[Daculling]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peaker_2005', '
')
The National Anthem (which nobody knows or can be arsed learning) is the closest we've ever got (and then, we only use it in special assemblies, etc.)

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mgibbons19', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', 'A')merica land of the free, and home of the brave.

Just don't be old, poor or sick.

I thought the quote on the statue of liberty was

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')ive me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door

[peaker_2005]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daculling', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peaker_2005', '
')
The National Anthem (which nobody knows or can be arsed learning) is the closest we've ever got (and then, we only use it in special assemblies, etc.)

[EnemyCombatant]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')aybe those homeless should go down to Wal Mart and look for a job......

[NeoLotus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'H')ow many are "repeat offenders" as it were?
Its one thing to need a helping hand every so often. Quite another to abuse it.
[snip]

Corporate welfare?
Corporations pay taxes, corporations employee people.
Maybe those homeless should go down to Wal Mart and look for a job......
Then they can make a effort to not be homeless.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peaker_2005', 'I')t's just a thing they tend to do after the school song. And we never bother with the second two verses... (yes, fellow Aussies, there actually IS more than one verse!)

[TITAN]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', 'A')merica land of the free, and home of the brave.

Just don't be old, poor or sick.

I thought the quote on the statue of liberty was

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')ive me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door

[mrniceguy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DesertBear2', '
')
The US public has been transformed into a dumbed-down herd of childish "consumers" who are unable to act in, or even understand, their own interests and are regularly fattened with flattery and manipulative marketing images. All the years of electronic fantasy have left the public unable to comprehend how real power is being exercised in the US.

Any news or information that upsets people is moderated or filtered out....can't disturb the herd with too much reality. Human milk cows respond to stress by making fewer retail purchases and we can't have that.

[Teclo]

1876.

>We didn't have government welfare then. Or a New Deal.

No, just slavery and sharecropping - capitalist feudalism, which is where the US is heading and what all the libertain market enthusiasts don't realise is that unless they are one of the elites its where they will end up too - but will have supported said elites just long enough to help their agenda.

Ultimately the death of the middle class is what is feared, if they are to be enslaved and still support the elites there's only one way - civil war, the government has begun this already with its liberal demonisation.

Luckily this won't work - too many people have taken freedom to mean more than just freedom to accumulate

Its strange, I watch Fox news a lot and I like many of the presenters, they are not the mouthpiece of the establishment they think they are. You can't be if you are human

Teclo

[MJ]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mrniceguy', '
')
That is the best description of the general population I have ever read, I'm sure it applies to the majority of people in the UK as well

[medicvet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('duke3522', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', 'A')merica land of the free, and home of the brave.

Just don't be old, poor or sick.

I thought the quote on the statue of liberty was

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')ive me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door

[mgibbons19]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('medicvet', '.')..and my son is interesting in architecture, and wonders why I keep trying to gently suggest that he look into something else..he is 13..I don't think that his job will be in any kind of demand at all when he graduates college.

[eric_b]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')The US public has been transformed into a dumbed-down herd of childish "consumers" who are unable to act in, or even understand, their own interests and are regularly fattened with flattery and manipulative marketing images. All the years of electronic fantasy have left the public unable to comprehend how real power is being exercised in the US.

Any news or information that upsets people is moderated or filtered out....can't disturb the herd with too much reality. Human milk cows respond to stress by making fewer retail purchases and we can't have that.

[medicvet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mgibbons19', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('medicvet', '.')..and my son is interesting in architecture, and wonders why I keep trying to gently suggest that he look into something else..he is 13..I don't think that his job will be in any kind of demand at all when he graduates college.

[RdSnt]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('medicvet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mgibbons19', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('medicvet', '.')..and my son is interesting in architecture, and wonders why I keep trying to gently suggest that he look into something else..he is 13..I don't think that his job will be in any kind of demand at all when he graduates college.

[Doly]

And we are always going to need homes. I don't think that architecture is such a bad skill post PO.

[gnm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eric_b', '
')It's gotten harder and harder to have a conversation about anything of substance with
many younger folks. They look at you funny. Much more interest in pop-culture,
religion, including new-age goo, angels and other vacuous stuff like that.

[Paul64]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') was talking to a friend the other day about just this. It seems each successive generation is becoming increasingly 'dumbed-down' and infantile. The simpsons generation.

[Teclo]

Collectively that might be true
But individually most people are aware they are being anally shafted but are unable to do anything about it
These used to be the people who were ignorant but when things start going to crap only the dumbest of the dumb listen to the government

[elizabethlea]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eric_b', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')It's gotten harder and harder to have a conversation about anything of substance with
many younger folks. They look at you funny. Much more interest in pop-culture,
religion, including new-age goo, angels and other vacuous stuff like that.

There seems to be a strong anti-intellectual trend, especially in the US.

...

More reasons to be a doomer.