Posted on 02/18/2008 6:23:55 AM PST by Turret Gunner A20
http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html
I think that we should give this election a theme. Now I know that the politicians are all using the "change" word. That word was tested in front of focus groups around the country and really rang the bells. Hillary, Barack ... change, change, change.
How pathetically stupid. If someone tells you they're going to "change" something, wouldn't you be just the least bit curious as to what in the hell they are going to change from and to? But wait .. that would take a sense of inquisitiveness, wouldn't it?
So .. we need another theme. May I propose that we call this the "What can my country do for me?" election?
* Give me health care.
* Give me prescription drugs.
* Make them raise my salary.
* Make them bring my job back.
* Give me lifetime job security.
* Pay my heating bill
* Make my gasoline cheaper
* Pay for my kid's college education
* Give me a comfortable retirement
* Give me free transportation
Just listen to these candidates. They never talk about freedom. They never talk about self-reliance. They only talk about all of the great and wonderful things that they will do for you if you just give them the power of government to get those things done. And do you know why this is? It's because that seems to be all we're interested in; what the government can do for us.
This morning I heard the National Anthem being played on a radio station at 6:00 . "Land of the free and the home of the brave?" Well, OK .. there's certainly some left. But more and more we're becoming the "Land of the secure and the home of the dependent." We're turning America into a giant assisted living center.
I'm really sorry to say this, but this nation is in trouble ... much like a beautiful home infested with mold. The mold just relentlessly spreads with no abatement in site. How long before we have to tear things down and rebuild? The mold? Government dependence. Mitt Romney referred to it as a sickness ... Government dependence is a sickness. Well, the sickness is spreading.
Just listen to the election rhetoric. Here's what I want the government to do for me. You'll certainly hear much more of that than you will any call for freedom and independence.
Really sad.
I THINK THIS REALLY DRIVES THE POINT HOME. WISH I HAD WRITTEN IT!
This alert came from a listeners. He was reading "The Bad Boy of Baltimore" a biography of H.L. Mencken by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. On page 409 of that book he finds the following:
"By the mid-1930's, thanks to the New Deal, all that self-reliance had changed, prompting Mencken to declare: 'There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them.' Despite the billions spent on an individual, 'he can be lifted transiently but always slips back again.' Thus, the New Deal had been 'the most stupendous digenetic enterprise ever undertaken by man.... We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time. The effects of that doctrine are bound to be disastrous soon or late.'
When someone asked, "And what, Mr. Mencken, would you do about the unemployed?" He looked up with a bland expression. "We could start by taking away their vote," he said, deadpan. Mencken was not surprised when the majority disagreed. "There can be nothing even remotely approaching a rational solution of the fundamental national problems until we face them in a realistic spirit," he later reflected, and that was impossible so long as educated Americans remained responsive "to the Roosevelt buncombe."
"Buncombe," by the way, means either a county in North Carolina, a city in Illinois or another word for "nonsense."
Please ... cut and paste the Mencken quote. It is so very much more relevant to what's going on today than it was in Mencken's time. Send it to your friends ... send it far and wide. Post it on your blogs. Get it out there. Wonderful stuff.
10/4. Spot on.
bttt for the Mencken quote.
We must fight the road to socialism...and that might mean, I fear, voting for the lesser of two evils this election.
I detest the ideas of Obama and Hillary that the GOVERNMENT should make all my health care and energy decisions.
McCain is bad, but not to the extent of the Democrats.
I agree, too, but nowadays, it’s not just the “unemployed” that are the problem—unemployment is low. How do we take away the vote of the working, but whiney, “I want the government to take care of me” crowd?
CHANGES
David Bowie
Oh yeah
Mm
Still dont know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets and
Every time I thought Id got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But Ive never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
Im much too fast to take that test
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Dont want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I cant trace time
I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
So the days float through my eyes
But stil the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
Theyre quite aware of what theyre going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Dont tell them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Wheres your shame
Youve left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you cant trace time
Strange fascination, fascinating me
Ah changes are taking the pace Im going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Oh, look out you rock n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Pretty soon now youre gonna get a little older
Time may change me
But I cant trace time
I said that time may change me
But I cant trace time
Shows they love empty rhetoric.
That’s a Mencken quote I’ve never seen, and I have read nearly all of his printed work. I’m glad Boortz put it in his column. It is a gloomy but realistic assessment.
Easy. No taxes, no vote.
I kinda like the word change myself, but my definition is that we change back to things that worked in the past.
I like the no work, no vote idea.
Good words of wisdom. But who is listening?
How do we take away the vote of the working, but whiney, “I want the government to take care of me” crowd?
NEWS FLASH!
McCain is no different, except he wants to include illegalss and he supports the global warming fallacy also!
“I think that we should give this election a theme.”
How about this?
“Give Me”
We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.
There’s actually two themes to this election:
Give Me
Make Things Like They Used to Be
Neither promise will be kept.
Mencken is great. Anyone who hasn’t read a book about him or his writings is missing a treat.
Totally agree
Who is John Galt?
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