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.
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.
Obama said he feels a righteous wind behind him.
I feel a cleansing wind approaching America.
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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.
Pope John Paul II
I’m going to disagree.
No people in the history of the universe have ever been more free than us.
While things can get bad (ie, Adams’ Alien and Sedition Acts, socialized rail transportation, FDR, Jimmy Carter), we are still armed and dangerous, especially with the recent explosion of gun sales.
As a group, we won’t be giving up our freedoms easily. If it gets bad enough, even the left will join with us as they did when Hitler invaded the USSR.
I have great optimism for the future and expect that we are very early in the period that will come to be known as the 1st great and bountiful human empire.
Oh, look, gloom-and-doom defeatism. How quaint.
The bailout was Bush’s Christmas gift to Obama/Pelosi and gave the pass for endless handouts, all put on the Bush ‘deficit credit card” as Pelosi tells the public. Then next year Pelosi will claim she has to raise taxes on those that pay taxes (minus a few on the bottom) to pay for the Bush deficit(=all the bills Bush signed that Pelosi pushed) , and it may fly. We were sold out. And McCain quietly voted for the bailout sealing his fate with Bush (couldnt happen to a better guy.)
Once Bush (and McCain) is gone the dynamics will change. Finally they will not be able to point fingers, take credit for spending, vblame for deficits.
If you don’t like what’s going on change it. Instead of doing a roll over. Geez, this stuff is just defeatism.
I’m in PA and I don’t know about Bethlehem, but I can see miles and miles of homes and businesses when I travel. And one heck of a lot of new gas wells going up all over the farmlands.
As a Pennsylvanian I’m sick of the ‘Allentown’ Billy Joel outsider mentality. Isn’t it bad enough that we’re bitter, rednecks, racists and clinging to God and guns? Do we have to be soupliners too?
There are people fighting for this country right now. Who are we to shrug and give up and stick our heads in the sand?
The 80-20 rule will apply with "free" health care, i.e. 20% of the population will consume 80% of the resources.
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