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END OF AN EMPIRE IN 5 YEARS?

This will make you nervous




HOW LONG DOES THE USA HAVE?

This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. The sad
thing about it, you can see it coming.

I have always heard about this democracy countdown. It is interesting
to see it in print.. God help us, not that we deserve it.

How Long Do We Have?

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new
constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at
the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the
Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a
permanent form of government.'

'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters
discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public
treasury.'

'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who
promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result
that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy,
which is always followed by a dictatorship.'

'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years'.  'During those 200
years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage'

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul ,
Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000
Presidential election:

Number of States won by:
Gore: 19
Bush: 29

Square miles of land won by:
Gor e: 580,000
Bush: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by:
Gore: 127 million
Bush: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore: 13.2
Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won
was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great
country.
Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government
welfare...' Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between
the 'complacency and apathy' phase of Professor Tyler's definition of
democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already
having reached the 'governmental dependency' phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal
invaders called illegal and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the
USA in fewer than five years.

If you are in favor of this, then delete this message; if you are not,
then Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at
stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

Thanks for reading.


 

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OBAMA--KINDER-GENTLER RACE HUSTLER

Obama is just another Race Hustler.  He may present a 'kinder-gentler' version to the TV cameras, but a Race Hustler all the same.  The difference in this Big Time Race Hustler though, that separates him from those who are out there and have been out there, such as Jesse Jackson, Farakhan, Sharpton, his Pastor, Rev. Wright, and tohers is that OBAMA is trying to Hustle His Way Into The White House.  Americans, black and white, better open their eyes and minds and start Voting with Their Minds and not on Skin color.  Anyother candidate with Obama's equal credentials would not even be in this conversation right now.  He is there because the Race Hustling Media with Media stars such as another Race Hustler, Oprah Winfrey hustling him on that idiotic program of hers.  Wake Up America--Don't vote for this Dangerous Idiot.

jerome ennis in Alabama

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Top Ten Best Selleres?????????

Word to the Wise:  Don't be influenced by Fools!!!!!!!!!!Learn to think and learn for yourself.  The Truth Will Set You Free, at least in your own minds.  Turn the TV off, read some good books that Are Not On The Top Ten Best Seller List.  The Top Ten Best Seller List is created by the Same Buffoons Who Bring You TV, and It is All About Ratings and of course, THE MONEY!!!!!!!  Our Politicians Are Bought And Paid For By The Highest Bidders, and The Bidders Are All The Same One's So it is a Win-Win For the Contributors Because Their Man or Woman always wins.  After elected, The Politicians Owe and Owe their Big Contributors, and You and I, the Hardworking Taxpayer, Go and Go To Work to Pay The Taxes For the Buffoons To Squander, and We, The People, Have ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSIBLE REPRESENTATIION.~~~~~~~~~~~

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Take Our Children Back From The State

We can debate politics.  We can debate Family Values.  We can Debate, Debate, and Debate, but it matters little how much we Debate if we do not Also Take Action.  Many parents are taking their Children Back From and Protecting Their Children from The State.  They Homeschool.  It is truly sad that parents see a need to keep their children home to protect them from abuse and indoctrination by a Public School System that has been totally destroyed in the past 40 years since the U.S. Government took the schools over and have firmly instituted Social Engineering that teaches all sorts of Perversions, and at the same time, cannot educated in academics, and allow emotional, psychological, physical and sexual abuse to go on day in and day out while officially telling parents that these things do not go on.  So, no more debates about what Congress or Politicians can do.  They do not have the Guts to Suggest Abolishing the U.S. Dept. of Education where all the nonsense gets Passed on to Local Schools.  The U.S. Dept. Of Indoctrinataion blackmails states by "suggestions" with the catch, "if you do not take our recommendation, We withhold your funds."  This Agency ought to be the first to go when we take our country back and rid it of bloated bureaucracy that has bankrupted us morally, intellectually, spiritually, and now financially at the tune of Ten Trillion Dollars.
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Say No To U.S. Dept. Of Education and Take Community Schools and Your Children Back

