It's nice to blame your government, but what about morons that picked it, hmm? Blame yourself for not making your government accountable, blame yourself for tolerating shady characters in politics, blame yourself for not demanding results. People forget that they have all the power, they give power away to the government and than they complain.

 

Sometimes it looks like we are an empire bent on suicide. At work we have morons that don't work and can't be fired... no one holds them accountable... no one dares to fire them because it can make ripples in the swamp. Some school teachers are total morons and they cannot be fired... they sit and produce the next generation of morons. However we can blame teachers or we can say that many parents became too self-centered and condoning to raise a child right. In this world we can only rely on ourselves, but we want for big government to come and save us. WE gave power to lobbies, government administrators, lawyers and now we have to live with it. People want someone else to do everything for them and Obama is going to win... he will raise taxes, chase companies out of the country, make government bigger and then we will wonder what happened to the country.

 

Anyway... what do we have to do to save the country from demise? IMHO...

 

1) I say we need to overhaul the educational system to be competitive in the world. It's time to privatize it and let people choose the best private school for their child. This will drive the demand for good teachers and filter out the bad ones.

 

2) It's time to give low-paying jobs to kids and not illegals - kids need to learn to work and count money... and parents should make them work.

 

3) We should limit ridiculous lawsuits and make people that sue everyone accountable and they should pay if they abuse the system.

 

4) Healthcare system is out of control... the price is going up and up and up... and I know how much money is wasted due to bad work in the medical billing department (mom works there) - everyone else has to share the cost. I am pretty sure that some doctors also do their share to make the system more costly with unnecessary procedures and visits, and no one holds them accountable.

 

5) It's time to lift regulations and try to gain energy independence. We don't want to drill near Florida, but we will let China drill there? Where's logic? Nuclear energy is good enough for green Europe, but not for us? Oh, and maybe we should conserve a little? Not government, but "we the people".

 

6) It would be nice to have more profit-sharing companies where employees would get paid according to the company profits... maybe then people start to care about all those leeches at work.

 

7) How about we have simple and comprehensive tax system that promotes investments and R&D, attracts businesses?

 

8) But more important... how about we start to preach and practice responsibility, respect, morality, self-control, common sense, accountability and stop relying on the government to change our diapers?

 

 

The problem is that no one does anything... not government and not "we the people". What have you done lately?

This is all so depressing. If I had a million bucks I'd move to SE Asia and forget about all this.

What have you done lately?

   Well i wrote letters of complaint to Reagan,Bush Sr,Clinton,and Bush Jr.

 

   I have also been thrown out of a town hall that Mr Ed Rendell was speaking his crud about the benefits of property tax relief,lifting electric caps,ethanol plants,and medical and education reform.

 

                                                              

                                                                       tigertony

Government has taken the place of the God of the Bible for the people of this country. They look to government to provide all. The government has become the source of all that is good. This idolatry has largely defined political evolution especially in the last century.

 

A few years ago, I want to change my driveway from asphalt to concrete. The contractor who eventually did the work turned out to be a believer. He told me about how he had been raised on a farm near Dillon, SC and about how he was still in school when his dad died. He dropped out of school and took on the responsibility of running the farm.

 

The thing that really affected him was being confronted with the reality that whether his family would have enough to eat, have enough to wear and be able to pay the bills from month to month and from year to year was entirely in God;s hands. This was because of the precariousness  of being at the mercy of crop prices, crop diseases, crop pests, the weather, etc.

Continued -

 

The concrete contractor's faith was built on that closeness to God compelled by that total sense of abject dependence upon God that comes as part of farm living.

 

Our nation used to be a nation primarily of farmers and farm people who, in a sense, practiced that day-to-day closeness to, and partnership with, God.

 

I submit that with the transformation of our nation from one whose population was 90⁺ % agricultural to industrial and beyond has come an estrangement from God, especially as provider, and a substitution of government for God.

 

What we are seeing now are the consequences of this substitution.

 

 

I suppose CJH wants to move in with those Texas wackos.  Farming has nothing to do with "God" any more than factory work does.

 

And if someone from the government promised to buy crops from farmers that they couldn't sell in the 1800s, the farmers would have said "YES!".

 

"http://www.organicconsumers.org/clothes/subsidies.cfm"

The next thing I want to talk a bit about is the U.S. farm subsidy system. Large-scale U.S. farmers have received a variety of subsidies since the early 1800s. Our current commodity subsidy system began in the 1930s and early 1940s. The goals of the program were three-fold. The first was providing sufficient commodity crops for times of natural emergency or war. This was popular because of shortages during the First World War. The second was keeping farmers on the land in times of economic emergency. This was easily sold to the taxpayers and the farmers as an especially important goal because since 1800, the country had undergone seven economic panics, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the First World War and was in the midst of its deepest economic depression. The third goal of the subsidies, which was tardily articulated and finally enacted in the 1940s, was to support soil conservation programs to rehabilitate damaged farmland. This third goal also had broad popular appeal. Consequently, when this commodity subsidy system was created it had few detractors in the U.S.

You know what I mean Tony, CJH is pining for some alleged "glory days" when the US was a farming country.

  Well now we both know that those so called "glory days" ran on the backs of slaves.

 

 

  And we both know that CCP still lives in those "glory days".

 

 

  But i sometimes wonder if Uncle Sam still longs for those "glory days" which he brought to an end?

 

 

  I think that the meaning of the word "Union" is being replaced by "Confederacy"

 

 

  So i think "We The People" should remember those words "In God We Trust".

 

 

                                                                         tigertony

"I suppose CJH wants to move in with those Texas wackos.  Farming has nothing to do with 'God' any more than factory work does."

 

I think if you are careful when you read my post, you will be at least able to infer my point. That is that God has everything to do with material security in any livelihood but that people who spent their lives on family farms at a time when most Americans did were far more likely to see a connection between God and their livelihoods solely because of their circumstances.

 

Although it is God who is the only One who provides in every walk of life, our urbanized society is now naive enough to accept government in the place of God. This will ultimately lead to a loss of our way of life because the Constitution is premised on society's acceptance of the centrality of the God of the Bible in their lives.