Posted on 06/02/2014 3:57:20 PM PDT by Lorianne
America is in decline because its leaders want it to be so.
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“One of those is in my truck’s block, underneath the water pump.”
Yep, it’s the little things that make a country great, like manufacturing a steel bolt where the bloody head doesn’t break off. When the heads break off the ChiComm bolts you can look at the color and see it was tempered incorrectly. Hope you own an American steel easy-out to remove the bolt made by the ChiComm apes. There is no better steel than American. The Japanese steel is a close No. 2, IMO. ChiComm steel is junk. I have buckets of ChiComm steel I’d love to shove up their commie butts, either with claymores or cold-steel enemas..
Disagree. I've owned a bunch of them, Subaru, Hyundai, Toyota, all new, and none of them have matched up to the Fords I've owned.
Tight, quiet, reliable, effecient, a touch of luxury even in the Taurus class.
I've got a Tundra now but that's it: Fords from here on out if the world doesn't end first.
Likely true up to about MY2000 or so.
But the Ivy League MBAs have made a lot of inroads there also.
For example, Putin's recent actions and China's bullying may seem to present short term gains but will cost both countries dearly in the years ahead, not only as they have to confront outside powers that re-arm (like Japan) in the wake of American withdrawal, but as the instability that withdrawal breeds causes internal instability among the factions jockeying for power in those regimes.
Be careful, the enema might bend ...
“The most reliable cars are made in Asia.”
No, the most reliable Asian cars are manufactured in Japan. The Japanese learned from Americans. Let’s not confuse ourselves. Japan is far superior to Asia as a whole by miles and miles. The Japanese are our friends.
Anecdotal experience is never actual reality.
I am going by Consumer Reports, where they survey thousands of user experience with cars.
Personally I have owned 64 Corvair (engine burned out), 67 Chevy Impala, 71 Chevy Nova (150k miles with no major repairs), 77 Chevy Malibu (great car), 80 Ford Pinto (rusted quickly), 90 Ford probe(velocity joints gave up), 94 Dodge Ram Van, 2001 Saturn Ion (great car), 2007 Pontiac G5 (no problems.
So as you can see I always buy American brands because I made living working for US manufacturing outfits.
Nothing is changing indeed, the rules have always been the same. A world lying itself to socialism, lack of government restraints and democratic vote for a rise in popularity of laziness and arrogant condescension toward those who work in present, past or future, is ushering itself towards utter failure and looting warfare Africa style.
Let the "Gumment" take care of it....
“For example, Putin’s recent actions and China’s bullying may seem to present short term gains but will cost both countries dearly in the years ahead, not only as they have to confront outside powers that re-arm (like Japan) in the wake of American withdrawal, but as the instability that withdrawal breeds causes internal instability among the factions jockeying for power in those regimes.”
Pretty good analysis, pierrem15.
Not to mention 22% food inflation this quarter and retail gas up 130% since Ø’s 2008 Inaugration.
“One of the few consensus ideas that I took away from the Strategic Investment Conference is that China has the potential to become a real problem. It seemed to me that almost everyone who addressed the topic was either seriously alarmed at the extent of China’s troubles or merely very worried. Perhaps it was the particular group of speakers we had, but no one was sanguine.”
-—John Mauldin Thoughts From The Frontline
http://www.investorsinsight.com/blogs/thoughts_from_the_frontline/archive/2014/06/02/looking-at-the-middle-kingdom-with-fresh-eyes.aspx
Just repeating Thucydides: “the Spartans became nautical” in order to win the Peloponnesian War, and they soon became as corrupt and arrogant as the Athenians had been.
I have no influence over those who fear bogeymen or 50 IQ ChiComm apes. They are lost souls, and I want nothing to do with them.
Allow me to presume that you have a classical education similar to what Harvard once offered in the 19th century. Excellent.
“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” - from the “Tiffany Knight” at the University of Alabama.
So what I have experienced in my life and relate to you anecdotally is not reality?
You go ahead, read magazines and take the questions, the “findings” and the marching orders from them.
I’ll stick to the facts as I find them.
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