Of ‘Collective Action’ and ‘Hope and Resolve’: Term No. 2 Begins
Before the balls begin today, Obama and Biden partied last night at an inaugural reception with a performance by Stevie Wonder.
“He’s just getting started,” Biden promised of his boss. “In the weeks and months ahead, we’re going to reduce gun violence here in America. We’re going to pass comprehensive immigration reform. And we’re going to put this nation’s economy on a sustainable path to the future.”
Obama acknowledged that many questioned his choice of Biden as his No. 2, but said “one decision I know was absolutely correct, absolutely spot on, was my choice of vice president.”
“All of you here understood and were committed to the basic notion that when we put our shoulders to the wheel of history, it moves,” Obama said. “It moves. It moves forward.”
The morning began at St. John’s Episcopal Church, where during the service a message was posted on Obama’s Twitter account with the initial signature indicating it was from the president and not his staff: “I’m honored and grateful that we have a chance to finish what we started. Our work begins today. Let’s go. -bo”
The Republican attendees on the steps of the Capitol included lawmakers obliged to be there, such as House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Eric Cantor (R-Va.). House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who ran on the unsuccessful GOP ticket, also posted a congratulatory message on his Facebook account.
“The president and I were political opponents. We had strong disagreements over the direction of the country—as we still do now. But today, we put those disagreements aside. Today, we remember what we share in common,” Ryan wrote. “…We may disagree on matters of policy. But today we remember why we take those matters so seriously—because we seek the public good. It’s our highest duty—one that we share—and one for which we’re grateful.”
“I’m happy to mark this historic occasion—for the president and for the country. And I look forward to tackling the big challenges ahead,” he added.
Ryan, though, was booed by many in the crowd when he appeared on the steps — egged on, it seems, by a Department of Justice attorney, Dan Freeman, who wrote on his Facebook page that he “just started the crowd booing when Paul Ryan came out.”
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) had a speaking role at the inauguration as vice-chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, introducing Sotomayor for the Biden swearing-in.
“The late Alex Haley, the author of Roots, lived his life by these six words: Find the good and praise it,” Alexander said. “Today we praise the American tradition of transferring or reaffirming immense power as we inaugurate the president of the United States.”
“We do this in a peaceful, orderly way,” Alexander continued. “There is no mob, no coup, no insurrection. This is a moment when millions stop and watch. A moment most of us always will remember.”
Other Republicans’ inaugural messages, though, were more pithy or nonexistent: “Congratulations, Mr. President,” tweeted Cantor. Boehner issued a message about Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but not about the inauguration as of this posting.
Some celebrated the day without mentioning the president by name. “Americans are truly privileged to live in a great nation, where we enjoy the freedom to democratically elect our leaders and to assemble freely as her leaders take office,” said Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.). “This is a privilege we cannot take lightly; so many men and women throughout our history have fought bravely and given selflessly for this great nation. Though we face many challenges, today is a day to rise above conflict and party, to simply celebrate the honor to be an American and to enjoy the ceremonial events surrounding this momentous occasion envisioned by our founding fathers.”
And yet others seized the opportunity to send a message of reformation to Obama.
“We can and must work together with simple reforms, smaller government, and protection of our freedoms to give America’s middle class the opportunity to prosper and live free,” said Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.).
“I congratulate President Obama for taking his second oath of office for the Presidency of the United States,” said conservative Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa). “To ‘preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States’ is a promise not to be taken lightly, and one that may require refreshing.
“In Iowa we understand that each new harvest season brings new crops, and as the Bible teaches, to everything there is a season,” King added. “With the presidential campaign behind us, a new season begins today. I encourage President Obama to look at this second term for new opportunities to uphold the rights enshrined in the Constitution, and to commit to representing the desires and dreams of the American people.”
Straight out of a 1930′s Norman Thomas speech
…”that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires COLLECTIVE ACTION.” As in, “we will collect all your guns”?
