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We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers. More people work for government than most industries.
Wall Street Journal ^ | 04/01/2011 | Stephen Moore

Posted on 04/01/2011 7:56:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Baynative

I doubt we can turn back...


Sadly, I agree. Things have gone too far. As long as the United States is strong and soverign, the New World Order/One World Government cannot be fully implemented. 0bama and his ilk are fixing that pesky problem.


101 posted on 04/02/2011 12:11:34 PM PDT by unkus
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To: gitmogrunt

What conditions fostered the departure of the U.S. Manufacturing Base to third world countries, and who were the parties responsible for the destruction of U.S. Manufacturing?


Both Parties were incentivized by Wall St and multi-national business to write trade pacts that allowed products to be imported from Asia, etc at will. The same Congress permitted these same trade partners to have import restrictions on our products. They hobbled US industry.

The real goal was to create worldwide market demand for Wall St and international corporations from those billions of people in other nations. They needed to give them our industry to do that. Wall St and these corporations don’t represent USA interests. They are behind amnesty, open borders and trade agreements that nullify our Constitution. Sovereignty is a dirty word to them.

I just heard where China (the country that the USA Congress made number one) is soon going to be using more oil than the USA. Not only do they have our jobs and dollars, they’ll now out compete us on resources. Free trade was a sell out of the USA to international business.

My interests are USA first. Steve Moore’s interests are his bankster owners that do not put USA interests first. They want to keep us squabbling about politics while the USA is sucked dry.


102 posted on 04/02/2011 12:14:25 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Conservatism is about putting the USA first, not international bankers and corporations)
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To: SeekAndFind

Moore can speak for himself - I’m into my 40th year is manufacturing.


103 posted on 04/02/2011 12:25:07 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: SeekAndFind

Baby Boomer ethics at work.

They were called the “Me Generation” in the 70’s and that’s a very fitting title - it is truly all about them and getting theirs.

They used to mooch off their parents - but their parents are gone. So the government now fills in the role.

What do they care if they bankrupt their kids? They’re just owed it.

And that attitude is not going to change.

Before you say it: yep, it’s not your fault. Someone else’s gets to clean up the mess. Typical attitude of the “Me Generation”.


104 posted on 04/02/2011 3:29:04 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Big Gubamint Inc.


105 posted on 04/02/2011 4:04:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: rabscuttle385
A "free and independent republic of Texas" can just as easily suffer from rampant, runaway statism as a nation of fifty States and associated territories.

True enough. Last time I looked, Texas ranked 2nd or 3rd on the amount of stimulus money received.
106 posted on 04/02/2011 4:19:13 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: RobbyS

Understood; I’ve never heard of them factored into the 51:49 mix, so I’d imagine they could only displace their own race.


107 posted on 04/02/2011 4:21:35 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: RobbyS

They have no choice; they’re doomed if present trends continue. Unless the misery is shared, the states with high taxes and tons of illegals/permanent underclass (a bit of a redundancy) will continue bleeding people, jobs, and most importantly, revenue.


108 posted on 04/02/2011 4:23:23 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: SeekAndFind

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.


109 posted on 04/02/2011 5:32:34 PM PDT by RedMDer (restoration of our honor, dignity, and freedoms will save America. - Sarah Palin)
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To: Soothesayer
It is too late to stop the leftist vermin. This system of government was never intended to function with half the population behaving in the most despicable way any human could ever act.

Unfortunately, I tend to agree.

If you have children then I suggest you all kiss them goodbye. There will be NOTHING in their futures but poverty, misery, torment, and death. They are finished. They are as good as dead.

Again, I basically agree...

The government, super wealthy Wall Street insiders, their banksters co-conspirators and their two ruling class entrenched corrupt political parties in D.C., have all but left America dead on the floor.

Those that think they can vote away this all controlling, every expanding government cancer, are really stupid, or are part of the government, perpetuating this good cop bad cop propaganda.

110 posted on 04/02/2011 5:32:40 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: unkus
Things have gone too far. As long as the United States is strong and soverign, the New World Order/One World Government cannot be fully implemented. 0bama and his ilk are fixing that pesky problem.

You're swallowing the cool aid...It was Bush who made American citizenship all but pointless, called those that had a belly full "vigilantes" and stood by and watched our borders become a lawless violent nightmare.

So freaking bad, a street level neighborhood Communist from Chicago took his seat in the oval office...

Wise up...The differences between the two entrenched corrupt beltway parties are inconsequential and have played Americans as an applauding audience of utter fools.

111 posted on 04/02/2011 5:41:18 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Public employees maintain that they are underpaid relative to equally qualified private-sector workers, yet they are deathly afraid of competitive bidding for government services.”

Only someone clueless enough to think that a degree in Political Science, Women’s Issues, or Black Studies constitute an education would believe that.


112 posted on 04/02/2011 5:51:59 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: dragnet2

The differences between the two entrenched corrupt beltway parties are inconsequential and have played Americans as an applauding audience of utter fools.


I know and understand. Why else would this evil communist be allowed even near the White House? Where’s the outrage from Bush, Cheney, and a host of other powerful Republicans? Why didn’t the FBI expose the bastard back in 2006? It’s beyond disgusting...it’s Demonic.


113 posted on 04/02/2011 6:02:50 PM PDT by unkus
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To: sand88
"government at ALL levels must be severely slashed

Unfortunately this includes the military.

114 posted on 04/02/2011 7:33:19 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, the kicker is that in Kentucky Yum Brands—Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, Long John Silvers—are lobbying the Governor to allow fast food restaurants to accept food stamps. That complete BS!

Here’s a link to the story: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110402/NEWS01/304030028/Yum-Brands-lobbies-Kentucky-OK-food-stamps-restaurant-use?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CHome

If you put the government payroll with the welfare roll, over 53 million people produce nothing and take it all.


115 posted on 04/02/2011 8:40:39 PM PDT by BlackjackPershing ("The Business of America is Business"--President Calvin Coolidge)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, no surprise here since every morning you are waking up to a Chinese alarm clock, puting on Indian shirt and Malasian boots, driving hecho in Mexico car burning Venezuelian gas spending 8 hours to look for a job and still wondering where is it all gone.


116 posted on 04/02/2011 8:53:24 PM PDT by cunning_fish
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To: SeekAndFind

Having been one myself (military, then State and/or Federal gigs) it’s really hard to impress upon the LibTards that I work with that GOVERNMENT produces NOTHING and consumes EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES.

They just can’t wrap their little pea-sized brains around that concept.

Fix the roads, haul my trash, give me cops, firemen, EMTs, a PART-TIME state legislature with TERM LIMITS and a public library (or private, for that matter) and that’s ALL I need from Mother Government.

But, alas, we’ll never see any of that ever again. *SIGH*


117 posted on 04/03/2011 5:21:17 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: gitmogrunt
who were the parties responsible for the destruction of U.S. Manufacturing

These guys could have stopped it with a phone call. They could have done the same with the tidal wave of illegal immigration.


118 posted on 04/03/2011 7:10:38 AM PDT by Roninf5-1 (If ignorance is bliss why are so many Americans on anti-depressants?)
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To: SeekAndFind

This article sums up the Number 1 reason why I’m a conservative. I look on with horror—no hyperbole—as this once proud, self-sufficient nation turns into a nation of children who want someone else to pay their way.


119 posted on 04/03/2011 7:12:27 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer" -- Henry Clay)
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To: SeekAndFind

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another — Voltaire


120 posted on 04/03/2011 8:39:56 AM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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