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The Herbsts decided to move abroad.

Says Wally: “Eventually, all our assets were gone, and we thought” — clapping his hands for emphasis — “let’s try America.”

They went to America. Where will we go?

The 1987 ABC mini-series Amerika was the story of the aftermath of a Soviet takeover of the United States. The plot involves a military attack and coup that crippled the country and opened the way for capulation and foreign occuation. The miniseries is set in 1997, ten years after the takeover, with the effects of full-blown Leftist-Communist indoctrination appearing. Consider the following from the Wikipedia article on the story ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika_(TV_miniseries) ):

Both the novel and miniseries leave the impression that, with the death of freedom in America, there is nowhere else in the world where it may be found. In the novel, one character muses: “The truth is, we’ve reached the first time in history where there’s no place left to escape to. America, England, Israel, Canada, there was always a beacon of hope somewhere. Now there’s just one world and it’s all bad.” This dialogue suggests that the Soviet Union or other totalitarian forces conquered other free countries after the U.S. coup… There is also a scene with two emigres from the German Democratic Republic who came to the United States before the Soviet takeover and are now exiles in their new country: “It’s one of life’s little jokes. We escaped from East Germany to come to the promised land; now the promised land has become worse than what we left.“

Compare those characters’ perceptions with this from Ronald Reagan’s famous 1964 speech ( http://www.reaganlibrary.com/reagan/speeches/rendezvous.asp ) in support of an earlier Senator from Arizona running for President. Reagan offered the following:

Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, “We don’t know how lucky we are.” And the Cuban stopped and said, “How lucky you are! I had someplace to escape to.” In that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.

Reagan knew this could happen here, and that was with Lyndon Johnson, a liberal who tried to fight Communism on the battlefield. What does that say about a situation when the opposing candidate is actually ENDORSED by the Communist Party? ( http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/975/1/147/ )

Fascinating article from the Raleigh News & Observer on the situation in Zimbabwe. I don’t want to call it a “deteriorating” situation, because -honestly- I don’t think it’s possible for matters to get much worse out there. I love the……

After a hundred and more years of redistributionist disasters, we should be smart enough to reject the entire notion by now.

We’re not.

You should look into it.

It’s a failed principle, with numerous examples of catastrophic impact on nations, and uncountable personal examples like the Herbsts. After a hundred and more years of redistributionist disasters, we should be smart enough to reject the entire notion by now.

We should be smart enough to not even be considering an inexperienced, Marxist fraud whose lies are so obvious that it takes a willing suspension of disbelief to even keep a straight face while listening to the retard. Yet, we have this turd leading the Presidential race during the weakest period our monetary system has ever seen, along with the asshats in Congress who caused the problems poised to gain total control.

This is sheer insanity.

Send_Me on October 20, 2008 at 2:02 PM

Very thoughtful post, thank you. I never said the bailout was a good idea, and I still don’t think it is. Rather than taking the time to think it through and come up with a better strategy the pressure was on the government as a whole by the financial “gurus” of the world (Bernanke, et al) to do something SOON before the situation got worse.

A reactionary response is always worse than a proactive response because, if you’re reacting the damage has already been done. Had the dems and their “share the pie, spread the wealth” ideology not been allowed to take root, this mess could have been avoided. When the signs were there of impending trouble if the dems had not blocked every proactive GOP effort in the years leading up to the financial meltdown the meltdown would not have occurred…that’s twice this mess could have been avoided!

The bottom line is this:

1 The dems along with ACORN strong-armed banks into giving loans to people that would never be able to live up to their loan obligations, going completely against sound financial practices, all in the name of “share the wealth.”

2 The dems blocked every effort by the GOP to provide the needed oversight of FM/FM and keep it solvent.

3 The dems then had the audacity to blame the republicans and Bush for the mess, once again pointing fingers (wrongfully) instead of doing their jobs and fixing the situation!

Again, I do not agree with the bailout but something had to be done and done soon according to our governments financial “gurus” but this does not negate the fact it was the dems that started this mess and further exacerbated it by blocking all the GOP efforts to avoid the meltdown and so just like a parent cleaning up after their children (after they’ve made a mess) they reacted and passed the bailout.

Of course it would have been much better had our government taken a proactive approach several years ago as the GOP tried to do, but then again you can thank the dems for squashing that, but I’m being redundant!

cus many of the issues in Africa today were created by colonialists who made countries and drew borders out of thin air.

oh yeah its all the white man’s fault…he made Idi Amin eat people, and murder them…and the white man FORCED mugabe to bring in the North Korean 5th brigade to slaughter the Ndebele.

you know if you don’t like the borders, Africa is now free to redraw them…they don’t, do they?

When 4% of white zimbabwe’s own 70% of the best lands, there is no way to tell me to feel sorry for them

so you’re OK with people starving to death huh? or how do you like the chinese now owning africa?? you don’t complain about that now do you?? and we know why.

and are you living in Zimbabwe? or are you in the West? if you’re not living there, why not? why not be a part of the revolution? hmmmm??