…and your 401Ks, IRAs, unclaimed bank accounts, unreported assets, etc…
This charade can only go on for so much longer.
Freedom is such an obtsacle to the common good, you know.
“Sustainable” – that’s a really scary word.
Funny thing: nobody, not even the Obama administration, ever applies the word “sustainable” to our level of government spending.
Perhaps that is the scariest thing of all.
“that America’s greatest strength lies not in might or wealth, but in the bonds we share with one another.”
If it’s greater than wealth, will Obama accept some of that as payment of taxes?
Lance Armstrong and Barack Obama have been engaged in a duel for lifetime membership in the Frequent Liars Club, that, unlike the NFL Championship game, is virtually non-covered in the press.
In fact, Lance and Barack have each used the press for their own fragrantly wicked purpose to silence the truth telling; trying to prevent the world from knowing what scum sleeps in their disrespectful beds.
Lance stooped so low as to have his press team characterize former female friends of Lance who long ago realized what a liar he is as psychotic whores. Not only that, but many of his former friends Lance steamrolled with slanderous lies simply for telling the truth about the dope. Some who jumped off the Lance lie band wagon Lance took to court and sued. Others he used his dirty money and influence to black ball out of the bike racing business until their went on food stamps.
On the other hand, Obama delights in calling his opponents everything from felons to enemies to murderers.
In Obama’s second term, the pipsqueak stands behind thug lawyers and thug union scabs as he continues his crusade to transform Hitler’s night of the long knives into a kind of vocal chord cutting party directed at fact and truth tellers by buying radio stations all over the nation; veer from the orthodoxy of Obama’s bastardized version of the truth and you’re targeted for radio elimination.
Fact is, Obama’s a totalitarian fascist that gives Lenin, Stalin and Heinrich Himmler a run for the dirty money when it comes to trying to silence the opposition.
Doubtless, Obama possesses the hate and venom to not just figuratively cut radio personality vocal chords, but to cut throats.
America has no idea what a Muslim extremist mad man Obama truly is. The things he supports should turn any stomach.
This one turns mine.
Obama revels in the slaughter of the late term abortion newborns who miraculously survive the procedure only to be thrown in the trash like garbage, an Obamacare protocol done in more hospitals than you’d think.
Needless to say, Obama is a hypocrite of the first order, especially when it comes to children, either aborting them or handing out thousands of true military assault rifles (Operation Fast and Furious) to Mexican drug cartels to be used in the machine gunning carnage, massacre, bloodbath of bullet riddled innocent men, women and children.
Then Obama uses another executive order of privilege to hide his dirty work.
Of course, Obama is not unaware of the protection weapons can afford. His daughters’ schools have more armed guards than math teachers while the average American’s kids aren’t good enough for that kind of real protection. Obama leaves millions upon millions of school children exposed to nuts who want to kill them by insanely and steadfastly opposing armed protection for six year olds. Some argue this makes Obama the insane one.
Not surprisingly, more and more, people are asking how a pathological fascist could be elected President of the United States.
Well, the number one answer is a corrupt press; a media that locks arms like the Nazis marched in lockstep as they fill the air and paper with the lies, deceit and corruption; with the Obama’s hate-America-first talking points.
Which include anything that Obama wants said or printed. Really, it’s press pathetic. Press gone crazy. If someday patriots invaded the New York Times and hung the traitors by the nearest yardarm I personally wouldn’t be surprised, for the damage to America these pukes inflict every day to the fabric of America is as incalculable as it is damnable.
Obama and his team of goons, gangsters, homeboys and gorillas conspire to shred the constitution, taking dead aim on amendments in the Bill of Rights they despise. The attack on the Catholic Church (first amendment) has largely been organized religion driven while the attack on the second amendment has largely been press led.
The looting of our treasury which closes the door on the American Dream for our children is detestable and disgraceful. The dependence on foreign oil that Obama’s non-drilling executive orders relegates us to could potentially cut off our nation at the knees.
Obama has oiled the wheels of our destruction.
