War Against the Young

National Review ^ | 4/9/13 | Victor Davis Hansen

[goodnesswins]

“What’s the matter with Kansas?” syndrome of young people voting against their economic interests. Thus follows the constant courting of the hip and cool Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Lena Dunham, Occupy Wall Streeters, and others who blend pop culture, sex, youth, energy, and fad — almost anything to avoid the truth that today’s teenagers are starting out each owing a lifetime share of the national debt amounting to more than three-quarters of a million dollars. Those who ran up the debt enjoyed the borrowing, but won’t be around to pay back their proverbial fair share.

[ClearCase_guy]

Last paragraph sums it all up. But it is depressing to contemplate how much pandering the GOP is really engaged in. Explaining economic reality to the voters of tomorrow? Nobody in the GOP got time for dat.

[TArcher]

“What’s the matter with Kansas?”

Hmmm. 

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=osawatomie

 

Dn't need n Weatherman t see which waybama's wind

blws.

 

"Behind the Violence, Says Jane Alpert, Was Sex"

--November 09, 1981--
"The leaders of the Weather Underground, she believes, followed a similar pattern of constantly shifting sexual alliances..."

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20080637,00.html

"He [Bill Ayers] also writes about the Weathermen's sexual experimentation as they tried to 'smash monogamy.' The Weathermen were 'an army of lovers,' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend."

Source: New York Times, September 11, 2001: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

"...the Weathermen, when not engaged in group sex, committed such revolutionary acts as parading with a Viet Cong flag through a local park on Independence Day and spray-painting the walls of a high school with the slogans, "Off the Pigs," "Viet Cong Will Win," and "F#$k U.S. Imperialism."..."

Campus Wars: The Peace Movement At American State Universities in the Vietnam Era

 

"What happens next bears watching closely, as does the response of the president, ex-Speaker Pelosi, and others on the left.  Encouraged by leftists in the Democratic Party and funded by left-leaning nonprofit organizations and celebrity contributors, Occupy Wall Street may in time morph into something resembling the radical factions of the late 1960s and 1970s."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/predicting_the_weatherman.html

The Osawatomie Coincidence

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2818309/posts

[TArcher]

it is depressing to contemplate how much pandering the GOP is really engaged in...

...and how long they've been engaged in it.

 

"Ohhhhho say can you seee...."

 

Eyes Wide Shut

"8-1984 - Lawrence King [Homosexual and alleged Pedophile] throws a lavish party in Dallas, Texas, after singing the National Anthem at the Republican National GOP Convention."

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=Lawrence+king+singing+pedophile+franklin&oq=Lawrence+king+singing+pedophile+franklin

 

http://www.franklincase.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=9

[erlayman]

It is pretty much mathematically impossible at this point to pay off the debt whatever your age or income, nothing to do with being young in particular.

[blueunicorn6]

“Some people inherit stars in their eyes
Oh, they worry about the poor
When you ask them ‘How much should we give?’
They just answer ‘More! More! More!’

It ain’t me, it ain’t me babe, I ain’t no liberal’s son!
It ain’t me, it ain’t me babe, I ain’t had no Ivy League fun!”

[Iron Munro]

Ironically, some of republicans and conservatives biggest setbacks have come at the hands of republican presidents.

Justice Roberts is only the most recent addition to the long list of republican appointees to the Supreme Court who turned on their benefactors and supported liberal positions on bellwether issues.

His twisted rationalization in support of Obamacare is probably the most mind-boggling, maddening abuse of Judicial power since Roe v. Wade.

Eisenhower publicly supported lowering the voting age to 18 in his 1954 State of the Union address.

But it was Richard Nixon who signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that required the voting age to be 18 in all federal, state, and local elections.

George “Dubya” Bush created the bureaucratic montrosity known as Homeland Security. A Federal organization that now is more obsessed with demonizing and stifling law abiding, patriotic citizens than in protecting our borders and countering foreign terrorists.

[TEXOKIE]

“What’s the matter with Kansas?”

I love Kansas, but it also must be pointed out that the birthplace of Frank Davis was Arkansas City, Kansas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Marshall_Davis

[Excellence]

But it was Richard Nixon who signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that required the voting age to be 18 in all federal, state, and local elections.

