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Are We Coming Apart?
http://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2012/02/18/are_we_coming_apart ^ | February 18, 2012 | John C.Goodman

Posted on 02/18/2012 6:37:10 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 02/18/2012 6:37:12 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

America was not long ago, the world’s most powerful manufacturing nation.

We volutarily, send that power and industry to China.

That was STUPIDITY, and it was extremely harmful.

America is now weak. And broke. And it was because we sent what made us strong and rich, to a very powerful adversary.

Wake up America.


2 posted on 02/18/2012 6:42:03 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("The door is open" PALIN 2012)
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To: Kaslin

Since they removed the Ten Commandments from the town square, the only ‘code’ left to bind us together is the Constitution. Everyone here sees where that’s headed.


3 posted on 02/18/2012 6:44:38 AM PST by griswold3 (Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)
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To: Kaslin
NPR did a segment on Charles Murray's book last week. Hands down the most biased and unfair segment I've ever heard. They rarely let Murray speak about his book. They had a talkative host (hated the book), a talkative Harvard expert (hated the book) and lots of callers (hated, hated, hated).

They put words in Murray's mouth "Poor people are immoral" and "Rich people are gentically superior" which Murray denied, but they weren't accepting his denials.

Unbelievable.

4 posted on 02/18/2012 6:44:47 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("And the public gets what the public wants" -- The Jam)
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To: Kaslin

Something we have known for quite some time. And yes, Paul Krugman is a clown.


5 posted on 02/18/2012 6:45:45 AM PST by TheWriterTX (All in now for Newt Gingrich)
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To: Kaslin

“Theodore Dalrymple,” the British essayist, made this point years ago. As so often happens, Britain is further down the slope than we, in the social devastation of what was once its “working class.”


6 posted on 02/18/2012 6:49:23 AM PST by Tax-chick (I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect!)
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To: Kaslin
Alexis de Tocqueville said it a century and a half ago: "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."

Liberals have spent the last half a century crushing the values that made America good.

7 posted on 02/18/2012 6:49:37 AM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: Kaslin

What is happening in working class America is the disintegration of the American way of life.... Exactly as planned. Since 1958.


8 posted on 02/18/2012 6:54:27 AM PST by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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"In reality, they live by old fashioned puritan values, however. They get married and stay married. They work hard and work long hours."

These are "old fashioned puritan values"?

No.

This is behavior that is indelibly programmed in the DNA of homo sapiens.

It's the sapiens part that's important here.

Yes. There have always been deviations from this behavior, but since long before history began, men and women were establishing permanent relationships, having children, and working long, hard hours--whether at bringing home mammoth meat for the family--protecting everyone from cave bears--making warm clothes for the kiddies out of sabre-tooth tiger skins--or whatever.

It's why homo sapiens is the most successful animal on the planet.

Homo sapiens is still engaged in this highly successful behavior.

Sharing the planet with large numbers of homo non-sapiens hasn't changed anything.

Don't expect homo non-sapiens to understand. It's beyond his/her comprehension.

9 posted on 02/18/2012 6:59:09 AM PST by Savage Beast (The MSM "improves" on truth: hubris, denial, tragedy.)
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To: Safetgiver

1958? WHY 1958? What’s significant about that year.(Some people will go for 1948 — the year the supreme court did the seperation of church and state nonsense. or 1961, the year they stopped allowing prayer to be used in school.


10 posted on 02/18/2012 7:05:21 AM PST by ckilmer
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11 posted on 02/18/2012 7:10:48 AM PST by baddog 219
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To: Kaslin

I think the real divide is between normal hardworking ethical Americans and the immoral uneducated (by their own choice) parasites. I used to have some slight bit of empathy for these types of people, but after spending the last three years commuting up to 190 miles a day to find employment while watching my slacker neighbors sit on their asses and collect welfare, disability, free health care, etc., I have none.

When the big dust up comes, and that could be as soon as the day Obama loses the election (praise God). I will be up in the wilds of Maine, locked and loaded and anxious to get it ON!

I really have grown to hate these filthy maggots, half of them you could not say are even human, lacking, as they do, empathy, critcal thinking, self-control and yet full of every vice and low achievement.

We are two nations and we are headed for the inevitable clash of two totally different cultures.


12 posted on 02/18/2012 7:18:17 AM PST by oncebitten (Obama: "A Big Ole’ Hunk of Nothing on Two Thick Slices of Nada.”)
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To: Kaslin

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13 posted on 02/18/2012 7:20:52 AM PST by sauropod (You can elect your very own tyranny - Marc Levin)
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To: Kaslin

By design, grinding America down.


14 posted on 02/18/2012 7:28:27 AM PST by thirst4truth (www.Believer.com)
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To: oncebitten

If you ever want to see the “Other” nation, go to a Walmart sometime. I don’t frequent Walmart much, but there is on near my office and (occassionally) I stop in.

The collection of distorted, dysfunctional individuals I see there never ceases to amaze me. Not everyone, mind you, but maybe about 50%. These are the obese people (all races), wearing random t-shirts and sweat pants and look as if they haven’t worked in at least the last decade. They are also the ones who get really nasty with the poor cashiers over the slightest thing. Like when they claim that some that something that costs $20 actually cost $5. And, of course, they use EBT cards to pay.

When I see these people, its hard to believe we’re from the same country. But we are—and my tax $$ make them possible.


15 posted on 02/18/2012 7:33:01 AM PST by rbg81 (scillian's)
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To: ckilmer

Personally, I think 1965 was the watershed year. Its when the Great Society really got rolling and Kennedy’s [highly destructive] Immigration Act was passed. It also saw the first “Long, Hot Summer” of rioting in Amican cities. Our downhill slide started then.


16 posted on 02/18/2012 7:37:13 AM PST by rbg81 (scillian's)
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To: Kaslin

The divide, those that do, and those that refuse too! Later will lose because those that do are tired of carrying the whole load!!


17 posted on 02/18/2012 7:46:07 AM PST by PROTESTBYPROXY (We are screaming!)
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To: Kaslin

Hmmm, why does Romans chapter 1 come to mind? uhhh, verse 21 or is it 24? or both? Hmmm, better check......


18 posted on 02/18/2012 7:53:17 AM PST by chickenlips (Pride IS the problem. (1 Peter 5:5))
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The divide, those that do, and those that refuse too! Later will lose because those that do are tired of carrying the whole load!!

If Zero is returned to the throne on Nov 6, I am looking for a resurgence of the "Who is John Galt" meme.
19 posted on 02/18/2012 7:58:15 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Savage Beast

I bought the book and read it and it is frightening.

I urge people to buy it and read it. Heavy, HEAVY on graphs etc.

Why the media loves to defend illegitimacy, drugs, tattoos and lazy men on unemployment/disability is beyond me. They themselves wouldn’t let their kids live like that nor do they.

As for homo sapiens, children of single mothers bcome very much like primates, it becomes a primate horde, with young males running in packs, fighting over females, the young females having babies as soon as they are fertile, the females forming the only relational group. We revert to primates very quickly without marriage.


20 posted on 02/18/2012 8:07:50 AM PST by squarebarb
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