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In article <8gb718phrojm2ro0ujlliqj0v1vj7tmo8d@4ax.com>,
 Steve <stevencanyon@yahooooo.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:35:52 -0700, Billy <wildbilly@withoutta.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <rk7618hsldid0mk8ieblne6okt7q42fau8@4ax.com>,
> > Steve <stevencanyon@yahooooo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:55:52 -0700, Billy <wildbilly@withoutta.net>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >In article <bc33185sbjbgb7b8mlntl3s4si973sp1as@4ax.com>,
> >> > Steve <stevencanyon@yahooooo.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:25:40 +0000 (UTC), 3082 Dead <dead@gone.com>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> 
> >> >> >On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:08:16 -0500, Libertarian Lilly wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> A lesson in  irony: The U.S. Food Stamp Program, administered  by 
> >> >> >> the
> >> >> >> U.S.
> >> >> >> Department of Agriculture, is actually proud of the fact it is
> >> >> >> distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever.
> >> >> >> They even  advertise how to access the program on Mexican  TV!
> >> >> >> Meanwhile,  the National Park Service, administered by the U.S.
> >> >> >> Department of the Interior,  asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the
> >> >> >> Animals." Their stated reason for the policy  is because the animals
> >> >> >> will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to  take care of
> >> >> >> themselves. This ends today's lesson.
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >Gee, a record number of people who need public aid in order to just 
> >> >> >survive, and you DON'T see this as a colossal failure of the free 
> >> >> >market 
> >> >> >system?
> >> >> 
> >> >> Actually it's a colossal failure of the Democrats social programs that
> >> >> teaches lazy losers like Zepp that he has a right to be taken care of.
> >> >
> >> >And a colossal success for Republican corporate welfare programs that 
> >> >protect fraudulent investment bankers, even if it does leave workers 
> >> >without jobs, homes, or a retirement income.
> >> 
> >> I'm sorry that you lost your job.  I really am...  I'm saddened by the
> >> fact that so many Americans thought they could continue to get by on
> >> poor, uncompetitive, and dispensable skills.
> >Much like your writing.
> >
> >And the government's job is to establish Justice, insure domestic 
> >Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general 
> >Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our 
> >Posterity. That to secure these rights, Governments are 
> >instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the 
> >governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of 
> >these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and 
> >to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles 
> >and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most 
> >likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." So it says, right here in 
> >the rule book.
> >
> >I'd say those boys have been lying down on the job for at least 32 years.
> 
> I understand.  You needed the government to be more like your mommy..
The shrinking attention span fostered by video is closely tied to the 
anti-intellectual force in American culture: the erosion of general 
knowledge.

People accustomed to hearing their president explain complicated policy 
choices by snapping "I'm the decider" may find it almost impossible to 
imagine the pains that Franklin D. Roosevelt took, in the grim months 
after Pearl Harbor, to explain why U.S. armed forces were suffering one 
defeat after another in the Pacific. In February 1942, Roosevelt urged 
Americans to spread out a map during his radio "fireside chat" so that 
they might better understand the geography of battle. 

The new American dumbness: not lack of knowledge per se but arrogance 
about that lack of knowledge. The problem is not just the things we do 
not know (consider the one in five American adults who, according to the 
National Science Foundation, thinks the sun revolves around the Earth); 
it's the alarming number of Americans who have smugly concluded that 
they do not need to know such things in the first place. Call this 
anti-rationalism -- a syndrome that is particularly dangerous to our 
public institutions and discourse. Not knowing a foreign language or the 
location of an important country is a manifestation of ignorance; 
denying that such knowledge matters is pure anti-rationalism. The toxic 
brew of anti-rationalism and ignorance hurts discussions of U.S. public 
policy on topics from health care to taxation.

We have tried stupid before. Now we need to be smart.

Nearly 14 million Americans are jobless and the outlook for many of them 
is grim. Since there is just one job available for every five 
individuals looking for work, four of the five are out of luck. Instead 
of a land of opportunity, the U.S. is increasingly becoming a place of 
limited expectations.

Limitless greed, unrestrained corporate power and a ferocious addiction 
to foreign oil have led us to an era of perpetual war and economic 
decline. Young people today are staring at a future in which they will 
be less well off than their elders, a reversal of fortune that should 
send a shudder through everyone.

"I strongly agree that grassroots democracy grows from the local 
community up, but at the same time, we have a state of emergency I think 
at the national level. And to silence the only hope of an opposition 
voice in this election when so much is at stake, I think would be a 
terrible loss for the American people. There's no reason why Americans 
should have to walk into the voting booth in November and have only, 
effectively, two Wall Street-sponsored choices."
- Dr. Jill Stein
Green Party nominee for President of the United States


> 
> >Americans generally agree that lobbyists, major corporations, and banks 
> >have too much power, potentially making them vulnerable to calls for 
> >greater regulation.
> ><http://www.gallup.com/poll/147026/Americans-Decry-Power-Lobbyists-Corpor
> >ations-Banks-Feds.aspx>

-- 
Welcome to the New America.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg>
or
E Pluribus Unum
Green Party Nominee Jill Stein & Running Mate, Cheri Honkala
<http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/13/green_party_nominee_jill_stein_running>