My friend Dan Henninger has a great idea. While Barack Obama does everything he can to make the United States more like Europe, Republicans ought to make it clear to the public that they represent the “We’re-Not-Europe” party.
We’re not Europe. That means (for example):
- We don’t think that all wealth really belongs to the government, which may (or then again may not) let us have a little for our own prerogative from time to time.
- We don’t believe that taxes should be as high as possible, and then a little bit higher.
- We don’t rely on another country to provide (and pay for) our defense for decades on end and then entertain ourselves bad-mouthing that country for being a nasty, hegemonic power.
- We don’t think individual initiative and hard work are atavistic urges that should wither and die when the socialist paradise takes root.
- We don’t think that “the government knows best” is a good motto for a healthy society.
We’re not Europe. Or are we? If B. Obama gets his way, the U.S. will continue down the road of economic profligacy, increasing state control, anemic national defense, and an ever deepening habit of dependency.
Here’s the irony: even as Barack Obama hastens to cement our embrace of socialism, there are many in Europe who seem tempted to join the We’re Not Europe Party. “Europe,” Angela Merkel acknowledged, is in a “very, very serious situation.” The continent’s form of Monopoly money, the euro, is in free-fall. Last week, Nicolas Sarkozy threatened to pull France out of the euro all together. He’d better hurry: the word on the street, as one market analyst put it, is that “the euro is doomed.”
Actually, I’ve thought that ever since the make-believe currency came on line in 2002. How can you have a single currency for different sovereign nations? For an economic powerhouse like Germany and a lazy backwater like Greece?
You can’t. Well, you can try. But then you wind up where we are now: crisis-time (which also means panic-time) all around. Here’s a question: what if, after having scraped together $1 trillion in loan guarantees for the Glory That Was Greece, Europe discovers that Greece was only the tip of the iceberg? What then? Where is the second trillion going to come from?
The EU is another failed experiment; socialists, particularly the elite intelligentsia, have bungled matters yet again.
Still, President 0.0 and his elite intelligentsia is hell-bent on trying the experiment over here.
Couldn’t agree more –if the definition of insanity is engaging in the same failed behavior over and over again expecting different results-then the U.S. is there…. Socialism has never worked anywhere -ever. Even Sweden (a socialist country)has admitted it hasn’t worked– it took them less than a century to completely wipe out their per capita income and wealth through taxation and entitlements -and Sweden is now trying (recently elected a new president) to reverse the damage(through limited government etc.)and a return to capitalism. I hope we don’t destroy ourselves-before we smarten up—but make no mistake about Obama and the leftists-they are not going to stop-unless they get stopped-at the ballot box hopefully. Goggle -the Cloward/Piven strategy–and I don’t care if you’re a lib or a right wing Constitutionalist-unless you are one of those sicko freaks that hate the U.S.A. and our freedoms-it ought to scare the hell out of you.
Why didn’t I think of that? I am envious. Dan Henninger is right on the mark in encouraging the Republicans to campaign as the “We’re-Not-Europe” party. That’s not just good advice—but excellent advice. It’s a theme that could very well guarantee a capture of minimally ninety House seats in November.
I like that idea, though I don’t care what party does it as long as they believe it and get behind it! I question whether most in Congress (Red or Blue) really would give such a thing more then lip service.
The Party of No … the Party of Not – it’s still the Party of Nuts!
It’s still the party that over the many years has kept you from living on the gruel and mush of grey socialism.
It is either going to be the party of “We are not Europe” or I fear we will be a nation of blood or disintergration
After subsisting on once-daily rations of boiled cabbage soup, the boy will be wishing for a socialism both competent and kind enough to offer him gruel and mush.
His remark did brush up against one thing worth considering: “no” lacks appeal to the forward-thinking American character. (That’s why disguising statism as “progressive” succeeds in duping so many young Americans.)
The problem with magical thinking is, there’s really no such thing as magic.
Joseph: Quick retorts aside, could you tell us the “party of no” what happens here when the work force decreases to less than 45% and the entitlement force grows to over 55%? What happens when, because of ever increasing taxation, unionization, regulation and litigation more companies move overseas, and then the the percentage of our GDP from manufacturing falls to less than 20%? How many more examples of failed socialism do you need to see that capitalism IS the only means of economy for a nation to exist and prosper?
