Posted on 06/23/2008 9:06:48 PM PDT by jazusamo
And now brother Jaz, I bid you good evening. :)
Yes he is! G’Night, Smooth. :)
“For some Americans, it is considered chic to be like Europeans. “
I’m sorry, but this just brings out the redneck in me. That’s all I’ll say (for now.)
You don’t have to say it, I know exactly what you mean. :)
BUMP!
That is, until they had to fork over most of the paycheck to the Euro taxman. Then it wouldn't be so chic anymore.
“....The next year, the first federal minimum wage law, the Davis-Bacon Act, was passed. One of its sponsors explicitly stated that the purpose was to keep blacks from taking jobs from whites....”
Should be repeated often and loudly!!
I don't like the "performance enhancement" aspect, and I hope sports is rid of it, soon. But without it, it would still be "perform or go". Nobody wants to watch a .180 hitter.
Politics is full of .180 hitters.
mark
bttt
Ain't it the truth. Many are good at scamming and that's it.
I’m sure imitating European governments and their politics, is the furthrest thing from the minds of most of the people on this forum. After all, one of the primary reasons America and the American Government was born, was because good men fled Europe (and other places) to find freedom and establish it for their children. Why, after all these years, would Americans want to imitate nations our ancestors escaped?
Absolutely, anyone on this forum wanting to imitate Europeans doesn’t belong here, period. The leftists in our country won’t be satisfied until we have regressed to the level of Europe.
The left wants to take it well beyond the kind of socialism Europe currently enjoys, I assure you. : )
The only thing I want from Europe is the Beer. To be more specific, dark lagers. To me, that is all they have to offer.
Thank God for Mr. Thomas Sowell - another excellent column. Thanks for posting.
It all has to do with hubris. I was just talking with a friend yesterday who is baffled by the whole concept. She's a naturalized US citizen, who grew up in communist Poland. She doesn't understand how or why it is that young US citizens seem to want to institute economic systems that were so oppressive. All she can figure is that from the outside, these systems look "fair," and from their hubris they believe that there's nothing wrong with the ideas: It's just that the people who put those ideas into action were flawed. That if only THEY could be the ones in charge, everything would work right, THIS TIME! Never mind that every time they've ever been put to use, those ideas have made a wreck of the society.
Mark
I've been thinking about Dr. Sowell's article since early morning, in back brain.
Blacks accuse other blacks who do well in school as "acting white". As in imitating whites. Well, doesn't take a rocket scientist to predict that when one gets an education, one does far better in life. So, in reverse, I suppose radical blacks posit that there's such a "right thing" as acting "black". As tho skin color should predict behavior.
If so, why do blacks gets so upset when it is statistically and abundantly clear that blacks are committing the most crime in the culture.
Could it be that some blacks are "imitating" in acting as "blacks"?
Imitation can be a form of flattery. But it can also lead one into a bad place.
Trying to imitate the Jones has always led to debt. And trying to "act" black or to act "white" is as silly a notion as I've ever heard.
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