Posted on 04/03/2012 3:06:13 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
Michelle said:
I mean, I can’t tell you in the last election how many grandparents I ran into who said, I wasn’t going to vote for Barack Obama until my grandson talked to me, until my great-grandson talked to me, and talked about the future he wanted for this country.
You can get out there with your parents. You guys can knock on doors. I had one young lady who brought me a petition — she’s already working. You can convince wrong people. Sometimes we don’t listen to ourselves, but we will listen to our children.
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I thought it was Satan who tries to foment dissent among families.
It may come as news to you that there was half a trillion dollars yanked out of the money markets on September 15, 2008 in a very short time, before the Fed closed the market. That is understood to be economic terrorism, probably from a foreign power.
So stop doing the generational-conflict thing. People worked hard in the past. I was there. The country has been getting more materialistic and immoral as time goes on. That is not the previous generation’s fault. If they had seen it coming, they might have tried to do something.
Remember the zerobama “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” commercials?
Right out of “Sound of Music.”
Actually, Cabaret comes to mind...
Socialism was totally ramped up by another Texas President, LBJ, born 1908.
The mammoth social welfare entitlement programs that streamed out of Washington did more damage to the fabric of our society than any number of Vietnams could have done. The irony is, that the segment of our society that it meant to help, was the one that was most grievously harmed.
LBJ's Great Society: 40 Years Later
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1483206/posts
From your, “Greatest Generation”
“The Congress is charged by the Constitution to “provide . . . for the general welfare of the United States.” Our present abundance is a measure of its success in fulfilling that duty. Now Congress is being asked to extend that welfare to all our people.”
—LBJ War on Poverty Speech, 1964.
Of course she is desperate, she has been one busy little traveler, shopper, and gardener.
I assume there was a point there, but I’m missing it . . .
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