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Norm 04-10-2012 8:36am

"Only in America"
 
1) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.

2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black.

3) Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

4) Only in America will you find people who burn the American flag and call America an "imperialist nation," but who get offended if you say they're not patriotic.

5) Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

6) Only in America could someone drinking a $5 latte and texting to his friends on an iPhone 4 complain that the government allows some people to make too much money.

7) Only in America would people take rappers who brag about shooting people and selling drugs seriously when they complain the police are targeting them unfairly.

8) Only in America would we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.

9) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."

10) Only in America could the most vicious foes of successful conservative women be self-proclaimed feminists and the National Organization for Women.

11) Only in America could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

12) Only in America can we have terrorists fly planes into our buildings and have some people’s first thought be "what did we do to make them hate us?"

13) Only in America would we think teaching kids at college is an appropriate job for communists, terrorists, and other dregs of humanity.

14) Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether the oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when for every penny of profit the oil companies make, the government tacks on roughly 24 cents’ worth of taxes.

15) Only in America could the first people asked to weigh in on the seriousness of a racial incident by the media be professional race hustlers like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Ben Jealous. In other words, it's like calling in a car dealer as a neutral source on whether or not you need to get a new car.

16) Only in America does airport security put its hands on your underwear....while you're wearing it.

17) Only in America could the government force a skating rink to have handicapped parking spots and Braille on the ATM machines.

18) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation ever has before in all of recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more that it has per year, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough to money.

19) Only in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.

20) Only in America could the people who approve of slaughtering 25 million females babies via abortion accuse OTHER PEOPLE of waging a "war on women."

Sea Six 04-10-2012 11:30am

Quote:

Originally Posted by TxAg (Post 630358)
Like I've said, we're screwed.

Game over man, game over.

:iagree:

I just don't see things turning around. The socialists have successfully indoctrinated an entire generation of kids with our school system while we were out making a living.

The next generation will be even worse than this one.

236 years was a pretty good run. That's all I have to say about that.

mrvette 04-10-2012 1:38pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by TxAg (Post 630645)
The question is where to go now?

That's my kids' problem, not mine.....I was 38-40 when they came along....

they liberal as hell with all that commie indoctrination in college....let them figger it out....

:leaving::sadangel:

RedLS1GTO 04-10-2012 1:56pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by TxAg (Post 630645)
The question is where to go now?

If/When all hell breaks loose, I'm going to head off to the land away from it all, load up the guns, and watch it crumble around the liberal f**king idiots that made it happen.

I would have no problem being completely self sufficient for myself and my family.

Few hundred acres of available land with clean water supply - check
Few thousand rounds of ammo/hunting supplies - check
Enough diesel to last a LONG time - check
Skills to survive without the government telling me how - check

Quote:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Vette Jockey 04-10-2012 1:59pm

Only in the U. S. can a man make a small lake on his own property, stock it with fish, and be fined by Fish and Game for fishing without fishing license. :ulan:

Blademaker 04-11-2012 3:36pm

Quote:

Few hundred acres of available land with clean water supply - check
Few thousand rounds of ammo/hunting supplies - check
Enough diesel to last a LONG time - check
Skills to survive without the government telling me how - check

Likewise

mrvette 04-11-2012 3:50pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vette Jockey (Post 630757)
Only in the U. S. can a man make a small lake on his own property, stock it with fish, and be fined by Fish and Game for fishing without fishing license. :ulan:

MUST be Kalifornica....NO other location is that nutz....ARE they??

seriously?? YGTBFKM.....:leaving:

Torqaholic 04-11-2012 11:09pm

That's not bad but I'd edit number 12.

Without a doubt the first thought for everyone was "whoever did this is going to suffer".

Only in America can the natural question "what did we do to make them hate us?" not be allowed an answer.

69camfrk 04-14-2012 6:15pm

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Originally Posted by Sea Six (Post 630462)
:iagree:

I just don't see things turning around. The socialists have successfully indoctrinated an entire generation of kids with our school system while we were out making a living.

The next generation will be even worse than this one.

236 years was a pretty good run. That's all I have to say about that.

I would love to say you're wrong.........:sadangel:


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