When Rationing Worked

JER 1 year, 8 months ago

Thank you for the letter Hilda. You bring up a very good point about the average Americans involvement in all the wars we have fought since the "big one". To a great many, the current wars are a reality show on tv starring our military heroes and featuring stuff being blown up and cool weapons being discharged. Unless you have a loved one on the scene, most of us Americans are completely unaffected. We wonder why they just continue to drag on year after year and we never win wars anymore.

dustyrhoades 1 year, 8 months ago

Can you imagine the outcry if someone received a letter like that today? The Right likes to talk about how we're in a life or death struggle and how we're on the brink of losing the entire country...but ask them for any sacrifice at all and it's OMG FASCIST TYRANNY WHY CAN'T THE POOR PAY FOR IT!!!!?!?!!!

Courseaire 1 year, 8 months ago

I think you got your right & left confused. It's JER that thinks the country is broken and that we are in a life & death struggle.

dustyrhoades 1 year, 8 months ago

http://www.proconservative.net/PCVol12Is157CarubaObamaNewJimJones.shtml

Americans are resisting the behemoth of the U.S. national government under Obama’s control. The Tea Party movement is evidence that the American spirit is far from spent. Many states are joining together in legal suits to oppose Obamacare and to demand the national government shut down the border traffic that is breeding crime and creating other costs. It is a life or death struggle for America

Dick Cheney: This is an existential conflict. It is the kind of conflict that's going to drive our policy and our government for the next 20 or 30 or 40 years

Liz Cheney: "America faces an existential threat We will have to fight these terrorists to the death somewhere, sometime. We can't negotiate with them or 'solve' their jihad.

Redstate.com: The Democrat Party is totally under the control of those people who euphemistically call themselves Progressives. They are Marxists, which since he became one, are called Communists. STOP putting a sugar coating on this situation. We are in a life or death struggle against a thoroughly reprehensible (and also thoroughly debunked as failed) philosophy for government. We are pitting individual liberty / freedom against a socialist takeover which fully intends to turn America into a “planned” society. The prime minister of Russia said it: “We will bury you.” We are now in the grasp of his minions and America is still in denial. WAKE UP,

Etc.

Once again, Courseaire proves he doesn't know what the heck he's talking about.

Courseaire 1 year, 8 months ago

DR - Here is JER's comment just yesterday: "Mikey, sorry to say, we have tried "hope and change" these past two and one half years. It was meet with scorn and ridicule. Your version of "hope and change" will also be met with the same reaction because our country is broken. We are no longer Americans, we are liberals and conservative, Republicans and Democrats, far right and far left extremists, haters and hated, religious fanatics of every ilk and atheists. We are no longer the United States of America, we are all special interest groups, we are the rich and the poor, the haves and the have nots. We are entering the early stages of class warfare that signals the end of our short ride is fast approaching. When the end arrives, most will look up from their IPhones, IPads and computer screens and say: "Hey, how the hell did that happen?""

JER 1 year, 8 months ago

Had the hope and change Obama campaigned on been met with statements like; "OK, let's see how we can make this work", instead of "he's a socialist, communist, evil devil who wasn't even born in this country, trying to ruin our way of life", I would not be claiming that our system of government is broken beyond repair. When the results of the 2012 elections are known, whoever wins will be facing exactly what Obama has faced. That is the point of my comments. It has less to do with who is currently being demonized and more to do with the fact that all we can do is demonize whoever doesn't agree with us. I don't see that changing. It is only getting worse. To prove my point, many of you attack me for pointing out the obvious.

MikeNC 1 year, 8 months ago

When the election was won and the democrats locked the chamber doors and said...WE won...WE write the bill...That kind of fizzled any chance of your ..."OK, let's see how we can make this work". Pelosi and her big hammer and bigger mouth played a major role in 'breaking' down the civility, any chance of bipartisanship and the system itself...Mike

JER 1 year, 8 months ago

So saying NO to everything suggested had nothing to do with that?

MikeNC 1 year, 8 months ago

Don't acknowledge blame for their outrageous and childish behavior, just keep placing blame where it does not belong...Spin it to something else. That is you and that is the left; and that is what you do best. Your able to fool some people along the way...Mike

teufelhunden 1 year, 8 months ago

DR-I see what you're trying to do. Baiting. At least you're transparent.

Courseaire 1 year, 8 months ago

The only problem is that he's using Stink Bait.

dustyrhoades 1 year, 8 months ago

I think you got your right & left confused. It's JER that thinks the country is broken and that we are in a life & death struggle. -Courseaire

*This is an all or nothing fight from this point forward. Either we will be unified, energized and resolute for 100 percent repeal or we will be divided and deservedly conquered by Obama, Pelosi and Reid.

This is a life or death struggle for the soul of America. We are the redoubt of Western Civilization. It is our charge to set the standard for the world.* Congressman Steve King (R-IA)

Courseaire 1 year, 8 months ago

Oh come on, using quote's from a politician, really. I'm more interested in what the rest of the people are saying, like you, JER, MikeNC, MC7,Teufelhunden, Treadlightly & Toda. Politician's grandstand & will say anything to whatever audience they are talking to, while all of you will really say what you mean.

TreadLightly 1 year, 8 months ago

I think we need uniforms or nametags to tell who is on which side. So many are only concerned with bipartisanship, statesmanship, compromise and "working for the good of the country." They want the game to be fair, civil and played properly.

They don't have a clue that the game is about winning. There are goal lines, and each side wants to take the ball (nation) toward their objective. Every person in the game should be required to state their objective and identify what they want the country to look like in 50 years.

The two goals that I see are (1) Return to a government limited by the Constitution of the United States, the supreme law of the land, or (2) a socialist society after the likes of Europe or maybe Russia.

The tea party and grass roots Americans have recently discovered that the game has goal lines. They recently discovered that since Marx started "educating" college students in Europe, including some Americans seeking higher degrees, a group of people have been campaigning and working toward that Utopian existance.

It was a shock to see that the foundations for this "transformation" of the USA were being laid with Theodore Roosevelt, the hero of all of us who practice our marksmanship. Woodrow Wilson was president at the crucial time when the largest blocks were laid--the 16th and 17th Amendments. Over a dozen mayors were elected under the Socialist flag around 1911 or so. (Mostly one termers, thankfully.)

Then it was an incremental game for many years. Small changes, slow pace, and no one noticed that while one team was muddling around, the other one was steadly marching toward their goal line. Like the old Georgia football strategy of "3 yards and a cloud of dust." They knew where they were heading, but had to keep it in code words that would not alarm patriotic Americans.

The big boys jumped in with their foundations to "advance" education. (Dewey, Ford, Rockefeller, etc.) After a number of advances, we have arrived to where many high school graduates can't read or write and have no clue what the Constitution is about. Anything they heard about the founding fathers was derogatory.

Now, Obama jumped in with "full speed ahead" socialism, or maybe his personal preference of communism. At this point, you can join the Obama team as they near their goal, and be there for the victory celebration.

Or, you can join those of us who want to make the game a real contest. Those of us who are advanced in maturity can remember the American dream, lived the American dream, and want our grandchildren to have a chance to try it. It is a hard game, likely a long game, and possibly a bruising game as the SEIU goon squads are dispatched. But for many of us, it will be socialism over our dead bodies. We welcome the help of those not quite so committed, because there is room for all to help "save the Republic."

So, pick side, put on your jersey, and hike the ball.