Posted on 09/04/2012 3:57:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
When did...
1) ....Educated people become so unfamiliar with small business that they began to believe that a company will practically build itself as long as the government provides roads, street signs, and police?
2) ...Freedom change from something we should all be seeking to something we're supposed to be terrified to face without the government holding our hands?
3) ...We stop asking, "Can we afford this?" along with "Is this a good idea?" when it comes to government programs?
4) ...Demanding that people come to this country legally if they want to stay here and become citizens become too much to ask?
5) ....We start rewarding victims so richly for victimhood that we have to wonder if every unseen hate crime is real or a staged charade to receive public sympathy?
6) ...Sticking to the Constitution and living within our means become "extremism?"
7) ...The job of the press change from reporting the news to doing everything it can to help the Democratic Party?
8) ...It become okay to sue a company because some moron knowingly did something dangerous with the company’s product and hurt himself? That's not negligence; it's Darwinism at work.
9) ...Protecting some barren tundra in Alaska become worth more than thousands of jobs, billions of dollars in wealth created, and lower prices at the pump for the American people?
10) ....Hollywood change from supporting the troops in foreign wars to undercutting the war and smearing the troops as dangerous, mentally unstable drones?
11) ...We stop caring if government programs worked or not as long as they sound compassionate?
12) ...Virginity, chastity, and believing marriage should be for life become "old fashioned?"
13) ...Witty sound bites start becoming more important than wise words?
14) ...We come to believe that we would never have to pay off our debt?
15) ...The comfort of Americans today start to become more important than giving future generations an opportunity to have a better and brighter future?
16) ....People stop becoming ashamed of taking welfare, school lunches, food stamps, receiving handouts, and living in their parents’ basements?
17) ...Our first priorities in wars become not hurting enemy civilians and getting good press instead of protecting the lives of our troops and winning the war?
18) ...."tolerance" start to mean approval and disapproval become tantamount to hate?
19) ....Our immigration policies become centered on what's most convenient for illegal immigrants instead of what's best for the American people and those who want to come here legally?
20) ...It become okay for the Democrat Party -- which was behind slavery, segregation, lynchings, poll taxes, and Jim Crow laws -- to accuse Republicans of wanting to do those things? It must have been after most people forgot Democrats were behind all of those things and Republicans have always opposed them.
21) ...Debates about politics stop being about whether certain policies work or not and start centering on the intentions, motives, and personal characteristics of the person on the other side of the issue?
22) ...God's definition of marriage, the same definition that has been around for millennia, become discriminatory?
23) ..."Racism" change from an expression of hatred towards another race to an expression of disagreement with Democrats?
24) ...The "not" get removed from the first part of John F. Kennedy's famous quote, "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
25) ...Borrowing money from the Chinese to spend on useless government programs that produce nothing become an "investment?"
All good questions.
About the same time as we let the left get control of the debate. Case in point, how about during the 2000 elections when the GOP got labelled with the color of Communism/Totalitarianism by those very people, and the “Stupid” Party just stood back and accepted it rather than fight such an absurd association. Up is down, right is wrong, blue is red... lefto bizarro world, and they get away with it scot-free.
We see this inexorable move to the Left and Socialism. Why? Why would people in the freest country in the world throw away what others (immigrants and patriots) have lost their lives to have here? Well, I share your pain in your well-written comments. I’ve just come across a couple videos of Milton Friedman which are both wonderful just to hear and I think shed light on this question. One of them is kind of long and bad resolution, but well worth the time to listen. Links below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgyQsIGLt_w&feature=related
(@ 2:35 – “Private enterprise and the free market has no press agents whereas the government and the Federal Reserve Board has a great many press agents.”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfdRpyfEmBE
(@ 17:00 – “We didn’t live in a paradise, but there’s no period in human history when the ordinary man had as great an improvement in his lot in life as in the 19th century in the United States when the government was of trivial importance.
[Question from Mr Heffner: “Then what accounted for the movements to bring about government action?]
