Posted on 10/23/2008 9:23:08 AM PDT by MindBender26
I’m still an optimist. America could turn this around. Serious tax reform and education reform would go along way toward saving this country. Not saying that’s likely in the short-term, but I picture the ending of “Atlas Shrugged” — after everything falls apart, there is reason to believe that people will see government as the problem, not the solution, and then free individuals and free markets can work miracles.
Oh come on. Let’s not call Time of Death until we get there. In the mean time work like heck to get McCain elected.
That's the plan. When Powell called Obama a "transfomational" figure, he might not've known just how right he was.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
No it ain’t. I won’t give up on my country. Remember the saying “From my cold dead hands”?
I don’t know. The “equity” section of the American balance sheet is still pretty healthy...just have to work on the other sections, primarily DEBT.
Guns don’t mean much when your children haven’t eaten in three days.
Yes.
Thomas Jefferson said:
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Dead on. What ever happened to financial conservatisim? Neo-Con’s threw that out too.
>> I have been thinking the same thing. America’s best days may be behind it. I think it is only a matter of time.
People have been saying the same thing for hundreds of years. People said the same thing during the Civil War, again during the Great Depression, and again during the Cold War.
It is times like these that American exceptionalism is truly proven. Where other societies may crumble — we seize opportunity.
If conservatives truly believe the United States is an exceptional nation under God, that Capitalism is an exceptional economic model, that the American Constitution is an exceptional form of government, that the American people are rugged individualists derived from the American pioneering spirit — then conservatives must come to the conclusion that America will endure, as we have for the last 220 years.
We have triumphed over far worse than this.
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Only if we can prevent McAmnesty. Amnesty brings us to the same Brave New World that is promised by Hussein.
Obama said he feels a righteous wind behind him.
I feel a cleansing wind approaching America.
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They do if you know what to kill that is eatable to feed your children with!
I’m not just laying down and let this country be taken over. If that’s got to be the answer...........there’s a lot of people that will disagree. How many of our sons and daughters have died for this country since it was established? Do we just let those lives be lost for nothing?
Actually Iceland is a bad example to use when talking about banking. Iceland has ALREADY nationalized their three largest banks, frozen deposits of foreigners so they can’t pull their money out, and their currency is crashing. Their banking industry has saddled each of their 300,000 people with over 8 million $ apiece in liabilities from their banking collapse. The more salient point is that what happened in Iceland and Argentina can happen here. The gov’t has started nationalizing our banks, and soon they may take over private pension funds as well.
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