If your blind obsequiousness to socialism is so complete then you’re either a drone or simple minded.
Such a finely honed argument. You’ve convinced me completely.
The Greeks screwed the welfare pooch big time when they entered the Eurozone. Instead of checking themselves into the wing of the Betty Ford Clinic designed for profligate entitlement-oholics, they went on a raging binge. This is the hangover. Instead of spending the morning after avoiding sunlight and promising the pantheon of deities that they’ll never do it again, the instincts of a frighteningly large minority of the Greeks are to turn their booze stained shirt inside-out, splash some cologne on to cover last night’s excesses, and to keep the party going. Let’s hope we can learn from their example instead of following them off the cliff.
Say what you will about the “Party of Nuts”. The Senate primary election win of Rand Paul in Kentucky proves what I’ve been saying for many months – there are many supporters of the Tea Party sitting on the sidelines – people who do not get involved in politics much unless it is to contribute to someone that resonates with their core beliefs. But most importantly – THEY VOTE.
The Tea Party is like an iceberg. Most of it is hidden – unlike the vocal and vociferous bunch that has put Obama in office. You are all there is.
Feeling rather lonely?
Actually, we are the party of HELL NO! You may quote me on that. I would like you also to know that I’m a teacher who spends his days telling a lot spoiled liberal brats the same thing: No! I do this because their parents never learned the word. NO! And I mean it when I say it.
I also enjoy rewriting the lyrics to various pieces of well-known music. Try this one from the Hallelujah Chorus: No, no, no, no! No, no, no no! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Works nice, no?
And this one from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves: Hi ho, hi no, no, no, no, no, no, no, hi no, hi no, no, no, no, no, hi no, hi no . . .
See you on election day, fool.
Liberalism: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Roger: You may be heartened to learn that Italy is having its first Tea Party. Details are here:
ITALY’S FIRST TEA PARTY
“On May 20, 2010, from 21.00 at the Council Chamber of Circoscrizione Centro of Prato, there will be the first Italian Tea Party. It’s theme: “Free Italy from tax dictatorship.”
I will be posting more on this event tomorrow. Meanwhile, Americans can lend support via Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=295115441526
One of the best aspects is that Americans are utilizing the Google Translate feature to dialog directly with their American counterparts (I was excited to learn how to do this yesterday: Go to http://translate.google.com/, upload the website or text, select Italian, and hit the translate key).
In a world where Italians stage Tea Parties and Saudi women beat up the morality police, anything is possible.
Europe reminds me of the proverbial jobless teenager who lives rent-free with his parents while badmouthing them behind their backs.
you are right
I dont want europe to be europe
Heck, the europeans were not asked. When they were asked, the people said no. Turns out the people were much wiser then the oh-so-bright politicians.
Your so right that the European enlightened elite, asked and got the wrong answer of the unwashed masses. The second time they learned not to ask, instead they deemed and imposed. Our own elites did the same with healthcare in the House of Reps. We had better be prepared to continue pushing back until the American elites get the message that we won’t be Europeans and go silently where they direct.
Expanding the topic to an historical foundation we may read that the Revolutionary War had a similiar division of opinion. There were many then that wanted to reconcile with King George, name Washington as king, and otherwise work with a government based on royalty and peasants. The immigrants to the new world were inculturated to that co-dependency of nobles, lords, landowners, and their previous servitude.
The independent and self motivated ones wanted their own land and own rules, and greatly disrespected royalty. Therein was born a new nation and the distinctive Yankee character.
Even today, there are populations of Americans who would bow, idolize, and mindlessly obey the trends and wishes of whomever they might hold as their superiors. These may be the population who wants to go back to old European ways. There are others who would hold no man superior to themselves and insist on their own consule of opinion. Perhaps the American Revolution is still being fought for the freedoms of independent thought and character.
Excellent idea. May I also suggest that Republicans campaign as the party of American exceptionalism? No apologies, no bowing.
Didn’t we fight a war to make this point?
