> I have a hunch that your words are lies. When confronted with an uncomfortable truth, attack the messenger. > > > > How is > > > teaching Washington not propaganda? > > > How is it propaganda? > > Dah!!! > > History is not a series of facts.
Dah!!! LOL > > > > > > Courses in Western Civilization are not only omitted, they are even > > > > frowned upon. > What is needed is to teach children HOW to think, not ram xxxx down > their throats so that they bow down to the dominant ideology. > Read Dewey - one of the better Americans of the 20thC. So who gets to decide how people SHOULD think? People can decide that for themselves. Propagandists do not accept that. By the way, the dominant ideology in US government-run schools is far left liberalism. > > Most of the people you mention are not net tax consumers. > > They provide a service. > > They ALL consume tax revenue completely. These are the people to which > you refer. > If they are not then please tell me who EXACTLY are you talking about! We have in the USA, millions upon millions of people who do no work of any sort, but receive government funds. In addition, there are 10-20 million illegal aliens who do work, but pay no taxes, and consume social services on a scale that has, for example, bankrupted hospitals, overcrowded our schools, and filled our prisons with thousands of violent felons. Thousands of American citizens have been robbed, raped, and even murdered, by these miscreants. > > With national debt at over 1,000,000,000,000 (= trillion) dollars and > > growing, we are becoming more Greek every day. > > It's worse than you think. You are in hoc to China by 3 trillions > alone. > But being in debt is not a Greek quality you might as well say you are > becoming British or Mexican. Greece is simply the tip of the iceberg. What makes Greece more noticeable is the riots. Thousands of Greeks are demanding that their exorbidant subsidies continue. They are utterly disinterested in the facts. And the facts are that such profligacy on the part of government must ultimately end in ruin and collapse. The Titanic is sinking, and the passengers are demanding better room service. > The government did not ORDER them to do anything. Bush and his friends > made sure that lending rules were relaxed so that him and his close > friends could make a killing. You have it utterly backwards. Republican lawmakers constatntly sounded the warnings of impending collapse of the mortgage market. But the Democrats were the majority in congress. The banks were commanded by the senate and House to stop discriminating against poor people. Chris Dodd and Barney Frank (liberal democrats) led the charge. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the two quasi-government entities that saturated the market with mortgages, all with government-backed guarantees to the banks. The quasi-government administrators of these fatal loans made tens of millions of dollars in commission, and then quietly dropped out of the picture when the market collapsed. Bush's sin was to bail out these worthless loans, and to expand government spending to the point of bankruptcy. Obama has carried on the tradition in an enhanced fashion. > > > > > The difference next time will be that there is no one to bail out the > > > > west. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
