Posted on 08/04/2012 9:44:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
They’re not worshipped as gods, why would they be forbidden in the Torah’s proscription of idols and graven images?
No.
Nor could we build Hoover Dam, The Golden Gate Bridge, the LA-Colorado River Aqueduct, the Interstate Highway system or a transcontinental railroad.
Not with this EPA, this President and the current army of lawyers.
They didn’t build it then, it’s unfinished. Meanwhile they are building a Crazy Horse monument, so I think the answer is yes.
I have seen the Crazy Horse monument. The only thing that is fairly finished is the head of the horse. There is still a lot to be done one it
He wished
By original spec Mt Rushmore is only about half done. But there is work being done on Crazy Horse, thus proving that America on some level still has the will to turn a mountain into a statue.
NO!
The Tennessee Valley Project?
NO!
The Erie Canal?
NO!
The Niagara Hydroelectric Project?
NO!
The Golden Gate Bridge?
NO!
The Interstate Highway System?
NO!
The Colorado River Water Project.
NO!
The Florida Keys Highway?
NO!
The California Central Valley National Vegetables Basket?
NO!
The Manhattan Project?
NO!
In short, nothing, any longer, of lasting value and benefit to people. All the monuments to industry, imagination, individual vision and effort.
All that is being adressed today, wasting forever national effort and wealth, is creating a new Royal Political Class, and promoting and growing two of the world's largest cultures of parasites : "Envoronmentalists" and welfare parasites. And both supported by a bewildering alphabet soup of bureaucratic enablers. They must all be squished out of existence without mercy or a second thought. It's either that, or the unknown void of anarchy and civil war.
People First must be the new national goal. The freedoms, safety and security of all America's productive citizens. And a restoration of the productive people as masters, and the elected and appointed bureaucracy as servants. A subservient bureaucracy, take it or leave it.
You have stated it PERFECTLY!!
ANYthing???
With foam, glass, and epoxy could build it in a week!!!
I would like to see every one in America contribute
their copper pennies to make a full size statue
of the Tienanmen Square Lady of Liberty
to be a gift to the Students
of China. How could Beijing say no?
Either that or I’m holding out for the Palin Memorial.
IMHO, the real question is SHOULD we build Mt Rushmore today (should “we” have ever built it?).
Should all taxpaying USA citizens (<50%), under threat of incarceration, be forced to pay for it?
Who decides what it should look like? The folks in power at the moment?
Google “Davy Crockett, not yours to give...”
And then...
Google® Ben Franklin, "...if you can keep it."
That is a chilling phrase, and one that inspires reflection.
May we wake up in time!
Because in those days people often did worship images. Huge expense per viewer, compared to expense per viewer of sculpture of, say, Lincoln at Lincoln Memorial.
Pshhhhh. He accomplished nothing. Oh how I wished he had lived so he wouldn't be a damn martyr to the cause of liberal idealism (He was not even an idealist! He was slime! Slime!). The rats would want FDR on there taking up all 4 spots.
Reagan, Coolidge. No one else from Wilson on deserve it. Next best are Ike and Harding.
If they were a new invention, we wouldn’t even be allowed to drive cars today.
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