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To AudiR10 and to Kepha:  These two had commented on a piece by Ms. Crouse who was promoting family values at a forum dealing with teen pregnancies, drug use and other deviance by adolescents, and of course, whe got a lot of Nay Sayers from the Deviant Radical Left who believe such nonsense as two gay parents can do as good a job as a stable heterosexual couple, etc.  First, of course, I suppose that these same sex marriage advocates must be products of the public school system since they obviously do not unerstand the concept of reproduction.  Under normal and natural conditions, it requires a Male And Femal to procreate.  No matter how normal these gay couples appear, and as they assume to be parents, no matter how Butch a woman, she is still a woman.  No matter how feminine a man behaves, he is still a He.  This type of Identity Crisis cannot be healthy.  This especially cannot be a healthy environment to raise children.  Anyway, read Ms. Crouses Article on Townhall.  It is good and the comments are out there in support and some opposed.  Happy Trails to you.

AudiR10 in Alabama.  You hit it on the head about the word No.  Fairness and consistency is essential in raising a child, running a school, a business or anything else.  Children, especially need to learn boundaries, and in fact, secretly want Mom and Dad to be in charge when they reach adolescence and their peers are pressuring them into all sorts of deviance such as alcohol and drug experimentation, sex, thievery, joining negative peer groups such as gangs, etc.  When a kid can say, 'yeah, I think you guys are  cool, but my mom and dad would never go along with this, I have to go home.'  Kids with well developed emotional growth, which is fostered in conventional households that have a positive male and female adult role model in them, aka--parents, are able to say No to Peer Presssure.  In the home, the school, workplace or anywhere else, if you have a set of rules, values, and standards, and they are fairly and consistently enforced, you have stability.  Children are exposed to faulty and negative inputs everyday of their lives on TV, movies, Video Games, The Internet, Peers at school, and The Public Schools themselves.  It takes a strong family with values and traditons and consistency to raise a child and prepare them for what they will begin to face and have to experience in the Public School Setting of Today.  The majority of the emotional growth problems begin when they enter public mandated schools.  This is especially true for boys, who do not possess the intellectual and emotional maturity, to be placed in a structured environment that goes totally at odds with natural and normal developmental abilities for males.  Males trail their female counterparts by as much as 3 years in emotional and intellectual developmental areas.  This is not opinion.  This is fact.  So, these little boys are mandated by The Government To Attend Schools at certain ages, with no concern for the need or the appropriateness of doing so. 

This writer will continue this piece in another comment as am limited to 2000 words.  To Kapha, you are right about God as well.
M. Jerome Ennis, MAed
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
jeromeennis@aol.com

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Texas CPS are Fascists

This Texas Fascist move is typical of Texas, generally.  Does anybody remember the Waco Massacre?  Probably not, we, in America, have a short attention span and an even shorter memory as the media "excites and incites" us on a day by day and minute by minute basis of doses of the most "current" gossip.  One minute, it is Michael Jackson until somebody else does something to take the attention away.  Maybe Britney.  Maybe Whitney.  Then a Waco happens where the Feds and state of Texas Authorities declare that David Koresh is Satan and is abusing children.  So, to save the children from this Satanic Cult, the state murders them all to save them.  What an incredible idea?  Now, a decade or so later, the Gestapo is at it again.  This time, the state's so-called Child Protective Services, in typical knee jerk reaction that these type state agencies all over the country are known for, acting on an anonymous tip from somebody  who had never been in that community.  Or so, that is what the Texas authorities claimed.  They had to make up some so-called "probable cause" and this lie worked as good as any.  If it had not been the girl in Colorado who was known to have been mentally deranged, it would have been something else.  They can manufacture any so-called "anonymous" caller at will.  Whatever happened to evidence-based indictments?  No, these Social Welfare Agencies have been granted too much power to do harm to families without a shred of evidence.  If these so called Child Protective Services folks cared about the well-being of Texas children, all they would need to do is go  to any public housing area and they would find unwed children having babies by multiple partners and the mothers nor the children being born to children would have a clue who the daddy is, and these same unwed teen mothers are all on welfare.  So, Texas, and the other 49 states who have these Gestapo agencies that supposedly want to Save The Children from neglect and abuse, start in the public housing areas that you help get something for nothing.  Take kids away from crack mothers and crack dealing daddies who never support the children they bear.  At least these so-called polygamist folks know who daddy is and do not ask taxpayers to support them.

