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Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:31
Do you think God is going to keep blessing this country?
Author: beav
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:31
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:31
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This is an excellent question now >> Our politicians don't even care about many people now or real issues the >> press as on cue makes the stories , not what is really happening. >> Millions without health insurance as we breed tens of millions more >> without insurance from illegal immigration. The press ignores it all >> including pollution and violence. >> People in our cities are ignored by press, millions unemployed. The best >> response to problems from the rich media and political system is to >> ignore ya. I have written to both media and politicians to explain to me >> the concept of having a way to measure pollution and then ignore the >> consequences or doing the tests to show possible harm. Rich made >> rules to ensure the rich give the rest of us hd TV and the choices.. they >> want us to have and the pollution and energy they want us to have and the >> politicians who basically have to be millionaires to get elected talk >> amongst themselves as if they are talking for the public.good.We are >> graduating less people in education, we are getting fatter and we ignore >> so many things about pollution and health and violence to protect the >> status quo.its sickening Now we are losing longevity to 41 other >> countries.in a new study. We certainly make the rules for control and >> better mouse trap for the rich but at what expense? We are undoubting a >> meaner society that mimics the gov that are suppose to set our role >> models.We are slowly defaulted to neglect, silence, control , uncaring >> and >> dysfunction. >> reporters seldom care about what the truth is or what the choices people >> want to >> reflect on. People are mean-spirited, and we offer many people welfare >> and >> that's it. Yahoo has took down message board, news stations and TV >> stations >> can effectively limit free speech whenever they want even on their sites. >> The sense of community has left us. People are out often enough to >> get the most out of someone else, drive crazy , make their own rules, >> and >> without care about others, >> neglect other peoples suffering and its just a matter of time before they >> stop paying disability and welfare. We have one in six on disability or >> welfare millions more on depression meds, and lots of times for good >> reasons. When we can't afford to absorb all the people who come here we >> will be in mass chaos. We have more >> violence and death from crime in this countries, then most wars going on >> now in the world .We have close to a million shootings a year in this >> country. Many people live in fear and have no voices. We have >> millionaires >> vying for >> election with reporters only covering if they get to ask the questions. >> We >> still have it good with our had TVs and welfare state but its certainly >> not going >> to last forever this way. We are defaulting to control instead of truth. We worship people who did drugs, we have sports fixed, sports people who take drugs to enhance are worshiped, we have thousands of people parking in handicapped zone in shopping centers who are not handicapped. > >> this is a great question by the way. Our city has 3 full good days of air >> out of 60, where going out here is like waddling in toxic soup, needing >> asthma >> meds and hyped medical centers 24 hours daily , with most depression and >> asthma and rising cancer as the reporters ignore telling us and reasons >> why, and politicians and reporters ignore it all.in the most amazing >> indifference to pain and suffering I have ever seen or the causes for it. >> This is what America has >> become. at least in some places. Like the billboard says.along our >> roads, >> " If you can sell ice to Eskimos we want >> you.." >> Its all about control and being strong by knocking the little guy out ( >> TV >> shows called kickboxing and wrestling) and not ratting on bad people and >> more >> power to energy companies and big corporations to co-opt caring and doing >> the >> right thing. >> Big record companies promote violence in rap and don't have a worry or >> responsibility who they infect. and it goes on and on and on. > > >in the 60s we could see a penny on the ground from space. That was close to >fifty years ago. I asked a reporter why we can't find terrorists joining an >organization without a organized army, communication system or air. and why >can't they ask this question. . The reporter dead silence. Allot of things >are a circle to provide jobs., if not most of the things I described >including poisoning kids would not happy. Do you think we are free >seriously?
Re: Do you think God is going to keep blessing this country?
Author: Karen Y Byrd
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:03
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:03
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:31:29 GMT, beav <thebeav@yahoo.com> wrote: >This is an excellent question now History teaches us that every single great civilization has had a birth cycle, a growth cycle and a decline(sometimes death) cycle. Some of these civilizations have a renaissance cycle. Some don't. Somehow you think the US can avoid(or should) the decline(or perhaps death)cycle. It can't.
Re: Do you think God is going to keep blessing this country?
Author: THX1138
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:32
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:32
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On Aug 13, 8:03 am, kyb...@pobox.upenn.edu (Karen Y Byrd) wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:31:29 GMT, beav <theb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >This is an excellent question now > > History teaches us that every single great civilization has had > a birth cycle, a growth cycle and a decline(sometimes death) cycle. > Some of these civilizations have a renaissance cycle. > Some don't. > > Somehow you think the US can avoid(or should) the decline(or > perhaps death)cycle. It can't. and why is that?
Re: Do you think God is going to keep blessing this country?
Author: beav
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:55
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:55
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"THX1138" <xxxTHX1138xxx@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1187008340.375580.169170@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > On Aug 13, 8:03 am, kyb...@pobox.upenn.edu (Karen Y Byrd) wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:31:29 GMT, beav <theb...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >This is an excellent question now >> >> History teaches us that every single great civilization has had >> a birth cycle, a growth cycle and a decline(sometimes death) cycle. >> Some of these civilizations have a renaissance cycle. >> Some don't. >> >> Somehow you think the US can avoid(or should) the decline(or >> perhaps death)cycle. It can't. > > and why is that? > people are learning its good to not care to do the right things. at least if being rewarded with contracts and exclusive control of industry and media is any example. We have many good things here but there is a slide going on based on people deciding to screw others not unlike the same issues confronting man from the beginning of civilization. All things are connected
Re: Do you think God is going to keep blessing this country?
