tangent4ronpaul
05-19-2008, 10:37 PM
It's funny how people reacted to that (9/11). I've only met one other person that reacted the same way I did, which was being stunned for about a second, and then a chill ran through my body and a feeling of impending dread and doom formed in the pit of my stomach - as I realized how the government would react to the incident. That we were not immediately put under martial law is the only upside - the rest of it has or is coming to pass - the patriot act, and the other non-sense.
Then we invaded the right country, failed to invade other countries that were involved, but rather developed closer ties with them, invaded the wrong country, got more of our citizens killed than died on 9/11 and destabilized the region. Managed to turn worldwide sympathy and support into animosity, destabilized our own economy and have engaged in a war on our own citizens civil rights and the foundations of our country and declared war on a tactic - all to keep us "safe". A war on a tactic?
In the middle of this, we had a major disaster - but there are no media led calls for memorials or remembrance services for those victims. Instead our government sends people down to help, who instead hinder rescue efforts, then break a bunch of international treaties and declare war on the weather. Another secret war - out of the media spotlight. A war on the weather?
Now to fix some of the problems some of our presidential candidates are calling for pulling some of our troops our of Iraq, or drawing up a plan for withdrawing - sometime... while in the same breath speak of “intervening” in several other countries. To give the impression they are "doing something", to deal with the economy, we are being forced to take out a loan against ourselves, or more likely our grandchildren so a small bandaid can be applied to the economic mess they created. One that if fact, makes the situation somewhat worse.
We have a Congress full of compulsive spenders that are incapable of budgeting or saving. A group of people that are happy to pay a third of government revenues (taxes) in interest on loans to China and other countries, while never mentioning the word “debt”. Instead, they focus on the word “deficit”, that being the difference between what taxes have brought in and what has been spent + the interest on the loan. If there is money left over, instead of paying off some of the debt, they declare it a “surplus” and go on a spending orgy.
As I watch our Congress and executive branch, I really have to wonder if I live in a psychiatric ward – the wing with the padded rooms and jackets with wrap around sleeves... It is times like these when I really wish I could get my hands on a stash of “red pills” - so I could take one myself or more importantly, so I could spike the punch at the next Congressional shin dig.
-n
Then we invaded the right country, failed to invade other countries that were involved, but rather developed closer ties with them, invaded the wrong country, got more of our citizens killed than died on 9/11 and destabilized the region. Managed to turn worldwide sympathy and support into animosity, destabilized our own economy and have engaged in a war on our own citizens civil rights and the foundations of our country and declared war on a tactic - all to keep us "safe". A war on a tactic?
In the middle of this, we had a major disaster - but there are no media led calls for memorials or remembrance services for those victims. Instead our government sends people down to help, who instead hinder rescue efforts, then break a bunch of international treaties and declare war on the weather. Another secret war - out of the media spotlight. A war on the weather?
Now to fix some of the problems some of our presidential candidates are calling for pulling some of our troops our of Iraq, or drawing up a plan for withdrawing - sometime... while in the same breath speak of “intervening” in several other countries. To give the impression they are "doing something", to deal with the economy, we are being forced to take out a loan against ourselves, or more likely our grandchildren so a small bandaid can be applied to the economic mess they created. One that if fact, makes the situation somewhat worse.
We have a Congress full of compulsive spenders that are incapable of budgeting or saving. A group of people that are happy to pay a third of government revenues (taxes) in interest on loans to China and other countries, while never mentioning the word “debt”. Instead, they focus on the word “deficit”, that being the difference between what taxes have brought in and what has been spent + the interest on the loan. If there is money left over, instead of paying off some of the debt, they declare it a “surplus” and go on a spending orgy.
As I watch our Congress and executive branch, I really have to wonder if I live in a psychiatric ward – the wing with the padded rooms and jackets with wrap around sleeves... It is times like these when I really wish I could get my hands on a stash of “red pills” - so I could take one myself or more importantly, so I could spike the punch at the next Congressional shin dig.
-n