That is Newt's take on the Occupy Wall Street Protesters and it brings back so many memories. Our wars now that we have grown to hate and realize that we can no longer afford have cost the lives of over 4,000 Americans, our youth at that. Our strongest and best. Imagine Vietnam where we lost over 50,000, sometimes 500 every single week and always on the Nightly News where we could see the battles while eating dinner. We were tricked then too, told of the "domino theory" and commies taking over the world.
Real History was avoided. We were seldom told of Vietnam's struggle for National Independence, their 100 year battle with the French nor the hundreds of years of warfare to become independent of the Chinese.
Communist smomunists, they just wanted us out.
Now they are a major manufacturer of computer parts and Air Jorden Tennis Shoes. They are a rice exporting nation and our friends. Funny how when you quit fighting that can happen.
We had huge protests in those days. President Nixon called the college kids "bums" and riot squads were called out all accross the country. Protesters died. Universities were shut down. These were serious protests ot the kindly organized and pretty polite ones that we are having today.
We got out of that war by voting our way out. We realized we were being lied to and switched to more peaceful political candidates, but it was the protesters that made us think. They started the ball rolling.
It is so easy to say "take a bath and get a job," especially if you make a couple million a year, but I am not sure they can be dismissed so easily. Most have grown up in a system that has failed them. There are no jobs. They feel as though they have been lied to.
The 1% will lose. They will lose their money, their power and their position. Aristocracies fall and history has proved that time and time again. It is not necessary but it will happen. It always does.
The funny thing is that in our democracy we must like them. In some perverse way we honor them. The "Super Committee" couldn't reduce our budget 10%. The Bush Tax Cuts for the Super Wealthy are firmly entrenched. The committee had a lot of incentive to get this done, now a law will go into effect which will get this money out of Social Security, Medicare and the Military. You have to get the money somewhere and that is the law! I could have done a better job on a bad day before breakfast!
Yes, get a job and take a bath but please don't quit protesting. Eventually we will learn, maybe read a little more on the issues and finally we will vote. We will get the government we vote for and finally accept some responsibility and admit we did this to ourslves. Maybe Nixon got it right after all. "Throw the bums out!"
But it is still our job to discover who the bums are!
My gallery is coming along but it is like watching paint dry!
Real History was avoided. We were seldom told of Vietnam's struggle for National Independence, their 100 year battle with the French nor the hundreds of years of warfare to become independent of the Chinese.
Communist smomunists, they just wanted us out.
Now they are a major manufacturer of computer parts and Air Jorden Tennis Shoes. They are a rice exporting nation and our friends. Funny how when you quit fighting that can happen.
We had huge protests in those days. President Nixon called the college kids "bums" and riot squads were called out all accross the country. Protesters died. Universities were shut down. These were serious protests ot the kindly organized and pretty polite ones that we are having today.
We got out of that war by voting our way out. We realized we were being lied to and switched to more peaceful political candidates, but it was the protesters that made us think. They started the ball rolling.
It is so easy to say "take a bath and get a job," especially if you make a couple million a year, but I am not sure they can be dismissed so easily. Most have grown up in a system that has failed them. There are no jobs. They feel as though they have been lied to.
The 1% will lose. They will lose their money, their power and their position. Aristocracies fall and history has proved that time and time again. It is not necessary but it will happen. It always does.
The funny thing is that in our democracy we must like them. In some perverse way we honor them. The "Super Committee" couldn't reduce our budget 10%. The Bush Tax Cuts for the Super Wealthy are firmly entrenched. The committee had a lot of incentive to get this done, now a law will go into effect which will get this money out of Social Security, Medicare and the Military. You have to get the money somewhere and that is the law! I could have done a better job on a bad day before breakfast!
Yes, get a job and take a bath but please don't quit protesting. Eventually we will learn, maybe read a little more on the issues and finally we will vote. We will get the government we vote for and finally accept some responsibility and admit we did this to ourslves. Maybe Nixon got it right after all. "Throw the bums out!"
But it is still our job to discover who the bums are!
My gallery is coming along but it is like watching paint dry!
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Great post! I am hoping since the protestors won't tell us what they expect to have happen that we WILL read up on issues and vote. I sure hope more people do!
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