Like Hitler, he’s fired every general who believed in laying it on the line for freedom. Like Hitler, Obama worships at the alter of America’s and England’s demise and destruction.
Yet, far too many Americans refuse to see him for the demonic figure he truly is. Evil incarnate.
Michelle, his nappy headed ho with the new wig, boasts an approval rating of 67% as she hides her 100% hate for America with lawyers who tell her what to say every single day.
Doing what’s good for them and bad for America is the Obama’s modus operandi and has been for years. Sadly, until the Obama machine is seen for its deep seated anti-American ethic, America is doomed to sink militarily, economically and every which way.
While England Slept was written in 1938.
Unless Americans wake up to the danger posed by the Muslim Extremist Moles residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. we are, like England was prior to 1944 when the United States saved the world from a bunch of other totalitarian goons, in a world of hurt.
Make the bum pay for trying to destroy America.
Soetero makes Armstrong look like a choir boy.
Thank you Rachel for providing us with a blueprint detailing how and why your side was defeated in the November election.
Other than that your depressing prattle was like your typical Adele song …
Cynical Wonder, can you give us a little more detail as to where Rachel is wrong in her analysis?
The American people rejected it is the point. Rachel is nothing more than racist white trash and it is everywhere in her rant.
If you can’t see that let me introduce you to her: trash meet trash.
No the American People Didn’t.
Half (or precisely just bareley over half, and less than in 2008) of the American Poeple rejected it.
But facts like that don’t set well with liberals, so they just pretend it was a unanomous vote.
Here, Cynical Wonder…an analysis of what things look like from our side of the fence.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/21/Second-Inaugural-Address-Obama-Declares-War-on-Liberty-As-We-Know-It
(I’m not a conservative. Just ask these folks. But, I’m damn sure not on your side…)
Also see my comment ^above^ for additional info.
You folks on the left have officially screwed the pooch…and are too ignorant and arrogant to see what you’ve done.
Breitbart? LOL! Just like you guys are now back to relying on Gallup to say President Obama’s approval is down. President Romney would agree with you! But please, by all means do continue to go to those wells. Eventually you will die of thirst …
I was on the road to Damascus, the tell Assad that he is doing a great job, when I was struck blind.
As I lay writhing on the road, I realized how very wrong and presumptuous I have been.
I am unworthy. I was always unworthy. What I know cannot provide an adequate urine sample for a physician who specializes in treating bedbugs, which is what I am – a disgusting bedbud from a long line of abhorrent bloodsucking insects, barely worthy of the effort of being crushed.
So please do not crush me. I need to be punished. By all of you. In your turn. Killing me would deprive the next person of that pleasure and privilege.
Please do not kill me, even though I deserve it.
Rachel, beautifully stated! A great big DITTO here!
…that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. For the American people can no more meet the demands of today’s world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias,” he said.
Is that a variation on “You didn’t build that” ?
“We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate,” Obama said as he stood in the wintry cold atop a giant makeshift platform on the Capitol steps overlooking the National Mall.
Like when you told Hispanics to vote and “punish their enemies” ? That sort of name calling ?
Gobbledlygook.
I congratulate my President on winning his second term of office. History will note that America twice elected a black man to the highest office in our country. This gives real hope to every young person, in every land. They see that there are no real barriers to advancement in the USA, by any one, a rare condition. No major nation has ever done this.
He spoke eloquent words. However, if one aligns his conduct over the last four years, with his new words, it is most difficult to be optimistic over the future of the USA.
His defacto energy policy has crippled nuclear energy by abandoning the much needed spent fuel repository, Yucca Mountain, a unending pogrom on carbon combustion, while pushing a national conversion to alternate energy technologies which are inherently more expensive, and have inherent technical limitations. His policies enriched a very few, who contribute heavily to his campaign, while running up massive debts, but produce very little wealth.
