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July 24, 2008 - 2:51am.
During the darkest days of the Cold War we dreaded that the end was near but we still almost all hoped for a bright future ahead. Nuclear energy was to be so cheap in our, or our children's lifetime, that the roads would be heated to prevent snow and ice, food would be bountiful due to miracle grow. And soon we'd all be satisfied with a small nutrition pill. We would live beautiful new experiences with 3D glasses, then later in a beautiful world sprinkled with LSD. But we are now arguing who will bring on the fall of the US the fastest. Ron Paul has a vision of a Republic not an Empire and his vision of the US returning to its childhood and facing the world in the spirit Washington and Jefferson did, is quite attractive to some. But to many that is too far-fetched and presents, in most people's minds, impossible problems. Some are saying that the US Empire is about to fall, and cheer this possibility, but I and I'm sure many more who don't articulate it much fear living during the kind of chaos and confusion that met the end of Ancient Rome. The British Empire has been declining for generations, yet none of the desperation and starvation that besieged those in Ancient Rome seems likely in England any time soon. After the US revolution, England lightened up on its empire and has been slowly retreating ever since then. Old age doesn't have to mean a collapsed worthless dollar or where the young punks get to beat you up with a John McCain holding on to the tough guy image to the very last second. Let's try to envision the US, the US empire, in the state of happy retirement similar to England, realizing that the end will slowly come but enjoying ever minute of our ever increasing retirement. Let's spread this vision around. I hope to see new visions of being involved in a happy future, whether in retirement or not in response to this posting. RichardKanePA
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Richard. I am puzzled by
Submitted by Sandra Price on July 24, 2008 - 7:47am.Richard. I am puzzled by this commentary as you seem to want the quiet easy life of the Brits in your retirement years. Both sides of my family immigrated from Britain to America for the chance of making our own way without the imposing government of the monarchy.
My happy retirement years came about because of my being able to work, educate my kids and end up with a profit made possible by a free enterprise capitalism where I could invest in corporations and real estate. I made enormous sacrifices to end up secure. I'm a happy camper because I did it myself without the government's helping hand. For the first time, I am living in a senior development where my neighbors are in a flat panic that the goverment's actions might be able to remove their secure final years.
I will be patient and await the comments of others here at CHB because again I may be the stick in the mud of the group once more. I hope your tongue was in your cheek when you wrote this blog.
RichardKanePA Sandy, I am
Submitted by RichardKanePA on July 24, 2008 - 9:26am.RichardKanePA
Sandy, I am very serious.
I want to dream of a world government, with the world at peace, but can’t stop myself from fearing the growing Muslim majority would gradual decide on an official world religion.
I used to be an atheist but now believe that there are certain things children aren’t supposed to know about the universe, and we will be stopped if any of us find out too much. I fear giving too many possible details. But anyway, the more religious one is the more kids they have, so if Darwin rules, atheism isn’t going to grow if it gets no outside help.
I don’t know how sincere Obama is in his campaign of hope. But I desperately feel we need some. And going back to US’s childhood with Washington and Jefferson, like Ron Paul does doesn’t inspire me enough.
Ignoramuses without a clue in the White House, like Reagan and Bush Jr., remind me of Nero playing his fiddle while Rome was on fire. That Bill Clinton had to pretend to be a folksy horn player, means all our heads are in the wrong place.
The US future resembling England today, seems a possible future, and for now I’m getting all inspired about it.
A little secret when it comes to abortion and gay rights is that a lot of people believe with abortion the earlier the better, and that gay is better than straight but gay is better than being all alone, and children should be encouraged to be straight but not to the point of being all alone.
I set out to be the spokesperson for this silent group, but ran into severe problems of logic while trying to write such manuscripts.
The above posting on America’s future should resemble the present England, I am so far proud of and found no internal problems with it to make me hesitate. Anyway, not for the time being.
RichardKanePA
Unfortunately this world
Submitted by griff on July 24, 2008 - 9:50am.Unfortunately this world government will be based on the China model, with Islamic law. That's why we love China and Saudi Arabia so much. English banks have already started adopting and implementing Islamic (Sharia) banking law.
Peace at the expense of freedom is not peace, but merely forced conformity. The Georgia Guidestones say that global population should not exceed 500 million people. The US population alone is over 300 million. That means over 6 billion people need to disappear. So tell me, do you like those odds?
I want to dream of a world
Submitted by woody188 on July 24, 2008 - 11:33am.I want to dream of a world government, with the world at peace, but can’t stop myself from fearing the growing Muslim majority would gradual decide on an official world religion.
That's one of the rubs of a centralized government. Often the compromises at the highest level alienate the populace on the local level.
Why dream of a world government?
What could a world government accomplish that we can't do ourselves?
Why does concentrating power into one government have to be the only solution for peace?
Won't there still be war when the locals try to decide things for themselves?
A good example is medical marijuana in California. The ATF/DEA/Homeland Security keeps busting people for medical use, even though it is legal under state law. Isn't the central government encroaching on the rights of the locals there to decide what is right and wrong for themselves?
Why does the central government think it has a right to enforce drug prohibition when all rights not prescribed in the Constitution are strictly reserved to the States to decide?