If we were Europe, why would they need us as the anchor of NATO? And with Obama’s spending, how much longer can we afford to keep them as dependents?
This is a good idea. It is a good sign that it annoys nuts like 4. Joseph. Another good idea is to refresh our Declaration of Independence (see usdissidence.com).
Like a gambler or addict need not get his/her act together so long as some rescurer will pay off the bookie or dealer, so Greece has no need to change course. So far, begging is working. And begging is EASIER than working.
The question is not IF there will be another demand on the German pocket – the question is when.
Why no mention of Daniel Hannan?
As long as the dangers of concentrating too much power in Bruxelles are communicated, stigmatizing Europe for what is old fashioned insecurity and power plays (which is known all over the world) repeats mistakes made by others.
A question on a related phenomenon: Why is it that the predictable always arrives as a surprise?
Having spent the last 11 years working in UK & Spain, I can not for the life of me understand what our elites find worthy of emulating. We rush towards them with reckless abandon just at the time that they are beginning to realize that their model does not work.
Misery loves company. And europe is keeping it’s mouth shut. Despite the fact that it knows that it is failing collectively and individually. Why? The first 3 words? I don’t believe so. All over the world now, people want to abandon the failing model and create a new one based on the same old model… only including the U.S. Why? I may not be able to run a Fast Fourier Transform any more (if I ever could) but something in this equation doesn’t add up.
There was similar forum on RCP which posed the question, “How much should the gov’t spend?”
My answer was: 90% of what it derives in tax revenue and no more, the remaining 10% being used to pay off public debt, and when that is paid off to pay for fixed infrastructure.
All of this beg the question, “What is the job of the State?”
My answer was that the job of the state is, in the “Roman” sense, to build roads and provide for the physical defense. The job of the state is NOT to provide services.
Can you also do anything to make Europe a little bit less Europe?
I am German and I love my country, but it`s a shame what it has become – and most of the other countries in Europe either.
May be the best left long ago to settle for the U.S. and after two wars and socialist totalitarianism the only cause left for Europe is becoming a museum of history.
Political and economical alignment, the loss of individual liberties and freedom rights (like for example religious freedom), diversity being regarded as an execrable act of denial of solidarity: That`s what the situation in Europe is all about.
I wish you all the luck and all success in the world for your resistance to all this. God bless you and God bless the U.S.A.!
Europe bears ever closer comparison to The City of Brass.
Kipling would have wept.
Let me see… the “We’re Not Europe” Party. Here’s the platform…
1. Taxes should be optional for corporations and high income individuals.
2. Taxes should be reduced or eliminated, regardless of fiscal consequences.
3. Defense spending should never be criticized – ever.
4. Desperation and starvation are good motivators for the underclass – they should be allowed to flourish.
5. Government should serve corporations and the wealthy – any deviation from this plan should be fought with relish.
Supporting corporations and the wealthy is par for the course. You can call it whatever you like – the GOP is still the party of Greed Over Parity.
Peace.
DS
Why not check out how many revenue streams there are which legitimately are viewed as revenue by government.
I don’t see people who don’t pay income tax, because they make less than what is the minimum to pay income tax, I don’t line ups of them buying Lear jets.
Expecting ignorance by others, so that you can justify yourself, is risky.
I don’t think anyone in the republican party has ever suggested taxes be voluntary or exempt the rich. Just that they be applied fairly and used for the common good, i.e. roads, common defense, care for the truly poor.
How many jobs are created by poor people on the government dole?
I’m not sure what your defense spending comment even means. $800 hammers have been criticized by conservatives. If you mean we spend too much on defense, maybe you should tell your congressman to not send the hospital ship to Haiti after the next earthquake or and a Carrier to Indonesia after the next tsunami, or the SEALs to Somalia the next time pirates steal one of our ships. Or the next time someone from shithiolistan kills 3000 Americans we can take the Clinton approach and launch a couple of missles into the desert and call it good.
Starvation and desperation is a motivator. It’s called responsibility, self determination and capitalism. Food stamps, AFDC etc etc are all programs that restrict dependence.
