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But they're having

Beetlejuice — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:20:44 +0000

But they're having their...Mad As Hell...moment right now. They're literally shouting out they're mad as hell and their not going to take it anymore, and doing something about it. In the US, we're still trying to stab each other in the back and blaming each other, but not realizing we're both victims of manipulators.

And all the while our Oil

cmaukonen — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:06:11 +0000

In reply to Back in the day when I was in

And all the while our Oil Puppets are driven out by the people one by one. There is no reason that any of these countries should see as as friends and allies after they over throw them since we were the ones supporting the tyrants in the first place.

The US was the only

Beetlejuice — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:57:55 +0000

In reply to No so much any more War tends

The US was the only industrial country untouched by the war, so we had a manufacturing monopoly until the 70's. The Japanese first tested US auto and electronics market's in the mid-60's, and by the early 70's, they had a established foothold in the economy. The oil embargo of 73 was our manufacturing sector Pearl Harbor because everyone began to look at Japanese cars with serious interest and forgo US cars...something about the price of gas rising from 35 cents a gallon to over a dollar and at that time the average US car's MPG was around 12 to 15 whereas the Japanese cars were boasting 30 MPG or more.

Back in the day when I was in

Beetlejuice — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:44:37 +0000

In reply to Mickey Mouse

Back in the day when I was in the military, mickey mouse meant something plain and simple...something a child could understand. And if a child could understand it then it didn't take much effort to do and the chance of screwing it up were nil.

I've been doing some off-line reading and have found some interesting stuff that I think may be revelant in a roundabout way....then again, maybe not.

What's been happening since Ronnie RayGun is a systematic destablization of the public. The GOPer's have been very successful at turning their base aganist liberals destroying everything we stand for. They do this by claiming excesses by liberals are at the expense of the conservative base which infuriating many in their ranks. So political vengence is a handly tool when used to restore the order that some believe they have lost. What the GOPer base doesn't realize, those whom they give their trust to are manipulating them. As Carl Sagen once said..." an organism fighting with itself is doomed"...so too might our democracy. What I think is more profound is from Goethe..."None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free". With the internal political fighting going on between both conservatives and liberals, neither side can claim to be free if the work accomplished by one is razed by the other once political power is transferred.

So kicking the can down the lane for the next person to keep kicking is just marking time while the internal strife in the meantime tears at the fabric of freedom that keeps everything together in one piece. The fabric of freedom is woven with vertical rows and horizontal rows. It takes two opposing rows to make the fabric...one row alone can't do it. Yet the GOPer's and their base firmly believe it can. Unfortunately, the last world governemnt that thought a single political structure was all that was necessary was called the Soviet Union...and we all know how that ended.

One last thing. Network is a 1976 satirical film about a fictional television network. In it there are some very intersting trirades that are real today.

No so much any more War tends

cmaukonen — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:28:46 +0000

In reply to The dream of the repubs would

No so much any more War tends to be a major drag on the economy. WWII did two things. One it put everyone to work for the government and two was a major distraction. The reason for the "Good Times" afterwards was the nearly total adsense of any foreign competition do to them being bombed to rubble.

Good times can be had again if you don't mind reducing the rest of the world to the stone age but I think there might be some resistance to this.

The dream of the repubs would

Richard Day — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:08:13 +0000

In reply to Mickey Mouse

The dream of the repubs would be throw one million people out of work through 'cuts' and then point to the dems and challenge them to prove how their political philosophy screwed everybody.

Geering up for war is always a good way to provide stimulus. w and dicky c knew that!

Tinker:.......a mender of

Resistance — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:54:48 +0000

In reply to It's called "kicking the

Tinker:.......a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc.

After having been kicked down the road too many times; the can needed to be mended.

Obama the itinerant, tinkered while Rome burned.

It's called "kicking the

wabby — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:01:09 +0000

In reply to Mickey Mouse

It's called "kicking the problem down the road" and has been for a long, long time. You're just figuring this out?

And that meaningless health care legislation? There are several people I know that have been helped tremendously by the law already.

So what does Obama do...well

William K. Wolfrum — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:17:45 +0000

In reply to Mickey Mouse

So what does Obama do...well enact a stimulus package that does little, pass some meaningless health care legislation and financial legislation and hope the next dive does not happen until he is out of office

Well, nothing quite like eradicating Obama's first 2 years in a single sentence.