Above are some prime examples of why we've arrived where we are today. There a couple of other wise things that have been said in the past that are too oft ignored today. They are as follows:
" A nation divided cannot long endure" said by Honest Abe in his Gettysburg Address I believe and
"Divide and conquer" I don't really know who said that but it still holds true.
Each faction zealously pursues their own interests paying no attention to the needs of the others, all the while our greedy Government does everything in their power to further split us into even more self-centered factions. Liken it to the biblical Tower of Babel where the one language was split into many thereby confusing all, or even to a more modern movie "Cool Hand Luke" where the warden said " what we have here is a failure to communicate".
Our Government easily swayed by contributions & sweetheart deals turn their backs on those who elected them & towards those who offer bribes. They promise those they call the poor, who are for the most, simply unwilling to exert the effort necessary to succeed, free this, free that in return for their undying loyalty. They steal from the ones who contribute to give to those who don't. They do this so as to control each. We blindly go along because today they offer a "free" to this faction, tomorrow to that faction, & the next day to yet another. No one seems to realize that each is simply getting what was stolen the day before returned to them in another form (minus the Government's vigorish of course) Prime example is demostrated above when it was stated, to wit: "I am happy my Congressman" Why is that so? I submit that it is because, at some point, he got something done that benefited you. It makes no difference if that was the only thing he accomplished, or how many others not from your district paid for that particular earmark that benefited you, or that even your individual tax rate may have been increased because of it. The only thing you recognize is that he got you something for nothing.
People fail to recognize that the Government has no income, they make no product to sell, no service to perform, nothing-nada-zilch. The only things they can do to raise money is to print it thereby lowering its value, borrow it thereby not only lowering its value but since it is borrowed from foreign interests, it puts our country's very future in jeopardy, or by stealing it from us in the form of higher taxes.
It would behoove ( Gotta love that word) us to join together, determine the needs of all, & help each other on a personal level without Government interference, not with free money, free housing, or free anything else other than education, job training with the jobs to accompany that training, with some child daycare thrown in to allow those folks to go to work that will allow those who truly want to improve their standards and those who don't to be allowed to fail & suffer the result of that laziness.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 9:15:00 AM
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