Unless we close our borders, kick out all illegals and prevent Muslims from taking over our legal system, yes, we are lost as a country.
Stop rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for Hell
Stand up for the Flag
And let’s all ring the Liberty Bell
Let’s make a Ford and a Chevy
Still last ten years like they should
The best of the free life is still yet to come
The good times ain’t over for good
Time for a vaccine against political lampreys.
Too many things are beyond repair.
Barack Obama went around the globe proclaiming that America had been an evil land until HE became president, all that would change. Gimme that Peace Prize for doing nothing but selling Hope and Change.
He also berated Americans saying that their standard of living and expectations were too high. You CAN”T just go around setting your thermostat and whatever YOU want to. You CAN’T just go around driving your SUV wherever YOU want to go. You CAN’T just eat what or as much as you want in the land of plenty. This just isn’t how things are done in the rest of the world and frankly they are jealous.
We fight against an agenda that seek knocking America’s standard of living down several pegs. Job security? Nah, low cost employment is booming for India. Owning your own home? Nah, it is extravagant; opt instead for a tiny home or a skyrise squat in a ‘smart growth’ high density community.
Can America improve? Will those holding it back ever cease and desist?
I would contend that the presence or absence of gadgets and length of life isn’t what benchmarks whether or not our best years are behind us, it’s the increase in grinding bureaucratic minutiae, percentage of our life equity extracted and diminished ability to be left alone by governing collectives that delineate it.
Life equity is particularly telling. In conducting the business of its growth and perpetuation, government is essentially siphoning off all the extra years gained by the citizenry through its innovations and creativity. If you knock out the life expectancy skew produced by the early 20th century mortality of the 0-5 YO age cohort, you can see how government readily eats up the 20-25 year difference going from no income tax to a middle class
rate in the 20-30% range.
And that rate equates to years. Labor=Time=Money, some Labor more than others. You don’t think about it as much (particularly if you like what you labor at) but if you ponder what that would translate for you in vacation time per year you would have a lot of personal time to do or pursue other things.
If your lucky enough to make 100 years from a middle age today, recognize that fully 1/2 of that will have been spent (barring some political miracle or catastrophe) by you to meet the demands of others.
I’d be surprised if that penned out to more than 2 or 3% of that lower lifespan in 1900-10 era. The work and world might have been grueling then for many, but at the end of the day what you earned or produced was yours, and there were far fewer enticements to keep you from striking out for something different if it wasn’t tolerable.
To paraphrase Yoda: “Technology does not one great make.”
If we are to be great again, and I think the recent oil activity has shown we certainly can be when we put our minds to it, we need to quit stepping on out own tender parts and get to work. We need to cut the multitude of jobs designed to fatten the ranks of bureaucratic micro-management, stop relying on consensus and give more rein to those who will take the ball and run with it. We need to train the next generation of those people as well, and they won't learn by being choked and bound in miles of red tape.
One more thing: we will never get strong again if we don't do our own heavy lifting. Conceive it here, design it here, build it here, from our own resources. Then we will be great again.
The “rugged individualist” mindset that guided America to heights never before seen had its zenith in the 1950s and early 60s, with a brief resurgence during the Reagan era. Those whose goal is the fall of America started their nefarious, satanic work decades ago in the education system. In public schools, students don’t even salute the flag anymore .. at least not the American flag. In earlier times, prayer in school was present and encouraged; nowadays a student who is caught with a Bible is suspended.
Multiculturalism and its associated demographic changes, a creeping sense of entitlement and a movement away from the idea of American greatness have all shoved this country inexorably leftward, leaving a shell of what it once was.
This isn’t to say America won’t have momentary surges of pride and unity as it did in the days after 9/11, but the country’s best days are in the past.
Without Liberty innovation will whither and die. We've lost ours.
There were TVs and radios in most homes..."
It has little to do with consumer goods.
It has everything to do with culture.
Back then we were mostly united, and had a common culture and worldview. Folks knew common sense.
Now, we wallow in diversity, mediocrity, and filth.
This is all according to the plan of the elites. They sought to destroy us. They have mostly succeeded.
This saddens me.
Liberals are such depressing pains in the azz. They think any trend associated with effort by Republicans, taxpayers or the productive class in general (innovation, invention, productivity, disciplined use of resources) is bound to decline, and any cost centers using taxpayer money and draining resources is not only justified to continue at present wasteful levels, but should be increased.
I’ve always said liberals are math-impaired. This is just another example.
