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Despair Sets In With America On A Fatal Arc
IBD Editorials ^ | February 23, 2009 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 02/23/2009 5:53:43 PM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
......America has seen its best days and is degenerating toward what may well be its worst....

The degeneration will only get worse if we cannot find a way to keep welfare deadbeats from voting.

America can survive hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, war, pestilence, and about any other kinds of natural disaters.

What we cannot survive is the un-natural disaster of welfare deadbeats who vote.

ACORN goes around and picks up their vote....then gives them 10 bucks...and shazam....their vote is counted, and their enablers, the politicians who promise them the most free stuff, are elected time after time. The results are showcased by the democrat "victories" in Detroit, Mass, Kansas, Calie-fornia, et al, and, I might add, what going down in our federal government as we speak..

A couple more vote cycles decided by welfare voters will sink America once and for all.

Why these people want to be like Zimbabwe is an absolute mystery to me.

21 posted on 02/23/2009 6:28:53 PM PST by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance...)
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To: jazusamo

And there was some story today on how the newly unemployed wre enjoying their time off. No problem. No urgency. sheesh. (sorry no link)


22 posted on 02/23/2009 6:29:25 PM PST by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: B.O. Plenty
Why these people want to be like Zimbabwe is an absolute mystery to me.

Simple. They don't read international news.

23 posted on 02/23/2009 6:31:32 PM PST by thecodont
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To: jazusamo

The dumbing down of our education, the undermining of moral values with the fad of “nonjudgmental” affectations, the denigration of our nation through poisonous propaganda from the movies to the universities.

The list goes on and on.


24 posted on 02/23/2009 6:32:32 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Kaslin
We have been saved by miraculous good fortune before in our history. The overwhelming military and naval expedition that Britain sent to New York to annihilate George Washington's army was totally immobilized by a vast impenetrable fog that allowed the Americans to escape. That is how they ended up in Valley Forge.

In the World War II naval battle of Midway, if things had not happened just the way they did, at just the time they did, the American naval force would not only have lost, but could have been wiped out by the far larger Japanese fleet.

Those miracles occurred when we were fighting a common external enemy, not an enemy completely insinuated among us and intent on our total destruction.

25 posted on 02/23/2009 6:34:11 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: jazusamo; Gondring
Dr. Sowell hits another homerun!

Jaz, you may want to read this article, it puts alot in perspective...

Obama destroying the USA to rebuild it in his own image?

26 posted on 02/23/2009 6:34:50 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: B.O. Plenty
Why these people want to be like Zimbabwe is an absolute mystery to me.

They have been lied to, and told that the large corporations are sitting on veritable warehouses of gold, cash, and jewels which the few at the top hoard to spend on themselves; and which have been accumulated by holding the oppressed worker ("these people" you speak of) underwater.

And they have been further told that there is no hope of working to climb the ladder, so that destruction of the edifice, revenge is the only thing the little people can accomplish.

In fact the Obama-ites are projecting, in that *they* are the ones holding down the downtrodden, and lying to them: but the lying is for them a means to power first: power which is then used to secure wealth.

The answer (paradoxically) is the liberal's favorite solution: "education". But having co-opted the mass media, and the institutions of learning, they have innoculated the lower classes to everything but their own poisonous, Marxist siren song.

27 posted on 02/23/2009 6:35:45 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: machman

I put it right around the time of the assassination of the Gracchi, myself.

Still looking for Marius.


28 posted on 02/23/2009 6:36:46 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: Kaslin
In the World War II naval battle of Midway, if things had not happened just the way they did, at just the time they did, the American naval force would not only have lost, but could have been wiped out by the far larger Japanese fleet.

I've always had a sixth sense that Midway was the Hand of God. Same with the shootdown of Admiral Yamamoto, which was the finding of a needle in a haystack. Almost impossible.

Things are the way they are for a reason. And I fear God is tired of laughing at our silliness. He's gonna give us what we want.

"Just be careful what you ask for, you might not like it."

29 posted on 02/23/2009 6:37:37 PM PST by FlyVet
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To: dynachrome

It’s a sad thing that we have those in our society that enjoy drawing unemployment and lounging around. No doubt when benefits run out those are the ones that will cry the loudest.


30 posted on 02/23/2009 6:37:43 PM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: B.O. Plenty
The degeneration will only get worse if we cannot find a way to keep welfare deadbeats from voting.

There is no way to put the horses back in the barn.

The Founders gave fair warning and over the last 90 years we did exactly what they told us not to do.

And even when the left loses an election they steal it in broad daylight without consequence.

This will not be solved at the ballot box.

31 posted on 02/23/2009 6:37:52 PM PST by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: Kaslin

White guilt gave Rhodesia Zimbabwe, whose very name sounds barbaric to Western ears, it gave the world the post-colonial Africa, and its given us a clueless Chauncey Gardiner doofus, manipulated by his Communist handlers to turn this land into another Zimbabwe, or Argentina, if we’re lucky!


32 posted on 02/23/2009 6:37:58 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Philo-Junius

After Marius, then Sulla, then Civil War, chaos, and the Age of Caesars. The Roman Empire represented the first major transitional phase in the death of the Republic.

And our Republic is indeed slipping away day by day.

Panem et circenses.


33 posted on 02/23/2009 6:39:42 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: B.O. Plenty
ACORN goes around and picks up their vote....then gives them 10 bucks...and shazam....their vote is counted, and their enablers, the politicians who promise them the most free stuff, are elected time after time.

TENbucks?

Where YOU been??

I am quite sure that the 'voters' who get THOUSANDS of dollars worth of Welfare, Free Medical, School Lunches for their Kids, WIC for their bastard children, and Medicaid for their lazy, fat (gotten that way by Food Stamps) butts would sneer at a lousy $10 pushed their direction!

34 posted on 02/23/2009 6:41:14 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: george76

Sadly you couldn’t be more correct.


35 posted on 02/23/2009 6:43:34 PM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: smoothsailing

Yes, he nailed it again and thanks for the link, Smooth.


36 posted on 02/23/2009 6:44:29 PM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Kaslin
Does anyone imagine that we will care what anyone's paycheck is when we see an American city in radioactive ruins?

Yet the only serious obstacle to that happening is that the Israelis may disregard the lofty blather coming out of the White House and destroy Iran's nuclear facilities before the Iranian fanatics can destroy Israel.

To survive, America must be a staunch ally of Israel. That holds true for any Western way of life's survival.

Abandon Israel, abandon righteousness, reap strife and failure.

37 posted on 02/23/2009 6:45:50 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent.)
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To: jazusamo

Borrowed it from Thomas


38 posted on 02/23/2009 6:45:52 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Revolting cat!
I don't know what poll that was, but realclearpolitics has an average of major polls that says that 60% of us hate congress and the same amount think the country is going in the wrong direction. The Indo-Kenyan has a 65% approval rating, but that's because he really hasn't done anything. Everyone knows that congress and others behind the scene are pulling the strings these days (hence the low poll numbers).
39 posted on 02/23/2009 6:47:43 PM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: Kaslin

“The overwhelming military and naval expedition that Britain sent to New York to annihilate George Washington’s army was totally immobilized by a vast impenetrable fog that allowed the Americans to escape. That is how they ended up in Valley Forge.”

Uh, no. Unless you’re using the domino effect. The Brits sent their largest force ever to NYC in 1776, from which Washington deceived the Brits under cover of fog to get to Manhattan. They did cross into PA but it wasn’t Valley Forge.

Valley Forge wasn’t until after the Brits took over Philly in 1777, after more battle experience. VF was the winter of 1777-78.


40 posted on 02/23/2009 6:48:23 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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