shelf life of a society

A thought provoking op-ed. It dovetails nicely with a recent thread by OTN but thought it deserved one of it's own and it has a clever title.

I periodically get comments from retards and morons who would say the below op-ed by a Pulitzer prize winning writer is meaningless unless the poster comments on the piece. All that does is highlight your self as a retard or moron.

In this case I do have something to add because I think there might be a few readers who are not deaf, dumb and blind.

Science Chick, you are not the only one but I will address it to you because I have a passing acquaintance with you children. I admire your idealism. If there were a third party candidate that polled well enough to get a seat at the debates like Perot did in '92 I would give him a very serous look. While most do not agree I believe he could have won and came very close to having a seat at the table of national influence.

Idealism is great but I ask you, are there enough sands in the hour glass to give your kids the future they are capable of? No matter what I am not optimistic but I would rather take a chance on a libertarian take over of the republican party than the possibility that the tax and spend democrats will wake up. The choice is clear, red or blue.

If only our world and our economy were not in such dire straits we could vote our conscious. I did in '92. I do not think there is much time left. For your kids and my g. kids sake read George Will's piece and at least sleep on it.






http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/co ... c1433.html

..............................."Democracy is representative government, which is the problem. Democracy represents the public's preferences, which are mutable, but also represents human nature, which is constant. People flinch from confronting difficult problems until driven to by necessity's lash. The Claremont Institute's William Voegeli, commenting on Greve and the dubious postulate of continuous 5 percent growth, says: "There's good reason to fear that if the economy builds a 5 percent levee the polity will just come up with a 6 percent flood. We humans adroitly use scant and equivocal evidence to convince ourselves that the most congenial interpretation of events is also the most plausible and durable."

Writing in 1830, Thomas Babington Macaulay asked, "On what principle is it that, when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?" Greve's gloomy answer is: Because we actually see behind us protracted abandonment of the Founders' flinty realism about the need to limit government because of the limitations of the people."

Starting a thread by calling people morons and retards is always a good way to promote discussion. :bravo:
I can see this one going to 100 pages.

Photo-fish wrote: Starting a thread by calling people morons and retards is always a good way to promote discussion. :bravo:
I can see this one going to 100 pages.

yeah but at least he tried to comment this time. Retards and morons unite, there must be a teaparty party going on somewhere

I'm wondering what the shelf life of Blazing "idiot" Bob is because I think his crap was stale last year...


but he just keeps on posting

Photo-fish wrote: Starting a thread by calling people morons and retards is always a good way to promote discussion. :bravo:
I can see this one going to 100 pages.

I did not make the post for morons or retards. I made this post for people like you who I regard as liberals who are not consumed by irrational hate and fear. I do not know if you have kids or not, so think of the future of your great, great, great...........grand pups. In a libertarian world of the future they are pets. In Obama's 1984 they are lunch.

Hoot, as far as I am concerned your posts are 60~ white noise.

Blazer Bob wrote: I did not make the post for morons or retards. I made this post for people like you who I regard as liberals who are not consumed by irrational hate and fear. I do not know if you have kids or not, so think of the future of your great, great, great...........grand pups. In a libertarian world of the future they are pets. In Obama's 1984 they are lunch.

Ha ha ..Not too much irrational hate and fear in that!


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Science Chic wrote: []Thanks for the post Handsome, I will sleep on it and answer in the morning. I have to say that this sentence resonated with me: People flinch from confronting difficult problems until driven to by necessity's lash.

Thanks for the complement although it does not speak well of your optometrist.

This is the part that has disturbed my sleep for over 40 years. " “There’s good reason to fear that if the economy builds a 5 percent levee the polity will just come up with a 6 percent flood. "

That is what I thought when I was young and the annual deficit was ONLY a few hundred billion. I was wrong, the levee held. Can it continue or is necessity pounding at the door.

<Imbed national debt clock here>

I think it's just as simple as this; people just don't want to downgrade their standard of living. We're so used to upgrading our gadgets, our cars, our homes, etc., and there's always a way to make our lives a little easier. So when people are faced with the prospect of losing something, anything, they will naturally try to hang on to it as long as possible. The debt is real, and one day it will need to be paid whether we want to except it or not (and "the rich" won't be able to come close to paying it off on their own).