Posted on 06/30/2015 11:40:29 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Edited on 06/30/2015 4:45:07 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The same people who told us 30 years ago that "marriage is just a stupid piece of paper" now insist that it's a "human right."
The same people who told us that "a flag is just a meaningless piece of material" now want certain flags banned and others raised
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Don't you just hate it when the Germans refuse to re-fill your ATM?
To prop up unsustainable welfare states, most of the western world isn't "printing money" but instead printing credit cards and pre-approving our unborn grandchildren. That would be a dodgy proposition at the best of times. But in the Mediterranean those grandchildren are never going to be born. That's the difference: In America, the improvident, insatiable boobs in Washington, Sacramento, Albany, and elsewhere are screwing over our kids and grandkids. In Europe, there are no kids or grandkids to screw over. In the end the entitlement state disincentivizes everything from wealth creation to self-reliance to the survival instinct, as represented by the fertility rate. If the problem with socialism, as Mrs Thatcher famously said, is that eventually you run out of other people's money, the problem with Greece and much of Europe is that they've advanced to the next stage: They've run out of other people, period.
Who can forget the ‘80s craze (led by Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell) that marriage was a stupid piece of paper? I must say I thought of it at the same time Mark Steyn did!
ooohhh
For later.
BTTT
I wish to coin a phrase
“At this point, what difference does it make?”
BLOAT!
The phrase, “it’s all Greek to me”, just took on a new meaning.
Maybe it's time to change the name of the country to Nephelokokkygia (Cloudcuckooland).
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>> At this point, what difference does it make? <<
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None!
The NY stock exchange generates more value in one day of trading than the entire Geek economy does in a year.
This is all being blown out of proportion.
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I thought that was an interesting point - one I hadn't seen brought up before. Perhaps that's why our bunch of Open Border lunatics want to flood the country with illegals, forgetting that if they are on the Dole as well, more people won't help them. Reminds me of the old retail joke of losing money on each transaction, but making up for it in volume.
“But in the Mediterranean those grandchildren are never going to be born. That’s the difference: In America, the improvident, insatiable boobs in Washington, Sacramento, Albany, and elsewhere are screwing over our kids and grandkids. In Europe, there are no kids or grandkids to screw over.”
In the US there aren’t many American grandchildren who will be screwed; they aren’t being born either. That is why we are trafficking anyone (rapists, terrorists, etc.) to fill the neighborhoods vacated by the dwindling American population. Anyone who has passed a schoolyard or playground can tell that a very small number of the young children today are “American”...
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