Jerome Ennis in Alabama

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Reply to Obama Supporter--Larry from Alabama

Larry, you better hope that these Baptist's that you obviously do not like, keep being Americans, as they are usually the one's going to work everyday, because their faith teaches the work ethic.  You, also better hope, that we elect somebody someday who will return this country to it's senses and wakes up and realizes that "There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch."  These Liberals who have taken over the U.S. Congress and Created This Socialist Bureaucray, has bankrupted the country, Financially, with a ten trillion dollar debt, bankrupted us spiritually by punishing and prosecuting Christians for profession of their faith, while telling Muslims they can practice their religion at public expense as we build them foot washing pools, etc., bankrupted us morally by telling children to disobey their parents and turn to the government for parenting, bankrupted us academically, as the U.S. Dept. of Education has dumbed the children down to the lowest common denominator.  This list could go and on, but any sensible and rational person knows of what I speak here.  Better wake up and realize that in the Near Future, the Ten Trillion dollar Deficit which is owed to Communist countries and others who hate this country, exect Repayment.  It is your Liberal Establishment and It's worthless bureaucratic Agencies and Departments that have gotten us into this mess.  And, all Obama and these other Socialists promise, Is More Handouts For Nothing.  That is why blacks and other Know_Nothing Liberals vote for him.  He promises more handouts and expects to pay for them by extracting taxes from workers like myself and what they cannot collect in taxes, they plan to pay for by borrowing more money from our enemies, who know they can conquer us by Bank Rupting Us Financially.  They have done a masterful job so far, because these Greedy Know Nothings that run our government, have no alleigance to anything except Power and Money.  Not all blacks support Obama, but a great many do for the wrong reasons.  Obama's problem is not that he is black.  There are many great black Americans who love this country, but they do not vote for Obama.  The Socialist Programs that started With LBJ and the so-called Great Society Programs, was the beginning of the end for Black Families and their value system which was loyalty to family, christian values, a work ethic, and decency, generally.  When you turn people into Wards of The State, which is what Welfare did to this country, you take away their dignity, self respect, and pride.  It sounded like a good idea at the time, but as the old saying goes, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."  Was it the aim of these Socialists such as LBJ to destroy the American Fabric of a Work Ethic, Good Education, and Self Respect and dignity??This writer believes that it was and here we are 40 years later and it has succeeded.  Obama would be the Final Nail in America's coffin.  Pray that Obama does not win.  You who vote for him will be at the mercy of what is to come too.  Use your Rational Mind, and not the Emotional One that Obama so cleverly preys on.  Note:  Preys on, not Prays on.  Obama Prays to Mohammed and Preys on you innocent and ignorant voters who support him.
Good Day, this writer has to go to work now, and pay taxes into the bottomless pit of government mis-spending.  Obama needs the money to promise to welfare recipients who are his voter base.
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Comments on Phyllis Schafley's Immigration Article

This is a great piece and should arm anybody with even half-a-brain with every argument they need to talk about this Immigration Catastrophe that we face in this country.  The reason none of these gutless current-day politicians running for president will discuss it is because they are all complicit and partly the cause for the catastrophe to begin with.  All thre so-called "front-runners" are AKA U.S. Senators, and it is the Congresses fault for this current mess as they payoff their contributors and they have made laws and are encouraging more legislation that not only Keeps the Already Illegals we have but proposes More of Them.  This Is The MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE PROBLEM THIS COUNTRY FACES.  WE CANNOT EVEN CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE CURRENT WELFARE STATE WHICH CREATED THE NEED FOR IMPORTING WORKER'S TO DO LABOR WORK TO BEGIN WITH BECAUSE THE WELFARE STATE, WHICH WAS CREATED AND STARTED BY LBJ, ANOTHER DISHONEST SOCIALIST, AND HAS BEEN EXPANDED EVER SINCE, HAS TAKEN AWAY THE UNSKILLED WORK BASE WHO CAN RECEIVE MORE REAL MONEY AND BENEFITS BY SITTING HOME AND WAITING AROUND THE MAIL BOX FOR WELFARE CHECKS, FOOD STAMP CREDIT CARDS, WHICH TAXPAYERS HAVE TO PAY, FREE MEDICAL AND OTHER BENEFITS.  WHY WOULD ANYBODY WANT TO WORK IF THEY CAN RECEIVE MORE THAN THE AVERAGE UNSKILLED WORKER FOR DOING NOTHING.
 

