tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641923323486284057.post716289356519047906..comments2024-02-15T10:41:10.376-07:00Comments on Outta the Cornfield: Telling It Like It IsOne Flyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772881642197609507noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641923323486284057.post-20358718081914283112008-07-01T16:54:00.000-07:002008-07-01T16:54:00.000-07:00One of my favorite quotes, posted recently at:http...One of my favorite quotes, posted recently at:<BR/>http://plowshareforge.blogspot.com/<BR/>“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”<BR/>Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953<BR/>When a society ignores such a self-evident truth, it gets just what it deserves. We allowed our country to be given to the corporations.<BR/>Now we’re having to eat the fruits of their labors.<BR/>If you’re worried and bothered about the direction America is going, the best advice I can think of is to stock up on essentials, get and learn to use a reliable firearm with ample ammunition, and keep your head down. That will give you a chance, at least, of going out in a blaze of glory when some of the government’s thugs come to your home to take the very last of of your rights away.<BR/>It’s pretty obvious Americans are not up to doing much of anything in the way of protesting or any other way of making a change in this country’s direction. And I’m as guilty as the rest of you.<BR/>(posted in comments earlier at http://www.susiemadrak.com/)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641923323486284057.post-59857207268308248742008-07-01T10:23:00.000-07:002008-07-01T10:23:00.000-07:00A month ago there was a 800K deficiet for fuel in ...A month ago there was a 800K deficiet for fuel in this county. Since then fuel has risen here 20 cents a gallon.<BR/><BR/>I agree on your point.One Flyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11108040947857599256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641923323486284057.post-67963700526768488922008-06-30T21:43:00.000-07:002008-06-30T21:43:00.000-07:00Iraq is a sufficient condition to explain our trou...Iraq is a sufficient condition to explain our troubles, but I don't think it's the only one. One of the reasons that state and local governments are in trouble is that the Federal government has reduced how much money goes to the states. That was partly to pay for all those tax reductions.Cujo359https://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1641923323486284057.post-7904673299798965512008-06-30T15:56:00.000-07:002008-06-30T15:56:00.000-07:00Amen! The economy is in the shitter because we sp...Amen! The economy is in the shitter because we spend billions of dollars on a war machine that we just don't need. We are crazy to put up with this when we could have quality education, medical care and a civil society instead.Life As I Know It Nowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03733963455243806298noreply@blogger.com