WISH YOU WERE HERE

The American people have imperceptibly traded liberty, freedom and self-determination for safety, security, and protection by their government – Like a frog being slowly boiled alive. They want their government to lie to them. It is easier to not face our intractable problems. Politicians that promise more benefits with no sacrifice are elected over and over again. Anyone attempting to get elected on a platform of reduced benefits, shared sacrifice, and truthful revelations about our fiscal situation is DOA. Americans prefer simple wrong solutions to difficult realistic solutions, talking points to real debate, material comfort to getting involved in governance. The ruling elite in Washington, on Wall Street and in the mainstream media encourage this behavior by Americans because it allows them to preserve their power. By choosing comfort over truth, we have exchanged a part in the war for a lead role in a cage. In the end these choices will lead to despair.

Quinn's point is that we can't just choose the lies we like. Some here will disagree with his depiction of the war on terror and the war in Iraq. Although I agree with Quinn now that we have wasted our fortune in Iraq, that would only be Monday Morning quarterbacking since I supported the war since 2003.

As an Iraqi vet, I can say that I was more than a little upset to, after being sent to take liberty to the people of Iraq and free them from a corrupt tyranny, come home to a corrupt tyranny. (I returned at the beginning of Mar 08.)

The lack of action against ACORN,
The lack of a treason trial against John Murtha,
The courts protecting John Murtha by twisting an existing law to “apply,”
All of these imply a rampant corruption;
It is my belief that is why returning veterans were targeted in the DHS report.

2 posted on 09/15/2009 6:45:03 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

— John Stuart Mill

3 posted on 09/15/2009 7:56:29 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("You can't kill the beast while sucking at its teat." - Claire Wolfe)

It seems to me that the biggest lie of all is that we can spend more than we earn without consequences and if the private sector won’t borrow, it’s ok for the government to do it instead.

4 posted on 09/16/2009 5:10:50 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)

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