And we are currently, as we speak, TEN TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT, as a nation.  No nation in the world has ever had this much debt, and these worthless so-called leaders of this country, are promising to give even more money away, WHICH WE DO NOT HAVE.

 

Now, beyond the monetary costs.  Where are most of these Illegal Invaders coming from"?  South of the border.  Does anybody remember the 1980's?  Does anybody remember Elsalvador, Nicaragua, and other nations that were having communist revolutions and their churches were all teaching Liberation Theologies, which is Marxism masked by the church.  Does everybody is this idiot government believe that all these good little unskilled or skilled workers are docile?  If they do, they better go to the nearest shrink and be examined for sanity.  Has anybody heard of the MS-13 gangs coming here and taking over the inner city streets with their violence, drug dealings, murders, etc.?  These south of the border thugs even make our homegrown thugs, who are products of the welfare state, scared to go on the streets that they used to reign supreme with their own brand of illegal activities, and terror.  We need to end all newcomers having an open door to enter this country with no barriers.  Then, we need to begin rounding them up if they are here illegally and send them back with whatever means necessary.  Then, we need to end the visas from so-called guests, and all the rest.  After they are all out of the country, then we can set about building borders again. A nation is defined by common borders, language, culture, traditions, values and loyalty to these things.  None of this is being practiced by these invaders, and in fact, we are becoming a third world country ourselves.  END ALL IMMIGRATION NOW, AND GET THE ONES ALREADY HERE OUT.  I know if this government is able to control where this writer smokes a cigarette and enforce that law with an Iron Fist, it could police this problem.  They do not do it because they profit too much themselves from the payoffs they received from contributors who profiteer from the illegals.  Employers pass on the costs of hiring workers and giving them benefits by letting You and Me, the Taxpayer, pasy for their health care, and other costs associated with having employees.  And the illegals do not pay other taxes that the American worker has to pay.  GREED IS Behind This Mess.  Just FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL>>>>

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END ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION NOW

The following was written as a reply to Phyllis Schafley's piece on Illegal Immigration and all the Problems that this creates for a free country.  The immediate text that follows is the original article that this writer cut and pasted:
 

Many arguments, pro and con, about how to deal with illegal aliens have been passionately debated over the past couple of years, but there are still other arguments that need public exposure. Mark Krikorian presents a new argument in his forthcoming book called "The New Case Against Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal."

The pro-more-immigration crowd argues that today's immigrants are just like immigrants of a century ago: poor people looking for a better life who are expected to advance in our land of opportunity. Krikorian's new argument is that while today's immigrants may be like earlier ones, the America they come to is so very different that our previous experience with immigrants is practically irrelevant.

The essential difference between the two waves of immigrants was best summed up by the Nobel Prize-winning advocate of a free market, Milton Friedman. He said, "It's just obvious that you can't have free immigration and a welfare state."

The term "welfare state" does not just mean handouts to the nonworking. Our welfare state encompasses dozens of social programs that provide benefits to the "working poor," i.e., people working for wages low enough that they pay little or no income taxes.

Immigrants of the previous generation were expected to earn their own living, pay taxes like everybody else, learn our language, love America and assimilate into our culture. Today's immigrants likewise come here for jobs not welfare.

During those prior major waves of immigration, the United States didn't have a welfare state. Native-born Americans survived the Great Depression of the 1930s without a welfare state.

The Social Security retirement system was established only in 1935. Most other agencies that redistribute cash and costly benefits from taxpayers to non-taxpayers started with Lyndon Johnson's Great Society in the late 1960s.

Today's low-wage immigrants and lower-wage illegals can't earn what it costs to live in modern America, so they supplement with means-tested taxpayer benefits. And many immigrants don't learn our language or assimilate into American culture because of the multicultural diversity taught in our schools and encouraged in our society.