Nice strawman, David S. Name one serious Republican that has advocated policies anywhere near what you outlined. If you really think those things are what Republicans believe, you are completely clueless. Why don’t you actually come up with a coherent argument for your side, instead of tilting at windmills? I’d love to hear from you 1) how socialism is superior economically, and 2) how socialism advances freedom and improves people lives. Can you name one country where it has actually worked? I don’t think so. Sweden? Sorry, Sweden has actually reversed a lot of their policies, when it became clear that their economy was stagnating. So David, do you have anything to say, other than snark? Let’s hear it.
Name one serious Republican that has advocated policies anywhere near what you outlined.
Perhaps you missed the cuts to estate taxes, or the insanely low tax burdens of Exxon, General Electric and their ilk?
Isn’t there something wrong when unemployed people are paying more US income tax than a corporation that had profits of $45,000,000,000 for the year?
Oh but wait – I get it now. It was a trick question. You asked me to name one serious Republican – and I can’t. Can you?
If you really think those things are what Republicans believe, you are completely clueless.
I don’t care what they believe – I judge them by their policies and platforms.
I’d love to hear from you 1) how socialism is superior economically, and 2) how socialism advances freedom and improves people lives.
Socialism us superior economically because it prevents the kind of concentration of wealth that leads to widespread misery, and ensures at least some parity in the distribution of wealth in society. Democratic socialism advances freedom by guaranteeing a basic level of food, shelter, health care, and other basic needs. It improves people (sic) lives by eliminating want. Better health care, more vacation time, better educational opportunities, more stable societies – the benefits are many.
But if you think the most important freedom is the freedom of money, and not the freedom of people, we have a difference of values that may be hard to resolve.
Can you name one country where it has actually worked? I don’t think so. Sweden? Sorry, Sweden has actually reversed a lot of their policies, when it became clear that their economy was stagnating. So David, do you have anything to say, other than snark? Let’s hear it.
You ask me to name one country where it has actually worked, but you don’t define “worked”. I think it is working just fine where it is being tried. Our minimal system of social security and medicare, along with food stamps, provides some basic security, but people are happier in the nordic social democracies.
There are many ways to define what “works” – but here are a few:
The 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index is based on 79 different variables analysed across 104 nations around the world. Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands all outrank the USA here, and all of them provide greater social benefits than the USA. Pick one.
The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in July 2006. The USA is 114/143, right behind Madagascar.
The Satisfaction with Life Index was created by Adrian G. White, an Analytic Social Psychologist at the University of Leicester, using data from a metastudy.[1] It is an attempt to show life satisfaction (subjective life satisfaction) in different nations. We find the USA behind such countries as Denmark, Ireland, Costa Rica, Norway… you get the idea.
What it comes down to is a difference of opinion in what constitutes a good life. I think life would be better if corporations paid their fair share of the tax burden, and if there was a decent social safety net for poor folks so they don’t get crushed by market forces. Democratic socialism is not totalitarianism – it’s just plain common sense in any society to care for the least among us. That’s not my idea – it was one that Jesus made famous.
Peace.
DS
Your Jesus is not the Jesus of the Bible- Jesus didn’t believe in stealing (like the U.S government is doing) its citizens private property (the value of their labor)-in order to redistribute its citizens hard earned private property by giving it to some total stranger (who didn’t earn it and doesn’t deserve it). If I decide of my own free will-from my heart- to give freely without coercion of some of my property to whom I choose -that’s different-thats real charity. And that’s the kind of charity the God of the Bible condones. On the contrary the Bible tells me- if I don’t work I don’t eat and if I steal -quit stealing and go to work-that doesn’t seem to square with what you are telling me. If you were to break into some total strangers home and try to rob him blind you’d get shot-but you seem to think using the force of government to do the same thing-that’s somehow different -that’s somehow ok. I see nothing in the Bible where Jesus advocates that Rome rob all of its citizens of their private property and then redistribute their property to those they think will help get them re-elected. I’d suggest you re-read the Bible.
David S.
