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I'm sick of it!

tiredretired

tiredretired

The Old Salt
I am absolutely sick of liberals, Christian-bashers, and the scum of Obama supporters.

What is wrong with these people? What makes them think that this idiot we have for president is actually doing a good job? Why do they buy into his lies? His campaign of distraction? Class Warfare? His vision of America? His desire for Government Run Capitalism and his obvious hated for Free Market Capitalism.

Are his supporters so eager to give it all away and embrace the failed systems of Europe? A model that has never worked and never will?

My rant. :biggrin:
 
Me thinks they drink the kool aid! Reminds you of the ones who followed that nutso pastor years ago and all they ended up with was dead.:hammer:
 
Jim Jones?

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TiredRetired said:
I am absolutely sick of liberals, Christian-bashers, and the scum of Obama supporters.

What is wrong with these people? What makes them think that this idiot we have for president is actually doing a good job? Why do they buy into his lies? His campaign of distraction? Class Warfare? His vision of America? His desire for Government Run Capitalism and his obvious hated for Free Market Capitalism.

Are his supporters so eager to give it all away and embrace the failed systems of Europe? A model that has never worked and never will?

My rant. :biggrin:
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We can only blame ourselves, TR.

Your father, my father - in fact the fathers of so many people right here on FF - beat back fascism on a global scale as part of the Greatest Generation. And they did this with the greatest sacrifice of blood and treasure in history so that you and I could live in freedom.

So you and I lived fat, lazy and SAFE during the most prosperous decades in American history because of the sacrifices of our fathers. And all fat and lazy, you and I raised a generation of children all fat, lazy and SAFE without the slightest concept of what real sacrifice is. Everything is good. Everything is easy. Everything is free.

Well, no wonder we now have a generation of young adults that - thanks to the easy life we gave them and a liberal education system - know nothing of the true American history, but of a history rewritten to satisfy this obscene concept of socialized freedom as set forth in your rant.

Who else can be blamed? It is our own fault. I am ashamed.
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Good posts here guys. I find it hard to comment on what has been said so many times because I don't think it matters any more.
As Kane said, we ruined it. Our generation, and then our kids.

I too am ashamed of what we did with ourparent's "The Greatest Generation's" gift.

I speak often with my WWII veteran father-in-law, who is89 years old. And he expresses a righteous indignation for where our generation has taken the nation. The nation he and his comrades bleed and died to preserve. A world he and his brothers in arms bleed and sacrificed to save from what we are now becoming.

And now, we have those who indignatly question the meaning of the word "Heroes."


We do not get back from here.
 
We often have a similar debate in the UK around how we sit against the US and the rest of europe. The majority still refuse to buy into the euro and always will, based on the state of the economy of Greece I think the UK has doing ok so far.

But its funny how we sit here in the UK and on the surface think of how nice you guys live over there but when you look a bit deeper its not all roses and perfume there just the same as it isn't here.
 
Jacquib said:
We often have a similar debate in the UK around how we sit against the US and the rest of europe. The majority still refuse to buy into the euro and always will, based on the state of the economy of Greece I think the UK has doing ok so far.

But its funny how we sit here in the UK and on the surface think of how nice you guys live over there but when you look a bit deeper its not all roses and perfume there just the same as it isn't here.
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Yup! You guys have screwed things up royally just like we are. No denying it. As Kane said, we have lost our vision as a country. Free market capitalism is what has made this country great. Take away the fuel for the fire and the fire goes out. Not rocket science.

When we left the umbrella of the British Empire 240 years ago or so we had a firm sense of direction as to where we needed and wanted to be as a society. That sense of purpose drove us to greatness. To date we are still the only country in the history of the world to fight a large scale civil war and come out of it stronger as a nation than before. That alone is testimony to our greatness as a nation and people.

Now, thanks to liberalism and creeping socialism we have lost that sense of purpose and direction. I don't know if we can ever get it back at this point. I started this thread with an angry rant. I am no longer angry. Just sad.