Because risking one's life for one's country at age 19 without being allowed to vote is the ultimate form of taxation without representation. And it can't have been in 1965 because he wasn't president then.

But in 1971, it took just over two months for the required 38 states to ratify the 26th Amendment -- the quickest ratification in history.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9606/28/18.year.old.voting/index.shtml

[A_Former_Democrat]

Had Romney competent advisers, this would have been a major campaign issue Dems always try to dupe the youth (see my tagline) and we foolishly voted against not just our own interests, but the country’s interests at large. Now we see the tangled web we helped weave. Kids today are going to get slammed with these deficits and the impending ones with social security and medicare, student loans, credit cards, housing and who knows what else. Oh well, and immigration’s impacts too. Wake up, Youth of America

[ex-snook]

"Eisenhower publicly supported lowering the voting age to 18 in his 1954 State of the Union address."

Why was this a GOP mistake? A lot of 18-21 guys served under Eisenhower. I was one. He was well liked and voted for by a lot of young people.

Young people vote for the GOP when they are doing well with jobs and no wars, including both Bushs and Reagan. But Romney and McCain are war-mongerings zeros in their eyes. Their view of the future ends with war and the wallet of their supporters. Sad how the GOP dissed away their support.

[darkangel82]

I was 18 and 22 when I voted for Bush. I stand by those votes, if only because it stopped Gore and Kerry presidencies.

[Iron Munro]

And it can't have been in 1965 because he [Nixon] wasn't president then.

That is not what I said.

You didn't actually read what I posted before you jumped all over me.

Did you?

Here is my comment:

But it was Richard Nixon who signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that required the voting age to be 18 in all federal, state, and local elections.

Note that Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

He did not sign an extension of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

[TArcher]

"As Obama remembered, "It made me smile, thinking back on Frank and his old Black Power, dashiki self. In some ways he was as incurable as my mother, as certain in his faith, living in the same sixties time warp that Hawaii had created."^[36] Obama also remembered Frank later in life when he took a job in South Chicago as a community organizer..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Marshall_Davis

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1600&bih=748&q=%22Frank+Marshall+Davis%22+Ann+Dunham


Uhuh.

[Iron Munro]

Why was this a GOP mistake?

How Voters 18 to 29 Years Of Age Voted

2008 Election:

66% Obama
32% McCain

2012 Election:

60% Obama
37% Romney

[Excellence]

Are you happy he signed it?
Because you’re talkin’ ‘bout my generation.

[Sherman Logan]

Osawatomie was called that in remembrance of John Brown of Kansas.

Just finished a book about him. While a rebel, he was most definitely not a commie. He would have had these guys for a light mid-morning snack.

[TArcher]

“The Pottawatomie Massacre, as the Brown killings were known, aroused emotions and distrust on both sides. It was denounced by Southern and even some Northern newspapers. Unable to stabilize the situation, Shannon resigned as governor in August 1856.

By 1859 Brown had left Kansas, but in the meantime, he had taken part in the Battle of Black Jack on June 2, 1856, and led free staters in defending the town of Osawatomie from a pro-slavery attack in August 1856.

Many more skirmishes took place between antislavery and pro-slavery forces.”
http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/pottawatomie-massacre/16699

It’s ironic that, 100 years later, the Useful Idiots in the Weatherunderground chose “Osawatomie” for publishing the screed of an ideology that had to build a wall to keep its Communist state property from pursuing happiness elsewhere.

[Eleutheria5]

Barefoot boy with cheeks of tan
One day you’ll be a barefoot man
Your elders are out on a spree
Squandering posterity

— 19th Century satirical verse

[Sherman Logan]

JB was most famous for his defense of the town of Osawatomie with 40 men against 250 to 300 border ruffians. Though eventually forced to withdraw, he caused heavy casualties in the attackers, who were glad to let him “get away.”

You may not like the guy, but he definitely had great big solid steel ones.

Also was a businessman most of his life, though unsuccessful. This was because he was a poor money manager, not because he didn’t work hard or have good ideas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Osawatomie