Posted on 12/23/2008 8:55:27 AM PST by Dick Bachert
No we don’t. We wouldn’t be seeing a lot of this if we had a leader.
There fixed it. This write up is complete drivel. Might I suggest that the period we are entering is the logical result of decades of subversion by self righteous, narcissistic, communist loving children that now run all branches of the government.
Agree that she chose the wrong word. Given your following analysis of the root cause of our current problems, I’m equally certain that she doesn’t understand the difference. She IS from Harvard after all.
But much of what else she had to say is spot on.
If our grandchildren don’t join the mobs hunting old folks with dogs, they will almost certainly dig a bunch of us to spit in our faces for the hollow “legacy” we’ve left them.
Our technology has allowed us to compress into 200+ years what it took the Romans over 2000 to acdomplish: DESTROY THEMSELVES.
Right you are and that we have,my FRiend.
It is all over now but the crying.
“He warned that “Capitalism WITHOUT some underlying God-centered ethical/moral system (in his case and mine, CHRISTIANITY) is nothing more than a hunting license.””
Along the same lines, this lecture by Harvey Mansfield is a cogent summary of what has happened to us and why:
http://www.aei.org/events/filter.all,eventID.1774/event_detail.asp
“American companies morphed into ‘Global Companies’ and moved plants and factories to Mexico , Asia, China , and India , and we began buying more cheaply from abroad what we used to make at home: shoes, clothes, bikes, cars, radios, TVs, planes, computers.”
We can gear up to manufacture these things and maybe save our economy in the bargain, but we must ditch the anacronistic unions and let the market control. EPA regs holding back manufacturing and energy production must be suspended or seriously cuttailed as well. Sheesh, we’re in a dire emergency situation which calls for bold measures. We will not survive doing business as usual!
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"Adversity employs great talents; prosperity renders them useless and carries the inept, the corrupted wealthy and the wicked to the top.
May they bear in mind that virtue often contains the seeds of tyranny.
May they bear in mind that it is neither gold nor even a multitude of arms that sustains a state, but its morals.
May each of them keep in his house, in a corner of this field, next to his workbench, next to his plow, his gun, his sword, and his bayonet.
May they all be soldiers.
May they bear in mind that in circumstances where deliberation is possible, the advice of old men is good, but that in moments of crisis youth is generally better informed that its elders."
Denis Diderot
Apostrophe to the Insurgents, 1782
I can remember when we had natural disasters and it wasn't government's responsibility.
True enough, and a majority of boomers deserve it. But the kids are not without blame here. Nor are current anchient geezers (I am moving in that direction by the way :D)). So much misery has been caused chasing the Utopian dream. One other thing, we don't have an empire. We never have. As you say, she is from Harvard after all. I guess we should be thankful she gets some of it.
There
Fixed it for him.
Education (government indoctrination)!!
You nailed it.
The rulers (government) do not want the public aware and the media assists with the destruction of our nation from within. Sad but true.
great quotes....ping to self for future reference.
BTTT
He was right.
How many times have deleterious trade actions been taken against the best interests of the majority of citizen s in the country for any number of stupid excuses, or the benefit of the few, such as import lobbyists, the corruptocrats in Mexico and the Chinese Communist Party? Seemingly endless betrayals by the last two administrations.
And the pretext was always..."this will profit us...oops, we mean the U.S."
This was written by Pat Buchanan not Linda Monk.
http://buchanan.org/blog/2008/09/pjb-the-partys-over/
Thanks
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