Says Franc:
And now, we have those who indignatly question the meaning of the word "Heroes."
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Lots of heroes right here on this forum Franc, who still believe in the right way doing things and still believe in this country. :wink:
 
TiredRetired said:
Yup! You guys have screwed things up royally just like we are. No denying it. As Kane said, we have lost our vision as a country. Free market capitalism is what has made this country great. Take away the fuel for the fire and the fire goes out. Not rocket science.

When we left the umbrella of the British Empire 240 years ago or so we had a firm sense of direction as to where we needed and wanted to be as a society. That sense of purpose drove us to greatness. To date we are still the only country in the history of the world to fight a large scale civil war and come out of it stronger as a nation than before. That alone is testimony to our greatness as a nation and people.

Now, thanks to liberalism and creeping socialism we have lost that sense of purpose and direction. I don't know if we can ever get it back at this point. I started this thread with an angry rant. I am no longer angry. Just sad.



Lots of heroes right here on this forum Franc, who still believe in the right way doing things and still believe in this country. :wink:
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I didn't say there weren't any heroes, just that some would alter the meaning of the word. Apparently standing on the wall so my kids and I can sleep isn't heroic at all,,,just war mongering.

I'm glad there are real heroes serving today as well as in the past. And I'm encouraged that there are some of them here.

But,

Will it be enough?

And will they stand tall when our country needs them?

Because from where I sit, we shortly will need everyone of them.
 
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I take umbrage with the idea that the children of the soi disant "Greatest Generation" are wholly, or even primarily,
responsible for the condition of this country today. Okay, we did our share to mess it up, but why? Where did we get the
ideas that lead us so far astray? From our parents, that selfsame "Greatest Generation"!

They lived through the Great Depression and the Great War and were determined that their children would not have to
deal with the deprivations of their time. They vowed that we, their children, would never know such times. They would
give us everything they were denied. And so they did. We were given everything we wanted without having to sweat
and toil for it, without having to save or sacrifice. As it turned out, they didn't do us any favors; they denied us the
opportunity to develop the life skills that had served them so well. They acted from the best of motives but the result was
certainly less than stellar.

By the time we - at least some of us - realized how badly we had been shortchanged, it was nearly too late. Those of us
who recognized the problem tried to impact the future in the only way possible; we sent out emissaries who had been
given the truth, who had been programmed to avoid the pitfalls that our own lack of moral training had engendered.
We, with high hopes and fingers crossed, sent forth these emissaries - our children.

It is possible that there were not enough if us who discovered these basic truths. We may have been horribly overconfident
or woefully unprepared to deliver the proper training in the proper manner, but we have tried. The fine young heroes
who continue to serve in our military, despite the near-certainty of deployment to a combat zone, give us
some assurance that we have not failed completely; our children are our hope that the future may yet be salvageable.

But do not saddle us with the entire blame for where we are now. The Greatest Generation, our parents, set us upon this
course; they were the ones who set an entire generation adrift without a working moral compass. That the country is
beginning to retreat from that course is a good indicator that we, the sons and daughters of that generation, have set a
better course for our children.

Only time will tell if there were enough of us to save the future.

 
It wasn't WWII vets shouting obsceneties at returning Vietnam soldiers.
It wasn't WWII vets and theirfamilies bellying up to the government trough for freebies.


The greatest generation grew up during the Great Depression in a land that held little promise for them. Yet when it came to making the ultimate sacrifices,theylaid their lives on the line for a country, and a world, that had little to offer. They did it for God and Country perhaps, but surely they did it for their progeny.

They came home and built houses, schools for the kids, Bridges, Highways and companies that manufacture the best consumer products in the world. And they put a man on the moon.

And did not waste the time to selfgrandoise or even to put up a memorial to the conflict.

Our parents can be blamed for giving us a world much safer than they had.
Our parents can be blamed for giving us an economy much stronger than they had
Our parents can be blamed for giving us more opportuninties than they had.

Other than being overly indulgent, they cannot be blamed for the radical movements of the sixties. And they cannot be blamed for the choices of our generation.

Or our self indulgences.
 
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