Ed,<br><br>I just gotta' chuckle somethimes.<br><br>Remember when everyone was bitching about GWB's deficit spending? Now The O one comes along with his "stimulus" and every one thinks it's something special, that it's somehow a "change". Well, for those that believe that, here's a news flash. All of GWB's deficit spending was his version of a "stimulus" package. In '01 when the economy tried to correct (I wish they would have let it, then) GWB and the fed started injecting money, lowering interest rates and passing big spending bills through congress, trying to keep the economy "stimulated". What nobody can seem to get a grasp of is that this is exactly the same road that the O one is headed down right now.<br>
<br>Change??? .... yeah right.<br><br>Here's another guy that doesn't see a lot of rosiness in the near future. As an aside, some folks might want to check out some of the stuff they talk about in this magazine. The knowledge may come in handy, just shortly.<br>
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</font><p><font size="2" face="arial"><br>Following is part of a letter I received from Ron Dugan of Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania:</font></p>
<blockquote><font size="2" face="arial"><em>"What is it that we can do
to stop the loss of freedom in America? You can have all the money, all
the food in the world. But if you have no civil rights and rights
afforded by the Constitution, you have nothing."</em></font></blockquote>
<p><font size="2" face="arial">I agree! Unfortunately, I don't have an
answer. Formerly I was optimistic for freedom, but I am no longer. I
see no bright beacons amid the overwhelming gloom on the horizon. I
think America is in real danger of losing freedom.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="arial">Before, I had a fall-back position when
it came to arguing that freedom would ultimately triumph in America. It
was her work ethic. No matter what happened, I reasoned, Americans
could work their way out of any problem, political or economic.
America's work ethic, I felt, was an unstoppable force of nature sprung
loose by our revolution to earn our freedom a quarter millennium ago.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="arial">But I never anticipated two things: the
remarkably swift advance of socialism in America and the advent of Big
Government bailouts, whereby economic failure by individuals and
companies is turned into a sordid success by spreading the failures
among the rest of us. I fear the bailouts will be the death blow to
America's work ethic.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="arial">My pessimism runs even deeper. I look
around and see no great mass of people clamoring for individual
freedoms. I see no protests in the streets demanding government stop
its unwarranted entry into the marketplace, or even stop the little
things that have been occurring for years, such as the systematic
blockade of roads to see if motorists are drunk.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="arial">Socialism is on the march in America,
just as it has been in Europe and around the world for years with only
the slight hiccup of the fall of the Soviet Union. President Bush
showed clearly that there is no longer a difference between America's
two main political parties, which together hold a monopoly on power in
America.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="arial">Look at the two perceived great problems
facing humanity today: world depression and man-made global warming,
and look at how mankind responds to them. I say perceived because one
of them, man-made global warming, is not a problem at all, but merely a
convenient public relations creation of socialism.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="arial">The first global problem, world
depression, is serious. It is beginning to look more and more like the
Great Depression of the 1930s, which a study of history would indicate
should have lasted only a couple of years, but instead lasted a decade
because Big Government tried to "solve" it with its various misguided
make-work projects and wealth-transfer schemes. We are going down that
same path again because Big Government, and the overwhelming majority
of people who look to Big Government for guidance and safety, either
have not studied history for its lessons or misinterpret it—sometimes
out of ignorance and sometimes purposefully. Instead of letting markets
correct themselves, and letting poorly run businesses fail as we should
in a free society, we will repeat the disastrous mistakes of the past
and bring on another major depression. And depressions, history teaches
us, open the door to all sorts of tyrannical governments, just as it
did for the Nazis, Fascists, and Communists of the 1930s. Economic
instability also, of course, runs the risk of major war.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="arial">The second global problem, global
warming, is not a man-made problem at all, but a natural cycle of the
earth, according to most scientific data that is not skewed by
activists and the media. Yet we have a worldwide socialist solution for
it, namely, transfer the wealth of successful and relatively free
nations to failed and unfree nations.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="arial">Rather than global warming, earth is
probably due to enter its next ice age. Global warming activists base
their evidence on about a thousand years of climate change, but they
conveniently ignore the much more compelling climate data of Antarctica
ice cores which show temperatures and CO2 levels for the last 400,000
plus years.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="arial">In a well developed scientific model
known as the Milankovich cycles, it is the tilt of the earth (varying
over 41,000 years), the shape of earth's orbit (varying over 100,000
years), and the earth's wobble (varying over 26,000 years) that
accounts for most of earth's changing climate. This model has been
under refinement by climate scientists since 1842, and as recently as
1999 the British journal <em>Nature</em> published a graph correlating
Antarctica ice cores taken in the 1990s with the Milankovich cycles. It
showed roughly 110,000-year cycles, with ice ages spanning about
100,000 years and warming trends lasting about 12,000. It has been
12,000 years since the end of the last ice age, but let any scientist
bring up the possibility of global cooling rather than global warming
too loudly and he will not only be labeled a kook, but run the risk of
losing funding at his Big Government-supported university.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="arial">With communism dead, global warming is
the new horse upon which socialism now rides to victory over freedom.
The socialist media repeats the mantra of man-made global warming so
often that most people now accept it as fact.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="arial">The free nations of the world seem hell
bent on implementing socialist solutions to both our free market
economic glitch and our fabricated global warming problem. We are
willingly adopting socialist philosophies of how societies should be
organized. And socialism, as far as I have been able to determine, is
the antithesis of freedom.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="arial">How do you stop the loss of freedom in America?</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="arial">I'm not sure we can. The only hope, I
think, is to convince more people to get back to where we were when
Americans valued freedom above everything else. Back then, we <em>demanded</em>
it, and Big Government relented. Today we must agree, again, that
freedom is more important than anything else. I hope there are enough
of us.</font></p><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Ed Kroposki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ekroposki@charter.net">ekroposki@charter.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Verdana">See:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/no_surrender.html" target="_blank">http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/no_surrender.html</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">At least it is not completely negative.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">EK</font></div></font></div>
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