Posted on 05/18/2014 8:44:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The official opening of the 9/11 museum brought President Obama to New York and sparked fresh reminders of the horror of that awful day. The president called the site “sacred” and gave a moving speech about the American spirit, saying, “Like the great wall and bedrock that embrace us today, nothing can ever break us.”
It is the right thing to say and the right place to say it. But is it true? Is the American spirit really unbreakable?
I have my doubts.
There are many examples that say our spirit is breaking if not already broken. One involves a Wall Street Journal report that, six years after the housing bubble popped and sank the economy, federal officials want to lower mortgage standards again so more people can buy houses that they can’t afford. Been there, done that would seem to be the logical response, but the idea is gaining momentum because so few people can legitimately qualify for credit that the only way to spur housing growth is to junk the standards.
The same thing is happening in schools. Americans overwhelmingly agree that our educational system, once the envy of the world, is now lagging.
The cry to challenge students spawned a movement to raise the bar through the Common Core curriculum, but it is now grinding to a halt in New York and other places. The problem: Too many students are failing the tougher tests, making teachers look bad, parents unhappy—and politicians nervous.
So the standards are being shuffled aside, and self-esteem is back as the new measure of success. More students can appear to be learning and, presumably, that will make the adults happy, at least temporarily.
Because this retreat from rigor in favor of cultural “social promotion” is playing out in a million different ways...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Of course he did. It's the sacred site of a Muslim victory.
“Americans overwhelmingly agree that our educational system, once the envy of the world, is now lagging.”
If I remember correctly, and I believe I do, until Pres. Jimmeh Cahtuh rewarded the Nat’l Education (??) Assoc. with its very own cabinet department, it was generally known and supported that the federal government had no authority (Remember that Constitution??) to meddle in or control general elementary/secondary education.
Now the feds determine what our children are to learn and how it is to be taught, what they can eat (thus far limited to what they eat in school), etc., etc., etc.,
And the consequences, sadly, are clearly evident.
“but, since it does not indicate another direction”
Hayek was talking about something other than what is today known as conservatism.
We have a direction. We know which way to go.
We have not yet been able to make it happen. Not since Ronaldus Magnus.
Does it really take a genius to explain common sense to the denizens of the vast wasteland?
the states ratified it after the election of democrat woodrow wilson in 1912 . He was the one who did it.17th was after the 16th.
During Wilson’s eight years as president, Congress passed two constitutional amendments: prohibition (18th); and women’s suffrage (19th). Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act (the 18th amendment), believing it to be unenforceable, but the law, designed to enforce Prohibition, was passed over his veto.
http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/constitutional-amendments
Two other amendments were ratified while Wilson was President: income tax (16th) was ratified in February 1913; and direct election of Senators (17th) was ratified on April 8, 1913.
The splitting of the Republican Party resulted in the election of Woodrow Wilson. Shortly thereafter, the new Democrat-controlled Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1913, which was enacted with President Wilson’s signature on October 3rd, 1913 and 17th amendments and he had a democrat congress
With the Republican Party split in 1912, he led his Democratic Party to control both the White House and Congress for the first time in nearly two decades.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson
In his first term as President, Wilson persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass a legislative agenda that few presidents have equaled, remaining unmatched up until the New Deal in 1933.[2] This agenda included the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act and an income tax. Child labor was curtailed by the Keating–Owen Act of 1916, but the U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 1918. Wilson also had Congress pass the Adamson Act, which imposed an 8-hour workday for railroads.[3] Although considered a modern liberal visionary giant as President, Wilson was “deeply racist in his thoughts and politics” and his administration racially segregated federal employees and the Navy.[4][5]
griculture and food production through the Lever Act; took over control of the railroads;
Sure, the D's destroy the country, but the R's help them along.
http://www.conservapedia.com/Seventeenth_Amendment
“The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913 during the progressive era of Woodrow Wilson.”
also from this site
http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/constitutional-amendments
“Two other amendments were ratified while Wilson was President: income tax (16th) was ratified in February 1913; and direct election of Senators (17th) was ratified on April 8, 1913.”
you cherry pick a few things and try to spin to absolve the evil democrats/communists of any blame. Obamacare , all democrats voted for that. defend that . 1965 immigration act defend democrats there. and woodrow wilson and his democrat congress passed the income tax in 1913
http://www.conservapedia.com/Seventeenth_Amendment
“The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913 during the progressive era of Woodrow Wilson.”