Soon you’ll be trotting out that ranking of America as 37th in terms of healthcare. (yes, you’re being mocked)
For anyone thinking that Sweden could be a model state for an alternative economic and cultural system, check out this one: http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3582
If you live in a society where conformity is the highest value and Socialism has the population dressed and conditioned on a certain decreed definition on “happiness” by media and compulsary public education carried out by marxists most people will be satisfied as long as they have a home where they can live in and as long as it`s heated during wintertime. But even in the Soviet Union or in the Nazi Reich people lived “happy” in this way (at least until the war Hitler started came back to Germany).
“Happiness” of so many people in Europe is a result of the success Socialism had in diminishing the demands of the people concerning how to live their lives, of diminishing the demands concerning morality, integrity and the idea of pursuing a self-defined and self-responsible design of happiness.
If you want to understand Europe, check out what Evan Sayet analyzed regarding to modern Liberals in the U.S. in his talk before the Heritage Foundation…
Wow. You sound just like me a decade ago before I actually lived in several socialist countries (UK, France, Germany, Spain). There is no reason to argue because I’m sure you are immune to such things, as I was, but my only advice is this; come to Europe and live for several years. See exactly how humane it is to live under a system that can’t provide any kind of a job for 15% of its workforce for several decades. See how high unemployment exerts a downward pressure on wages and earnings until large swathes of the population are effectively working to break even. Come see the cities of homeless that inhabit every corner of such “social” countries as France and Germany. It is easy to advocate Socialism when you are a safe distance away.
I have a book recommendation for you. “Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality” by Olaf Gersemann. Read it and then come live here for at least 5 years. You’ll be voting Republican before you know it.
I would love to come to Europe and live for several years – considering that most people in the USA are working only to fall further in debt, working to break even would be a major improvement.
Capitalism without a concern for the broader society is legalized piracy practiced against the people.
Here’s an example of this twisted rationalization:
In the last forty years, businessmen have become more entrepreneurial and less managerial, more innovative and less traditional. They have also become more openly interested in making money and less concerned with their social status and community standing.
What is striking is that this is seen as a positive good – capitalist fundamentalism would support their efforts to make more money, despite the huge negative consequences that flow from a reduced concern for social status and community standing.
Along with the power of the corporation, this has enabled businesses to reduce the power of labor to organize for better working conditions, to reduce their share of the tax burden, and to run roughshod over the basic premises of our representative government.
The USA has a homeless population similar to Europe’s, but our homeless are much worse off because the level of government assistance is so much lower.
I can assure you that no amount of time spent in Europe would convince me to cast a ballot for a GOP candidate. The Republican party platform is diametrically opposed to my convictions, and the best interests of the People. The GOP has been a force for intolerance, greed and war mongering as long as I have been actively following politics. So long as that continues to be the case, the GOP will be a pariah in my eyes.
Peace.
DS
I feel like I am talking to myself 10 years ago by telephone.
What I learned, by experience, is that there is a vast difference between the European ideal and the European reality. Right now, you only know the vision of Europe that exists only in the realm of the impossible; the Europe that exists is far different. I’m not going to dump a truckload of statistics on you, but there are a couple of things that you will not here “over there” about “over here.” Germany and France, the peaceful socialists, have done far more to promote war in the world than the Republican party ever has. Take for example, France’s overt participation in the war in Rwanda. Or for example, that German weapons manufacturers modified some of their weapons so that children in Africa could handle them better. You see, the normal version that you or I would need can’t be handled by a 12 year old. Does this go against your convictions? It should.
I sympathize with you and I appreciate the polite level of disagreement. I know that you probably won’t be convinced that social benefits are not just free money until you’ve seen how destructive they can be on several levels. Germany’s social welfare system grinds people to dust, making them unemployable and forced to live off of handouts. These people are not all happy lay-abouts, just people who are destroyed because they live in a system where they can’t feed themselves. The fact of the matter is that Europe’s lavish social handouts were a one off deal; state obligations (read debt) are in the process of causing an implosion that will cripple economic growth and burden future Europeans for decades ensuring that they lifestyle to which they’ve grown accustomed to will not be available in the future. To paraphrase Mark Steyn, the grandparents of Europe have borrowed money from the grandchildren that many of them neglected to have. Europeans are belatedly realizing that the social provisions they have declared a human “right” depend on growth which their economies cannot provide.
If you would like more information on the problems in Europe, please feel free to click my name and swing by my blog. And definitely, come to Europe and live for a few years. See the European reality before you want it implemented in America.
