Our Foundation Has Crumbled

Posted by Chortovka 11 years ago to Economics
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I see three major issues that must be corrected before we can even begin to think about the economy. (1) We have the highest percent of single parent homes and the highest percent of teenage pregnancies in the world. We must rebuild the family unit, teach our children the basics of what we had to learn .... discipline, morals, ethics, self-respect, self-reliance. (2) Our educational system is broken ... even our teachers and administrators change test scores and engage in sex with students. A country won't prosper when its citizens can't read and write, can't critically think, and don't know the Constitution. (3) Take the federal government back to its original job description ... arbitrate disputes between the states, provide for a common defense, conduct foreign policy, collect monies for those tasks ... and move everything else back to the state level where it can be controlled by the people.

Until we rebuild our foundation, we won't fix the economy and we won't have Conservative principles. We can pretend all we want, apply a multitude of bandaids, make more and more changes to regulate more and more people, spend more and more money, but if the foundation remains broken ... it "ain't" going to matter.


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  • Posted by Adam 10 years, 10 months ago
    Which conservative principles? Would they happen to be related to Ms. Rand's essay Conservatism: An Obituary, in which she destroys conservatism?
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 10 years, 10 months ago
    You are 100% correct. I've been saying the exact same things. The only thing I've added is that we need to make manufacturing a priority again.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well said, Mitch. I often dread that I'm a parent living in this mess - that I have kids I need to prepare to be able to navigate the collapse that is certainly coming.
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  • Posted by wgingram1 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes - another troll.
    One who loves to kick you in the butt from time to time to wake you up and see if you are truly paying attention.
    Obviously it doesn't work on dead heads that love Obama or their Freedom.
    Good luck with the future because you don't have one unless you get the wax (if that brown stuff in your ears is wax) out of your ears and start listening and watching what is going on around you.
    Bye for now.
    I'm quite sure you will be hearing from me in the future as some people DO EVENTUALLY wake up.
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    Posted by wgingram1 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I disagree. You have never been in battle. Intellect is important but the will to use force and to use it effectively. THAT is paramount.

    You have to out think an opponent, outmaneuver them and overpower them with stunning force.
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  • Posted by wgingram1 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You are probably correct. As long as you believe something to be true it becomes true.

    As for myself, I will fight till my last breath or the last drop of blood drips from my body but along the way I will find others who are willing to fight and stand up and fight back.

    If I die, I will die in good company.

    If I die alone it is because there are to many spineless people like yourself.

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    Posted by wgingram1 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You obviously were not paying attention.

    People with character and morals do not surrender their character. They already have character and are not dependent on others. Intelligence is learned and if you have not learned in a reasonable period of time you become one of the problems and not one of the solutions.
    If we surrender our character, we have nothing left.
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    Posted by wgingram1 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You obviously weren't paying attention or have the intelligence to comprehend. You are of typical low brow thinkers and are of no consequence in the scheme of things.
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    Posted by wgingram1 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You are already a serf. You are just not intellectually smart enough to think for yourself We can easily do without your input
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    Posted by wgingram1 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You obviously do not understand logic and moral thought, YOU are the the ones we have to eliminate or reeducate. Lots of luck in understanding the most basic principals of human morality.
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  • Posted by JossAmbrose 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "there's too many of "them" and not enough of "us.""

    Just like the UK. Most people I know are Lefty idiots. Their 'morality' is everywhere. All I've seen for the past 24 hours is people blindly defending Islam & witch hunting anyone who's even slightly miffed at the fact that someone's been hacked to death by two rabid racists screaming "Allahu Akbar". This mindset is ingrained too deeply in society now & regrettably I think the only thing that will turn people back to rationality is a full blown take over by the Communists. We'll all be saying "I told you so" at that point but it'll be too late. We'll need a real Gulch to escape to before too long.
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  • Posted by overmanwarrior 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The best way to beat "them" is with intellect, not force. Intellect destroys them since "they" represent non-thinking collectivism. Their goal is to provoke a sense of desperation. But it is easily defeated with thought.
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  • Posted by 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Really? I never read that philosophy in any of her books ... not in the Fountainhead, not in Atlas Shrugged, not in Anthem, and not in We the Living. Besides, I refuse to be a serf.
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  • Posted by 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No, I don't believe people will stand up, join ranks, and defeat the left. As I said before, there's too many of "them" and not enough of "us." The problems are too severe, too intertwined, and we've gone too far over the precipice to recover from the meltdown that looms on the horizon. I don't mind relying on myself. I'm a survivor. I certainly don't consider myself "lost."
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  • Posted by wgingram1 10 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You - because you think people will stand up and join ranks and defeat the left.

    You and I (and a very few others) are willing to do so but the rest just quake in their boots and don't want to get involved.

    I guess we (both) are poor lost soles...............
    We have only ourselves to rely on.
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  • Posted by BenjaminGrimm 10 years, 11 months ago
    In reply to your comment, "2) Our educational system is broken ... even our teachers and administrators change test scores and engage in sex with students. A country won't prosper when its citizens can't read and write, can't critically think, and don't know the Constitution.", I never miss a chance to mention this book:

    Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, or Add by Charles J. Sykes


    http://www.amazon.com/Dumbing-Down-Our-K...
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    Posted by wgingram1 10 years, 11 months ago
    One solution. Overwhelm the system. Become a social leach (financially) Get Section 8 housing. Get Food Stamps, go on welfare. Sell your valuables and turn it into gold and silver. Hide it. Become a burden on society till society itself collapses.

    Pick up the pieces and start all over again..THAT is what Ayn Rand understood.
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