Today's immigrants fit the profile of the people who benefit from our welfare state: the working poor with large families. Krikorian sets forth some dismal figures.

About 30 percent of all immigrants in the U.S. work force in 2005 lacked a high school education, which is four times the rate for native-born Americans. Among the largest group of working-age immigrants, the Mexicans, 62 percent have less than a high-school education, which means they work low-wage jobs. Nearly half of immigrant households, 45 percent, are in or near poverty compared with 29 percent of native-headed households. Among Mexicans living in the United States, nearly two-thirds live in or near the government's definition of poverty.

Costly social benefits provided to the working poor include Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (now called TANF, formerly AFDC), food stamps, school lunches, Medicaid, WIC (nutrition for Women, Infants and Children), public housing and Supplemental Security Income. Continued...

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Phyllis Schlafly is a national leader of the pro-family

The Earned Income Tax Credit is one of the most expensive parts of income redistribution. Twice as many immigrant households (30 percent) qualify for this cash handout as native-headed households (15 percent).

Health care is another huge cost. Nearly half of immigrants are either uninsured or on Medicaid, which is nearly double the rate for native-born families. Federal law requires hospitals to treat all comers to emergency rooms, even if uninsured and unable to pay.

Hospitals try to shift the costs onto their paying patients, and when the hospitals exhaust their ability to do this, they close their doors. In Los Angeles, 60 hospitals have closed their emergency rooms over the past decade, which imposes another kind of cost.

Immigration accounts for nearly all the growth in elementary and secondary school enrollment over the past generation. The children of immigrants now comprise 19 percent of the school-age population and 21 percent of the preschool population.

The Heritage Foundation estimated that in order to reduce government payments to the average low-skill household to a level equal to the taxes it pays, "it would be necessary to eliminate Social Security and Medicare, all means-tested welfare, and to cut expenditures on public education roughly in half." Obviously, that is not going to happen.

Attempts to limit welfare eligibility for illegal aliens by provisions added to the 1996 welfare reform law, SSI, food stamps, Medicaid and TANF all failed. Krikorian concludes that "Walling immigrants off from government benefits once we've let them in is a fantasy."

As Americans are pinched between falling real estate values and the inflation of necessities such as gasoline, they are entitled to know how their tax dollars are being spent. The big bite that social benefits to immigrants (one-third of whom are illegal) takes out of taxpayers' paychecks should be factored into any debate about immigration or amnesty policy.

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VOTE LIBERTARIAN AND SEE REAL CHANGES

We cannot continue to pick the lesser of two evils everytime we go to the polls.  The Dems bash the Repubs and The Repubs Bash the Dems when vying for our votes.  Then, they get elected, and nothing ever changes for the better.  They all just continue with the same old policies and the creation of more worthless and wasteful bureaucracy that has already bankrupted the country to the tune of ten trillion dollars, which we now owe to our enemies, the Chinese, Middle Eastern Countries, and Economic enemy, Japan and others.  We have to take our country back starting in local, state and federal elections.  That is why I support the Libertarian Party, because is is a viable option to the One-Party system we now have.  We claim to have two parties, but get real, it is just as George C. Wallace stated in 1968 when he was fed up with the Washington D.C. dictatorship that he witnessed and experienced, and said the following, (paraphrased by this writer) "Democrats and Republicans, there is not a dime's worth of difference between them.  You are voting for tweedle dee or tweedle dumb.  It really makes not difference which you vote for, they are both basically the same."  This election cycle proves that point out exactly.  It is worse today than it was 40 years ago when Wallace made that bold statement.  Of course, a nut case ended Wallace's career and campaign which was powerful and could have been a turning point in this country.  That same nut case was recently released from a prison in Maryland.  And, of course we all know that Maryland is a socialist state already being directly linked at the hip with the D.C. establishment. After Wallace was gone, we kind of fell back into the same old routines and things have worsened exponentially since then.  It is time to take our country back, by beginning to take our communities, schools, towns, couties and states, and then on to Washington to make real changes there and give sovereignty back to the citizens of this country.  Vote Libertarian and Happy Memorial Day Vets and Soldiers, present and past.
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George Will, Corporal Buckles--American Hero, Schools, Pride in Country, Take our Schools Back, Happy Memorial Day

