Posted on 09/27/2013 3:48:53 PM PDT by neverdem
Mid-20th-century assumptions of generational progress no longer obtain.
A few years ago, after the publication of my book America Alone, an exasperated reader wrote to advise me to lighten up, on the grounds that “we’re rich enough to be stupid.” That’s to say, Western democracies and their citizens are the wealthiest societies ever known, and no matter how much of our energies are wasted on pointless hyper-regulation for the business class and multigenerational welfare for the dependency class and Transgender and Colonialism Studies for our glittering youth, we can afford it, and the central fact of our wealth will ensure that our fortunes do not change. Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, we have been less rich, and our stupidity ought in theory to be less affordable. Instead, it’s been supersized. To take only the most obvious example, President Obama has added six-and-a-half trillion bucks to the national debt, and has nothing to show for it. As Churchill would say, had his bust not been bounced from the Oval Office, never in the field of human spending has so much been owed by so many for so little...
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George Orwell, after attending a meeting of impoverished but passive miners, remarked sadly that “there is no turbulence left in England.” The Democrats, and much of the Republican establishment, have made a bet that there is no turbulence left in America, and the citizenry will stand mute before Obamacare’s wrecking ball. Unless they’re willing to accept a worse life for their children and grandchildren, middle-class Americans need to prove them wrong.
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BUMP for dinner time reading, then crying, then steeling my resolve to make it through these next three years despite the POS CIC!
Stalin created collective farms.
Obama created collective hospitals.
I guess there just weren’t enough
American farmers to make it worth while.
tet68
Ping
-— tet68 -—
Those are five powerful letters.
The Vietnam War was not in vain. Just ask a Cambodian.
They are for me.
I can’t forget communists tried to kill me
and now they are taking over my own government.
Now that is clever.
Things got to change in the west—not just the USA or England. We need to have balance between compassion and good sense. We need to seek to give those down and out a chance and a hand up—not a career as a begger and dependent of the state. They tried that in Ancient Rome with bread and Circuses and it didn’t work out so well. But, we can’t be just about high profits and rich and poor society that didn’t work out so well with Victorianism and just spawned Communism. Its about the balance and we have been out of ballance for some time now.
We have about run out of boxes. The Ruling Class had better get that special UN Treaty signed and in force, quickly...
Brilliant stuff from Ice Station Zebra’s number one watchdog.
Stalin created collective farms.
Obama created collective hospitals.
I guess there just weren’t enough
American farmers to make it worth while.
tet68
It will be a lot more than three years. What good do you expect from Mrs. Clinton? or Jeb Bush?
There is still the cartridge box.
The (dumb)masses ‘stand mute before Obama’s wrecking ball’....
Well, he knows Americans well enough.
Hey! One DISASTER at a time, Buddy! That’s all I can handle, LOL!
The entertainment shows are already highlighting Chelsea Clinton as a future presidential candidate. Today’s voters are being conditioned early to anoint a new dynasty.
Look FRiends, we should be rejoicing! Now that the Senate has done us a couple of great favors, we can focus again on the House. That's where this will be won or lost. And I think there is a fair chance that we can eke a victory out of this.
The Senate was never going to vote for cloture. It was really just a question of how many senators would vote with the people, and how many would do as they normally do and vote to screw everybody else. Well, we got our answer: 19 voted with the people, which is actually 4 more than I expected. But more importantly, we now know exactly WHO the Patriots are and who the cowards and kakistocrats are.
But wait. It doesn't stop there. Today's vote was really a two-fer, the gift that didn't stop giving! At no time in my life have the political differences been so stark, the choices so obvious, and the villainy so apparent. Today, the majority of gop members in the Senate stood up and did something I never really thought they would do: they publicly murdered their own political party.
Sounds like a great tagline.
What do you do with the 35 to 40 percent of the 310 million Americans that know no other way of life other than being a parasite?
Four or five generations lost.
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