA to cover it). I am the POA secretary and that way help maintain our 8 miles of roads.

But blaming the international banksters for America's debt problems is the same as blaming drug dealers for one's drug problem. If we want to fix our country, we have to forego consumption and invest for the long run. Bernanke is trying his hardest to get us to do the opposite, but he is mostly homegrown and our responsibility. Our collective votes for the same old politicians are a big part of the problem and that evolves from the false notion that we are a great country (not any more) and that someone else deserves blame for our self-created problems (e.g. the banksters). The politicians of both parties lie about this and Americans still lap it up.

60 posted on 08/09/2011 5:15:46 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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