Posted on 11/03/2009 8:52:20 AM PST by NewMediaJournal
Marching out of Yorktown to surrender, the British Army played the song “The World Turned Upside Down.” As I drive to Mega Lo Mart to make my latest deposit of monopoly money in a Chinese savings account all I can do is mumble the final tag-line of the Wicked Witch of the West, “What a world? What a world?”
There’s a massive unspoken problem in America today floating like the iceberg in front of the Titanic waiting to sink the unsinkable ship. Founded by revolutionaries crying “No taxation without representation!” the Republic these revolutionaries devised devolved into a society where 47% of the people pay no Federal Income tax and the number of people receiving government benefits is even higher. What incentive would these non-paying receivers have to reign in an overbearing and intrusive government? This unseen and unspoken problem is a cancer in the body politic.
Self-serving professional politicians buy votes by exempting non-productive people from personal financial responsibility while providing ever-expanding benefits at the expense of the productive. This is not the Right versus Left, Conservative versus Liberal, Democrat versus Republican, he-said-she-said endless debate that devours the “chatocracy” of cable’s wall-to-wall talking-heads. This is not an academic exercise that pointy-headed political science and history majors with dueling pocket protectors debate for hours in their mother’s basement as they post their latest scoop on their samizdat blogs. This is a dagger pointing directly at the heart of our civilization.
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And if Leslie isn’t there, you are less Less.
History repeats itself. This must be what living in the Roman Empire was like as it went from affluence to corruption to degradation to being conquered.
Marching out of Yorktown to surrender, the British Army played the song “The World Turned Upside Down.”
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Did not know that. But I do know that as the Titanic sank... the band played “Nearer my God to Thee”.
And as America sank, our children sing....
“Mmm Mmm Mmm Barack Hussein Obama”
*ouch*
Wrong homily.
Hope is putting forth effort, work and sacrifice..in the expectation that we can overcome challenges, adversity and deprivation .....
Hope takes faith - Hopelessness is surrender before the battle.
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