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Old 03-20-2006, 03:46 PM   #1 (permalink)
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The miss-use of the State National Guard has greatly reduced our national security. America’s frontline of homeland security belongs at home in the United States. Today the United States government has taken on the role as global cop. Bringing capitalism in the name of democracy at the other end of a loaded gun. America’s foreign policies are threatening America’s national security unlike never before in history.

The American people can’t afford the misguided policies of the United States Federal Government. The economic, political, and social abuses that are promoted in the name of democracy and freedom are a crime against the human race. It is fraud for the profits and gains of a very few. Look at the living conditions of the people to America’s longest and strongest allies around the world. Nations of people who America declares they are going to help. Whether they are in the Philippines, South America, Middle East or the American Indians and African Americans. What has our federal government really done to help these people?

While the salaries and income of those people at the very top go up at double digits rates with the incomes of the bottom 90% of the people remain basically the same. With the cost of living is rising beyond the means of most American people the security of the American family is in great jeopardy. The cost of health care is at the root of bankruptcies of many American people and business. The high cost of court litigation is also a contributing factor to the bankruptcy of America. Making is so that America is no longer global competitive.

It is the policies, laws, and actions of our own federal government that is the biggest threat to the security of the American people as well as the people of the world. Today we have fewer friends and more enemies around the world. More American people are living on the fringes of bankruptcy because their salaries are not keeping up with their rising bills and taxes. With the family debt of today looking more like the saving accounts of families in the past. In other words the saving accounts of the bottom 90% of the America people today looks like or similar to the personal debt of the people the 50’s and 60’s. At a time the American people saved more and borrowed less.

Really, the only things that have kept the American economy afloat are the immoral gotten gains from gunboat diplomacy with foreign governments and the global tyrants and criminals investing in America as a safe haven. Otherwise the American economy would have imploded years ago. This is not a Republican or Democratic thing it is the security of the American people and the people in the world. Today too many of the national politicians are more loyal to their party than their nation. They are not serving the best interests of the American people but to the special interests that are apart of their party.

Major changes need to come about that are far beyond our imagination. Without these major changes within our system, we will not survive the current course we are on today. Time is no longer on our side unless we make many changes for the better. Bringing the best interests of the people of the nations and world into balance is the key. For every action there is a reaction. The answers are found within the reactions to our problems.

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Old 03-20-2006, 06:53 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Typically, it is not the case that a great civilization simply fails because it refuses to change. Unless the change comes very quickly, at some point the civilization will at least attempt to adapt to the changed conditions.

Sometimes they do not have time. For example in the early 20th Century, the Polish people were very proud of their cavalry. They had some of the finest swordsman and horsemen and did not make much effort to modernize. When the cavalry went up against Nazi tanks, they were slaughtered.

Most great ancient civilizations such as the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, etc. had many longstanding traditions and a sense of history. But in each case, the empires became weak because of complacency and could not build up their strength in time to meet new powerful threats.

Some traditions certainly weakened many empires. For example, the Aztecs sacrificed thousands of people for religious purposes. These people could have been useful as slaves and soldiers when fighting the Spanish. But again, if the Spanish had not been a new and unforeseen threat, they probably could have adapted.

Historcally, traditions and lack of change last as long as the people can get away with retaining that luxury. But if it becomes apparent that change is necessary to avoid destruction, most choose change.
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The complacency the American public has for this administration will destroy America!

NATIONAL DEBT, DON"T FORGET IT!
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Old 03-20-2006, 07:10 PM   #3 (permalink)
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haha http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer

Typical anti-Bush site.
Old 03-21-2006, 07:14 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I looked at this site and saw the little ad they had for their letter, it read want to remain a constitutional democracy??? Newsflash we are not now, nor have we ever been a constitutional democracy. We are and have always been a constitutional republic. Don't you just love how people will try to utilize the power of the government when they don't eve understand the type of government they have. Akin to the blind leading the blind.

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I looked at this site and saw the little ad they had for their letter, it read want to remain a constitutional democracy??? Newsflash we are not now, nor have we ever been a constitutional democracy. We are and have always been a constitutional republic. Don't you just love how people will try to utilize the power of the government when they don't eve understand the type of government they have. Akin to the blind leading the blind.

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haha tell me about it!
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This is the 4th topic Global Crier has started and not returned to participate in. If he does not return this time I recommend a SPAM ban.
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haha http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer

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Former Republican strategist Kevin Phillips joins us to discuss his new book, "American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century." Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Phillips was viewed as one of the GOP's top theoreticians and electoral analysts. [includes rush transcript] As we continue to mark the start of the fourth year of the war in Iraq, we turn now to Kevin Phillips, the former top Republican strategist.

A generation ago Phillips wrote "The Emerging Republican Majority" which Newsweek described as the "political bible of the Nixon administration." Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Phillips was viewed as one of the GOP's top theoreticians and electoral analysts.

But no more.

Phillips is now warning that the party - and the country as a whole - is headed for potential disaster. Phillips sums up his concerns in the title of his new book: "American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century."

A review in Sunday's New York Times said the book may be "the most alarming analysis of where we are and where we may be going to have appeared in many years."

The book examines issues ranging from peak oil to the rapture to the future of the American empire. In a minute we will be joined by Kevin Phillips here in our Firehouse Studio but first I want to turn to President Bush. On Monday he spoke about the war in Iraq Renaissance Cleveland Hotel in Ohio. After his address he took questions from the crowd. The first question addressed Phillips" book American Theocracy:
http://www.democracynow.org/article..../03/21/1418243

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Old 03-24-2006, 01:58 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Yea i've noticed that..
Old 03-24-2006, 02:50 PM   #9 (permalink)
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I have also noticed this......

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I have also noticed this......

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