I intend to write more of them as time goes on, to generate original content for this site.
Peace and love to y'all.
Very good, Laz, and I’ve been having similar thoughts all day. I called the local radio station this AM and said this, too.
You said it for us very well!
The decadence of Europe has been a source of wonder and disparagement for years. The danger is that Zero and minions seem to admire that system and would willingly dump us into similar conditions.
You assume that people are rational and have the ability to reason. Very few have this trait.
Liberals have taught them to feel, not to think.
BTTT!
Well done and to the point. But it really brings to mind that there really are two types of people - those who take personal responsibility, and those who don't. And since nothing stays still, everything keeps going in the direction it's pointed. So, after a few years or decades, someone actually has to write something like this - so incredibly obvious and simple, it sounds like "don't crap on the living room carpet" to conservatives, but hyperdimensional physics to liberals.
Over here!
Let me be a little [C] kinder Let me [G] be a little [D] blinder To the [C] faults of those about me Let me praise a little [D] more
Glen Campbell wrote this song before he became Glen Campbell, Everly Brothers recorded it on their Roots album, and it is now nearly forgotten. (Roger Miller.) But it expresses the sentiment with which you finish your piece.
I like it (the song and the sentiment), while seeing how unrealistic, why, utopian, it is. After many years experience in computer technical support, both company internal and external, I can tell you that thinking more of others and less of me is not appreciated and not rewarded (except perhaps via self-satisfaction.) I happened to be unemployed, forcibly retired now, and am being advised to volunteer here and there, at inner city schools, or teaching children of prisoners to read, and I say, I can honestly tell you, ef-U!
Having said that, I don't recall a rollback of a welfare state in human history, and it ain't going to happen in France or here. I am further certain that the reaction to an attempted rollback in this country would be the same or even more violent than in France and Greece. Gimme mo foo stams!
Hear, hear!
“It’s the stupidity, economists!”
— Mark Steyn
Excellent read.
Nice to see more original content on Free Republic. Hopefully the mods see fit to allow more of it. If we have enough such contributors, we won't need to worry about copyright nonsense and take-downs. We'll be our own media.
Anyway, the goings-on in Europe remind me of one of my favorite quotes by Benjamin Franklin (paraphrased): "...We give you a republic, if you can keep it."
Many Americans mistakenly assume that democracy is a good thing. Well a democracy is basically majority rule. It results in laws for the "common good" at the expense of personal liberty. It means that once enough people vote themselves a share of somebody else's labor, our economic system will collapse because there will eventually be more takers than producers.
A republic on the other hand, which the United States was founded upon, holds that personal liberty is to be respected and cannot be taken away. In a republic, the "majority rule" is constrained by a written constitution that protects the rights of all.
Many people
Nice to see more original content on Free Republic. Hopefully the mods see fit to allow more of it. If we have enough such contributors, we won't need to worry about copyright nonsense and take-downs. We'll be our own media.
Anyway, the goings-on in Europe remind me of one of my favorite quotes by Benjamin Franklin (paraphrased): "...We give you a republic, if you can keep it."
Many Americans mistakenly assume that democracy is a good thing. Well a democracy is basically majority rule. It results in laws for the "common good" at the expense of personal liberty. It means that once enough people vote themselves a share of somebody else's labor, our economic system will collapse because there will eventually be more takers than producers.
A republic on the other hand, which the United States was founded upon, holds that personal liberty is to be respected and cannot be taken away. In a republic, the "majority rule" is constrained by a written constitution that protects the rights of all.
Many people
Nice vanity post.
You’re absolutely right, Laz. That’s why, I’m not wasting my time buying gold, rather, I’m buying toiletries—to barter with in the coming collapse. God bless us all.
Well said, Laz.
Time to gas up the escape pod.
You hit it well.
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I believe we are in the times discussed in Revolutions. Everything I'm seeing tells me we are in a war for our very souls.
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I didn’t see this yesterday and I’m glad first off that this brilliant, concise piece has opened up FR to original conservative thought. It’s hardly vanity to explain, ponder, or dissect the world according to our view. I hope to be able to attempt one day to follow in your footsteps.
Second, how right you are about Europe. The decade I spent there was a “soft” one as you describe. With so many weeks of paid vacation and 90% of your salary in unemployment, everyone was living easy.
Now they are all discovering like the grasshopper that they haven’t prepared for the time when the bills came due. They are suicidally politically correct to their growing Muslim populations.
And while they dance in the streets after electing a socialiste in France, there must be some concern about where all this pretty money is going to come from, right? They can’t possibly be as immature as my kids when they think that if you need money, you go to the ATM and money will come out. Can they be?