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2010-10-08 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Besoeker 2010-10-08 12:41|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I would rather every American citizen be on food stamps , rather than send "relief" everywhere else in the world like we have been doing for so many years now.

Posted by chris 2010-10-08 12:55|| 2010-10-08 12:55|| Front Page Top

#2 A less affluent America survived a Depression and world war without anything like the 99 weeks of unemployment insurance, welfare payments, earned income tax credits, food stamps, rent supplements, day care, school lunches and Medicaid we have today.
How the country has changed. Anyone wishing to recall what people were like back then should read "The Worst Hard Time", about people surviving the Dust Bowl, a teacher who worked for no pay for years just to keep her local school system going, families eating pickled tumbleweed, a farmer dying in agony of an untreated abdominal catastrophe rather than seek medical care, and the once-richest man in town giving his last $100 to a needy cowboy & his family.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-10-08 15:58|| 2010-10-08 15:58|| Front Page Top

#3 One of the comments is a classic:

bill Wrote:

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".
All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A....

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

To their great surprise.....they all failed, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Don't forget the most famous Russian saying "They pretended to pay us....We pretended to work."

Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on) Remember, there is a test coming up. The mid-term election in 2010!

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-10-08 18:29|| 2010-10-08 18:29|| Front Page Top

#4 ION RUSSIA TODAY > WORLD ECONOMY [State Economies] BREAKS-UP WITH US. Moving away from historical reliance on the US Economy as ULTIMATE "CONSUMER OF LAST RESORT" ECON-SAVIOR, in favor of RUSSIA + CHINA + BRIC, etal.

and

* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > YOUTUBE VIDEO: CASH CLASH? | CROSSTALKS: IS CASH WORLD WAR COMING???

* DER SPIEGEL > FOREIGN FIRMS HOPING TO RIDE US RAIL BOOM. OBAMA'S HIGH-SPEED REVOLUTION [Bammer favored nationwide high-speed railsys = may start as early as 2013].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-10-08 21:40|| 2010-10-08 21:40|| Front Page Top

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