The point is that the white’s took all these lands from black residents a long time doesn’t make it ok for them to keep it

oh please, most of that land was not settled, and you know it. its like saying the white man stole the indian’s land. please.

nobody here should compare Zimbabwe to the US. I’m African, and that is not a good argument to make. When 4% of white zimbabwe’s own 70% of the best lands, there is no way to tell me to feel sorry for them. The point is that the white’s took all these lands from black residents a long time doesn’t make it ok for them to keep it. This is the legacy of colonialism, and black Africans are very sensitive to this, cus many of the issues in Africa today were created by colonialists who made countries and drew borders out of thin air.

Please let’s not confuse issues here…i’m as conservative as they come, but I know injustice when i see one.

If you think these people are responsible for the Wall Street train wreck, then I would love to have some of the industrial solvents you’re sniffing.

Dave Rywall on October 20, 2008 at 11:25 AM

Makes it a little hard to stop when Liberals have been cutting the brake lines for years…

“Yeah, I’m really happy about losing 20% of my retirement portfolio because of your country’s incompetence.”

Dave Rywall

Hey Dave, the historical average of the PE of the S&P 500 is around 16 ($1 for every earnings for $16 of price). When the market began to slide, it was $45 and you CHOSE to leave your money there. To quote Ron White, “You can’t fix stupid.”.

CC – BHO: “my Muslim faith”

In case you hadn’t heard, your government just committed a 700 billion dollar act of socialism.

Dave Rywall on October 20, 2008 at 10:58 AM

Yes, and Conservatives were against it.

You cannot possibly believe that Obama is going to “redistribute the wealth” – to take money from the rich and give it to the poor.

Dave Rywall on October 20, 2008 at 10:57 AM

You must not listen much… to Obama.

I’m fully aware of the lefts sickness. But then they are all insane. It’s disturbing to see in spreading into the right.

And, while you might be happy at our misfortune, few of us here are.
unclesmrgol on October 20, 2008 at 11:06 AM

Who says he or any others who have been smelling what Washington has been shoveling is happy about it? It’s a statement of fact, nothing more.

Yep, brought to you courtesy of the Dems, ACORN, and their socialist ideology of giving everyone a piece of the pie (a loan for a home they could not afford) instead of growing that pie so there is more to go around!

Those folks arranged the pieces on the board, but remember this: (A) the Republicans did nothing to stop the bailout(except for a few “conservatives” like Ted Poe, Jim DeMint, Mike Pence, Duncan Hunter…), (B) there were other options, non-socialist options, available besides the bailout, (C) the President has been selling this bailout from the beginning.

Furthermore I double-dog dare Rywall to say it was the evil rethuglicans that caused the financial meltdown when it has been obvious (despite the in-the-tank media’s attempt at sweeping the truth under the rug and Pelosi et al pointing their fingers at the republicans) it was the lefts “spread the wealth” ideology that caused the meltdown and the need for a “socialist” bailout!
Liberty or Death on October 20, 2008 at 1:15 PM

I agree with you, as do most on here, that liberal ideology and public policy are to blame for the situation, however, the Republicans are just as guilty when it comes to the bailout, which was a most unwise, unconstitutional and pork-laden bill. “Conservatives” would be wise to care more about being “right” than trying to bail water out of the sinking Republican ship, a ship that is being sunk by Republicans alone. The media doesn’t need to do anything: McCain and Bush are doing a good enough job on their own in destroying the GOP (i.e. immigration, size of government, etc.)

The problem with that, Liberty, is that DRywall is a liar. Of course he would say this. Doesn’t mean it would be true, mind you…

Furthermore I double-dog dare Rywall to say it was the evil rethuglicans that caused the financial meltdown
Liberty or Death on October 20, 2008 at 1:15 PM

Liberals set up a system to ensure that home loans were class-based rather than credit based. To the subjective mind that FELT good, ergo it IS good. All that did was make the collapse inevitable. As Barak Obama said, that was all perfectly great – until people became greedy.

…and all practitioners of the liberal religion know full well who is the source of all sin in the world.

In case you hadn’t heard, your government just committed a 700 billion dollar act of socialism.

Dave Rywall on October 20, 2008 at 10:58 AM

Yep, brought to you courtesy of the Dems, ACORN, and their socialist ideology of giving everyone a piece of the pie (a loan for a home they could not afford) instead of growing that pie so there is more to go around!

Furthermore I double-dog dare Rywall to say it was the evil rethuglicans that caused the financial meltdown when it has been obvious (despite the in-the-tank media’s attempt at sweeping the truth under the rug and Pelosi et al pointing their fingers at the republicans) it was the lefts “spread the wealth” ideology that caused the meltdown and the need for a “socialist” bailout!