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.... When the emotions have died down, which will probably take another century or two, I think that it will not be seen as quite the pure good versus evil struggle that we have all been brought up to believe.
This seems likely to me too.
TMHO As sordid as politics can be, this post was first dedicated to the people who gave their lives to free Europe. Nobody forced them. They did it. Americans, Australians, Canadians, Britons, Polish, ... and not only them: people from colonies and many other volunteers. At least, we must never forget them. (WWII politics in another post pls)
.... I feel like the United States is in a situation like these later days of the empire, when people might not have known what it meant to be a Roman citizen and when the leaders did not lead in "enlightened" fashion.
Sums it up pretty well as far as I can see.
OK, here goes.I am not advocating anarchy nor do I advocate that we let people starve or freeze to death. However.... The states....The next level is local. .... Local government should be responsible for the following things which I will expand on. 1. Education....1. Education. This one gets me fired up. To me education is a strictly local responsibility and should be left to local government. It is not the responsibility of the federal government to mandate anything with regards to education. If you don?t believe me look at what has become of America?s schools since the founding of the department of education in 1980. What was once collectively the best education system in the world has become steadily second rate. We did just fine before the feds got involved and started bribing the states with federal education dollars. They have foisted travesties on us like NCLB and other mandated classes and curricula. I trust my fellow community members to devise a curriculum much more than some faceless bureaucrat in Washington. AT least if my local school board screws it up I have the opportunity to confront them and even get rid of them. I have no such influence over the idiots at the Department of Education who are pushing their own agenda in opposition to what I and my fellow parents want.....
Excellent; on the education issue think of the centralized agricultural planning of the old USSR in the 40's and 50's... same kind of attitude and results!Great post.
My $0.02 (based on a lesson from my classes) is that government does (or should do) things that the individual cannot or will not do for themselves. Simply put we all can't take time from earning our living to guard our houses, help maintain the roads and bridges, put our forest fires, or run off to Iraq to help them sort their sh*t and form a government… so we pay taxes that pay for people that are hired to do all those jobs.Society has gotten far too complex for us to handle all the small things (or very large ones) that need addressed for the country to function. Sadly the government has "run with the ball" in the sense that as long as they are doing some things they seem to think they need to do more since we seem to like it when theydo the heavy lifting. They forget we still pay the bills. But do we? FDR needed to put folks to work and did so... according to the old joke, hwne he was asked how they'd be paid (since the gov't was out of $ too) he said: "We are the Government, we'll print more." State and local gov't can't do this so the Feds give them handouts (always with a hook) and the beat goes on.In my experience most folks don't gripe about paying their fair share but they do take exception when their taxes are wasted or their fair share keeps growing while others pay nothing and get benefits.
Hard to say… paper is 1st in traditional US (2nd in UK) , cotton 1st traditional UK (2nd in US).Modern US is 1st clocks... 2nd china. This according to the Chicago Public Lib via Wikipedial.
The Tea Party will be absorbed and assimilated by the GOP. That movement might move the GOP back to the right, but it can't hope to do much else. The Two Party Duoaucracy will live on unabated.
+1.
Or… on a lighter note, here…
I mentioned it a few days ago, but today is the official five year anniversary of the forum. I think 50 years is the golden anniversary, and 25 years is silver, and one year is paper. What is five years?
Wood, traditional; silverware, modern. 🙂
.... Conventional war will return to the world stage, the question is not if, but when?
All too true; witness Korea... the leadership thought the A-Bomb was the end all to conventional war. So much so that the troops that were first in were only in Japan for a "combat olympics" since there would never be need of boots on the ground any more.