“[The important part of an otherwise complicated answer is ] it is a natural human tendency to take for granted the good things that happen and ...if the ‘bad’ thing comes along you say, ‘We need to do something about it.’ Collectivism and more government control has been the natural state of mankind for thousands of years. [Other exceptions to this rule were a certain period of ancient Greece and the Italian renaissance.]”
[Question from Mr Heffner: “Why then do you describe that brief period [19th century America] as the more normal, the more normal, the more appropriate state? “]
Freidman explains it’s a preferred and superior state but it’s not the “normal” state.
@20:22 – “The maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to try to do something about them you’ll make matters worse. @ 21:00 – [It is simpler to argue for more government and more laws to correct problems.] “The argument for voluntary cooperation for a free market is not nearly so simple. It says if you allow people to cooperate voluntarily and don’t interfere with them, indirectly, through the operation of the market, they will improve matters more than you could improve it directly by appointing somebody.
@22:00 – To a counter the assertion that the free market is an argument for greed or selfishness and greed: 1) the people in positions of power in a political hierarchy are greedy. Mankind has always been selfish and greedy, 2) charitable activities were more widespread and on a larger scale in the 19th century than in any other century in history.
I'm not sure how far down the totalitarian road America can be taken with so many praying Christians. After Jesus comes for us, however, things will get MUCH worse VERY quickly. (The first three and a half years after we’re gone, half the world is dead. By the end of seven years, all are dead except for a handful of Jews hiding in Jordan. BTW, many of those killed are killed for their faith and are with Jesus in heaven.)
I know that doesn’t sound like very good news but it actually is because the Lord is clearing the decks for His Day: a thousand years of peace under His rule in Jerusalem. What a Day that will be.
“9) ...Protecting some barren tundra in Alaska become worth more than thousands of jobs, billions of dollars in wealth created, and lower prices at the pump for the American people?”
AND, ‘worth more than the life of ONE single American to potect BS allies.... JUST because THEY have oil!
Why do we see this inexorable move to the Left and Socialism? Why would people in the freest country in the world throw away what others (immigrants and patriots) have lost their lives to have here? I’ve just come across a couple videos of Milton Friedman which are both wonderful just to hear and I think shed light on this question. One of them is kind of long and bad resolution, but well worth the time to listen. Links below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgyQsIGLt_w&feature=related
(@ 2:35 – “Private enterprise and the free market has no press agents whereas the government and the Federal Reserve Board has a great many press agents.”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfdRpyfEmBE
(@ 17:00 – “We didn’t live in a paradise, but there’s no period in human history when the ordinary man had as great an improvement in his lot in life as in the 19th century in the United States when the government was of trivial importance.
[Question from Mr Heffner: “Then what accounted for the movements to bring about government action?]
“[The important part of an otherwise complicated answer is ] it is a natural human tendency to take for granted the good things that happen and ...if the ‘bad’ thing comes along you say, ‘We need to do something about it.’ Collectivism and more government control has been the natural state of mankind for thousands of years. [Other exceptions to this rule were a certain period of ancient Greece and the Italian renaissance.]”
[Question from Mr Heffner: “Why then do you describe that brief period [19th century America] as the more normal, the more normal, the more appropriate state?" ]
Freidman explains it’s a preferred and superior state but it’s not the “normal” state.
@20:22 – “The maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to try to do something about them you’ll make matters worse. @ 21:00 – [It is simpler to argue for more government and more laws to correct problems.] “The argument for voluntary cooperation for a free market is not nearly so simple. It says if you allow people to cooperate voluntarily and don’t interfere with them, indirectly, through the operation of the market, they will improve matters more than you could improve it directly by appointing somebody.
@22:00 – To a counter the assertion that the free market is an argument for greed or selfishness and greed: 1) the people in positions of power in a political hierarchy are greedy. Mankind has always been selfish and greedy, 2) charitable activities were more widespread and on a larger scale in the 19th century than in any other century in history.
I'm not sure how far down the totalitarian road America can be taken with so many praying Christians. After Jesus comes for us, however, things will get MUCH worse VERY quickly. (The first three and a half years after we’re gone, half the world is dead. By the end of seven years, all are dead except for a handful of Jews hiding in Jordan. BTW, many of those killed are killed for their faith and are with Jesus in heaven.)