He pushes useless policies on gun control, while his DoJ-ATF segment has exploded with reported malfeasance at the highest levels. He has withheld thousands of DoJ documents from lawful Congressional demand, on his claim of Executive privilege. However, his claim fails on two legal criteria: The documents must flow for his direct involvement which he says never happened, and they hold prima facie evidence of criminal activity within the government, the deliberate transfer of weapons to Mexican killers. Either would defeat Executive privilege.
The American people begin a long conflicted four years. These states are not united, and much of the division was caused by him. When will he effectively lead?
When will he lead? When those dam obstructionist Republicans quit asking questions, demanding accountability, and blathering about compromise, and just LET HIM HAVE HIS WAY!
We’ve had 4 long arduous years of unemployment & rocketing numbers of food stamp and disability participants.
We’ve had egregious spending with literally nothing to show for it.
We had Greek columns and claims about rising seas and endless vapid speeches to the faithful from an individual who just today took issue issue with “spectacle”.
We’ve had a weak man who only gets his blood and cojones up when engendering class warfare & identity politics.
An individual who spent months traveling the world giving speeches faulting his own country.
Waiting for Obama to “effectively lead” is like Waiting for Godot.
Your enemy is NOT Obama! Your enemy is the constitution that allowed for Obama to become president!
How contorted, but thanks for outing yourself as anti-USC.
Obama and his followers have on many occassions let us know their enemies are. Its us. Looking forward for the blood to spill?
All you historian elites are rather funny! Our nation has been here several times before and overcome without dividing the nations peoples by a bunch of nuts. When you come up with a genuine plan for fixing something that a majority of voters will buy into and vote for, then you have no place to point but at yourselves. The nation has nothinbg to fear in that all you radicals spewing your guns and war against the government is nothing more than a word of empty words. Probably all to fat and lazy to get a beer for yourself much less march on the government. If I’m wrong then damnit, blow yer bugle and git to marchin!
Sorry I cannot link to your comment Zeke.
Your posts I usually scroll over as they are mostly tripe however I will contribute it all as “youthful ignorance” for your sake. How old are you by the way?
“All you historian elites are rather funny! Our nation has been here several times before and overcome without dividing the nations peoples by a bunch of nuts.”
Our nation has been here several times? Do elaborate and provide examples and sources please.
“When you come up with a genuine plan for fixing something that a majority of voters will buy into and vote for, then you have no place to point but at yourselves.”
My plan, both personal and national, “don’t spend more than you earn.” The voters don’t need to “buy it” as they will feel consequences very shotly.
“The nation has nothinbg to fear in that all you radicals spewing your guns and war against the government is nothing more than a word of empty words. Probably all to fat and lazy to get a beer for yourself much less march on the government.”
Love it Zeke! You have absolutely no idea who we are. Heh.
See you on the flip side.
“They see that there are no real barriers to advancement in the USA, by any one, a rare condition. No major nation has ever done this.”
I dont think you will find one Leftwinger or Identity Politics minority espousing that POV. Not even the President himself, as we heard today in his speech.
Jeebus effiin xmas, I can’t even stand reading the transcript!
PODESTA: OBAMA CAN USE ‘ARMED FORCES’ TO PUSH PROGRESSIVE AGENDA Nov. 18, 2010 Jonathon M. Seidl
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2010/11/18/podesta-obama-can-use-armed-forces-to-push-progressive-agenda/
Folks in these parts have a difficult row to hoe. In getting in a bother over “You didn’t build that,” Conservatives are attempting to fight not merely political opponents but biology. Thing is, we’re social animals. Individual human beings really can’t do squat. It’s just a fact. Why you want to think of yourselves as possums wandering alone in the wilderness beats me. I guess denying the nature of things counts as an admirable existential protest.
Poor ole folks.
But your anal-ysis from “on high” will save us.
Individual human beings really can’t do squat.
I think more than a few individuals, historically and in real time, might disagree with you.
