Holy crap Larry! All I did was post an article about Snottie buying a boat. That's all! I thought it was pretty cool actually. I would love to see the thing. Are you real this bent around the axel about things?
Yes. This nation has lost itself. Something approaching 50% of households have at least one person receiving money from the government. We are energy dependent and our response to it is...more government and they want little hats with propellers and just say no to carbon. We have lost our ability to use our hands. We build little anymore. We 'offshore' nearly everything on the idiotic quest for perfection in all things, safety and environmental harmony above all, above food, shelter and clothing and things go away and get made by people with not even a fraction of the care or concern of a US manufacturer...of 50 years ago. So, it is NOT the planet. It is my BACKYARD. If I don't see the oil well, it must not be happening. Our insane desire to control one another knows no bounds. Not smoke, not fat, not what we drive, nothing is beyond our desire when it comes to telling one another what to do. Our culture is a shambles. Our language, customs, values. Not only is immigration now not to include assimilation, it is to include domination. How long before English IS a second language?
Snyder's boat is a beautiful example of the whole, from the hyper rich and their association with their fellow citizen. Jobs, homes, manufacturing, services, all of it. And it all is, truly, so easy to fix.
And such is the depth of our clinging to the nanny state that the people who do things we claim we don't support are the 'acceptable' ones and the people who actually talk about what we do wrong and why it is wrong are...
...kooks.
It is a mind set. To a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. To a politician, every problem looks like another job for government and this includes Republicans. When was the last time we heard a politician tell someone to get off their fat, lazy ass and go work when the question was 'what are we to do about those poor souls over there with this problem or that misery?"
Katrina is the most absurd thing in the history of the universe and Bush never had the simple leadership skill of saying "That is not my or anyone elses problem. You choose to live below sea level, #### happens. Then, when you choose to not move when #### is happening, it becomes bad ####. I am your president, not your momma. Get the #### OUT, now."
I mean, idiots like Bush are, ARE going to be pilloried in the press ANYWAY. So, why not at least have it said of you, when your time is done, that when the pressure was on, your were able to...LEAD?
I do NOT want a one government world. I want The United States of American and everyone else can have what they want insofar as it does not cause direct harm to me, to us. And we are actually in Afghanistan for...for????? Our moves in Iraq have, clearly, left us more vulnerable with stronger enemies made stronger out of our pockets and our blood.
We fuss and fume about immigration and want to run and hide behind fences and bury our heads in sand, well, just stop, STOP the free stuff. There is the right to EVERYTHING in this nation. Food, shelter, clothing, education, health care. All you gotta do is buy some. For ####s sake, those people are here to work in the first place. Let some entrepreneur figure out how to offer education and health care cheap for them. Get government the #### out of the way.
This is snowball stuff; the bigger government gets, every step, the harder it is to cut, actually cut, any of it back. But, that is in fact what is needed, to cut things OUT. CUT THEM OUT.
Oh, but what will the poor, helpless people do???
#### if I know. Let's just trust them to figure it out and in the mean time work on making it easier for business's to pop up all over to help them. And let them ####ing pay for it.
In the mean time, a rich man buys a boat we didn't build and is going to do all sorts of things to and with it and, at best, maybe we will have an American or two tie the thing up at the pier while the rest of the world profits at our suicidal stupidity.
After all this, I'm gonna laugh my ass off if his boat was made in America.