Posted on 08/01/2008 7:47:41 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot
Ping!
He lived in ignorance, filth, hunger, and pain, and he died very young, either by violence or disease. “
Like Afrida today....
Wow, great column.
Many of these foolish ingrates he describes stalk the threads of FR, even though they should know better.
And they're bleating "O-BA-AA-ma!"
When I first saw the title, I thought it was about all the corporate interests getting government bailouts nowadays. Talk about being spoiled because they are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
Brilliant.
“We have sort of become a nation of whiners.”
“We’ve all witnessed the tendency to take a boon for granted. Being accustomed to a provision...”
Oh, but have we not? Like the time mummy let me spend the weekend over at gran’s and it was ever so fun! But next weekend I asked for a repeat visit, and mummy said no! I was ever so cross!
/wannabe fruity english schoolboy off.
Excellent article
I got an e-mail the other day from my brother that, in view of this article, was timely:
As Americans are bereft of good Republican leadership right now, we will pay a heavy price as the Democrats revive Roosevelt’s socialism that has lain dormant. The Republicans reversed that agenda, and because of their progressive tax policies, have made it possible for more people to keep more money in their families. Despite the current economy, under Republican legislatures, so many more Americans have become phenomenally wealthy in the last 20 years. It seems that they appear ready to express their ingratitude at this election.
So the entitlement mentality that has destroyed most European economies will rise again to work its ugly magic here. Those who contribute to the treasury are so fast becoming so vastly outnumbered by those who do not, that I fear the contributors will never again be able to muster the votes needed to arrest the advance of the cancer of socialism in the US as it is now constructed.
I have seen it in the star struck eyes of the 30 somethings Obama worshippers.
Hey, hey
Ho, ho
Hey wait a minute where did my job go.
The cure is to say, what you going to do when your job goes poof and mommy don’t want you back in her house? That will put a crimp in the 24/7 nightclubbing, don’t you think?
I am proud to say, I think I may have a few saves from the other night.
Years ago, a Swedish government official told economist Milton Friedman that, unlike the U.S, there was no poverty in Sweden.
Friedman replied “Interesting-in America we have no poverty among Swedes either”.
Jonah Goldberg is consistently excellent.
What happened to the system inspired by freedom and liberty?
He has an odd view of the American people. He considers them ‘children’ that the ‘system’ cares for? This is the antithesis of America.
Capitalism is, by its very nature, compassionate. It requires each person to look around to determine what needs exist and then find ways to satisfy those needs. It is therefore necessary to “feel with” your fellow citizens. Socialism, on the other hand, is necessarily hard-hearted. It requires its citizens to ignore their fellow citizens’ needs and allow the government to not only define needs but to dictate the means, if any, by which such needs shall be met.
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