It is, however, very reasonable to assume that statists like Barack and sundry partners in thought like the newly elected Senator from Massachusetts, Lizzie the 1/32 Cherokee liar, don’t think individual human beings can do squat without the beneficent aid of VBG, very BIG government.
Barry wouldn’t have made it without the artificiality of Affirmative Action. Lizzie lied her way onto the Harvard faculty.
Boggles the mind, Harrison, how such an all around self-proclaimed smart guy like you fails to see through this prétendeur of a president.
… in a vat of your own piss.
You fool! You have no idea what you’ve started.
I have, for over a decade, hoped that we could avoid our fate as a nation. I sought answers everywhere, and from six thousand years of known history. In the end, this fate is unavoidable. All I could do was to mitigate the damage and give men a barely possible chance to achieve their freedom when it was done.
With men like you in the mix, that fate is now, absolutely, unavoidable.
You’ve delcared war against the right. Well, now, they are *finally* angry…and that anger will not be sated by fools like you.
You’ve started a war, and the President has openly declared that war in his recent speech:
“Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society’s ills can be cured through government alone.
But we have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.”
Your own foolsihness has brought this to us all. …and it is, in the end, a war you simply cannot win. The blood is now on your hands.
But you won’t listen to these or any other words. You think there’s nothing the right can do? Collectve action? Imagine a hundred million angry conservative and Americans with guns in their hands.
You, and others like you, have brought us to this point in history. Remember these words. Remember them well. The death and destruction to come will be on your heads.
You’re giving me an awful lot of credit. I don’t think I could meaningfully contribute to the destruction of Western Civilization even it that were my intention. My superpowers only extend to an ability to effortlessly reduce a bunch of right wingers to sputtering incoherence.
You know there is a serious point beneath all this nonsense. Conservatives used to recognize and indeed celebrate the social nature of our kind. The philosophically absurd hyperindividualism of the Randians would have been incomprehensible to them. There’s also something a little creepy about treating the idealized business man as a kind of later day Sun King from whom all blessings flow: billionaire as free-market version of Fearless Leader.
Have some more Kool Aid.
But you drank down the entire vat, every last drop, during what you call your “education”.
Got no room left in there for any original “thought”
This, of course, comes with the complete denial from all Leftrolls that Barack Obama himself _IS_ the present day Sun King, “from who all blessings flow”, as you yourself said, handing said so-called “blessings” all out to his favored voting blocs with money that we don’t have.
Though in the end, he’s little more than a Chicago street-level crack pusher, and once even he knows the money can’t be spent anymore, can and will tighten the yoke around the necks of “his people”. Of course, first it will be the ones who didn’t vote for him, Red Meat and Blood in the water for you Progressives who want to see your “enemies” suffer and die. But then he will have to turn the Power of The State against all of you as well, because he didn’t just sell your enemies out to the likes of China and the Sauds.
He sold you out too. Big Labor, Single Women, LBGT, “Green Energy”, College-Age True Progressive Believers. He’s already spent all your money and sold you out, too.
I guess you don’t know how delusional you sound. I don’t mean that it is crazy to criticize the President and his policies; but outside of this playground, portraying him as some sort of monster is not going to work because the narrative you’re selling just isn’t credible to the majority of Americans. Obama isn’t a radical unless FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower were also radicals. He’s the elected leader of a democratic republic, and he conducts himself that way. George Bush, cod piece bedecked hero of the aircraft carrier spectacle, was much more reminiscent of Louis XIV than Obama will ever be. Conservatives are going to have to learn how to deal with a widely respected Obama in much the same way that liberals had to learn to deal with a widely respected Ronald Reagan.
“I guess you don’t know how delusional you sound.”
To Jim Harrison: Once again I have to step in and let you know that people on the other side think that you are the delusional one. So keep ignoring all of our sound arguments against big government and extreme Statism and keep making ad hominem attacks and regurgitating the talking points that you have been fed. One day your descendants will curse you for your own delusional support of this collectivist insanity.
We’re plenty social right up until you start insisting that means we’re to act like a bunch of hive insects because that’s the only way a collective society could ever work.
