The wars were never really about DEFENDING AMERICA! --- try telling that to the warmongers in our military
they need to go get some productive jobs or start a business that doesn't suck on our tax dollars On Apr 15, 10:04 am, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > We're Number 1, We're Number 1by Don Cooper > I love Facebook. It’s given me a chance to see just how many out right > socialists and borderline communists and fascists there are in America. > People my age who grew up during the cold war and who, at the drop of a hat, > would have denounced such things as evil and inhumane now advocate it with > every breath. In fact I’ve had people tell me that free markets and no social > programs is what would be inhumane. I wish they’d make up their minds. > An old high school colleague of mine said to me: "we all have to sacrifice > for the greater good". Which of course isa quote taken directly from Obama. > That’s another thing I’ve noticed about the socialist class: they don’t think > for themselves. Everything they say is a sound bite, a statistic or a quote > from someone else that has been washed into their brains. There’s no actual > reason or logic to their arguments just feelings and other people’s thoughts. > "We all have to sacrifice for the greater good" is also a hallmark > ofcollectivismwhich puts any kind of group (such as a class, nation, race, > society, state, etc.) before the individual which, by definition, is the > hallmark of socialism, communism and fascism. Wow! > Now this is the point where some readers will say: Coop’s got his head in the > bottle again; to which I’ll reply: so what? Just because I drink and the > members of government wear suits and ties, have Anglo-Saxon names and drive a > Ford doesn’t mean they aren’t socialist, communist or fascist. It’s the new > face of fascism brought to you by America. > Did I mention that my colleague is a public school teacher? Moving right > along. > I had another colleague say to me that she didn’t mind getting violated a > little bit by the TSA when they subject her to a body pat down. > I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten into it with TSA trolls at an > airport security checkpoint. And I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard: > "you give up your rights when you enter the security area". > Really? After entering a TSA security area I no longer have any rights? I no > longer have a right to live? Does the TSA feel that it’s perfectly within > their power to kill me if they want? I no longer have a right to my private > property? Does the TSA feel that it’s perfectly within their power to steal > my things? Of course I don’t believe that nonsense but my former colleague > seems to and has no problem "making the sacrifice for the greater good" and > feels that I should too. Did I mention she too is a public school teacher? > Seeing a trend here? Moving right along. > More recently a gentleman on Facebook posed to me that I was being naïve if I > thought that private charities could address all the people in need in this > country and that’s why we must have government social programs. When I first > read that I thought to myself: I’m out of whiskey. That statement is so > incomplete, so shallow, so narrow minded that I wondered if this guy’s head > could fit in a jar. Where to begin pulling such a ridiculous statement > apart?Welfare fraudscosts taxpayers billions every year. At what point do you > ask if the benefits outweigh the costs? The costs cannot simply be ignored > and the merits of the program judged solely on the perceived benefits. > And what about the benefits? Since the inception of welfare, welfare > recipients have found ways to cheat the system and rather than spending their > taxpayer dollars on the necessities until they can get back on their feet > they spend it onalcohol, cigarettes and lottery tickets. So you have to ask > yourself what benefit is that to the recipient? How is that helping them? > It’s not; in fact it’s hurting them by enabling their bad habits. Many of > which may be the very reason for their economic situation and the need for > welfare in the first place. > I’d say that anyone believing that any version of a government welfare > program is a net benefit to society is clearly the one who is naïve. > In any case there are obviously those that either choose to ignore the facts > surrounding social programs or they simply don’t have the intellectually > capacity to understand it. > Still others I believe make a conscience effort to block it out like a bad > night of drinking when you wake up broke and with a pocket full of ATM > receipts and you can’t remember how you got home. > I get it too. I understand why people wouldn’t want to face the truth about > the government that is supposed to be protecting their rights: it’s scary as > hell! Those who have managed to unplug from the matrix may recall the day > that the first ray of clarity entered their stream of thought, cracked their > old conditioned mindset and their life has never been the same. It’s > literally like seeing the light. It’s like the first time you let a slinky go > down a staircase. You want to find out how many other cool things you can do > with it now. It’s like a whole new world has been opened up to you. You see > the world in a way you never have before. And then the fear sets in. The fear > that you’ve just realized that everything you’ve ever thought was true about > the government and America was a lie! The fear that the government is the > greatest perpetrator of crimes and injustice in our society and around the > world. But it’s too late now, you can never go back. You know the truth and > it’s sad, even heartbreaking. > You realize that: America really isn’t NUMBER ONE! Americans really aren’t > FREE! America really isn’t a DEMOCRACY! The wars were never really about > DEFENDING AMERICA! > That’s enough to drive anyone to drink. That’s why I > drink.http://www.lewrockwell.com/cooper/cooper41.1.html -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