also from this site
http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/constitutional-amendments
“Two other amendments were ratified while Wilson was President: income tax (16th) was ratified in February 1913; and direct election of Senators (17th) was ratified on April 8, 1913.”
you cherry pick a few things and try to spin to absolve the evil democrats/communists of any blame. Obamacare , all democrats voted for that. defend that . 1965 immigration act defend democrats there. and woodrow wilson and his democrat congress passed the income tax in 1913. your democrats controlled congres for 40 years until 1994 and during that time they built this huge government , rooms full of laws. you will say that is Bush's fault . go donate to the democrats/communists. i just had time to post a FEW horors your democrats did. i didn't even get to democrat FDR
Obama and Wilson are a lot alike. Then there was Teddy Roosevelt doing his Perot imitation to get Wilson elected.
The strength of a president (or in this case an oval office resident) should be measured in large part by how much the country benefits as a result of his policies and actions.
In light of this, I disagree completely with your description of Obama as strong.
It has nothing to do with cherry picking. I never disapproved of you entire point, just the actual facts. Don't take it personal.
And, i'm often wrong, and get corrected here all the time. This is the best place to learn.
http://dailyreckoning.com/the-wilson-presidency-woodrow-wilsons-world/
democrat President woodrow wilson and his democrat congress were the architects of the progressive era that started in 1913 .The following is an exact quote from this site:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Seventeenth_Amendment
“The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913 during the progressive era of Woodrow Wilson.”
also from this site
http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/constitutional-amendments
“Two other amendments were ratified while Wilson was President: income tax (16th) was ratified in February 1913; and direct election of Senators (17th) was ratified on April 8, 1913.”
you cherry pick a few things and try to spin to absolve the evil democrats/communists of any blame. Obamacare , all democrats voted for that. defend that . 1965 immigration act defend democrats there. and woodrow wilson and his democrat congress passed the income tax in 1913. your democrats controlled congres for 40 years until 1994 and during that time they built this huge government , rooms full of laws. you will say that is Bush's fault . go donate to the democrats/communists. i just had time to post a FEW horors your democrats did. i didn't even get to democrat FDR
Enough spam.
Yes , I agree. Wilson turned the USA from a free republic into a socialist democracy and Obama is trying to finish the job towards ultimate socialism. eye opening article:
http://dailyreckoning.com/the-wilson-presidency-woodrow-wilsons-world/
Are you perhaps conflating “conservative” with “constitutionalist”?
“Let me now state what seems to me the decisive objection to any conservatism which deserves to be called such. It is that by its very nature it cannot offer an alternative to the direction in which we are moving. It may succeed by its resistance to current tendencies in slowing down undesirable developments, but, since it does not indicate another direction, it cannot prevent their continuance. It has, for this reason, invariably been the fate of conservatism to be dragged along a path not of its own choosing. The tug of war between conservatives and progressives can only affect the speed, not the direction, of contemporary developments.”
Does this not describe the Republican party?
While Bull Conner was a Democrat and States Rights Party member the Alabama Republicans of the time were also opposed to heavy handed Washington dictates and SCLC guerrilla theatre and were not upset that fire hoses would be used on those who illegally blocked business entrances.
And if you study Alabama politics you’ll see the shift in the early sixties and in 1964 the Republican presidential candidate won Alabama by a landslide so it was NOT a solid Dem state at the time. In fact Goldwater was so strong that he dragged conservative Republicans from Alabama into the House of Representatives for the first time since Reconstruction. The issue in 1964 involved the nanny state dictating a myriad of rules and regulations for all aspects of our lives from schools to real estate to ballot security. Goldwater and Alabama were right and most of the nation was wrong.
From what I understand, it’s not even called the 9/11 Memorial.
It’s the “Museum of Struggles Against Oppression” or some nonsense.
Study the history of the time to get the real facts. The republicans actually went along with those amendments thinking the democrats were bluffing and calling the democrats bluff thinking the democrats would withdraw. The democrats went ahead with those amendments showing the republicans they weren’t bluffing. The republicans were stupid just as they are today; the stupid party. Conservatives are aware of the stakes today but the republican establishment could either care less or are complicit with the democrats. History repeats.
Study the history of the time to get the real facts. The republicans actually went along with those amendments thinking the democrats were bluffing and calling the democrats bluff thinking the democrats would withdraw. The democrats went ahead with those amendments showing the republicans they weren’t bluffing. The republicans were stupid just as they are today; the stupid party. Conservatives are aware of the stakes today but the republican establishment could either care less or are complicit with the democrats. History repeats.
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