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Re: Ants, grasshoppers and "America"
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Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:33:49 GMT
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Americans?
Americans would have to live in America.
But the America I remember is gone.
The one that helped Europe and Japan up out of the rubble of W.W.II.
The big Dam projects. The interstate Highway system, communication,
electrification, stuff that set an example for the rest of the world.
The one that promised a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage, and
people were
really willing to work for this.
When George Washington refused to be king.
The idea of the three branches of government.
A real effort, at avoiding, "abuse of power."
And what's left after Me, Me, 80's, the corporate greed and the lobbyists.
Global multinational corporate greed.
Windshield wiper blades are made in Mexico in inferior conditions, and people
in
Pennsylvania are unemployed. People have to work for $5.50 an hour, and
if they don't want the job there's an illegal, immigrant to take it as the
government turns a blind eye.
A short memory span for the all the stuff our government has done overseas
that
embarrasses and appalls most of the people of America, nurturing questionable
characters when it serves our interest: Terrorists Tyrants, drug dealers,
mobsters,
like when, Bush was in the CIA and helped create Bin Laden.
And All that's left is, corporate greed, big oil, big banking, and the
military industrial complex.
-----Original message ------
Here's a simple solution. If the Government stops taking our money they
cannot give it away.
If Government stayed small in the first place there would
be no taking from one and giving to another. If there were no Fed
Healthcare, Public Schools, Social Security and the like then everyone could
take care of themselves and there would be no place to take from the rich
and give to the poor, or as you see it...take from the poor and give to the
rich. If American's are as smart as they think they are then you would think
they could do things for them selves (like save money) and not have to have
the government step in and make life difficult (and "unfair") for them.
----- Original Message -----
Oh, I see you've been reading up on the Republicans' new campaign
strategy. Now, let me tell you the REAL story...
The rich oil ants spent almost a billion dollars to get their 'brother'
Bush-ant elected president, so that he could give them the greedy tax
breaks they desired. The first week in Bush-ant's presidency, he awarded
the rich oil ants with 75 billion U.S. tax dollars. Not knowing what to
'do' with all those billions, they decided to use some of it to bribe
Congress to allow them to drill in Alaska's prestine wilderness.
Bush-ant #2 (have to try harder) is governor of Florida and received oodles
of oily
money to get elected, promising NO OIL DRILLING OFF FLORIDA SHORES--and
immediately started handing out oil leases to the big oil ants.
While all the middle income grasshoppers (who are the REAL workers in the
U.S.) got an average of $300 measily bucks of tax refund, the oil ants lived
it up to billions and billions, along with other rich ants who got
billions and billions. Gov Bush ant #2 gave away so much money to his oily
chumps
that Florida has no money for silly expenses, like schools, health care
to mothers and children, and hot school lunches for underprivlege kids.
Now Florida and the Federal government are almost broke and the economy is as
bad as it was when Bush-ant's Bush-ant-daddio was president.
Republicans steal from the poor, and give to the rich. The trickle down
theory never gets any further than people who make over $100K. Poor
folks be damned.
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| Well, I only have one thing to say. I have as many complaints with the US as the rest of you, BUT, to borrow from Richard Feynman, don't bother to criticize if you don't have an alternative solution to offer. Do something, don't sit around and talk (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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