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Posted on 07/16/2011 2:34:05 PM PDT by neverdem
God Bless Ronald Reagan and the United States of America, the Shining City on the Hill.
The Soviet Union may have collapsed temporarily, but Communism definitely hasn’t.
China is the world's last empire and what happened to the Soviet Union will happen to it.
in the early 80s moscow had barges of potatoes sitting waiting to used, but the russians could not make a cheap paper box for instant potatoes. that was when the cia and everyone else should have known that like the rotting potatoes the USSR ahd no chance of beating the west
And don’t forget to include our own country.
Meyer’s memo was right but was and is not Correct. It will not see the pages of any history books in this era.
Everything gets down to the economy. What is it that’s imploding in the United States? The economy.
I have a Latin American friend who works at a mushroom farm. The farm has a market for 25 thousand pounds of mushrooms a day. But they can only produce 16 thousand. The problem is labor. Jose says, “The department that makes the mulch used to have 10 people. They’re trying to run it with just two. Every department in the farm is the same way; too few people.”
Think about that. The farm has firm commitments to buy 25 thousand pounds of product but they’re only producing 16. It’s not that there isn’t plenty of labor in this small farm community. It’s that the farm owners don’t know what will happen if they hire the extra workers. They haven’t hired anybody since Obamacare became law. They haven’t replaced anybody who left, either. They’re afraid.
A friend in from socialist France described his situation. His family owned 5 businesses. The companies weren’t making money; essentially Pascale was working for free and to provide benefits. French labor law said that to close his businesses he’d have to pay salary and benefits for five years. So, one day he just locked the doors and moved to America. The mushroom farm is probably afraid of something similar. Look at what Obama did to GM’s secured bond holders. Look what the NLRB is doing to Boeing.
Now, multiply that insecurity and unease by every business in America. Our economy collapses; just like that of the Soviet Union. But, unlike the Soviet situation where the American enemies did not take advantage; America’s enemies most certainly will take advantage.
“Meyer’s memo was right but was and is not Correct. It will not see the pages of any history books in this era.”
Some of us are conservatives and *will* include it. For no other reason than he was 100 percent right.
*bump*
Very interesting.
Here is George Kennan’s “Long Telegram”, which I must admit I hadn’t heard of until now:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/documents/episode-1/kennan.htm
It’s a fascinating read.
Thanks for the link.
Thanks for the link.
I have had several conversations with Herb. Brilliant guy. GREAT writer. Has a book on writing well that everyone should have and re read. I think it is at stormkingpress.com
Right after the Soviet Union fell our state ag college brought Russian farmers here to learn modern farming. One of the guys told me stories that would have been hilarious if they hadn’t been so sad.
One that sticks with me is that the government didn’t allow crops to be put into barns because they were worried about hoarding. So the crops were harvested and left along the roadside for trucks to pick up. But since roads were bad and trucks were few (and busy at harvest time) the crops largely rotted where they were placed.
I would think that after a few years of watching a year’s work turn to compost even the most die hard communist would start to lose faith.
History repeats itself and we fail to recognize that we are being driven in the same direction.
America's greatness was achieved during a period of a Euro-centric super majority and one indisputable dominant language.
During the last several decades, forces unseen, have created conditions to flood our nation with masses of people with different cultures, languages and no desire to assimilate but to fracture our political structure, geographic delineations and destroy our unifying heritage and culture.
Unchallenged disregard for constitutional qualifications to hold our highest office, Evil governs and the agents of destruction have been appointed or have infiltrated all levels of our judiciary, law enforcement, academia and our news outlets. The noose is being tightened with impudence, yet the major concern seems to be if there will be an NFL season.
My Dad knows a great many emigres from the former Soviet Union. For twenty years he has been uniformly disparaging of the women of the last generation of the old USSR (now about age 40 and over) as cold-blooded, manipulative and lacking empathy. Even when outwardly charming. Especially the single, childless ones. I always knew abortion was all too common there but an average of six(!) per woman?!?
That has to have a totally dehumanizing effect.
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