This is the weekend of an American Celebration of our Heroes.  Just finished reading a story written by that great historian and American Patriot, George Will, and it made me proud to be an American and veteran.  In today's world of plenty with freedom that we live in, it saddens and angers me to read, see, and hear so many Americans who do not have a clue as to how great is the country with it's traditions and history and reputation around the world, that they have the privilege to live in.  And it disheartens me even more to hear people who are running for the Presidency of this Great Nation, who do not have the same feelings about this great country we live in.  The qualities of Corporal Buckles are the qualities that made this country great.  Our public schools do not foster this kind of pride, respect, courage, integrity and love and loyalty to our great nation anymore, as they brainwash our kids with revisionist histories that make them learn to disdain and mistrust their country, and to embrace even our enemies in such a way as to say, "why can't we all just get along?"  And, while at the same time, the public schools cannot even make a safe and healthy enviroment for the children they are entrusted with day after day, where violence and abuse of students by other students and others.  Schools are supposed to be the place for children to get an academic education and to learn how to get along with good socialization skills without fear from bullies who bully them physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, but our schools do not do that, and worse our schools will not even give them the opportunity to Learn To Love and Respect their country and it's Rich History as being the Leader in the World for World Freedom.  Instead, they are taught about all the evils of our country, and they have now grown up, go out and vote for people who reenforce the same nonsense they are learning in these public schools who are filled with, for the most part, know-nothing teachers who worse yet, have no courage to teach the truth or to stand up for anything, because they have been cowered down by administrations being dictated to from Washington D.C. by the U.S. Dept. of Education who tell them, "don't rock the boat, you might disrupt our funding."  Schools are blackmailed into teaching an agenda that teaches students to disrespect their country, and at the same time, dumbs them down to the Lowest Common Denominator, so that hardly any of the students who survive 12 or more years of this public indocrination, leave school with intact Emotional Growth and sense of self with the academic skills to make it in the Real World. 
 
So, Thanks Corporal Buckles and George Will and All Great American Patriots who still survive and for those who have gone before, and for those currently serving in Iraq and elsewhere.  If not for the American Patriots of the past, I would not have the privelege of sitting here typing this piece.  And by the way, thanks to Ms. Louise Hines, who taught me so well in two years of her typing class back in LaFayette High School, Alabama where this writer is proud to say, "I graduated from that fine institution that taught me about pride and respect of self, country, family, and God, in 1966."  So, you see, I too, have a history and memories of a Great Country that I learned about in locally controlled schools where teachers were also members of the community who also loved God and country, and had grown up in schools that taught the same values.  Community schools with community control works best to educate and these schools were dismantled by a Federal Bureaucracy as they forced a Socialist agenda, that has not only destroyed the greatest education system even known, but as a byproduct had almost destroyed the country.  We have to get back to basics.
 
Here is the comment I made on George Will's story about a Great American, who is The Only Survivor from the United States of World War One.  A war that most high school graduates of recent decades probably has never heard of or if they did hear of it, it was probably summed up in a half a page of commentary by some socialist book writer.
 
Subject: George Will's Commemoration of A Hero
Thank you Mr. Will and especially Thanks to Mr. Buckles. This sort of spirit, determination, and courage is what this country was founded on and is what lead us to the forefront in the world as a Great Nation. A Great Nation is built by Great People of Courage, Determnation, Integrity, Decency, Family Traditions, and Faith in Self, Family, Country, and God. We, the Americans, were seen and viewed as "The Good Guys" when we showed up for a war to Defend the downtroddent people's who were being slaughtered by dictatorial regimes. I just hope and pray that we return to those values and roots that once made this country be seen as the Savior of The World from dictatorial regimes that have given us Hitler, Stalin, and others, and as Mr. Will states, the wars we are in now have deep roots going back to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and others, and today have given us the Dictatorial Regime of the Midget of Iran. Happy Memorial Day Mr. Buckles, and this veteran prays that you continue to live out a long and prosperous life. When you are gone, there will be nobody left who has a Firsthand Memory of A monumental time in the history of this nation and world.
Thank You Mr. Will for taking the time to tell me about him.

M. Jerome Ennis, MA
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
jeromeennis@aol.com
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