Letter to liberals from my e-mail
we received this today and thought that it might be
worth sharing:::
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives,
socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters:
We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake
of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has
made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated
each other for many years for the sake of future generations,
but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever
agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly
terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable
differences and go our own way.
Here is our separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass,
each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but
I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement.
After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective
representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both
sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.
You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops,
the NRA and the military.
We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and
you can go with wind, solar and bio-diesel.
You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You
are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle
big enough to move all three of them.
We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical
companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street.
You can have your beloved lifelong welfare-dwellers, food
stamps, homeless (except for the Vets), homeboys, hippies,
druggies and illegal aliens.
We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey-moms, greedy CEOs
and rednecks.
We'll keep Bill O'Reilly and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.
You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right
to invade and hammer places which threaten us.
You can have the peaceniks and war protesters.
When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help
provide them security.
We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political
correctness and Shirley MacLaine. You can also have the U.N. –
but we will no longer be paying the bill.
We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars.
You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.
You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors.
We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."
I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine," "I'd Like to Teach
the World to Sing," "Kum Ba Ya" or "We Are the World."
We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to
give trickle up poverty your best shot.
Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name
and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other
like-minded liberal and conservative patriots, and if you do not
agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you
might think about which one of us will need whose help
in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student, and an American
P.S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin & Charlie
Sheen, Barbara Streisand and (Hanoi) Jane Fonda with you.
P.P.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English
when you call our country.
-- j, prompted by jlc
.
worth sharing:::
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives,
socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters:
We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake
of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has
made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated
each other for many years for the sake of future generations,
but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever
agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly
terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable
differences and go our own way.
Here is our separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass,
each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but
I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement.
After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective
representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both
sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.
You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops,
the NRA and the military.
We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and
you can go with wind, solar and bio-diesel.
You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You
are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle
big enough to move all three of them.
We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical
companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street.
You can have your beloved lifelong welfare-dwellers, food
stamps, homeless (except for the Vets), homeboys, hippies,
druggies and illegal aliens.
We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey-moms, greedy CEOs
and rednecks.
We'll keep Bill O'Reilly and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.
You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right
to invade and hammer places which threaten us.
You can have the peaceniks and war protesters.
When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help
provide them security.
We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political
correctness and Shirley MacLaine. You can also have the U.N. –
but we will no longer be paying the bill.
We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars.
You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.
You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors.
We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."
I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine," "I'd Like to Teach
the World to Sing," "Kum Ba Ya" or "We Are the World."
We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to
give trickle up poverty your best shot.
Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name
and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other
like-minded liberal and conservative patriots, and if you do not
agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you
might think about which one of us will need whose help
in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student, and an American
P.S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin & Charlie
Sheen, Barbara Streisand and (Hanoi) Jane Fonda with you.
P.P.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English
when you call our country.
-- j, prompted by jlc
.
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Had the war not occurred slavery would have died and culture would have changed rapidly. There were very few slave owners and when it became unprofitable those would have switched or bankrupted (unless the GOP thought slavery would advance their power.) The culture would have undergone immense changes and by the 40s it would have been completely (and unpredictably) different. The war and reconstruction caused immense hostility in the southerners toward the north, and that adversely affected relations between blacks and whites. WIthout the destruction of the south in the war that effectively enslaved the southern survivors, the south would have adapted relatively quickly to the economic disadvantage of slavery. By the time you were born it would have been a different world. But that didn't happen because Lincoln wanted to enslave southerners to the nothern corporatocracy, and after murdering 600,000, Lincoln got his wish.
scot-free with their millions, unscathed. . that's what the
taxpayers are funding, it appears to me. . golden parachutes
for mis-managers. -- j
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Looks like the Devil's Advocate Strategy is the most likely way to go. Vote for whomever will finish the destruction and start over from scratch.
Not enough cooperation too much pontificating. Too much preaching no plan of action.
For a present-day example of culture overpowering economics (and common sense), consider the anti-drug laws and the extent of their enforcement.
Liberal - lacking restraint, not bound by orthodoxy or traditional forms, progressive ideals, one who favors religious freedoms - We want it all and we want it now. Pragmatic.
From three different pre-PC dictionaries.
Of course the winner gets to rewrite the dictionary but going fifty years one can easily find the majority of the status quo conservatives are currently sitting in the White House and the Government Party (Democrats RINOS) of the Congress.
The outsiders wanting in are now the liberals. Progressive to them is re-instating the Constitution and Religious Freedom has nought to do with DNC/RINO Inc.
The point is those in power build castles to defend. Those not in power build battering rams
So those of you who are of the former liberal present day conservative persuasion.
Except when it comes to scamming and bilking the working classes.
a mess of things and we in the rest of the u.s. must
make up for it. . like the GM bail-out paid for by us taxpayers.
there ain't no free lunch. -- j
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and the shareholders get nothing. . that's the government way
of handling a bankruptcy. -- j
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Let's say I invest $1,000 in a company worth $3,000,000. Let say over 5 years I earn $75 per year. That is a total of $375. Let's say there are 2,000 other investors who have invested $2,000 each, and each earning $150 per year totaling $750 each over 5 years. That is a total investment of $4,001,000, and total earnings of the shareholders over 5 years of $1,500,750. My percentage of the investment is .02% and the other 2,000 investors percentage is .05% each for a total of 99.98%.
Then let's say the company goes under, (because they have been paying a CEO $2,000,000 a year salary). Let's say the company owes $10,000,000 to vendors and banks in goods, services and loans. My share of what is owed is $2,500. ($10,000,000 X .02%). So even though I invested $1,000 and earned an additional $375, I still have to pay my share of the debt. And so do the other shareholders. What is so hard to understand about this?
Likewise, if grandma holds bonds in a failed corporation that I hold stock in, she and her lawyers might get the value of my shares, but will not be able to raid the rest of my personal wealth. THAT is the risk SHE took.
Incorporation places a fire wall between an individuals unrelated personal wealth and the equity that individual has invested in the given enterprise. NOW grandma's house can't be taken if she owns stock in a company that fails, but if you change the law so that fire wall is taken away, then grandma's house will be up for grabs.
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