The Civil War was fought to keep the government centralized. Slavery was used as a hot-button issue to promote the war in the north. Here again we see the centralized government did not bring peace, but war.
If a UN-like government springs up out of the current nation state system, that government would not hesitate to use it's military to enforce it's rules against the will of a local populace.
Bottom line, no one solution is right for everyone, therefore no one government will be right for the world. We are too diverse in culture, environment, and ideals.
If we really want peace, we need to fight fear, lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. I know of no centralized government to ever attempt to stop any of these. In fact they often amplify and promote them.
Plastic sheeting and duct tape, anyone?
Individual Freedoms are what
Submitted by Sandra Price on July 24, 2008 - 10:02am.Individual Freedoms are what American is based on. Our Constitution does not promise a secure economic status but a free one. Richard, I have read every possible book on global governance for the economic equality of all humans and failed to be captured into this philosophy.
I believe that homosapiens have developed brains to learn everything possible about our universe. It is the next step in our evolution. Humans come in all colors, shapes and sexual situations. Please tell me how to encourage my 25 year old gay grandson that straight is better than gay. My pay scale tells me to love him no matter who he is or what he does. But that is representative of the love I have for all my kin. I spoke to him last night when his father included me in Arizona for a conference call between him in California and the History Channel in the east as my family still has a lot of respect for my opinions even on the subject of UFOs. This is exactly how I planned my retirement years. My son has his own movie studio with my grandson working as the manager of the shop and scheduling the next series of jobs. This togetherness is far more important than your problem with gays.
America equals individual freedoms and choices. If you would feel more comfortable in England, try it for a couple of years and see if you miss your ability to think out of the box.
I will be interested in all your comments and wonder if you air them on your own site. I shared your opinions after my husband and I split and freaked out when I realized I was on my own with the two younger children. Instead of asking for welfare, I remembered my discussions with my grandfather and my only success could be found in investing in other's successes. I went so far to contact a commune in Oregon and they sent me a representative of their communal group. For the security of shelter and food, I had to turn my children over for their education and give up my rights to vote.
You sound as if you have no children or you would turn them over to any government program. That does not match your comments but may be your dream. Any rate, we can share our dreams on CHB.
RichardKanePA I am sad that
Submitted by RichardKanePA on July 24, 2008 - 11:21am.RichardKanePA
I am sad that I got off the subject that McCain and a lot of Americans want to hang onto America's tough guy image as long as possible.
Claiming the world is vastly overpopulated, as part of a discussion of gay rights, is not to claim that all orientations should be equally treated, but to suggest that gay is superior to straight. But all this could be dealt within the centuries to come, unless this country hangs on to US's tough-guy image as long as possible.
If we survive, there will be competing positive images to make it happen. If Ron Paul people see admiring the present day lower expectations British policy as a threat to their vision, they are less likely to see their vision fulfilled then to wait until there are competing positive visions for US's future. Then argue that their vision is best.
RichardKanePA
I don't want no stinking
Submitted by pollchecker on July 24, 2008 - 1:16pm.I don't want no stinking world government telling me what to do! Hell, isn't it bad enough that our blood-stained, hard fought for Democratic Republic is turning into a fasicist Big Brother state trying to legislate EVERYTHING.
Grif is right when he says....
Peace at the expense of freedom is not peace, but merely forced conformity.
But that is where this one world government concept is leading us anyways. Conformity. I don't want to live in a world where I have to be and say what someone else tells me to be and say. If I wanted that life, hell, I would still be married (wink)!
Dear American Citizens and
Submitted by akhajawall on July 24, 2008 - 4:51pm.Dear American Citizens and the Press
As a concerned citizen, I consider it is my duty to bring following message to you all.
"We the citizens of the United States of America have the ultimate responsibility to elect the " Right Candidate" to lead our nation, out of our huge present and future internal and external challenges as well as opportunities. This is to prevent depression and isolation in-spite of being the only superpower in the world morally, democratically, economically, and militarily.
We need to consider the "critical qualities and characteristics" of our presumptive presidential nominees at the time we vote.
In my personal and professional opinion the critical considerations are as under:
1. Calm, cool, and collected " temper " [ Presidential Temperament ].
2. Sound and sustained "Judgment and Caliber".
3. "Thought-fullness and togetherness" of purpose and positions.
4. Minimum "ex-poser and exploitation" around "Washington and Washington insiders".
5. Renewed " Vigor and Vision " for our Greatgrand Nation.
6. Foreign policy based on " American Values, Virtuous, Vastness".
Stay informed, stay involved, and stay engaged. Do not allow some partisan media, pundits, pollsters, and perpetual political opinion makers effect your vote in the wrong direction.
Don't be effected and duped by "Psychological Terrorism" that is directed at common American people without their full consent and awareness.
Long live U.S.A and its diverse but democratic people.
Col. A.M. Khajawall [Ret] MD., ABFM., ABDA.
Chief Consultant: World Wide Porfessional Consultants[WWPC]
Colonel, USAR/MC Combat Stress Control[Ret], Disabled American Veteran and Freedom team.
Consultant Psychiatrist: CA State, Medical Board of California, and Los Angeles Mental Health Department
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