Amen. Fred Moir Lynn MA Diesel preferred.
>________________________________ > From: clay monroe <redgh...@comcast.net> >To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:35 PM >Subject: Re: [MBZ] Was Final gun comment now socializm > >I feel it has more to do with social issues than fear. We grew up either >having to bust our behinds to feed and clothe our family or were raised by >people who were not far removed from what is now considered farm life. Today >it all comes from the store, where everything is sanitized for our enjoyment. >No connection to the vicissitudes of life. City life has destroyed americans. > >Most of the nation (land mass) was not privy to super markets, TV, electricity >at the home, or sometimes indoor plumbing prior to WWII. City folks had all >sorts of luxe goodies, but rural people worked hard, and were one step from >starvation if it went wrong. They built their own homes, repaired what broke, >made their own clothing and cooked from scratch what had been grown in the >garden. Even some city people kept small livestock and had gardens if you had >a single family home. > >Durring the economic fiasco of the 30's you were scraping by and happy to have >heat and a meal for most of the populace. You knew somebody who had lost a >family member to the Great War in some way, be it death, gas, or shell shock. >You ate whatever nasty thing was on the plate because kids were starving in >india, and hitler was taking over europe. Then we sent another Great >Generation to defend liberty, and we prayed for their safe return. > >The children who came after those privations had it easy. Watch TV in your >new suburban cookie cutter house and eat a Swansons dinner with no other worry >than maybe the commies would nuke you. New cars, new homes, new movies and >diversions to keep your mind off life and how hard it used to be. Your >parents walked uphill both ways in the driving snow, up to their chest, to >school and had to dig up roots to make stone soup for dinner. Now those are >the stories being told to kids in China. > >We built up the cities, devastated the small farmers, paid the indolent to >remain so, and are surprised that nobody values life. Guns rights people >oppose abortion. Welfare pays you to have more children. Agribusiness >peddles toxic foods while big Pharma makes more drugs to balance the equation >of garbage in, cancer is good for business. There is no money in being >healthy, but incredible amounts to be made in managing health with all sorts >of alchemy and procedures to keep the bodies warm while the wallets are >drained. > >Americans no longer build a nation, they pillage the carcass of industry, >growing rich off of illusory wealth scams like Madoff or the housing bubble. >Toss heaps of cash at vaporware tech firms that promise unlimited energy from >imaginary solar or biofuels. Pump up financial firms that are no better than >the Crimson Permanent Assurance. > > > > > > >clay > > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