When are you going to wake up to reality? Your enemy is not Obama or democrats! Your enemy is the constitution which allowed for Obama or any democrat to become president!
This gentleman knows from whence he speaks. As a student of history for the last 50 years, I can attest that every fact he states is true. Sadly, the time for talk has passed. There is only so just so much verbal jousting that can occur before it escalates into action. I have feared the coming of unresolved conflict and done all I could to avoid it by researching, writing and trying to make the facts available to those who cared to have them. But, as Thomas Paine so wisely stated,
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” ~ T. Paine
And your definition of ‘reason’ is? Got to love the word doctor games some adults like to play! May I suggest that ‘independent’ thinkers learn how to reason. Those who are spoon-fed thinkers have no clue what to reason is.
This man knows from whence he speaks.
Please don’t waste your time and energy on the likes of Jim Harrishmuck. He has venomous opinions on every topic, even ones he knows nothing about. He is simply too ignorant to understand how ignorant he is. However, he thinks he knows everything about everything and thinks he has the solution to all of the world’s problems. The guy is what Thomas Sowell might call a self-anointed messiah. He believes that civilized and successful people and countries are intrinsically evil and he has a vicious hatred of Jews and Israel. His posts are often incoherent ramblings. He evades questions, he tells outright lies and he throws tantrums. Please don’t waste your time and energy on this immature, malignant, narcissistic, attention-starved, anti-Semitic demagogue.
I want to apologize to everyone here at PJMedia for being such a self-righteous, ignorant, and rude jerk.
I was raised wrong. All wrong. By smug, self-satisfied parents who taught me that I was entitled to everything I ever wanted, and for free. Because that’s what rich conservatives are here for, to pay for my lifestyle.
I would say that you will have to forgive me, but no one has to forgive anyone for anything, so I will not be so arrogant as to make that statement.
In conclusion, I am now going to hang myself, from a piano wire, with a short drop, so my pain will be adequate punishment for all of my stupidity and chronic assholiscness.
Please find it in your hearts to forgive me.
I’M JUST PRANKIN’ YA’S. I’M STILL A RAGING ASSHOLE.
chronic assholiscness.
That’s assholeryness.
Geez, can’t even get that right.
Please pre-plan and set up a webcam, and make sure there is a youtube video link.
And if you would like to see that the “base” wants, see here: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/21/cbs-political-director-urges-obama-to-go-for-throat-gop-to-cement-legacy/
I’ve been part of one big collective sigh.
Published on Jan 21, 2013 The United States is a nation in its death throes, on the path to total collapse, in this video we’re going to explain why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fpEwul07ps
Before November I commented here a number of times that I was concerned we would not win. My feeling was that we do not have a compelling message for lazy losers; we only have one for hard-working winners. Ratios did the rest.
The reaction here as you will recall was that it would be just short of a landslide for Romney.
We can forgive ourselves for drinking our own Kool-aid; everyone does.
Unfortunately, my inner dowsing rod says that we have not only lost the battle, we have lost the war. And our messaging was bad not because of the message but because we clearly do not connect with the audience.
It brings the question of “Who are Americans now?” Who has strayed away from America… us or them? Our message, that we believe to be hopeful and positive, is rebuked.
It was our message that the country grew on. Our work ethic, our liberty and our vision. What is it about these things that now cause people to turn away?
If we were a business we’d gather the focus groups, get test messages out to the market and find out where our weaknesses are. But since we’re a political party we’re expected to stand fast and wait for the tide to change.
In our focus groups we’d discover that half the population are of below-average IQ. That group is locked up by Dems, I assume because we have nothing to sell them.
Do we have to pander to win? We do need to win.
It’s there country now.
This must be understood. Conservatives are the outsiders, the counterculturalists. Christian pastors are disinvited for their Christian beliefs. Homos are invited for their homosexual practices.
This is the reality of all our institutions, including the military and private sector corporations.
