America The Greatest Country In The world?

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by Mr MojoRisin

I remember over seven years ago a silly little Liberal said he was going to Fundamentally Transform America. Apparently a lot of people agreed with him because they apparently didn't think America was all that great, and voted him in as president. I don't think great countries need transformations, especially when the so called transformation is far from an improvement.

Jim

I was cautiously optimistic when the pirates got the business end of the "green light" off the African coast, but as events developed over the years I gotten the impression he was on a putting GREEN somewhere and didn't even know about it!

If he'll stand by and let the young men in Chicago slaughter each other, and suggest the person who massacred all the Gays in Orlando just needs a hug, there's little hope for this country if that mentality persists.

[IIFFOFRDB]

Sum bitch gets me misty, every time!

[DSK]

Originally Posted by LexusLover

The reason why it's a great country now is we have plenty of people in it now who have the ability and desire to make it better than it is, and hopefully better than it was before. There will be many who won't like some of the changes, but they will enjoy the results like they did before when it was revitalized. If they won't agree to sit on the bench and stay out of the way, perhaps they can be persuaded to do so. But they will remain on the bench, unless they want to be a part of the solution.

That is a pretty good answer, and I hope those fighting to restore America are able to do so. Brexit actually gives me hope that the world will figure out what a fraud the globalists are, basically con men lining their own pockets with filthy lucre.

[Mr MojoRisin]

Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDB

Sum bitch gets me misty, every time!

For some reason your video isn't working, but that is the same video link I posted at the start of the thread.

Jim

[IIFFOFRDB]

0zombies are FUCKING with us, NO DOUBT... I Love me some Southem...

[LexusLover]

"NO DOUBT... I Love me some Southem..."

Looks like the Lady Constable might be a little sweet on her also .... nice cleavage.

[TheDaliLama]

America The Greatest Country In The world?

Of Course it is. Name me one better.

Then again....if we keep going in the Democrat, Liberal, Progressive, Socialist, Commie, Obama, Clinton, Sanders, Pelosi, Reed, Sharpton, Grubber, Occupy, Kerry, Tofu eating, Yogurt sucking...path we've been on....

Then I'm moving my fat ass to Costa Rica!

$500/month with maid on the beach......where the nipples point up!

[DSK]

Originally Posted by TheDaliLama

America The Greatest Country In The world?

Of Course it is. Name me one better.

Then again....if we keep going in the Democrat, Liberal, Progressive, Socialist, Commie, Obama, Clinton, Sanders, Pelosi, Reed, Sharpton, Grubber, Occupy, Kerry, Tofu eating, Yogurt sucking...path we've been on....

Then I'm moving my fat ass to Costa Rica!

$500/month with maid on the beach......where the nipples point up!

Switzerland by a mile, Austria by a half mile, etc. Lots of countries have more freedom, better governance, better education systems, magnificent culture, etc...

I know a bunch of guys who love Costa Rica, the Philippines, Thailand....

Amerika ain't what it used to be....

[TheDaliLama]

Originally Posted by DSK

Switzerland by a mile, Austria by a half mile, etc. Lots of countries have more freedom, better governance, better education systems, magnificent culture, etc...

I know a bunch of guys who love Costa Rica, the Philippines, Thailand....

Amerika ain't what it used to be....

And none of those countries would have freedom if weren't for America.

[i'va biggen]

America, love it or leave it!!!

[CuteOldGuy]

America, Fix it or Fuck it.

[Texas Playboy]

While the authorship of this quotation is debated (most attribute it to Alexander Fraser Tytler, a late 18th century / early 19th century Scottish historian), I think it very brilliantly describes where the US has been and where it is going in it's greatness cycle:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

"The average age of the world's greatest civilisations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage."

While there is a lot of heat being generated in public debate today, it seems to me the great majority of Americans are truly apathetic, and we are firmly in the apathy to dependence part of the cycle. We are clearly headed back into bondage, I fear.

And it's really my generation (the Boomers) who have done this. We were bequeathed by the Greatest Generation with the greatest economy in the world, the strongest military in the world, a bulletproof debt/GDP ratio, a work ethic and a saving ethic. Because of my generation's addiction to consumption, we have consumed that economic bounty and worse, we have borrowed against our children's economic future to keep the consumption party going on.

The bottom one-third of Americans age 55-64 (pre-retirement Boomers) have ZERO saved for retirement. The middle third have less than 1 x their annual earnings saved. It is an unmitigated disaster coming because of the consumption party.

Amazingly, the Millennial Generation are too apathetic to understand what it is we have done to their futures. They are too deep into their own consumption, their tech connectedness lives, and frankly their sense of entitlement to realize they have been fleeced by their parents' generation. When they finally wake up and discover that we have not only emptied the cookie jar but have left them with too much debt to ever buy any cookies, my guess is they will (rightly) refuse to expand Social Security and let Boomers subsist on catfood. That's what they SHOULD do, anyway. Collectively, we deserve it.

Our glory days are over. The only reason that the stock market isn't reflecting this yet is that Europe, the only real investment market alternative, is in worse shape because they are a good 10-15 years further along in the march to socialism than we are. The US equity market is "the cleanest dirty shirt in the closet".

Reagan said it best:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."

[Mr MojoRisin]

Originally Posted by Texas Playboy

While the authorship of this quotation is debated (most attribute it to Alexander Fraser Tytler, a late 18th century / early 19th century Scottish historian), I think it very brilliantly describes where the US has been and where it is going in it's greatness cycle:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

"The average age of the world's greatest civilisations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage."

While there is a lot of heat being generated in public debate today, it seems to me the great majority of Americans are truly apathetic, and we are firmly in the apathy to dependence part of the cycle. We are clearly headed back into bondage, I fear.

And it's really my generation (the Boomers) who have done this. We were bequeathed by the Greatest Generation with the greatest economy in the world, the strongest military in the world, a bulletproof debt/GDP ratio, a work ethic and a saving ethic. Because of my generation's addiction to consumption, we have consumed that economic bounty and worse, we have borrowed against our children's economic future to keep the consumption party going on.

The bottom one-third of Americans age 55-64 (pre-retirement Boomers) have ZERO saved for retirement. The middle third have less than 1 x their annual earnings saved. It is an unmitigated disaster coming because of the consumption party.

Amazingly, the Millennial Generation are too apathetic to understand what it is we have done to their futures. They are too deep into their own consumption, their tech connectedness lives, and frankly their sense of entitlement to realize they have been fleeced by their parents' generation. When they finally wake up and discover that we have not only emptied the cookie jar but have left them with too much debt to ever buy any cookies, my guess is they will (rightly) refuse to expand Social Security and let Boomers subsist on catfood. That's what they SHOULD do, anyway. Collectively, we deserve it.

Our glory days are over. The only reason that the stock market isn't reflecting this yet is that Europe, the only real investment market alternative, is in worse shape because they are a good 10-15 years further along in the march to socialism than we are. The US equity market is "the cleanest dirty shirt in the closet".

Reagan said it best:

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."

Anybody who doesn't agree with this or at least understand it deserves to be horse whipped.


Jim

[DSK]

Originally Posted by Mr MojoRisin

Anybody who doesn't agree with this or at least understand it deserves to be horse whipped.


Jim

Amen to that but the greatest chance of getting horsewhipped would come from agreeing with what was said and running afoul of the liberal enforcers of orthodoxy.

[DSK]

Originally Posted by TheDaliLama

And none of those countries would have freedom if weren't for America.

Yes, the old America saved the world. That America is gone with the wind...so you get what we've got here today...and I don't like it anymore than you boys.