HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2009

What "Secrect"????????????
Been the leftist & oblama's agenda for years!

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BTW, what I described in part came from a conversation I had while in Germany and crossing what used to be the border between East and West. People on the West side of the boarder witnessed daily, the incredible show of socialism. Everything they did was controlled. They were even instructed to tend fields and harvest crops so their asses were pointed to the West. My cousin still lives in former East Germany. I've visited with here on multiple occasions since the wall came down. I heard about the difficulties following being reunited with west Germany. Few were able to compete with a capitalistic environment. Few knew how to even fend for themselves. It was much easier to eat slop three times a day and not have to think about where the next meal was coming from.

It could be worse Rockdoc, we could go the other way and end up with a 2 class society....that has been the trend for the last 20 years. A ruling class....they will have the money and the means to make more, and the poor....living on the scraps of society, uneducated, sickly, and without hope or the means to move up in society. Sweat shops where the people work 10-15 hour days to keep the factories rolling and the wealthy from having to get their hands dirty. Illegal immigration will no longer be a problem as wages in the US will be no higher than what is available in Mexico or anywhere else in the world. Then there will be the elderly....those that come from the wealthy ruling class will retire in comfort....the rest will huddle in homes set aside for the pure purpose of keeping them out of public sight so the wealthy will not have to view their pathetic lives. Unless, of course, they have family they can move in with. Once again many generations will live in a home designed for 2, or 3 people. Sickness? well perhaps they will do everyone a favor and die, then the ruling class will not have to take care of them any longer then necessary. This country will still be powerful, the budget will be balanced.....once you take away the need to provide social security and medicare and medicaid there will be more money to give to the corporations so they can continue to give those who can afford to invest, even more income than they had before. For the wealthy and the truly intelligent and the educated, life will be good.....so much better than when the nation had to waste money on those lesser human beings who were not blessed with wealthy parents, or a high IQ, or an exceptional talent.

And that....is no more hyperbole than your scenario.

We walk a tightwire here in the US. We have to balance our capitalism with the need to protect and nurture our citizens. The one thing all the totalitarian dystopias had in common was the absolute surety that their way was the only way and their willingness to enforce it.

Kind of OT but I find that very reminiscent of english society as described by George Bernard Shaw in his play "Major Barbara".

archer wrote: It could be worse Rockdoc, we could go the other way and end up with a 2 class society....that has been the trend for the last 20 years. A ruling class....they will have the money and the means to make more, and the poor....living on the scraps of society, uneducated, sickly, and without hope or the means to move up in society. Sweat shops where the people work 10-15 hour days to keep the factories rolling and the wealthy from having to get their hands dirty. Illegal immigration will no longer be a problem as wages in the US will be no higher than what is available in Mexico or anywhere else in the world. Then there will be the elderly....those that come from the wealthy ruling class will retire in comfort....the rest will huddle in homes set aside for the pure purpose of keeping them out of public sight so the wealthy will not have to view their pathetic lives. Unless, of course, they have family they can move in with. Once again many generations will live in a home designed for 2, or 3 people. Sickness? well perhaps they will do everyone a favor and die, then the ruling class will not have to take care of them any longer then necessary. This country will still be powerful, the budget will be balanced.....once you take away the need to provide social security and medicare and medicaid there will be more money to give to the corporations so they can continue to give those who can afford to invest, even more income than they had before. For the wealthy and the truly intelligent and the educated, life will be good.....so much better than when the nation had to waste money on those lesser human beings who were not blessed with wealthy parents, or a high IQ, or an exceptional talent.

And that....is no more hyperbole than your scenario.

I'm not sure I see the correlation, but then maybe my memory of the play is hazy. I'll have to go refresh my memory.....got any Cliff notes?

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archer wrote: I'm not sure I see the correlation, but then maybe my memory of the play is hazy. I'll have to go refresh my memory.....got any Cliff notes?

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I believe I have the play on my shelf. If you want it let me know and I will look. I can give it to you at a 285 lunch or dinner.

If you do not read the intro. The actual play is probably not much longer than the cliff notes.

Thanks, but it is free in the Amazon Kindle store.....it sure has been a very long time since I read Shaw.

I love my Kindle, I have gotten a lot of the classics free there

What does any of this have to do with High School from 1957 vs 2009?
The TRUTH is that the left has an angenda, and they have started with the kids now thiose same kids are running this country into the ground, and they did it right in front of our faces!

Little bits, little bits...

Who are teaching your kids, and what are they teaching...

"In 1965, After a period of mainly local activity, the DuBois Clubs were formed and later renamed the Young Workers Liberation League before reaffirming the original name Young Communist League in 1984.[5]

The YCL todayAccording to its constitution, "the YCL is devoted to the interests of all young people and is dedicated to the revolutionary cause of the working class of our country, the transformation of the United States through mass democratic struggle into a socialist society."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Communist_League_USA

Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals is the last book written by community organizer Saul D. Alinsky shortly before his death in 1972. Published in 1971, it was Alinsky's attempt to impart his theory and methods of organizing to the current generation of young activists, largely drawing upon his own experiences.

An organizer has to attack apathy and disturb the prevailing patterns of complacent community life where people have simply come to accept a situation. Alinsky would say, "The first step in community organization is community disorganization."

Alinsky codified and wrote a clear set of rules for community organizing.[citation needed] His rules for radicals are now used as key tactics to learn in the training of new community organizers.[citation needed]

In a separate chapter he suggests that the perennial question, "Does the end justify the means?" is meaningless as it stands: the real and only question regarding the ethics of means and ends is, and always has been, "Does this particular end justify this particular means?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals

community organizer, community organizer, community organizer, Where have I heard that before?

"He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama

AS the left would say "Connect the dots".

EDITED:Look around you what is happening to this country, somebody has gotten the second part of this quote correct, "Alinsky would say, "The first step in community organization is community disorganization ."