tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post1563174815362043467..comments2024-03-29T10:54:08.077-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: From "God Bless America" to "God Help America!"Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-50503836623841649672009-01-30T21:27:00.000-06:002009-01-30T21:27:00.000-06:00I too am in the midst of re-reading Ayn Rand's mas...I too am in the midst of re-reading Ayn Rand's master work. It's the first thing I thought of when I realized that Media Malpractice really HAD landed "Dear Leader" in the big chair.<BR/><BR/>I, for one, am "on strike." I will do nothing more than I must to survive, and will tailor my life around giving as little as possible to the looters.<BR/><BR/>Better for it all to fall apart now - before they get too good at quelling dissent - than later.<BR/><BR/>God help us...<BR/><BR/>STRIKE!!<BR/><BR/>DDDedicated_Dadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06375339835638311982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-63367672476315506042009-01-28T16:33:00.000-06:002009-01-28T16:33:00.000-06:00I've just started reading Atlas Shrugged recently,...I've just started reading Atlas Shrugged recently, and we indeed are living in that world today.<BR/><BR/>Government "loots" the sucessful businesses, but can only do that while there is a sucessful business to loot. What will the govt do when there are no more profitable companies or individuals to try to squeeze money out of?<BR/><BR/>We do need a revolution, and we need it now. Burn down Washington DC and start over, more along the lines of what the Founding Fathers intended.<BR/><BR/>chicopantherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-46132876006177198182009-01-28T09:07:00.000-06:002009-01-28T09:07:00.000-06:00History is a great teacher to those that take the ...History is a great teacher to those that take the time to look back and understand things.<BR/><BR/>The Roman Empire is the standard model but, you can take a look at any empire in the past that managed to be around for a bit.<BR/><BR/>Once they stop thier "war mode"...that is where they go out, taking territory or raiding neighbors, they MUST begin the "favorable trade mode" or they fall apart.<BR/><BR/>Note this is not "trade mode"..its "FAVORABLE TRADE MODE".<BR/><BR/>If at any time the decadence of the empire exceeds the favorable trade, the empire goes into "decline".<BR/><BR/>As the decadence and corruption increases...the decline grows EXPONENTALLY....<BR/><BR/>This means that you very quickly get to the point where the empire crumbles under its own excess.<BR/><BR/>The only hope of the people within that empire at that point is to have a well trained, well armed, military faction within its own confines.<BR/><BR/>The raids into the crumbling empire avoid the hard points...the well trained defenders of the town...and instead hit the easy pickings of towns with weak or no defenders.<BR/><BR/>This is just logic.<BR/><BR/>America today is quickly becoming an empire falling apart. This can be stopped of course but, it will take the average person on the street changing thier apathy for determination...and a willingness to look at other "Amerikans" and tell them to either shut the fark up or get the hell out.<BR/><BR/>And I, sadly, don't ever see that happening.<BR/><BR/>When you have two children born to people that will build the empire up as opposed to six to eight children born that will expect the empire to care for them (leeches) then you can pretty well expect that the empire is going to die.<BR/><BR/>With enough leeches, even an elephant will collapse and die.Simeron Steelhammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10947368651002261601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-66914867263252396692009-01-27T23:35:00.000-06:002009-01-27T23:35:00.000-06:00I JUST finished listening to the book on tape toda...I JUST finished listening to the book on tape today. Then I realized that I'd skipped ahead one to many tracks on my player an was listening to today's news. Funny, it didn't skip a beat.Geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07908018063421168233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-17895353374987334362009-01-27T23:31:00.000-06:002009-01-27T23:31:00.000-06:00When the government stops being of the people (che...When the government stops being of the people (check, pretty much), by the people (check!) and for the people (more than ever) then it is time for it to go.<BR/><BR/>JimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-2733916046024099012009-01-27T22:57:00.000-06:002009-01-27T22:57:00.000-06:00I don't endorse all of AR's philosphy either...but...I don't endorse all of AR's philosphy either...but you are right.."Atlas Shrugged" is prescient. I listen to the news and think it can't be possible that this is all really happening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-88657206210274272832009-01-27T22:44:00.000-06:002009-01-27T22:44:00.000-06:00My friend, you just hit the nail right smack on th...My friend, you just hit the nail right smack on the head. I don't know what's scarier, the fact that these boneheads are actually doing this or the fact that we keep voting those same boneheads into office.<BR/><BR/>Welcome to the USSA, everyone. (That's United Socialist States of America).<BR/><BR/>God Help America indeed.Raptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14731103493582041052noreply@blogger.com