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Marion:
But I was absolutely unable to stomach the Republican convention this year. The slogan - "America First"! The chanting "USA USA!" -- the implication that if you don't agree with us, you're not patriotic! Yes, I know it's nothing new and I should be more cynical -- but in this election, between two intelligent candidates with very different positions, I expected more focusing on issues, less of this divisive jingoistic idiocy. Pass the barf bag.
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If they really believed "America First!" I would have little problem with it, but they don't believe it. Their actions over the past 30 years show that they ABSOLUTELY will NOT put "America First." Neither "God First" nor even "Family First."
America has an exploding deficient. If they believed in "America First!" they would be begging for higher taxes, but they do not. Or at least, beg to leave the tax rates the same, but they do not. Or at least, beg to delay the tax cuts, but they do not. It's "Tax Cuts First, and who cares about America!" Of course, they don't
say that because
saying it would require a little thing called "honesty."
There is an out-moded concept called "the work ethic" that says if you want MORE money, you have to work MORE to get that money. They do, however, PREACH the "work ethic" to the handicapped so I, with a brain hemorrhage, did their bidding. But when they want more money, they don't work for it. That would be inconvenient. They get a tax cut, and if it's not enough, they just get a bigger tax cut. The reason for the difference is obvious: the handicapped are mere mortals, while they, the elite, are gods.
Similarly with their "abstinence" command. I, being a mere mortal, obeyed their commands and was abstinent over 50 years. They, being the elite, of course do not have to practice what they preach. After all, they are gods and, as such, are not limited like the rest of us.
But to get back to the "order of things," it seems to be this:
"Money First!" (then)
"Pleasure Second!" (and maybe)
"Fame and Importance Third!" (and then, in a three-way tie for a distant fourth place...)
"America, or maybe God, or maybe family (if it's not too inconvenient) Fourth?"
Again of course, that would require honesty; something that is not, how shall we put it, "conservatively correct."
Robert Meyer
[This message has been edited by Robert Meyer (edited September 06, 2008).]