Posted on 11/08/2013 8:12:27 PM PST by Smellin Salt
You can’t do anything about the situation unless you can have an effect on the educational system from the “Headstart” program up to and through the decisions about who is to rule the college classroom. Number One is that teachers unions should be tossed out. IMHO
We’ll have a great president again someday. I imagine everyone thought it was over during the 60’s. The only memory I have of Reagan is being scared when I caught my mom crying after the Challenger blew up.
Or we may have already passed it. I do not know.
I feel your pain. I also blame myself for “letting it happen” but truthfully there wasn’t a thing we could do to stop their agenda. They did it slowly & gradually so that we couldn’t see it coming. Patience was and is their greatest attribute, sadly.
All those who moved to Texas in the last decade or so were in for a big ol shock...The never ending conga-line of illegals will eventually own that state by shear numbers alone...Of course, it’s not just Texas...The entire country is going the same way.
You are right on sir!
Yeah. It is really accelerating here.
Yet I do believe a lot of it is media barrage that makes it seem worse than it is and s meant to dispirit us.
Or is it sheer...lol
In any event, it’s done...
BTW, it's the same in CA, AZ, Nevada and much of the rest of the country...It used to be just isolated to the southwest...The rest of the country some years ago thought this was rather cute or humorous since they were somewhat isolated from it.
But now it's in their backyards too...Coast to coast...All the laughter seems to have gone silent.
Hmm. I’m not sure where we’re going. But this hand-basket sure is a comfortable ride!
The bush clan are frauds -- neo-statists pretending to be Conservative.
Let's see a little of their history: the ADA, read my lips, No new taxes (then goes on to raise them), rapid expansion of Head Start; Medicare Part-D, No Child Left Behind (bush let kennedy write the entire bill), bloated highway bills; TARP (destroy the Free Market to save it); ethanol subsidies, expansion of the EPA, hard push for Amnesty in early 07,and so on...
Does anyone think a true Constitutional loving Conservative propose any of those Republic destroying programs?
The bush clan has clearly shown that they worship at the Alter of State Power.
Nice vanity. From here, we go to the second republic which will evolve among the free states. Communist American states will collapse under their own weight and tyranny, just as the USSR did.
Well FRiend, for some of us it came a lot earlier. Having read the link @ post 29, for some it may have been the early 60's.
Point is, the economic destruction of America was my first step toward the smelling salts. In 92, Geo H.W. seemed too establishment for me, B.J. Clinton gained popularity way too fast (no internet then to learn about he and Hillary's past), so I joined the Perot bandwagon (again, mostly on economic terms). If he hadn't of withdrawn late summer of that year, he might have won.
Sure enough, one of the first major pieces of legislation that came up in 93 was NAFTA. Fought tooth and nail against getting that passed. The only way to "communicate" with the masses was Letters to the Editor of the local. I wrote dozens. Wore down the editor too, in a editorial just before the NAFTA vote, he meekly admitted the bill was a "weak patchwork quilt" of new rules and regulations, but hey, we want Mexico's standard of living to raise up....even playing field... world-class competition.... [yeah, where are you now]. Even Rush Windbag was in the NAFTA camp. All opposition silenced by a collective yawn from the electorate, or so I thought.
After the astounding victory of the '94 "Republican Revolution" there was a glimmer of hope. GATT loomed. B.J. Clinton called an "emergency session" of congress after the November election. The ratbastard lame-duck democrats who had been voted out - voted for GATT. Ratified by the Senate. That day, moments after watching the traitors final vote on C-SPAN, I flipped over to the the local ABC affiliate. Within MINUTES, Peter Jennings smirked about the passage of GATT ... but it was far overshadowed by the "news" of the day: Jeffery Dahmer had been beaten to death in prison. That's all the sheeple cared about on that day. We handed over our sovereignty of trade negotiations to a world body, that would never ever find in favor of the U.S. -- say goodbye to tariffs and hello higher taxes. It's been a downward spiral ever since. Macro-economic policies take a good 10 years or so to have an effect on the economy (fast forward to 2004 - empty factories abound).
A good pastor at a church I attended in the late 90's warned of the moral decay that loomed on the horizon [here we are]. By then I found this website. Thank God! Others were awake as well! Then the towers came down. A bittersweet hope that more would awaken. Some did. But at that time I backed off FR as it seemed to become an altar to the Rushbots and anything W.
My hope now is that enough people are finally waking up en masse. This Obamacare is hitting them directly in the pocketbook. Some still can't believe they've been lied to. It's a natural reaction to most any trauma -
first step is denial.
Then anger.
Then bargaining.
Then depression.
Then acceptance. Or, if we're lucky, the people will decide this is NOT the America we want.
And why are we in this handbasket?
We let the commies take baby step after baby step without doing anything but remarking on how something just wasn’t right. They took enough baby steps that they have just about consumed us - see my tag line
http://www.conventionofstates.com/media/mark-mecklers-speech-alec-conference-0
Only the state legislatures have a chance to save our Republic. Washington is toast.
Article V. ping
Thanks for your commentary. I find no fault whatsoever in it.
I hold out little hope for this country unless—and it’s possible but not likely—there is a major purging of the liberals from Congress next year. I say “not likely” because I have little regard for the political acumen of the majority of American voters. A smart electorate would have never voted for Obama and his Congressional supporters.
If the “purge” doesn’t occur, then all of us must go into survival mode, which includes much praying.
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