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The elections are around the corner and I am very concerned that a democrat may win! This country has already suffered enough at the hands of democrats and if one is elected I'm afraid it is good-bye to the America we now know and love. Democrats, I fear, truly stand for very little. It is not social systems that make a country great but freedom to choose one's own path. If they get their way, we will become a 2 class system. Them and the rest of us! I probably stand alone in this belief but I strongly believe that we as a country would do well to study and observe countries older than us. Oh well, just my thoughts!
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Posted by sheilalpz on 2007-11-28 09:44:12 | Rating: | Views: 96
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Well it already is about us and them - 20% of the population controls more than 50% of the money. Their goal is to make sure that we never achieve what they have because it means less money for them. Sorry but I don't think that it is about Democrats and Republicans - they aren't really all that different. They both are focused on pleasing this upper 20% because that is who pays for their campaigns and a lot of other things. As long as these people and companies are in control of the government it is always going to be hard for us normal folk. That is where change needs to happen. Republicans want you to think it is Democrats that are the problem and Dems want you to think it is the Reps. That is part of the game.
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Posted by wrenbird
on 2007-11-28 10:15:00
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Also, as someone who lives in a country that is older than the US I have to say that many of the most successful countries in Europe have a strong social system. We pay high taxes and there is a lot of government involvement - I would be curious to know what models you were referring to?
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Posted by wrenbird
on 2007-11-28 10:17:41
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The Ant and the Grasshopper: 2 Scenarios
*OLD VERSION*:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
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*MODERN VERSION*:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, "its Not Easy Being Green."
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the gr oup singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grass hopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be very very careful how you vote.
It is said that the average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage
The more we depend on the government/others the worst off as individuals we will be!
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Posted by sheilalpz
on 2007-11-28 12:18:50
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But part of that bondage is believing the Republicans actually care at all about the individuals. They care about making more just as much as the next Democrat. That is part of the bondage is thinking that there is a difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. The bondage is the ignorance (that schools and institutions and political parties) have encouraged in us. If you want real change it isn't going to come from a measly election. There is clear manipulation in the fluctuation of the political parties in power. It always swings back and forth every few years to appease the crowds.
You want to talk about other countries - why don't we have more political parties in our system?
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Posted by wrenbird
on 2007-11-28 13:55:44
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wren, I think you have it exactly right.It's not going to be until we flip the script on these guys and stop fighting about which of the sold out fat rich white guys we're going to vote for is real change going to happen.And it's actually 80% of the wealth that20% control and it's getting worse. Where do you think all the money you spend at Lowe's and Wal-mart goes? It used to get recycled into the community but now it gets siphoned out. Anyway, keep screaming it. Maybe someday enough of us will get our heads screwed on straight,see past the hatred and prejudices and actually do something that's right. And that doesn't mean voting in a Dem. Or a Republican.
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Posted by skyler28
on 2007-12-17 17:01:21
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It all goes back to my original tag line – THROW THE BUMS OUT.
We need a complete change. The one thing, we MUST make sure of, is that we NEVER give one party complete comtrol of all three branches of the Legislative office.
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