You should get out more. You’re woefully ignorant about how the majority of your fellow citizens view government, taxes, etc..
To Loyalbushie: Now you’re the type of immigrant we Conservatives want to see cross our borders. We could use someone like you to educate our leftists as to the real price they — and the rest of us — will pay if we keep on this road to Europeanization. So give it some serious thought. You too can become an American!
A good friend of mine did it… he is now teaching Austrian School economy at several universities (one of them is Mount Vernon Nazarene) and preacher in the Trinity Presbyterian Church.
I sometimes imagine how this would be – residing somewhere in a small town in the heart of Texas or Kansas or so. But I doubt whether having studied European Law and earning a certificate for being insurance specialist in Germany would help me much in the United States. And though my High School English teacher was brillant and I learnt a whole lot throughout those years, I do not think that my English is good enough to turn my passion, the writing, into my profession.
Besides my son is only 9 years old and lives with my ex-wife. I would not go anywhere far away without him. Perhaps I’ll make up my mind when he has finished school. Meanwhile I get him accustomed to some really great persons only a few people know here – like George Strait, Marc Chesnutt, Zac Brown, Kenny Chesney, Sara Evans, Tim McGraw, Toby Keith and so on…
And I eludicate him about what kind of rubbish many people here in Europe talk about the U.S. and great, courageous statesmen like George W. Bush.
I think the U.S. and the ideals they stand for also need some strongholds here. If I can build up one of those for example in the shape of my blogs, I think it is also a way to support America…
It is good to “meet” a German that doesn’t go along with the mainstream opinion. Thanks for sharing your blog and opinions with us. I agree with you wholeheartedly. It is necessary to find some Germans who stand up for American values. I’ve lived in Hamburg since 2006, and while I like it here much better than France, it can sometimes be a bit difficult to express an opinion that is not shared by the German public in general. Please feel free to click my name and visit my blog as well. For now, everything is in English. In the future, I will add some German and French content. I am hoping that the sovereign debt crisis will wake up enough Europeans (and Americans) to set us all on a more reasonable course.
If I were you, I wouldn’t give one second of thought to the quality of your English. It’s A+ all the way.
Sadly, due to the slow pace of our immigration bureaucracy, if you wanted to legally move to the US when your 9 year old is grown, now would be a good time to start applying.
Of course you would have to be a native English speaker before you could hope to become a successful writer in English like Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov or Ayn Rand. There might also be a market in Germany for a writer’s observations from America.
Working in the United States does not require the same level of certification as in Germany. An auto repair shop will hire you without a mechanic certification but they will fire you just as quickly if you can’t fix cars.
Public schools tend to require certification, but they can be flexible enough to allow you to get certified within a year or two if you have skills they need, usually math and science. Private schools tend to be more flexible about hiring but they also tend to pay less. If you could teach German, math, economics and coach soccer, there is a pretty good chance that you could get hired in a high school but you would have to take the certification classes right away. The coaching soccer skill is an important part of the hiring process. School athletics in the US receives a priority that you are probably not used to. Junior colleges don’t tend to require certification like public high schools do.
There might be shipping companies in Houston, New Orleans (probably Baton Rouge since Katrina) or Mobile that would be looking for your particular skill set today. There may also be shipping companies involved with air freight to and from Europe near big international airports like Dallas-Fort Worth or Atlanta. They might be willing to sponsor you for a Green Card which would speed up the process a lot. All I can say is that it doesn’t hurt to check.
Good luck in whatever you decide to do.
Glad you guys are finally catching up to the party. I’ve been saying we need to Legalize Adulthood! for about 20 years.
I’m with you, Richard. It’s not as if this is anything new(my link):
A Culture Dissolving In A Bog Of Feminist Hysteria
Gerald L. Rowles, Ph.D.
14 days before Father’s Day, 2001
“Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagnace, vice, and folly?”
John Adams, writing to Thomas Jefferson, -1819.
Throughout the past several decades we have observed the American culture dissolve into a primeval ooze of self-serving situational values, exhibitionistic emotionality, hypersexualized hedonism, the celebrity of self, and institutionalized iconoclasm. In other venues I have reasoned that rampant narcissism is the soul of contemporary America – and I hold to that assessment.
