Hi, buddy, I don't talk but a little bit here and there.
My father has always telling me "that I will live to see the United States no longer existing it it's present form"
The last time my father and I talked politics before his death was when Pakistan got nukes. His main concern at the time was a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan which would spill over into something worse. He wasn't into prognistications of any kind, but shortly after he died, I had a dream where he was leaving and looked very sad. That was in late 1982 and the last of that. So many things on a personal, national and global level have happened since then.
You got to do what it takes to survive to see it to the other side.
So long as you don't break a major commandment in the process. I really can't console myself with the imminence of the Lord's return, because I believe things will have to get much, much worse before that happens.
If President Bush or Senator Kerry sees any of us starving in the street personally, I'm sure they will help as best as they can.
I wouldn't count on it unless it would make a good photo op and not alarm their guards. It doesn't matter what I think, but I'm a real cynic about Kerry. I think Bush has a good heart, but something is driving him I don't understand.
I think we need to get away from that Republican/Democrat (Donkey/Elephant) divide and sit down and come up with ideas that will benefit America and her people
I don't see a viable third party emerging, and if it does, it might be too radical. Don't you think any hope of the Democrats and Republicans working together in a manner we can count on is pretty hopeless?
I don't know this Jim Hightower guy, try not to get too far off in right field if you know what I mean, but there are some things that aren't adding up. I'm not really against globalism per se, just where I see their version of it going and what is happening to our country. It was kind of neat early on seeing products on the shelves from Canada, got a set of promotional cookware made in Portugal that I just love, pressure cooker and shoes from Argentina, few lovely items from England, Germany, affordable. Then Made in China, Singapore, Mexico (used to just be pretty stuff and beautiful silver jewelry people would bring back, I don't have any), Taiwan, Thailand, get a kick out of some Russian items. Don't have any particular ax to grind with any of those countries except loss of jobs and the too many immigrants at once problem.
I used to love meeting people from different countries, still do if I get a chance, but now it's a real novelty to meet a nice American who was born here and brought up in a similar fashion to the way I was. It's a cultural thing.
That's enough. I've yakked too much. I did talk to a person I talk to regularly, and she asks what's going to happen to people with an IQ of less than 100? They can't make it though college, and at one time could have made it in the economy. Now, they are either doomed to a life of minimum wage jobs or getting on the dole.
If I had my way, there would be a penalty for manufacturers to export their plants, labor or outsource to level the playing field for Americans. If that's protectionism, then I guess I'm for that.
There hasn't been true laissez faire capitalism for a long, long time now. It's become draconian dog eat dog, corporate buyouts and sellouts globally. Thank heaven some are able to make it domestically. Kudos to them!
My ancestor who came to America in 1635 was fined for price gouging in his blacksmith trade. Whether right or wrong, the early settlers had a sense of right and wrong beyond their immediate concerns. They intuited that what affected one group, affected all. Oh, and they soon threw out socialism because they found that people were more productive when they were allowed to own their own land and garden plots. Those old eastern towns had houses on plats consisting of several acres in a lot of places.
Please forgive my blathering. I'm trying to find something sensible to grab onto.