Ryan: 'After Four Years of Getting the Run-Around, America Needs a Turnaround' (Speech excerpts)

We will be able to move on. Perhaps the painful lesson we are learning now will be the necessary medicine to cure some of the ignorance and laziness that have infected the country. Let’s take the brakes and handcuffs off the inventors, creators, and producers. They are waiting for the opportunity.

WATCH THE FOLLOWING: I found this video on www.blackfive.net, a premiere military blog by soldiers, for soldiers. This video has gone viral and you see why as you watch. THIS WHAT THE RNC NEEDS AT THEIR CONVENTION, PERFORMED ON STAGE BY CONSERVATIVES/REPUBLICANS WHO THINK ALIKE, TO SHAKE THE DUST AND CRUST OFF THE REPUBLICAN GOOD OLE BOYS. THIS IS WHAT THE BLACK PANTHERS NEED TO WATCH PERFORMED BY REGULAR FOLKS LIKE US WHEN THEY START SPEWING THEIR HATE AND THREATEN PHYSICAL VIOLENCE.

This is a video of the 2nd and 1st Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry, made up of Maori and non-Maori New Zealander soldiers as they perform the HAKA, in a farewell to a fallen comrade lost recently in Afghanistan. The HAKA is a Maori warrior dance performed for different occasions, to show respect, honor and strength. It can be performed for burials, celebrations, sports events, etc. It is immensely stirring, and shows strength and fierce concentration and passion.

Go to www.blackfive.net. On the left side of the page, scroll down to the 12th post, “Kiwis Give a Farewell Haka to a Fallen Comrade.” Read the post, and also the comments made by soldiers at the end of the post. Then watch the video.

And pass it on...Paul Ryan would love to see this. This guy IS a warrior!

Dear Ray:

I do not disagree with your premise that American ingenuity, creativity, and fortitude will eventually pull us out of this debacle.

That being said, the point remains that while R&R may do their level best to help the country recover, circumstances far beyond their control will cause eventual deterioration. The contraction will continue until it's complete.

A great reveiw of the options R&R feasibly have are available in this article.

Thankfully, Ryan seems to understand the gravity of the situation on a macroeconomic level. Unlike the current crop of fools, R&R will position the country to expediently recover once the contraction is complete (instead of the transformational, radical "change" being proposed by the other side). Like an approaching tidal wave, they can warn folks to hit higher ground, but they cannot stop it. They can only help clean up after the disaster strikes.

The Republican convention’s main theme was the economy and getting people jobs. Can anyone explain to me why illegal immigration was not addressed? Afterall America now houses aprroximately 20-40 million illegal aliens of whom at least half have taken American jobs.

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