I wonder Slip how much in common your 'Crumbling Nation' has with our 'Broken Britian' that I hear of all over the place?
I don't think that Britian is broken at all, in order to have something brake it has to be be whole or have been fixed in the first palce. Are there problems to be faced? Yes of course there are, but I don't think I can think of any point in history when problems didn't need to be faced. Let us have a good look at thios Britian that is broken and see what these people really mean by it. Immigration, unemployment, racial tensions, distrust of the politicical system. Well seems like the late 70's and early 80's all over again. Perhaps my Dad would have a differant era in mind and mayhap my Gran a differant one even from my Dad. Naaaa it all looks like business as normal to me, perhaps the tension is being felt by a new generation now we are adult, or perhaps people are actualy ready to make the place better? That would be nice, but ahhhhh full of the milk of human kindness, and willing to not call an idiot, an idiot today, nope seems I'm not in that mood this morning. People are strange, and it doesn't have to be when you're a stanger, people are just fuckin' strange. On 20 Nov, 14:54, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy > out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another > person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to > anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody > else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to > work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when > the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because > somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, > is about the end of any nation...You cannot multiply wealth by > dividing it.." Dr. Adrian Rogers > > Obviously our nation has been crumbling for some time. We've seen our > manufacturing giants fall and corporate outsourcing leave people > stranded. The government has become too large and dysfunctional and > impotent other than its ability to waste taxpayer dollars, 98 billion > in 2009. They could have given taxpayers thousands each to stimulate > the economy, but that would have been too obvious and too easy. > Instead they "take what we work for" and toss billions of taxpayer > monies, to Wall street, Banks, and the Auto industry with much of it > going to multi-million dollar bonuses to executives for doing > absolutely nothing. It is obvious that the government is no longer a > governing body for the people but merely a tool used by the wealthy > for the wealthy, an entity without a conscience. People have become > just cogs in the mechanism of operational finance, pawns in servitude > to the moguls in power. People have lost their jobs, homes, health > benefits, investments and more as simple collateral damage, while the > politicians are still gainfully employed and the wealthy are getting > the creme de la creme of the good life on the backs of the working > class. I'm a bit amazed at the complacency of the people who just get > slapped and turn the other cheek. > > I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our > liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow > private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by > inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will > grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until > their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers > conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and > restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. Thomas Jefferson > > And so it is, banks deposing masses of people from their dwellings > without compassion, just the enforcement of a mortgage agreement, one > which affords them the ability to earn multi-million dollar salaries > annually. I'm just dismayed at the sight of what has happened to this > once great country. I feel sold out. At this time in our history > with the day of Thanksgiving approaching and some asking what it is we > have to be thankful for, I can only look at my own small world in > order to be thankful but not without looking at the big picture, the > face of poverty around me, the pleas from local food banks and charity > organizations living in the shadows of great wealth. Are we not just > turkeys ourselves, bred for the feast? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" 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/minds-eye?hl=.
