For your consideration, and additions/corrections.
Obama...We are a gloomy dacha on a hill.
Well done piece.
But Obama will win and we will become the worst of China, the old USSR and Mexico combined.
I would say the America is entering the New Dark Age. I fear for my children.
This is an excellent vanity. The need is to get it to a larger audience through making it an article and getting it published in a wide print distribution medium.
We were warned about the enemy within! We have come to this day
VOTE MCCAIN/PALIN
I agree with most of what you say. But neither Obama or McCain are going to fight off the bailout fraud, to my knowledge.
The point is that this brainwashing is the underlying cause that provides the viability for this current unbelievable scenario of a Barry Hussein Øbama likely being the next President of the United States.
The other point is that a defeat of Øbama will not fix anything. The underlying society that created Øbama has got to be fixed...otherwise, we'll just have another Øbama next cycle and the cycle after that (until the socialist revolution is complete and they just forget about elections).
Thankyou for your excellent Post. You have expressed the essence of the current situation very succinctly and accurately.
Geezergeek
Excellent.
Thank you.
Boots
November is shaping up to be America’s last election. Certainly won’t be any need to hold them anymore after we become a socialist nirvana led by the chosen one: Robert Mugabe. Oops, I mean Barack Obama.
I heard this pap before - USA headed into the crapper, etc
In the 60s, it was because the war in Vietnam would destroy us
in the 70s, energy was to be our tombstone (Mad Max anyone?)
In the 80s it WAS close thanks to Lil' Jimmy C, but we survived
The 90s -- it was the 90s stock bubbles and all.....
I had occasion to give a ride last night to a younger (late 20ish) man. He need to pick up his beater from the garage - it had just been brought back to life - again.
Right now he is unemployed, but still looking hard, and I'm sure he will find work - its coming on to winter and in Alaska, work is a bit thin this time of year.
This young man is why I, anyway, am certain the US will do fine in the future. A Marine, he was discharged with an 80% disability (one to many close calls with IEDs if I understand correctly) but he is an American.
Forged in the heat and hell of combat (two tours in Iraq) he is of unique material - a strange material of heart and soul -- stronger than carbon tool steel, tougher than armored plate, I can sense the quiet fire burning within him.
These warriors, like the Samurai of old, will be the backbone that carries this Nation forward - thru good times and bad. Why? I guess it's because they won't back down.
I'm a vet myself, and happy to help where I can - for I know the future depends so much on men (and women) like this young man.
It may be sappy - but I can sleep at night because I know this kid, and million more just like him, have got our back here and abroad.
So ya, times may be hard or may get to be hard - but just remember - we have a lot of hard men who can handle it.
/rant
Well done! Well said.
Good post, but you're missing the forest for the trees. The thing that is currently tanking our economy (and the economies of the world) is the credit derivatives market.
It was created as a way to extract enormous returns from 'paper' that was just experiencing a 'good' return. It was huge greed.
The mortgage bubble popped in July 2007, and the 'smart people' that created the credit derivatives market didn't build into their plan what would happen in that event.
What 'happened' was the creation of a huge, unsatiable economic monster that is on the warpath. It is eating gargantuan companies.
And it's only on the appetizers.
This bailout plan will not work. Look for 3 to 5 days of euphoria in the stock market - and then the credit crunch will begin taking place again, and there will be no stopping it for quite a while.
You must admit whoever is running this Chinese Fire Drill of a political ruse, is SMART.. Just when America is getting ready to notice that Barry Obama has no more qualifications to be President then does P.Diddy.. WE are given something to distract us.. FINANCIAL MELTDOWN...
Golllleeee!.. Shazaam.. Somebody is pretty smart.. Fooled ME... Last nights debate appeared to be other than a play too.. I have a question though.. Since Americas "money" is fiat money.. merely paper.. well then is the financial meltdown also merely ON PAPER?.. And can be "solved" by double entry jedi accounting tricks?.. You know journal entries?..
Here I sit, Scratching my head like a Bobobo chimp on Monkey Island wondering where all the food comes from..
Maybe the best we can ask for is to hold the line with McCain as a toehold, and then massive encirclement around him from DAY ONE to keep one of his pens, old or otherwise, from signing legislation or executive orders amnestying millions of these invaders and outsiders--he serves one term, and we coast back to full conservative mode with President Sarah Palin in January 2013 after she beats the pantsuit off of crusty Hilary. Obama aims to do the same thing as McCain on border sovereignty and "regularizacion". Really, that is where I see the greatest peril, and the Sunset (for America) so aptly represented in your photograph there.
Well done indeed.
Henry Adams, descendant of two Presidents, wrote that no American dies in the country of his birth, meaning that in a lifetime the country changes into the unrecognizable. It seems that we all face that fate.
There is little consolation in it but I don’t think we are going down alone. The whole globalized structure is likely to take a tumble. The maddening part is that we have been led into this debacle by fools and knaves.
Excellent piece! So thankful that we have wonderful writers and thinkers on our side! You should send it to your local paper!
Superb piece. I appreciate your posting it!
Skimmed the article while watching college footbal. Fantastic, ands needs further re-reading.
One thing that jumped out is the MSM “righteously ignoring”...wrong word there imo. there were others, too. But overall, A-.