Posted on 06/08/2012 2:40:14 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
(H/T Maltesertoo – who posted the litany below, for which I take no credit, in comments. It's proving so popular I think it deserves a wider circulation.)
1) Only in America could the President talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund-raising event.
2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal work force is black while 12% of the population is black.
3) Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
4) Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the President and the media react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.
5) Only in America would we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.
6) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be mocked by the President and labeled "extremists" by the media.
7) Only in America are you required to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
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Only in America
Can a guy from anywhere
Go to sleep a pauper and wake up a millionaire
Only in America
Can a kid without a cent
Get a break and maybe grow up to be President
Only in America
Land of opportunity, yeah
Would a classy girl like you fall for a poor boy like me
Only in America
Can a kid who’s washin’ cars
Take a giant step and reach right up and touch the stars
Only in America
Could a dream like this come true
Could a guy like me start with nothing and end up with you
Only in America
Land of opportunity, yeah
Would a classy girl like you fall for a poor boy like me
Only in America (poor boy like me)
Only in America (only in America)
Only in America (only in America)
Only in America (only in America)
Only in America (only in America)
Only in America
The federal [state, county and local] govt has become an employer of last resort for the A.A. crowd; and it shows in their operations. Not smart enough or motivated enough to find a real job? It's OK-the govt will give you one.
And before someone goes apoplectic, I've just spent three years working within the V.A. system and my experiences validate this.
That alone should settle the "reparations" nonsense once and for all!
“The federal [state, county and local] govt has become an employer of last resort for the A.A. crowd; and it shows in their operations.”
Who or what is “the AA crowd?”
“The federal [state, county and local] govt has become an employer of last resort for the A.A. crowd; and it shows in their operations.”
Who or what is “the AA crowd?”
I trust he means African American and not Alcoholics Anonymous. We reforming drunks are a pretty independent lot.
Only in America can a child open a lemonade stand in their own driveway and have it shut down by law enforcement.
I think he was referring to Amish Americans.
I think he means Affirmative Action crowd. At least that’s how I took it when I read it.
only in America would we have to read this in a foreign newspaper...
So true!
And before someone goes apoplectic, I've just spent three years working within the V.A. system and my experiences validate this.
And based on 30 years experience (as an employee or married to one or working for a contractor) I will back you up 110%. Not to mention the everyday dealings with the morons at the DMV, city offices, etc.
Robbing the initials of a perfectly fine organization, of which I am a 30+ year member, Alcoholics Anonymous and giving it to "Affirmative Action".
31 year member on July 7, 2012, if the Lord allows me to live that long and stay sober too.
I thought the letters also meant "Affirmative Action" - Affirmative Action, African American - All the same thing.
“Robbing the initials of a perfectly fine organization, of which I am a 30+ year member”
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Me too! Class of ‘81.
July 7, 1981 here.
It was a very good year.
And a good night from EDT. Can’t keep my head up.
The federal [state, county and local] govt has become an employer of last resort for the A.A. crowd; and it shows in their operations. Not smart enough or motivated enough to find a real job? It's OK-the govt will give you one.True, that! I worked in academentia for a while -- like all academic nut-houses it was a union shop.
And before someone goes apoplectic, I've just spent three years working within the V.A. system and my experiences validate this.
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