Posted on 11/18/2001 1:04:52 PM PST by Jean S
If they had their wish and took over the United States - how long do you think it would take them to turn this country into another Afghanistan?
"A recent story on Afghan schools described a teacher who holds up a wealth pie chart. America, she shows her students, controls this huge slice of the pie, leaving a tiny sliver for us Afghans. The not-so-subtle point? Afghans suffer poverty because of America's disproportionate wealth." maybe all the wealth we have is just due to nature rather than effort.
So based on that logic could we conclude that the wealth created by Thomas Edison caused poverty?All the riches he reaped benefited no one Huh
Just as we have race pimps here (and poverty, gender, disability pimps, etc.) that can only thrive if there is a problem, therefore they only point out the problems rather than working to solve them. These third world countries are run by rulers whose power continues only if the problems persist.
Another way of saying "misery loves company". Explain to me how I am to blame for their situation. I don't even know any muslims, nor do I feel any responsibility for someone half-way around the world, who may live in poverty and dire circumstances through no fault of my own. The reference to the pie-chart is classic Liberal-think, i.e. that wealth is a zero-sum game. The idea that because one group of people has more, it means that they took it from the others is pure bull-winky! Our own economy proves it. If it were a zero-sum game, our economy could not expand, there would be no talk of increase in the GDP or GNP, and with each passing generation, as our population expanded, the wages, quality of life, and living standard would go down. Look at America's history, and you can see that's not the case. If it were, the Founding Fathers would have had the best lives, and each succeeding generation would have been less prosperous, and we'd be in a total state of anarchy by now.
The real problem is the fact that in those countries, the state is the religion, and the religion is the state. Without a free market economy, rule of law by the people, with the power to change laws that are abused and abusive, and checks and balances on the government, as well as personal freedom, those countries will never pull themselves out of the quagmire. When they point fingers at America, it is out of jealousy, not religious principle. And yet we have people in this country who would give it all away, out of some twisted sense of "fairness" and "leveling the playing field", and misplaced guilt. Instead of feeling guilty for the blessings we have received, we need to vigorously export our values, our system, our constitutional form of government. Some would call that Imperialism, showing that they know nothing about how governments and economies work.
Isn't it better to do what we can to "raise the tide", which will raise all boats? Or do we do what the Third World wants: drain the harbor, so all the boats are equally grounded and unable to move?
The Arabs have become commodity brokers, that's all they have--a commodity. They also have the illogical friendship of a vocal political minority, in this country (the Greens, and the socialist left). They have a "situation" to make their wealth. The problem is that their individual country's politics are either a monarchy or a dictatorship. The people have no control over the wealth that flows, in direct proportion, to their "sweet" oil. The sad fact is that they can't even get a majority of the jobs pumping that oil. The entire population has been so "dumbed down" by the ruling class that they must employ western (usually American) engineers, drillers, and "wildcatters" to get that stuff out of the ground.
The west (specifically Americans) have always relied on innovation, and "know how". We have always been able to adapt, and overcome. We use our wits, our education, and our ability to overcome the impossible. In the 200+ years that we've been a government on the face of this earth we have pissed people off because we have this ingrained talent. The reason that we have it is because we are free. We supply a free country, in which you are free to live your dreams, and the cream of the scientific world comes. Here lives the spirit of innovation because of that freedom.
The envy of the rest of the world is apparent, even though we share most of our innovation. The worst envy comes from the Arab world because they so oppress their people, that innovation has no rich ground to grow. The ruling class in these Arab countrys are DIRECTLY to blame for their plight, and they are directly responsible for the problems we have in this world today.
Americans don't have time to start a jihad, we're too busy inventing things that will improve life on this "blue marble". From the massive accomplishments in biochemistry, microbiology, enginerring to the little inventions sold in infomercials at 2 in the morning....we innovate, we invent, we love and care. Our energy is directed toward innovation and making a more comfortable world. We think more about family and Christmas that we do about war and killing. We accept different people as our neighbors in the hope that we can all be Americans in our land, and make it a better place in our brotherhood. We are niave in our beliefs and we get clobbered for that once in a while, but we never give up our creed as an American.
During this Christmas I'll just supply the spirit and my love. My country, and my loved ones will provide me with the comfort any reward.
I'm free! I'll help you. I'll feed you. I'll keep you warm and well. I'll do this because I'm a Christian, and I'm and AMERICAN. You can bite my hand of charity if you like, I'll try to give you charity again, because I'm a Christian, and I'm an American. If you attack me, and kill my brothers and my sisters, you will see the wrath of God in my eyes before you draw your last breath. We believe in life, we believe in charity and understanding, and we believe in the defense of those qualities. We will defend our "innocents" and we defend our liberty, and we will defend our way of life. We will defend these things with more resolve than you have ever seen in this world. You will find no cowards here, but will find patriots. Gentle, kind, loving, and ANGRY....Patriots!
Merry Christmas!!
I don't even know any muslimsToo bad, you could have found some to teach the American way to. The ones you taught might have been the ones to foil the attack on the WTC.
nor do I feel any responsibility for someone half-way around the world, who may live in poverty and dire circumstances through no fault of my ownPerfect. That's why they don't give a sh*t about you either, and since they see your country as an ally of their enemy, they peg you as an enemy.
Arabs actually believe if the US was a poor backward country like Islamic countries are, they would be better off. They're insane.
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