[familyop]

"Erstwhile master race(Wall Streeters) now shamelessly begging to serfs(Chicom) for bailout money is actually so funny. They cower under anybody with deeper pockets.

Some master race. They will only earn deep contempt from Chinese."

Agreed very much! I hate the systems of communism and fascism, but I respect our enemies. Our US military commanders and politicians should have that respect and prepare to defend our free nations.

[jwpjr]

I was in junior high school in 1955. In the schools here in Florida one of the required courses for those grade levels was the one that extolled the virtues of capitalism and our way of government when compared to the others, particularly communism. It's easy, 55 years later, to gloss over that requirement, and the courses, as a Pollyanna approach to life. But as I recall, my ninth grade course was name POD, Problems of Democracy! We were told that our way of life was not without its shortcomings and pitfalls, but compared to everything else out there it was the best.

We are coming off of 20 plus years, actually nearer 30 years, of school teaching that our way of life is no better than any other, just different. BS. It's superior, as proved by hundreds of years of comparison to other ways of life.

Until we find a way to immerse our young ones in the realization that America is the greatest nation in the history of the world, and that cures for its problems don't come from countries who've tried and failed with the other ways, we're doomed to our slide down the slippery slope.