Pandering won’t work although there are certain things about our message that do resonate. For example, if you haven’t ever, watch a science fiction series called Firefly. It’s astounding the number of embedded conservative/libertarian messages about freedom, rugged individualism and the dangers of tyrannical governemnt that are in it. The show only lasted for one season on Fox’s death slot and was shown out of order, and yet, it spawned such a cult following that it managed to get its own major motion picture Serenity, and the following persists today. I’ve had liberal friends who LOVE this show get frothing angry at me when I point out that all the things they so love about it are inherently conservative/libertarian in nature and they can’t refute it.
This is the sort of thing we need to do – write smart series that resonate, get them aired, retake the culture one small step at a time.
But we don’t have the time.
“Collective.” Western Reforestatiom Co-op, based in Vancouver, had collectives. I planted trees with them ome year, from the BC coast to the nortern interior. I noticed the true believerrs did most of the work in the kitchen, equopment, and other collectives. Most planters get paid by the tree or the hectare. We got paid according to the daily average. Now Western had more high ballers than usual. That meant a medium baller like me got paid better than I had when I worked for Talking Tree. My best day I planted 1850 trees, small pines on very easy ground. Because the high ballers went nuts on that cut block, I was paid for 2300 trees lke everyone else. Smell a problem? The high ballers could claim more pay, but they didn’t because they “believed in the co-op” (to a point.) Several high ballers quit that fall and became capitalist contractors. I left, too, for different reasons. Being Marxists, they didn’t value integrity. In the Grizzly country north of Revelstoke that spring, a hungry bear smelled the fertilizer and destroyed a few boxes of trees. It never occured to them to tell the Forest Service, they adjusted the books and pretended to have planted those trees, stealing a little money from the people of British Columbia. That fall, we were on a contract we under bid and fell behind in production. They burned a bunch of trees in the wood stove in the cook tent. I got out my tape and began measuring the pole frames of the camp’s tents which were well designed and fast to put up. They laughed, knowing I was going to try contracting, a tough gamble. But I had a good stake after working for them, UI would get us through the winter, and most important, I had gained a good eye for the average number of trees a good crew would plant in a day in all kinds of ground all over the province, essential for making competitive bids on contracts. Western was the only successful collective planting co-op I knew of. A lot had sprouted up for one seaso, but they couldn’t keep high ballers. The famous “UI Ski Team” at Whistler were all high ballers. They avoided collectives.
“I call upon all Americans to join together in courage, in compassion, and in purpose to more fully realize the eternal promises of our founding and the more perfect Union that must remain ever within our reach.”
So long as special interest extremists of partisan politics continue to perpetuate dividing the nation people as enemies of one another, there is no hope for such a message coming to fruition.
I have come to think that boths political extremist groups and their minion followers share motives to destroy America rather than work together to save it!
Mz. Johnson, your …standards of comport on your little portion of PJM leave something to be desired. You allow the troll(s) say anything they wish – lies, defamation and libels – including direct and personal insults…while deleting responses to said troll(s)? You’re making a habit out of that behavior, dear. Applying the rules to one party while holding another party to a different standard.
There’s nothing libertarian about any of that sort of behavior on your part. Nothing at all.
Ron Paul: Fiat Money Is NOT Wealth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX5dPF41WK0
@ Buckeye Abroad up #7 way
Hey kiddo! Sorry to hear you violated your code of ethics in reading and responding to my comments. I heard that some are always tempted by the fruit they pass by.
You say you would like to know my age? Not certain why that is of import to you but I supose you may have a different code of ethics for some ages and not some others. 11/4/34
Surely, you are educated well enough to look up the historical economic data that supports my claims of having been there before. Surely, you are educated enough to look up the historical social and politcal movements that supports my claims of having been there before. For what aren’t appropriately addressed in detail on line, I’m simply to old and too tired to copy and transfer from my library to word and then copy and paste on some durn internet site for the benefit of someone brain washed by self serving radical thinkers.