The precarious state of our union

[DAISYCUTTER]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff70.1.html

[GEEZER]

Absolutely correct.
This nation became great on the coat tails of strong, independant people, not because of central Govt. controls.
Politicians seem to think that they are the ones to make it strong, and can MAKE it recover, when the opposite is true.
Leave the people and their pocketbooks alone and let them have the freedoms to succeed, not penalize them for doing so!
But then, we might be expected to read and even understand and choose which health insurance policy we desire to cover our particular needs, wants, and expectations from our provider. OOPS! you can't expect that if we don't actually educate people in our schools, and require quality work and studies..........
Now I get it, We're all expected to be dumb-butts and they are gonna make sure that happens.........besides........we're all just victims of the system and those mean old big companies........what was I thinking
It all comes back to the ways of your grand and great grand parents.....teach 'em.....ground them........and push them out of the nest........that is the only way they will fly........................or you will feed them in the nest for the rest of their lives!!

[DazedandConfused]

Geezer, whe are growing a nation of weenies and dependent little brats. Oklahoma closes the schools at the first hint of a snowflake and they actually closed one day because it was just too cold. I grew up in Michigan and walked 3 blocks to school, 3 blocks home for lunch(no cafeteria), 3 blocks back to school, and the 3 blocks back home in weather that is a heck of a lot worse than what Oklahoma Gets. I actually survived and even went out and played after school.

Neal Boortz: Government idiocy in action at schoolsShareThisPrint E-mail .By Neal Boortz

Neal Boortz
.They’re government schools, not public schools. They’re owned by the government: located on government property, staffed by government employees and funded with money the government seizes from taxpayers.

And, like most things government, they are complete disasters. Notice, please, I referred to government schools as disasters, not failures. The sad fact is these government schools have performed exactly the way our politicians and industrialists planned for them to perform 100 years ago.

They manage to educate our children only to the point that most become subservient government subjects and good employees and not much more. ( If you want to learn the truth about government schools, just read “The Underground History of American Education” by John Taylor Gatto.)

[ucanit]

According to Ayn Rand, heroes must continually fight against "parasites," "looters," and "moochers" who demand the benefits of the producers' labor. Her book, Atlas Shrugged describes "an apocalyptic vision of the last stages of conflict between two classes of humanity- the looters and the non-looters. The looters are proponents of high taxation, big labor, government ownership, government spending, government planning, regulation, and redistribution."

"Looters" confiscate others' earnings by force ("at the point of a gun,") and include government officials, whose demands are backed by the implicit threat of force. Some officials are merely executing government policy, such as those who confiscate one state's seed grain to feed the starving citizens of another; others are exploiting those policies, such as the railroad regulator who illegally sells the railroad's supplies for his own profit. Both use force to take property from the people who produced or earned it.

"Moochers" demand others' earnings on behalf of the needy and those unable to earn themselves, however, they curse the producers who make that help possible and are jealous and resentful of the talented on whom they depend. They are ultimately as destructive as the looters— destroying the productive through guilt, and appealing to "moral right" while enabling the "lawful" looting performed by governments.

Sounds like today, doesn't it. It was written in 1957.