Babes in debt land: end of the road?

by Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ Posted 2012/06/17 10:32:17

Related Topics: Debt, Depression, bread, Food, Food Stamps, America, The End, National Debt, Protect, US, Land, Government, Grant

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	End of the road	31 votes	69%
	Kick the can a little farther	12 votes	27%
	Undecided	2 votes	4%

We hear much about our national debt in the news. Who really wants to
listen to that stuff? Our favorite sitcom is coming on the tube. Yes,
we’ve heard how bad things are. But we don’t see the bread lines (or the
“migrant mothers”) we associate with the Great Depression. So things
can’t really be that bad. Of course Lyndon Johnson replaced the bread
lines with food stamps and government programs. But no one is starving.
Hey, this is America. Things like that just don’t happen here anymore.
Our government protects us from stuff like that.

Or does it? Does government protect us, or set us up? Can government protect us much longer, even if you grant the premise that it means well?

Are we at the end of the road? Or can we kick the can a little farther?

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templer003 2012/06/17 11:55:21

End of the road

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When a person becomes beholding to any government for their very livelihood, they then become no better than slaves relying upon their masters to provide for them...
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westernslope~PWCM~JLA 2012/06/17 13:16:26

End of the road

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time to get off the government dole

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Wahvlvke 2012/06/17 13:12:57

Kick the can a little farther

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... is what the politicians will do ... but the can is fixing to become a five gallon bucket ... filled with concrete.

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Franklin 2012/06/17 13:03:11

End of the road

Greece is saying that the government NOT SPENDING caused the recession , Obama agrees and said so !....its easy just spend whatever you want and have the liberals who run America pay for it all by using the working tax payers as a piggy bank !

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doofiegirl POTL~PWCM~JLA 2012/06/17 12:49:55

Kick the can a little farther

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The can can go on If we get rid of the debtor in chief and reverse all of his stupid policies! Don't give up on the American spirit just yet!

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alanh 2012/06/17 12:49:13

End of the road

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It is time to use our voice ( VOTE ) and get rid of the tax and spenders in Washington!! We must vote Obuthead out and anyone who supports his policies. This is our Country and we want it strong and rich again!!

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Diane Spraggs Yates 2012/06/17 12:29:30

End of the road

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Some people are now down to $16.00 a month on food stamps and prices at the grocery stores if wise shopper How long would that last even just1 person ? Is this a good replacement for a soup kitcken- could feed them daily . I am talking about a disabled not able to hold a job due to mental disabilty at birth though no fault of his own. Not the ones who just are phyically able to work. Churches had been the saviors of people now they make their selvs comfortable take trips send kids to theme parks no need to help the poor ! Not what my Bible says I have taken food to known people with need but that need is not just 1 time and 1 person can only help so many GOVERNMENT increased feeding forgieners though the UN but not it own citizens.

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templer003 2012/06/17 11:55:21

End of the road

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When a person becomes beholding to any government for their very livelihood, they then become no better than slaves relying upon their masters to provide for them...

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Cognito22 to templer003 2012/06/17 19:00:45 (edited)

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Don't insult slaves. They work for a living.

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templer003 to Cognito22 2012/06/17 20:45:14

oops I didn't think of that :)
I should have said something to the effect of lazy no good lay abouts who want everything for free...

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Tinka123 2012/06/17 10:52:06

End of the road

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Oh they set us up - not protect us. Rest assured of that.

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Rusty Bubbles 2012/06/17 10:45:22

End of the road

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Prof. Alexander Frazer Tytler wrote that a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority, he said, always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collpases over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship.

Unfortunately, we can't argue with the professor because when he wrote that we were still colonials of Great Britain and he was explaining what had destroyed the Athenian Republic more than 2000 years before.

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Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/06/17 10:35:43

End of the road

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At the end of the road lies Greece. Greece, that has a choice between accepting reality and faking it. Incredibly, the fakers stand to win.

See that picture? Florence Thompson, Dust Bowl migrant. One of the many pictures that Dorothea Lange took for the Farm Security Administration. Propaganda? Most certainly. Whose fault is that, really? Politicians and those who vote for them.

If you click through to the article, it goes into more excruciating detail, and gives the answer: instead of kicking the can, kicking the bums out.

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