Author: Karen Y Byrd
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:21
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:21
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:32:20 -0700, THX1138 <xxxTHX1138xxx@yahoo.com> wrote: >On Aug 13, 8:03 am, kyb...@pobox.upenn.edu (Karen Y Byrd) wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:31:29 GMT, beav <theb...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >This is an excellent question now >> >> History teaches us that every single great civilization has had >> a birth cycle, a growth cycle and a decline(sometimes death) cycle. >> Some of these civilizations have a renaissance cycle. >> Some don't. >> >> Somehow you think the US can avoid(or should) the decline(or >> perhaps death)cycle. It can't. > >and why is that? > I already told you. You just don't like what I said.
Re: Do you think God is going to keep blessing this country?
Author: hancock4
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:09
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:09
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On Aug 13, 8:03 am, kyb...@pobox.upenn.edu (Karen Y Byrd) wrote: > History teaches us that every single great civilization has had > a birth cycle, a growth cycle and a decline(sometimes death) cycle. > Some of these civilizations have a renaissance cycle. > Some don't. Very true. I was just thinking about the Spanish empire, how it managed to sail around the world so long ago and colonize so many different places and impose its culture on them. Then it all fell apart. I don't know their history to know why it all fell apart. (Spanish Armada loss? Spanish-American war loss?) England was the big world power and went bankrupt in WW II and never recovered. Actually WW I hurt England very badly. I think going socialist after WW II really hurt England's chance of recovery, it took far longer for it to recover from the war than it should've. Socialism killed investment incentive and bloated the government. > Somehow you think the US can avoid(or should) the decline(or > perhaps death)cycle. It can't. I have no crystal ball. But I thought the US was done for back in the 1960s when civil rights and anti-war demonstrations were tearing the country apart literally. Then there was a malaise of the 1970s. But the country did rebound nicely in the 1980s and onward. And of course the Depression was very dark but we survived. In the US the pendulum swung from socialism of the 1960s-70s to capitalism of the 1980s-date and now we're hurting as the capitalists got too greedy and sucked everything out. The rising tide did not lift all boats. In the meantime a big segment of society is locked into 'gimmee I'm entitled" handouts and won't let that go, letting itself rot in the process. NYC was a hellhole before Koch, Guilliani, and Bloomberg said "enough!" and literally and figuratively cleaned up the streets. The Broken Window theory really meant something, as did a simple thing like getting rid of the squeegee people (that Philadelphia refuses to do). Now NYC is thriving.
Re: Do you think God is going to keep blessing this country?
Author: Karen Y Byrd
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:15
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:15
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:09:49 -0700, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: >On Aug 13, 8:03 am, kyb...@pobox.upenn.edu (Karen Y Byrd) wrote: >> History teaches us that every single great civilization has had >> a birth cycle, a growth cycle and a decline(sometimes death) cycle. >> Some of these civilizations have a renaissance cycle. >> Some don't. > >Very true. I was just thinking about the Spanish empire, how it >managed to sail around the world so long ago and colonize so many >different places and impose its culture on them. Then it all fell >apart. I don't know their history to know why it all fell apart. >(Spanish Armada loss? Spanish-American war loss?) I would argue, though, that while Spain, itself, is no longer a world power what they left and how they influence us, in particular, is all around us right now. In the US's southwest there is name place after name place that's Spanish in origin. Then, obviously, it's the Spanish language that has almost transformed the country into one where support for Spanish seems to be growing because of the number here who speak it. >England was the big world power and went bankrupt in WW II and never >recovered. Oh, I would say that nowadays that isn't true. The UK has probably the most successful economy in W. Europe... well that's if you consider the UK part of Europe. They seem to be fine without using the Euro for instance. >> Somehow you think the US can avoid(or should) the decline(or >> perhaps death)cycle. It can't. > >I have no crystal ball. No, one does. And it could take a long time for any real decline to happen here. It took the western Roman Empire about 200-300 years to fully decline and end... that's longer than the United States has existed! I'm just using what I know about history to suggest that since every great civilization has followed the birth, growth, decline cycle there's no reason to believe that it can't happen here. In fact I believe that it's foolish to believe that it can't happen here. > But I thought the US was done for back in the >1960s when civil rights and anti-war demonstrations were tearing the >country apart literally. Oh, no. That was NOTHING compared to the Civil War and the aftermath of the Civil War, Reconstruction, which was the "2nd Civil War". Of course the Civil Rights Movement was Reconstruction Redux. > Then there was a malaise of the 1970s. But >the country did rebound nicely in the 1980s and onward. All in all Reagan was a good President. I can't believe I'm saying that... but I think, if you look at certain things, that it's true. > And of course >the Depression was very dark but we survived. FDR was like Lincoln in that he was the right person at the right time. >NYC was a hellhole before Koch, Guilliani, and Bloomberg said >"enough!" and literally and figuratively cleaned up the streets. The >Broken Window theory really meant something, as did a simple thing >like getting rid of the squeegee people (that Philadelphia refuses to >do). Now NYC is thriving. Well... you can't judge it all by Manhattan though! If you take away Manhattan, and parts of Brooklyn, is just all right.
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