Posted on 10/03/2008 8:43:46 AM PDT by Loud Mime
Uh, no. I prefer freedom to some quaint "national unity." I don't want to return to rationing and an 85% marginal tax rate.
“The people had to do without butter, beef, gasoline, rubber, stockings (that leg paint was awful) metal products. Every household had rationing books. And everyonem had vegetable gardens. (Those carrots tasted so good warm from the earth!) America was still America.
Maybe we need another good depression!”
This country needs a wake up call. Throwing $700 billion at the big boys didn’t do it.
BTW, I have some of those ration stamps from ww2...my mother saved everything!
Well I heard the bailout just passed. It was a good country while it lasted.
You call national unity quaint? We may be in for far more than just rationing, and an exorbitant tax rate, Clemenza.
(The first year I had to pay income tax was l951, and it was only 10%. We financed the war with War Bonds, not income taxes.
Back to the subject at hand: I am VERY VERY angry right now that I and my children will have to pay for other people's bad business decisions, to say nothing of the Fed's incompetence, and, well, see my tagline.
Reference bump! ;-)
I believe a few on here will not understand your depression remark. Today’s youth provides the perfect example of those whose conveniences have them judging life from a very high minimum level. If they can’t live life in comfort with unseen slaves tending to their every need, life ain’t worth living!
They have never known hunger; instead they know obesity and childhood diabetes. They do not know earned advancement; instead they know quotas, affirmative action, discrimination and racism that only whites can practice. They do not know character and virtue; instead they know what clothes, what car and what language to use to get attention, and they know what body parts to use to gain financial advantage over others.
Virtue has been minimized in out society; it has been replaced by the pragmatism that powers Obama’s cult followers.
When government accounts for its finances from its first penny, we will have a better government. When a person counts their blessings with their first breath, we will have better persons. That’s what a depression will bring to all of us.
Glad to see this going again.
I enjoy, please keep me
That would end 90% of Government, which is illegimate.
His little work on the ‘Law’ is a masterpiece for limited Government along Christian principles.
No! The very FIRST thing we need to do is make the Democrat party the 21st century Whig party and we can begin the process in a little under a month!
We ought to throw them out of office in wholesale lots!
I dunno about that, Bigun. Seems as though the people who went through the great depression have more sense in every way than those who’ve had everything handed to them on a silver platter.
As one of those who did go through one, I can tell you that people have a better list of priorities; they are savers rather than a big spenders; they appreciate things more; and they are smart but humble rather than disrespectful.
I repeat, “Maybe we need another good depression”!
Meanwhile vote for Sarah Palin!
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