I've About Had It!

[mamabearCali]

When the crowds clamor for bread and circuses watch out for the barbarian hordes and be ready.

[JALLEN]

The melting pot is not so silly.

Early on immigrants wanted to be Americans and assimmilate into our country. If you look here in Texas there are pronounced remnants of many cultures - German, Czech, Mexican, and many others. Even though they treasured their heritage and celebrated their ancestry they were still Americans and all worked to achieve "The American Dream".

Today the dream is an old tired cliche. No one coming here wants to share in any type of common quest for the freedom and opportunity that used to be the hallmark of this nation.

Anygunanywhere

Life is much different now than it was when old Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels bought land from Juan de Veramendi and brought the German colonists in from Galveston to the banks of the Comal and Guadalupe. In those days, everyone had a common interest in survival. It took most of one's time and energy just to eak out a living, and that was perilous, risky and uncertain, with lots of misery and suffering along the way. Everyone had to contribute as they could, take care of their own families and help neighbors if possible. The weak and infirm didn't last long either. The lure was economic opportunity, in freedom, much different than what they knew in Europe of wherever they came from, and opportunity was not to be squandered. It had to be earned, not merely expected. Nobody was entitled.

Even 100 years ago, in my granddad's youth, it was still much the same. You had family, church, protective societies like SPJST, etc. If you want a good look into life in the Texas hill country back then, try the first volume of Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson's boyhood. No "entitlements" back then. Life was hard for everyone, harder for some, of course.

The common aspiration of parents is a better life for their kids than they had. My generation, early baby-boomers, made such a huge leap in that direction that it is almost impossible to beat it. My kid's made some progress in that direction, but their kids probably will not, at least as I measure such things. It's not a matter of economics completely, but quality of life, freedom. In that respect, my life has been more free than my grandkids will ever know.

[Rifleman55]

When we ran God out of the public schools the Devil moved in, when a society looses its morality, bad things happen and we are seeing it, I too am a boomer, will be 65 this year, and am seeing this nation fall apart.
One of these days God is going to get enough of mans' sin and push the Reset button.

[Bullitt]

I'm for Texas breaking away from the union. Then we clear Austin and send those people to California

[Zoo]

I think Jayinsat's words are more descriptive of watching the water swirl around the toilet bowl before it gurgles down the sewer. He will have to verify my interpretation.

When the US Attorney General helps murder hundreds of innocent Mexicans, and then threatens to use double jeopardy to get revenge on a Latino who defended himself, I say FLUSH HARDER!

[cb1000rider]

I'm for Texas breaking away from the union. Then we clear Austin and send those people to California

Can we have our own land-locked island? After all, who the heck wants to live in California? :-)