[Grovenet] An interesting view of a legacy . . .
Ed Davie
edavie at verizon.net
Sun Feb 10 13:52:09 PST 2008
Well said, Walt!
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: Walt Wentz
To: Forest Grove local interests list
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] An interesting view of a
legacy . . .
Steve:
For "substantive content," one has only to look
at the current news.
Ordinary working Americans are losing jobs,
savings and hope; the
phrase "living income" has apparently become an
obscenity, never to
be spoken in the circles of power; The
super-rich, and those
"artificial persons" known as corporations, have
come to monopolize
the vast majority of the nation's wealth, and
that percentage is
increasing every day, with the active connivance
and assistance of
the present administration (read: "permanent tax
cuts;") while the
sons and daughters of our working poor (which
will soon mean most of
us, given current trends), having no other hope
of ever improving
their lot through higher education, are
enlisting in an apparently
endless war, hoping that they will emerge from
service alive and with
brains undamaged for the sake of the mere
pittance for "educational
assistance" which has replaced the old G.I. Bill
that made our
country great.
Substantive content? Our supposedly
"conservative" government, far
from maintaining its cherished old "existing
views, conditions or
institutions" regarding small government, fiscal
responsibility and
noninterference, has been borrowing and spending
like a drunken
sailor, building up a national debt which will
crush our descendants
for generations to come. The future of our
economy is now at the
mercy of foreign governments which have to real
reason to wish us
well... China, Saudi Arabia, other nations who
hold trillions in US
dollars in their national treasuries, and who
could collapse the
American economy like a house of cards merely
by releasing a flood
of those dollars on the international market.
Substantive content? Osama bin Laden is still
alive, free and
inspiring another generation of jihadists, six
years after our
present administration swore vengeance and swift
victory;
Afghanistan, which was supposed to become a free
and law-abiding
nation,has instead produced all-time record
crops of opium last year,
resulting an actual over-supply of heroin for
the world's crime
syndicates and drug addicts, while the Taliban
are back, striking
down agents of change and their own people
apparently at will, while
their own casualties are replaced by more
jihadists flowing through
the lawless tribal areas of our supposedly brave
and loyal ally,
Pakistan. Despite all the encouraging propaganda
from our
administration, one has only to read the news
from the BBC and other
foreign services to realize Afghanistan is
rapidly becoming a "failed
state," a chaotic collection of drug fiefdoms
and mutually hostile
tribes, sects and clans, ruled by brutal
warlords and Taliban
zealots-- all this because our present
administration decided to
divide our forces for a fraudulent and utterly
irrational invasion of
Iraq, a nation that had been so badly defeated
and disrupted it could
not defend its own borders against its own
neighbors, let alone the
US Army.
More than five years after "Mission
Accomplished," we are still
there... pushing a determined and resilient
"insurgency" from one
part of the country to another but never
actually defeating it, while
the weak puppet government we installed engages
in endless mutual
backstabbing and thievery, and billions of
American reconstruction
dollars continue to flow into a bottomless black
hole of corruption,
and both Iraqis and Americans continue to die--
despite the
triumphant announcements when "fewer" die in a
given month than in
another.
Substantive content? (Expletive deleted!) The
world is echoing with
"substantive content," while our supposedly
"conservative"
administration continues to mouth political
slogans, tries to
distract us with "God, guns and gays" and
attempts to scapegoat those
problems they cannot ignore or deny onto illegal
immigrants-- that
is, the economic refugees fleeing the
devastation wrought by our own
"free-trade" agreements with their home
countries.
Sorry if I seem angry and overheated. I am
ordinarily of an
idealistic and optimistic nature, but the
"substantive content" of
our present situation would be enough to
infuriate a statue.
Walt
>Walt,
>
>
>And , likewise, liberal propogandization has
changed the definition of
>conservative from " tending or disposed to
maintain existing views,
>conditions, or institutions, marked by
moderation or caution" to
> " reactionaries, bigots, chickenhawks and
the assorted other frauds and
>fakers. "
>
>I wish both sides would just grow up and limit
discussions to substantive
>content.
>
>
>Steve
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Walt Wentz" <waltw at teleport.com>
>To: "Forest Grove local interests list"
<grovenet at rdrop.com>
>Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 9:51 PM
>Subject: Re: [Grovenet] An interesting view of
a legacy . . .
>
>
>> >Walt,
>>>
>>>So, you are saying that " reactionaries,
bigots, chickenhawks and the
>>>assorted other frauds and fakers " are
exclusively conservative?
>>
>> Nope. Only that suchlike have hijacked the
"conservative" label.
>> Meanwhile, through 30 years of sustained
propagandizing, they have
>> managed to change the label of "liberal"
from its dictionary
>> definition of "generous, tolerant, free," to
"crazy criminal-coddling
>> commie-lovin' tax-and-spend treasonous
sinners."
>>
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