Posted on 01/21/2005 4:52:47 AM PST by beaureguard
I am with the daughter...I dont know what the retirement age will be for my generation...it has already been raised 5 times or some such nonsense like that.....
otherwise, shes completely uninformed. I am not counting on there being a Social security when I am in my 30s, much less my 70s, so I am doing my own retirement investments instead of waiting on the government...
The problem is even a lot of conservatives expect the government to take care of them. Its hard to stop being a public entitlement junkie.
I think he did a fine job. He believes what he said.
Does anyone want an alledged eloquent speaker like Bill Clinton who really gets up in front of the world and completely lies and feeds us these lies and finally bores us to death because he won't shut up?
Not me.
Neal crystallizes it right there. Thanks for posting this!
I heard one "on scene" reporter yesterday, say that a democrat walked by her and quipped, "How many times did he say the 'freedom' in that speech"?
Yes, it's a nasty word and apparently left a bad taste in that dem's mouth.
All you need to know about the left's hatred for it.
Exactly
I thought that was a good point, too.
I was having a Freeper disagreement with a poster the other day who thought Saddam was just fine because there was "peace" in Iraq. The fact is, there is "peace" in any dictatorship, because any disagreement is met by the knock on the door in the middle of the night. Is this a situation in which most Americans would like to live, essentially just depending on the whim of a dictator, who may one day let you live and the next day decide that you are his enemy and must die?
And even if Americans believe that what happens to people thousands of miles away doesn't concern them, the fact is that dictatorships are never happy within their own borders. It is in the nature of a dictator to want more and more power, more and more control, more and more territory.
So the "peace" of a dictatorship is pretty illusory, and yes, it does represent a threat to us, or will at some point.
Very good point. Pres. Bush's speech brought to mind the scene from "Braveheart" when Wallace/Mel Gibson shouted "freedom" before being drawn and quartered, just as the liberals hope to do to Pres. Bush.
I have just resigned myself to the idea that I'll be working in some capacity on the day that I die. I'll leave my corporate job by around 65 or so, and I plan to live past 100. Maybe I'll whittle out hand-crafted items and sell them on eBay. And I'll have income from rental properties. I'm not depending on social security anyway.
Freedom = Leave me alone.
A good start would be upholding that constitutional thing that says only congress may write law. Next fire 90% of the bureaucrats. And then impeach a few thousand judges.
The problem is even a lot of conservatives expect the government to take care of them. Its hard to stop being a public entitlement junkie.
3 posted on 01/21/2005 4:55:27 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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Many of us want freedom from illegals flooding our country.
Freedom from illegals would make THIS country safer.
The so-called "jobs Americans dont want" could be given to the homeless. I went to a beauty shop in a good part of town, several hours later as I was leaving there on a bench was a homeless person. They are invading our lives and is a problem that has never been dealt with, but yet the illegals live in nice homes, drive new pickups, something very wrong with this picture!!
The homeless label has been assigned to the mentally ill and yes obviously there many that are, but there are some that are without jobs and would gladly take some of the jobs that are given to the illegals.
Let the Euroweenies suffer.
Ponder this my friend,,, Dubya snapped his fingers and $350 million appeared for the tsunami relief. He snapped his fingers a few years earlier and $3.5 Billion appeared for African Aids.
IOW, the money is there, but it keeps getting on a plane and flying away. We need to ground that plane for your generation to receive what you paid in.
Yet it is our very FREEDOM that gives these hippies the freedom to protest at the inauguration. In Husseins's Iraq there was NO FREEDOM to protest, yet Ramsey Clark is Hussein's lawyer - and Ramsey was out there yesterday loudly protesting against Bush and our FREEDOMS.
Hipocracy at its hightest!
In the dems case - HYPO CRAZY
>>There is another troubling aspect of our lost love for freedom.<<
There is more than one!
They defend the oppressors, and demonize the Liberators.
It is reflective of how their souls have been warped, their minds shaped by propaganda.
Sadly, for some, it is also reflective of the unwillingness to accept the responsibilities of freedom because it isn't often convenient. Those that do embrace it face contant struggle, that in the end liberates their spirits in a way those that accept limitations will never experience.
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