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
.
.
Check your premises.
http://www.civilwarcauses.org/steph2....
Slavery was not a side issue.
This isn't always the case. For example as Eastman Kodak was going under, the board brought in a new CEO, George Fisher from Motorola, to attempt to "save the company". To bring him on they had to offer a very lucrative contract (obscenely lucrative, IMHO) because no self respecting exec would want to sully his name with a catastrophic failure. Saving a fast falling multi-billion dollar multi-national company is no easy task and, as many expected, it went under in spite of any attempts to save it. George got his "golden parachute" contract fulfilled, which was not illegal in any way in spite of making some people angry over the size of it. [ Side note: Almost all the workers got pretty decent severance packages compared to other companies that went under.]
Keep it up Conservatives, you'll wake up in 2017 with the same kind of nonsense you've lived with for your lifetime.
for their actions;;; I do not resent anyone's pay if it doesn't involve
force or coercion!!! . this is a tough area in which to imagine laws
or methods of arriving at justice, isn't it??? -- j
.
if the unwise expenditure of bucks in the contract left some
people enriched just before the failure of the company,
the argument could be made that those enriched folks
should cough up the extra bucks to pay creditors during
the dissolution of the company. . What Say Ye? -- j
.
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/march...
Also worth noting is that in 1860 the Democratic Party split into northern and southern factions, nominating separate presidential candidates and helping to facilitate the election of Lincoln. Was the tariff to blame? No, the issue that split the Democrats apart was – slavery.
Lincoln was elected on the tariff issue that he and his supporters were well aware would likely cause at the very least nullification of the tariff by southern states. The tariff of abominations had been tried once before and South Carolina had voted to nullify it. They knew that South Carolina would vehemently oppose it, having declared the earlier version unconstitutional, and that other southern states would likely side with South Carolina. This was a traitorous political move by the looter Whigs and it caused the war.
All that said, I would also propose that the southern people were likely misled by the southern politicians catering to southern plantation owners, and the northern people were likely misled by northern politicians catering to northern manufacturers. That is what politicians do.
http://civilwarhome.com/csaconstituti...
So “The government of the south is not a good example of the people of the south”? It looks to me like an overwhelming reflection of the white people of the south.
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/what-...
If shareholders could push the boardroom to not be so generous with their money maybe some sanity can be restored in executive pay.
As for the taxpayer funding part, that argument (as I said above) is with the legitimacy of a Great Welfare/Bailout State in a supposedly free economy not with private enterprise boardroom decision making, as fine or foolish as it may be.
As a side note, I have traded/invested in numerous companies over the years and one of the criteria I look at is how much stock/bonds does the management carry in their own companies (by insider trading law this has to be public knowledge for public corporations). It is also important to check if they are buying or selling and why, especially for smaller companies. I am very reluctant to purchase stock in a company whose executives won't hold (or are selling) stock in it themselves.
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