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CactusAnnie1 year, 5 months ago
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I still believe this is the most wonderful country in the world. I do not believe you or anyone else has the right to trash it. You have more freedoms, and benefits here than any where, including the freedom to start your own business if you want to. You are not bound into doing only what your father did that gives you entry to a certain Guild. You can do ANYTHING, find something you love and prosper, contribute, get off your behind and the sky is the limit. Figure it out!!! Put a little effort into it. This country does not owe you anything just because you have breath.
And yes, the majority of people who we have in office right now have no business being there!! You vote them out! It is a blessed right that our forefathers gave us. And be very wary of voting in anti-Americans like Barack Hussian Obama.
Scary!!
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bubba21 year, 5 months ago
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Anyone that lives in this country DOES have the right to speak out when the government - and the corporations - are breaking the law and not representing the citizens.
The country may not be IN the toilet yet, but it is on its way if something doesn't happen to stop the spiral into economic disaster that the policies of conservatism have precipitated.
Banks are defaulting, mortgage companies are defaulting, millions of people are losing their homes to foreclosure, the country is NINE TRILLION dollars in debt and rising, the price of gas is ridiculous and is causing the price of EVERYTHING to skyrocket, Americans can barely afford the basics because of the state of the economy.
And as long as I live in this country I WILL speak my mind about what is WRONG, especially when 95% of the people are being deprived of decent wages, decent homes, decent education, and decent health care.
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bubba21 year, 5 months ago
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Ask the millions of families in this country that are now homeless because they have lost their homes to foreclosure, ask the 37 million Americans without health insurance, and
ask the 32 million people living in poverty about their "standard of living".
Provide documentation to prove what I said is "hogwash".
Meanwhile, here is some light reading for you ...
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07182008/prof...
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/e...
http://activerain.com/blogsview/434848/Mortgage...
http://www.rebuild.org/news-article/foreclosure...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/_105432.html
http://content.usatoday.com/community/utils/idm...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/america...
http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2007/10/rent...
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bubba21 year, 5 months ago
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While Obama has said "Yes, we can change" and similar phrases, he has not used the word "change" like you all try to say he has, so get over it.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/change.asp
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bubba21 year, 5 months ago
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And it is ironic that you tell someone they don't have the right to "trash" our country, then you turn RIGHT around and "trash" one of its citizens - and, with NOTHING to back up such a ludicrous, knee-jerk accusation.
One more thing ... it's "Hussein" ...
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mark-stevens1 year, 5 months ago
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Ya know CA if my zipper was down I would expect my friend to tell me.
Right now our elected officials are not caring. Greenspan told congress three years ago that the phony housing boom could bankrupt the country. Because of this not caring, 6,000 families are being moved out of their houses every day by the police, through foreclosure.
Bear Sterns "lost" five billion dollars, we the tax payer covered their lost bets
The Indimac bank closed and took a half billion dollars of uninsured savings with it.
I have an old friend that tells me "no matter what, I could always be a black man being lynched in Alabama."
If I had cancer, was in a car wreck, lost a leg, wife left me that was always his response.
Saying "So what, this is the best country in the world" is a big cop out.
It used to be a hell of a lot better!!!
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CactusAnnie1 year, 5 months ago
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Yes, it was, when people took responsibility for their own lives and didn't expect the government to do it for them. When communities came together and helped each other, and when Benjamin Franklin's axiom "A friend in need is a friend indeed".
Most Americans are still like that. Most Americans when in a pinch do not think the government should bail them out, that is what friends and community do, not out of coercion, but because they are basically that way. They help when they can, they work hard, and they don't whine because the "government" doesn't force their neighbors to do what most of their neighbors would do anyway out of a sense of caring.
This IS the best country in the world! I would think that anyone in every country would say that about their own country too.
I am proud of my country, and I am not ashamed to say so. And hear this,...God Bless America!!!!!
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