Posted on 10/31/2017 5:28:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
What an excellent quote!!!
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‘I blame the machine politics of this city for that. They keep people down and give them just enough stuff to get their vote, but it is a culture that keeps them from succeeding.”’
PING
Chicago is not called the “Windy City” for nothing. The reasons are totally unrelated to the velocity of moving air that stirs through the streets, but a great deal may be made of the empty promises made by the current and past city governments, which are swept away only moments after the most recent elections.
The rebellions within the city are not directed at the current power structure, but against neighbor on neighbor and some kind of straw men that get set up as an excuse to be attacked. Much of Chicago suffers from this orchestrated strife, and it would end in months if the main perpetrators were indicted and prosecuted.
Trouble is, that cleansing would also wipe out much of the City Council and the Mayor’s office.
nice sentiment but we now live in a ‘gimmedat’ society
'Be glad for the meagre crumbs doled out to you while the overlords import hordes of cheap foreigners to undercut your wages...while exploiting the foreigners too.'
“they are builders, construction workers, artisans, business owners and professionals. They learn trades. They attend college. And they feed into our unique American exceptionalism.”
Wait...you mean they are not sitting around with their hand out demanding obamaphones and free sh!t? How dare these immigrants be productive! It messes with the Dem narritive.
A lot of young people today are so misguided, they would likely take offense at Ms. Zito saying that.
This is the one that hit me...”Every immigrant in this country is an echo of all of us. Tug the thread of his story seen throughout the fabric of our country and you find that same strain of defiance that says you will make it regardless of what obstacles you face. It is common across the country, but it is particularly visible in first-generation immigrants.”
Too many these days don’t know how to defy the obstacles. A couple days ago, a guy was talking about the NASA Biodome project. They tried to grow crops and they would grow to a certain point then die. After lots of research, they figured out that the stalks were weak because of no wind. The wind made the stalks strong because they had to defy the obstacles. Many of our snowflake generation will be like the weak stalks when the slightest thing goes wrong.
Sorry, Bio-sphere, not Biodome
Got this in an email this week. We all need to read and think about it:
Lisa Beamer on Good Morning America - If you remember, she’s the wife of Todd Beamer who said ‘Let’s Roll!’ and helped take down the plane over Pennsylvania that was heading for Washington, DC on 9/11.
She said it’s the little things that she misses most about Todd, such as hearing the garage door open as he came home, and her children running to meet him.
Lisa recalled this story:
“I had a very special teacher in high school many years ago whose husband died suddenly of a heart attack.
About a week after his death, she shared some of her insight with a classroom of students.
As the late afternoon sunlight came streaming in through the classroom windows and the class was nearly over, she moved a few things aside on the edge of her desk and sat down there.
With a gentle look of reflection on her face, she paused and said, Class is over. I would like to share with all of you, a thought that is unrelated to class, but which I feel is very important. Each of us is put here on earth to learn, share, love, appreciate and give of ourselves. None of us knows when this fantastic experience will end. It can be taken away at any moment.
Perhaps this is God’s way of telling us that we must make the most out of every single day. Her eyes, beginning to water, she went on, so I would like you all to make me a promise. From now on, on your way to school, or on your way home, find something beautiful to notice. It doesn’t have to be something you see; it could be a scent, perhaps of freshly baked bread wafting out of someone’s house, or it could be the sound of the breeze slightly rustling the leaves in the trees, or the way the morning light catches one autumn leaf as it falls gently to the ground. Please look for these things, and cherish them. For, although it may sound trite to some, these things are the “stuff” of life. The little things we are put here on earth to enjoy. The things we often take for granted.
The class was completely quiet.
We all picked up our books and filed out of the room silently That afternoon, I noticed more things on my way home from school than I had that whole semester. Every once in a while, I think of that teacher and remember what an impression she made on all of us and I try to appreciate all those things that sometimes we all overlook.
Take notice of something special you see on your lunch break today.
Go barefoot. Or walk on the beach at sunset.
Stop off on the way home tonight to get a double dip ice cream cone.
For as we get older, it is not the things we did that we often regret, but the things we didn’t do.
Did not the Trump White House sent out law enforcement help out that way a couple of months back?
What’s really an outrage is how the left resents immigrants who work hard and assimilate. It’s because they don’t vote for Democrats.
Nice way for author Salena Zito to subtlely link Hispanics with Bulgarians as evidence of successful pro-immigration policy. Clever girl.
The problem is that we are faced with a different kind of immigrant than those that most of us can trace ur ancestry back to. Most of u had ancestors who looked upon America as the land of opportunity. Too many current immigrants look upon America as the land of the free lunch. In that, they are joined by too many who were born here.
Bump to you Salena. Thanks for highlighting the other side of immigration.
Let Trump deal with it.
Building a wall is necessary symbol of our failures. Politicians like those in Chicago are not doing their jobs.
Nice...
It is sad that our statesmen of today do not have the wisdom displayed by America's founders.
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1766
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