Whatever happened to sacrifice for the Common Good?

by kevracer Posted 2012/07/11 23:23:06

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		Screw you- I'm getting mine
		Go ahead- you sacrifice- I'll think about it next time
		What an antiquated idea
		maybe you've got something there
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	Screw you- I'm getting mine	0 votes	0%
	Go ahead- you sacrifice- I'll think about it next time	2 votes	12%
	What an antiquated idea	1 vote	6%
	maybe you've got something there	8 votes	47%
	my idea	6 votes	35%

Newsweek columnist Robert J. Samuelson recently wrote: "We face a choice between a society where people accept modest sacrifices for a common good or a more contentious society where group selfishly protect their own benefits."

The last time in recent history when folks in the US sacrificed for the Common Good was during WW2 (the Big One)- scrap metal drives, gas rationing, food rationing, war bonds, no new cars, etc. folks really sacrificed to help America win the war. Can you imagine soemthing like that today? Sacrifice for the Common Good is a relic of the past- now its all about getting getting mine baby. screw that other guy. It's so prevelant in society- entertainment, politics, everday life.

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Laura Lovegood 2012/07/11 23:32:46

my idea

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Lady Whitewolf 2012/07/12 17:27:24

maybe you've got something there

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Hopefully people will start thinking like that again.

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Heisenberg 2012/07/12 02:19:46

maybe you've got something there

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Maybe that sentiment will return. Right now, it's all about me-me-me-me-me-me-me in our society. America is no longer the greatest country in the world like it once was.

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FindingHeartInThisCrazy World 2012/07/12 01:59:46 (edited)

maybe you've got something there

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to be of service to others is a very healthy thing to do

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John Duffee 2012/07/12 01:47:50

maybe you've got something there

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Part of it is the 1980s where it became OK to be a backstabbing, self-serving corporate saboteur, part of it is the two World Wars and Dulce Et Decorum Est http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/ow...

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rocat 2012/07/12 01:38:25

my idea

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seems all good ideas...
become twisted and abused-

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sick'n'tired 2012/07/12 01:07:18

my idea

Common good? As in communism?

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kevracer to sick'n'... 2012/07/12 15:52:12

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did you read the question? WW2 was not about fighting for communism

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Aurora 2012/07/12 01:01:50

Go ahead- you sacrifice- I'll think about it next time

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Because most of the working people pay for the 49% who do nothing but take from the workers. Tired of it.

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Nimitz 2012/07/12 00:47:51

maybe you've got something there

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VOLUNTARY and UN-COERCED sacrifice is a a noble thing. Forcing others to 'sacrifice' as through taxes is theft by proxy.

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kevracer to Nimitz 2012/07/12 00:51:05

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Congress voted for the US to join WW2- wasn't that "forced sacrifice?"

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Nimitz to kevracer 2012/07/12 01:22:09

As it happens, yes! The American people wouldn't have been dragged into the war kicking and screaming otherwise.

Now whether that was a good thing or a bad one I'll leave up to the reader. :-)

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Alvin 2012/07/12 00:45:26

my idea

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Sacrifice for the common good went the way of respect, responsibility for one's own actions, having good manners, caring for our families instead of sticking them in a nursing home and a whole lot of others ideals for which America stood at one point,

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WhereIsAmerica? ~PWCM~JLA 2012/07/12 00:37:13

What an antiquated idea

Minimal sacrifice my butt, it takes a quick look at history to see how bad Socialism always fails and how minimal it is NOT!

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kevracer to WhereIs... 2012/07/12 00:51:52

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so what our parents and grandparents sacrified in WW2 was for socialism?

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WhereIs... to kevracer 2012/07/12 01:02:11 (edited)

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No, but that is not what we are discussing here, you are trying to tie honorable sacrifices (of WWII soldiers) in with dishonorable thieving from American taxpayers.

My Father fought in WWII, and he was an honorable man who was completely against Communists! Don't you DARE taint his name or the name of any of the others who fought for the freedom you want to throw away for "free stuff".

You make me want to barf, what a disgrace!

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kevracer to WhereIs... 2012/07/12 15:52:58

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I was referring to the sacrifices made on the Home Front during WW2

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zbacku 2012/07/12 00:31:20

my idea

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It's been replaced by a government that demands to take without asking.

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kevracer to zbacku 2012/07/12 00:35:35

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what happened to "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth ?"

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zbacku to kevracer 2012/07/12 00:39:07

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Liberals have stolen that by destroying the Constitution. Period.

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kevracer to zbacku 2012/07/12 00:53:12

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that quote came from the Gettysburg Address

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WhereIs... to kevracer 2012/07/12 01:02:33

Stop trying to twist honorable words for your dishonest purposes.

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Lady Wh... to kevracer 2012/07/12 17:29:17

It's become "goverment of the WEALTHY, by the WEALTHY, for the WEALTHY" sadly.

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kevracer to zbacku 2012/07/12 00:52:24

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Were the Ameircan people consulted before Congress voted the US into WW2?

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Laura Lovegood 2012/07/11 23:32:46
Aurora to Laura L... 2012/07/12 01:03:11

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Wonderful reply.

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Laura L... to Aurora 2012/07/12 02:14:52
WhereIs... to Laura L... 2012/07/12 01:04:03

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Excellent answer.

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Laura L... to WhereIs... 2012/07/12 02:14:59