Posted on 05/02/2010 3:52:24 AM PDT by quesney
Atlas Shrugged being played out before our very eyes, and, very appropriately, in Greece.
“I cannot help but blame my parents a little for what’s happened,”...“They were here all that time,”.... “But what did they do to stop it?”]
And you are seeing what happens when something is done about it. The young are so use to a hndout they riot for more.
wow-that red and black flag looked like Michelle O’s horrid red and black dress.
Creepy.
I agree with everything you wrote, but I would go even further back and say that the Constitution was broken in 1865.
In other words, when we look at the federally mandated "1.6 gallon per flush" written on our toilet bowls, we have Lincoln to thank for it.
as thousands of communists, civil servants and private-sector workers converged on a main square in Athens
Thousands?
Wow.
That’s a lot.
Any of them those members of Parliament who ...:
1) don’t pay taxes for LIFE , while others pay them;
2) get immunity for ANY crime that they commit, forever???
3) retire at 53, get pensions till they’re 100 ???
4) get paid 14 months for 12 months work minus 2 months vacation and never provide receipts for anything since everyone in the whole country refuses to pay taxes but loves to collect “benefits and rights”
Welfare is now a “right”
Donchya know???
I’m a boomer and am glad to say that I was not part of the problem. I have been working since I was 15 years old and have never been a slacker. My brothers on the other hand are something else that fits the “boomer” mold. They are both bums and nuts.
Looking back, I would have to put a lot of blame on my parents who fostered us to start drinking in our early teens. Partying and socialization was a big part of our parents lives and we kids had to fit in. Thank god I turned out to be a geek and went into computer science. That avenue eventually got me out of the alcohol and controlled substance dependent state.
Very helpful, these riotous mobs, destroying wealth and assets, racking up more man-hour pay for all that law enforcement, creating work stoppages.
Shooting holes in the bottom of their own boat.
I have met people with Greek names everywhere in Latin America, the United States and Canada. They can be found in West Africa and South Africa. Invariably, they are hard working citizens who serve their adopted nation well. I have also visited Greece on occasion. I content that beginning in the early 1900s, the best, brightest and most ambitious, sensing the political rot within, left the place as soon as they could. I think it is a process that has been going on since the best and brightest made their way to Rome during the Empire. What is left today is what you saw on May 1.
ETL, do you think that Russia is stoking the protests in Greece? I do.
I have to agree with you. They socialists (and outright American Communists) of the early 20th century were a cancer on this nation.
Today, I look back at FDR trying to "pack" the Supreme Court because he KNEW his policies were against the Constitution. He was able to walk away, and tell himself "nice try."
To me, he committed treason by even attempting to blatantly pack the court like that.
He should have been impeached, or arrested. Or both.
The boomers inherited a terrible legacy from the foundations of "progressive American socialism." The New Deal was so full of corruption and potential for greed and fraud that it almost was inevitable that the next generations would become parasites.
The liberal boomers (I am talking the revolutionary leftists) are by far the worse to blame for their generation. Not all boomers were (or are) leftists of course. But, this massively self absorbed generation by and large just never matured. Before they were dropping acid, and now they are dropping Viagra. Before, they were painting their naked bodies and having sex in the mud. Now, many are addicted to plastic surgery.
It all speaks to a massive amount of spiritual sickness, where millions upon millions of people have forgotten Almighty God.
I think the Russians are behind most of what’s going on today.
Great post.
Coming soon to a nation near you. :)
So, we’re seeing commies protesting the IMF, and the EU? Are you kidding me?
So, thus, idiots will conflate EU and IMF with “capitalists” and say we true freedom-lovers are in bed with the likes of globalist organizations?
This about makes my head explode!
Pat Buchanan has it right, regarding rioters.
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