Isnt the real argument.. “WE ARE NOT LOS ANGELES”.?
ie. a third world morass of no fixed identity where so many competing identity groups render any path of action impossible? Isnt that what we really need to disprove? Because thats the real threat. And THAT has already happened and is happening in Miami, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago. We arent going to become Gemany or France..we are becoming NOTHING but a geographical location. The entire historical identitiy and its history is being lost. We arent heading to European
socialism..we are heading to Venezuela socialism a third word cesspool ripe for
rule by third world style demagoguery. When you look at Obama..do you see Jacques
Chirac..? or Chavez, and Mugabe? Wake up.
Hehe nice one.Curiously Europeans constantly critisize our values yet send their kids to North America to go school and get edumacated(yes i spelled wrong on purpose).
That’s because European Universities are crumbling. Germany’s top University, Heidelberg, is ranked # 62 in the world. French Universities are at least two decades behind their American counterparts with regards to building and materials upkeep including the availability of computers. When I first saw the University of Dijon, I was shocked to find out that they had less that 5 computers for the entire school. The fact of the matter is that Europeans have been raiding the banks to pay for ridiculously expensive social programmes and left almost nothing for their higher education system. They all have to go to America; it is the only option left.
The best we can hope for is that the Euro drags Europe down with it prior to our mid term elections so there is, once again, a clear and unquestionable example for the voters to prove that socialism doesn’t work. While some of us would have thought the collapse of the USSR was enough of an example, apparently that didn’t cause enough human misery to get through the thick skulls of the Common Yellow Bellied Bleeding Heart Liberal (yes, that is a species of colorful flightless bird of low intelligence that suffers from the belief that it is more attractive, intelligent, and compassionate than any other species on the planet).
Do you think that a sophisticated argument involving currency valuation, balance of payments, and national debt is going to understood or even listened to by
the herds of third worlders with 4th grade educations that the Democrats are
trying to legalize? They will always vote for the Welfare state…they will
always look to the white middle class as oppressors. Its instinctual..and thats
why the Democrats want amnesty so badly. The real issue is DEMOGRAPHICS.
What people miss is that all European nations–or most of them–suffer as we do from the effects of the hidden tax of inflation, as enabled by central banks. No banks, much more wealth.
The question is reasonable: after 100 of exponential productivity increases, how is it that we are not living that much better than our fore-fathers? Most of us owe on our houses, most of us owe on our cars, and our nation is only looking good financially because the Europeans are absolutely pathetic.
As I see it, our money should buy 20 times or more what it does. Here is my reasoning: http://moderatesunited.blogspot.com/2010/05/conclusion-on-money.html
Viva Italia e il Partito del Tè !!!
Greed got us here we are. Greed enabled by anti-regulation conservatives. And still companies moved overseas throughout the last 20 years, not SINCE January of 2009. Americans paid less tax last year than anytime inn the last 40 years. Don’t let Fox News boil your brain. They’re in it for profit , not accuracy.
It is good to know that the Europeans who are anti-greed and anti-regulation aren’t having any problems of their own. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/64076dc0-6115-11df-9bf0-00144feab49a.html
Comment above should read “It is good that the Europeans who are anti-greed and PRO-regulation aren’t having any problems of their own.
I want to say that they submit button clicked itself, but alas, it was just my own fault. Often don’t proofread short comments!
@ that’s all
Hahhh, he/she/it so wrong on everything. I have explained it hundreds of times to people like “that’s all” but the ignorant person needs to do it’s own research instead of relying on the biased left-wing liar media or ignorant Jon Stewart.
When I was a kid, Adult Entertainment was, The Rat Pack, Good Guys Win. Sometimes movies were actually made about our fight against the Japanese, instead of Satanhitler, who attacked Comrade FDR’s Uncle Jo, after he promised he wouldn’t.
Adult Entertainment NOW, is Porn, all sorts.
Flower Children and Mansonites RULE. Smiley Feces, Communist Piece Sighs(White Flags.)
