Posted on 11/25/2007 5:58:15 PM PST by Travis McGee
We’re not going to do anything to protect this country unless we change the Federal Government to one that at least likes America.
I can’t disagree with most of the things he’s said. Our neocon leaders have sold us out.
You know, some people have accused him of wanting to sell books. I am sure he does. After all, we are not communists here.
But I have detected in Pat the last couple of years what I regard as the detachment that comes with the acceptance of one's advancing age. And I am there with him.
Those of us -- including Pat -- who have crossed 60 have a lesser stake...now only our sadness for the fate of our progeny, which is a considerable sadness, of course.
But at a certain age one's personal stake is diminished and also one's bold belief that he is the one who can fix things...or even that one has a responsibility to fix them.
I believe Pat has relaxed into the role of a sort of senior stateman. He has sold enough books already. He is likely to live out his life in comfort. He is, IMO, merely seeking to impart the wisdom of his long years of experience. I doubt that he really expects to make a difference.
But maybe some of the younger ones here really want to put up a fight. I'd be pleased to see it.
Ultimately they have nothing.
Their markets are built on manipulation. There are unforeseen deficits that must settle at some point. Economics is a bitch and these Chinese Children are going strait into a wall.
Dragon my ass, bunch of little lizards.
thanks for posting this, Travis. I’m afraid some of this is inevitable. Many years ago, at university, we had a lot of seminars on all the “isms”-—communisim, capitilism, etc. the consensus was that Capitalism was possibly as morally bankrupt as communisim. It wasn’t a notion touted by liberals, but Reaganites.
The moment a corporation can go offshore, it’s competitors have to do likewise, or go under. It’s a race to the bottom as far as wages go. Some thought it not a lot better to starve under Capitolism as under communism.
I remember about the time of NAFTA, the CEO of Fruit of The Loom had held out going offshore and had one remaining plant in LA. He was very loyal to his employers, but finally had to throw in the towel since no one could buy his unerwear with the wages he paid. I’m not sure we can get the NAFTA genie back in the bottle.
We may now get products cheaper from China making lower wages go further, but there’s no getting around the fact that many plainly are getting lost in the global shuffle. It seems our only hope is to dust off our collective “Yankee can do,” reform our educational system, then-—compete like Hell.
Pat’s right. Some confuse the message with the messenger at their own peril.
Let me see if I’m understanding.
We ship all our jobs to China. All our money. Our knowledge of how to make things. Our patents. Intellectual property. Our technological capabilities. We fund our government by borrowing over a trillion dollars from China — resulting in a collapsing national currency.
And China is financially dependent on us??
On what planet?
Very droll...thanks for the enlightenment.
I barely crossed 30 and I stopping until I own and control as much as I can and make it as American in spirit as I can.
And I figure, there is about 50 million just like me.
The part about the nacho cheeese or the whiner?....
I like the nacho cheese part the best...
China is nothing???
A quarter of all the people on earth, are Chinese!
You are, no offense intended, sleepwalking.
Absent as they say, one or two important clues.
>1979 and the Carter Administration was a bleak year and Reagan, the Sunshine Consrvative, said America’s best days were yet to come.<
And they did, for eight, count them, eight years. Then the Globalists got back onto office.
See my new tagline.
” China is not “becoming America”.
China is *replacing* America.
You are ok with that?? “
This is why so many Freepers are “dismissive.” There’s no point in “debating” a claim like this if someone’s already out in left field far enough to make it.
And India? And Africa?
I named half right there. What are they?
At least India only treats 25% of their people like slaves....
Their day of reconging may take a bit longer.
I named half right there. What are they?
At least India only treats 25% of their people like slaves....
Their day of reckoning may take a bit longer.
It’s now or never! China has us by the shorthairs! BOYCOTT RED CHINESE PRODUCTS, OR PRODUCTS MADE IN RED CHINA! Red China is not our friend!
Pat, if you really believe that...Delta is ready when you are.
“But I have detected in Pat the last couple of years what I regard as the detachment that comes with the acceptance of one’s advancing age. And I am there with him”
I’ve detected a different sort of change that also commonly comes with age: Xenophobic, scared, lashing out, pessimistic, doom-and-gloom.
We went to an outlet mall in Las Vegas yesterday and it was packed with people. We tried hard to find caucasians, but they were few and far between. We heard many other languages and little English. Is this a clear picture of what has happened to America-a new, third world nation of non-citizens who either do not speak English or do so poorly?
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