I know that doesn’t sound like very good news but it actually is because the Lord is clearing the decks for His Day: a thousand years of peace under His rule in Jerusalem. What a Day that will be.
Why do we see this inexorable move to the Left and Socialism? Why would people in the freest country in the world throw away what others (immigrants and patriots) have lost their lives to have here? I’ve just come across a couple videos of Milton Friedman which are both wonderful just to hear and I think shed light on this question. One of them is kind of long and bad resolution, but well worth the time to listen. Links below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgyQsIGLt_w&feature=related
(@ 2:35 – “Private enterprise and the free market has no press agents whereas the government and the Federal Reserve Board has a great many press agents.”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfdRpyfEmBE
(@ 17:00 – “We didn’t live in a paradise, but there’s no period in human history when the ordinary man had as great an improvement in his lot in life as in the 19th century in the United States when the government was of trivial importance.
[Question from Mr Heffner: “Then what accounted for the movements to bring about government action?]
“[The important part of an otherwise complicated answer is ] it is a natural human tendency to take for granted the good things that happen and ...if the ‘bad’ thing comes along you say, ‘We need to do something about it.’ Collectivism and more government control has been the natural state of mankind for thousands of years. [Other exceptions to this rule were a certain period of ancient Greece and the Italian renaissance.]”
[Question from Mr Heffner: “Why then do you describe that brief period [19th century America] as the more normal, the more normal, the more appropriate state?" ]
Freidman explains it’s a preferred and superior state but it’s not the “normal” state.
@20:22 – “The maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to try to do something about them you’ll make matters worse. @ 21:00 – [It is simpler to argue for more government and more laws to correct problems.] “The argument for voluntary cooperation for a free market is not nearly so simple. It says if you allow people to cooperate voluntarily and don’t interfere with them, indirectly, through the operation of the market, they will improve matters more than you could improve it directly by appointing somebody.
@22:00 – To a counter the assertion that the free market is an argument for greed or selfishness and greed: 1) the people in positions of power in a political hierarchy are greedy. Mankind has always been selfish and greedy, 2) charitable activities were more widespread and on a larger scale in the 19th century than in any other century in history.
Additional comments of my own...
I'm not sure how far down the totalitarian road America can be taken with so many praying Christians. After Jesus comes for us, however, things will get MUCH worse VERY quickly. (The first three and a half years after we’re gone, half the world is dead. By the end of seven years, all are dead except for a handful of Jews hiding in Jordan. BTW, many of those killed are killed for their faith and are with Jesus in heaven.)
I know that doesn’t sound like very good news but it actually is because the Lord is clearing the decks for His Day: a thousand years of peace under His rule in Jerusalem. What a Day that will be.
Political correctness has finally taken hold, and as planned,
along with the Green party and Global warming nitwits, control over the republic is in it’s final stages.
the root cause is a beleif that the government is the final arbirator of fairness, and that government can solve all of our problmes
If you watched Ed “Happy Talk” Rendell on CNBC this morning, he blathered on about “the government” providing great successes such as the G.I. bill and Medicare. Democrats forget that every penny spent in those programs comes from the taxpayers’ pockets.
There is NO government money. Even the slowest citizen or university professor ought to know that.
Sadly, so true.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
“10) ....Hollywood change from supporting the troops in foreign wars to undercutting the war and smearing the troops as dangerous, mentally unstable drones?”
Vietnam
Wrong question re immigration. It should be as follows:
Why is the US bringing in 1.2 million LEGAL IMMIGRANTS annually, most of whom are unskilled and uneducated? or
Why is the US bringing in 125,000 legal foreign workers A MONTH now in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression with 23 million Americans looking for full time employment?
Yes, that’s the one iffy question.
What a day that will be - amen - Even so, come Lord Jesus.
“and the “Stupid” Party just stood back and accepted it rather than fight such an absurd association. Up is down, right is wrong, blue is red... lefto bizarro world, and they get away with it scot-free.”
Prolly has something to do with hurting their widdle feeeeellings.
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