There was a Neo Marxist/Maoist/Stalinist Coup in 1968, The Summer That America Died.
Anadults EVERYWHERE, AKA as Malignant Narcissists, Phobics, Borderline Personality as well as Cluster B.
About 90% of Boomers are emotionally 7 year old autistic little girls.
From my link;
According to psychology literature, the hysterical (histrionic) personality is diagnostically grouped in what is known as “Cluster B” where it shares billing with a rather sinister group of antisocial, borderline,and narcissistic personality disorders(1.).
An intriguing analogue to the feminist hysteric is the homosexual activist. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), within the hysterical context, has also said that “in both sexes overt behavior is often a caricature of femininity.”
As with most personality disorders, the diagnostic hallmarks of the histrionic are the evolved childish protections against the knock, knock (or Tick, Tock) of anxiety and maturation. They are the protection against the universal impulse for union and procreation. The monster under the bed has been displaced by anything which smacks of the “masculine”. The anxiety of becoming a responsible parent has been displaced by the eraser of abortion – the power to kill responsibility. The need for security has been replaced with the demand for government entitlement (another person’s money) without having to struggle with human reciprocity. I am woman, just hear me roar!
The ridiculousness of the Feminist poseur would be laughable if the culture were not allowing itself to be intimidated into submission. If there is anything the Feminist cannot tolerate, it is humor (except male bashing) or truth, especially if it challenges their incantations.
Addendum, then I’ll try to back off a little. I go a bit nuts: While I was growing up, The pure evil of Communism was down played, and now the Jihad. The only link to Hitler in the world today, is Islam.
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh205/dishmael_bucket/HitlerMuslime.jpg
But, you cannot watch 3 hours of TV, without seeing something about HITLER. It seems that every year out of Hellywood, they actually make more Hitler movies than the previous.
Evil people attack and kill good people.
Communism/Socialism/Atheism and Islam are PURE EVIL! Sorry…
I have coined an acronym…PISSIE…PACIFISM IS SUICIDE-SUICIDE IS EVIL.
On Buddhism And Pacifism.
http://www.reversespins.com/pacify.html
Communism is the polar opposite of the Sangha (community of the Spirit). It is a counterfeit, taking on the name of ‘the brotherhood of man.,’ but without God in the equation, the system will eventually breakdown. Much damage and evil works are done before this happens though. Millions of lives are lost and culture and religion destroyed. It is a battle of Light vs. Dark with reincarnated leaders at the helm who have no allegiance to God, the Buddha, the Sangha and the Tao.
The current Dalai Lama admits he is not the thirteenth Dalai Lama. I think this is born out by the fact that ‘the thirteenth’ saw the need for military solutions.
I do know that the U.S. should have come to the defense of Tibet. They did so but it was limited. There are forces within the U.S. government that have always supported communism. Whenever the U.S. tries to help, these strategically placed individuals subvert the plan at the highest levels and at the scene. Right in the midst of a U.S. trained and sponsored counterattack by Tibetan nationals, the U.S. ambassador to India, John Kenneth Galbraith, refused to send U.S. aerial support, dooming the mission.
AmeriKans have always been in love with Satanic Communism and Ists.
The other great force of Evil, alive today is Islam. (Come and get me, Yusef!)
Winston Churchill wrote in 18 Frickin 99… http://www.savage-productions.com/winston_churchill.html
WINSTON CHURCHILL ON ISLAM – IN 1899!
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has
ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
-Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
And, Pseudo-Neo-TURN YOUR OTHER CHEEK TO SATAN-Christians, YOU PHUCS ARE WORSE THAN THE BED WEDDING, PONY-TAILED ANEMIC, VEGAN, CHICKEN SHIT HIPPIES!
JESUS WAS NOT A PUSSYFIST! GO BUY A SPINE AND SOME BABY ONIONS…
* http://www.narcissisticabuse.com/evil.html Wups!
Mr. Kimball, I wish there were some way I could effectively convey my thanks and support to people like the Governor of Arizona (for passing the immigration law in the face of U.S. opposition) or to the country of Israel (for fighting their enemies, in the face of U.S. opposition). I wish there were some way let those kind of people know there are others in the world who think as they do.
Joe Smith