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But I do know that there are thousands in my environs who work off the books, are paid in cash and do not pay their proper share either—as the country is ripped off by both the top and bottom ends of the spectrum. Past time for the fair or flat tax.........
Can I get an AMEN????????????
Hey, nasty scare tactics aren’t used by Demonrats - didn’t you know that?
“3) Hope that no one remembers 9/11 or that you just praised the Saudi king and trashed a US president, or that you once helped pardon a Most Wanted fugitive, or that we already enjoy good relations with Germany, Britain, Italy, France, etc., or that Russia, Iran, and radical Islam really do not care too much what we say—only whether we do pretty much what they want.”
BUMP!
*Bump*
VDH right on the money as usual.
Another great article by VDH!!
Spending like drunken liberal fools then folding to Bush's bailout doomed republicans in congress from any further credibility, despite the republican house making a stand against this latest bailout (principled or calculated based on bending to public opinion???). I expect the democRATs to lie, cheat and steal at any opportunity. I expected republicans to take a conservative principled stand. Silly me. I've always mistrusted democrats and I've now come to mistrust republicans. This is why the GOP is doomed as a party. The nation already has a party for liberals. The GOP has nowhere to go except away. Actions speak louder than words.
ping
I had a conversation (an argument) recently with a European, about contemporary culture. I tried to explain the mutually reinforcing elements of socialism, atheism, utopianism, pacifism, and statism (he was giving America a second chance to morph into Euros under Obama). But if one believes in no transcendence, that there is nothing other than the present, then for too many satisfying the appetites becomes the prime directive. Childlessness, living at home in one’s 30s, dependence on the state, all that derives from a system that ensures equality of result, and substitutes Logos and Ratio for any notion of a deity that sees sin and sacrifice, and reminds us that our souls are immortal and affected by their brief residences in our flesh. In other words, that Euros expect free health care, free care for their elderly parents, free schools, free defense from the USA, harbor little hopes for rising above the station of anyone else, find housing and jobs scarce, and don’t feel they can or want to leave behind something for their children larger than what they inherited— are all interrelated phenomena.
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This is the change in our country that reached voting age at this election. We now have adults who were educated in a school system that engineered equality of result as the desired outcome, rather than competition, whether on the playground or in the classroom.
We have twenty-year-olds immersed in pop culture since infancy, and told that they were special, just for breathing, now expecting daddy and mommy government to 'do everything'.
Chickens are truly coming home to roost, in a one-party-state henhouse.
“The new Secretary of Energy Chu, who seems eminently qualified and is a Nobel Prize Winner, strangely just declared, ‘We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California’, and went on to declare vineyards all but doomed here—apparently due to global warming.”
Is this the same Chu that Iowahawk wrote about? Hobos, etc.
Victor Davis Hanson: Eighteen Days of Hope and Change? [Was it all about power, after all?..]
NRO ^ | February 09, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson
