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On 1/19/2014 10:19 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 1/19/14, 9:20 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:28:07 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 1/19/14, 6:16 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:09:44 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 1/19/14, 5:51 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 17:41:26 -0500, "F.O.A.D."
wrote:

On 1/19/14, 1:46 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:43:01 -0500, "F.O.A.D."
wrote:

On 1/19/14, 12:37 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:45:03 -0500, "F.O.A.D."
wrote:

On 1/19/14, 11:12 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 10:12:02 -0500, "F.O.A.D."
wrote:

The concept of citizens in this country taking on armed
governmental
forces is absurd. All the armed citizenry in this county,
and there are
lots of citizens with guns in this county, couldn't take on
the county
sheriff.

That is absurd if you are talking about more than a few
people hiding
out in a cabin.
Our military has not been very successful in stopping
asymmetrical
warriors whether it is Vietnam, The Middle East, Africa or
South Asia.
They kill a lot of people and win most of the battles but
they lose
the war. (much like the Brits in the latter 18th century
American
war)..

Hey, there's always hope a large number of righties will
start an
insurrection in the United States and get wiped out...it'll
definitely
improve the gene pool.

I do not actually believe that we would ever allow a
government to get
that oppressive before we enacted a political solution but it
would be
the left who ended up organizing the revolution if it did.
I do believe it would come out of a massive financial collapse
and the
well intentioned desire to find a strong leader with an agenda
that
sounded good in the beginning and then descended into a
dictatorship.
Bear in mind every dictator of the last 100 years started with a
socialist agenda. Most have the word "socialist" in the title
of their
government.
The only way socialism can exist as a governmental policy is
if you
have an overbearing government. (be it the Cubans, Venezuela, the
Soviets or the Nazis)

My Northern European buddies in socialist countries report no
problems
with overbearing government.

Your buddies don't even complain of the overbearing taxes? Wow,
mine has started doing that big
time. He's also not very happy with providing housing to all the
Moroccan and Turkish folks that
have been flooding Holland since the borders went away.

Funny, fifteen-twenty years ago he was very happy with his
'socialist' country. Times have changed.
Good to know your buddies don't mind oppressive taxes.

My Norwegian friend who was seriously
injured in an offshore drilling platform accident was financially
supported and retrained as a teacher and is quite happy with
how things
turned out. He didn't lose his house or his healthcare or his
pension,
and his kids went to college. In the USA, he'd be out on the
street.

Norway would be a great place for you to live. You could get
herring prepared in a tremendous
variety of ways - including raw.

Been there, done that.

On a motorcycle trip to Stockholm, we took a ferry from Kiel,
Germany to Gotenberg, Sweden. For an
extra 25 Deutsche Marks, we got the buffet on the ferry. One whole
counter, about 15 feet long was
devoted solely to herring in its many forms = fried, pickled in
various sauces, raw with various
sauces, and so on. What a pig out!

One of our group didn't want to spend the money. The next day,
about halfway across Swededn, he got
hungry. We stopped at a little highway diner where he paid about
the same amount of money for a
hamburger, fries, and soft drink. Sweden may be a socialist
heaven, but it cost me almost $50 to
fill my motorcycle tank and about $5 for a wrapped (the cheap
kind) loaf of bread at a supermarket.

But they put on a pretty good motorcycle rally.

No question that prices are higher in Europe for many things, but, on
the other hand, a lot of that comes back to ordinary citizens in terms
of guaranteed vacation time, guaranteed sick leave, a decent
retirement,
health care coverage, education, retraining if necessary, et cetera.

My Norwegian friends are middle class. Most of them have nice but
smaller houses than most of us have, and they make do with one car.
They
work hard and they are sans the awful worries that plague many
Americans. *Not* spending upwards of $700 billion a year on their
military means there are funds for programs for people.

Thank God the USA whipped the Germans, eh? And it's probably a good
thing we kept the Fulda Gap
closed for all those years afterwards. I suppose learning Chinese
would be no problem for one with
your education.

The United States along with many allies "whipped" the Germans, and
without the sort of military budget this country has today. I have to
admit, the Cold War against the Sovs was a wonderful way for the
military establishment and contractors in both countries to keep lots of
men in uniform and lots of corporations in the black.

We're spending far, far too much on the military. We should start
cutting it in half over a 10 year period, and then see if we can cut it
in half again.

As for learning Chinese, it would be a wonderful idea for American
schools and American kids to have as mandatory the teaching of a second
language. It was that way back when I was in high school...if you were
in the "college prep" high school divisions, you were required to take
four years of foreign language. I don't recall all the offerings, but
among them were German, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, et cetera.
Many of us took two languages. I took Latin and Russian, the latter
because many of my relatives here spoke Russian and I could practice
with them. I remember the Russian teacher, a fellow named Mr. Crosby.

Chinese would be a very worthwhile addition, considering the importance
of China in today's world.

Good night, Harry. Believe what you will. Hopefully your kids know
better.

Know better about what? Is there something wrong about learning foreign
languages? Are we not spending too much on the military? Did the United
States win WW II all by itself?

Know better enough to stay out of the 47% group of Americans who don't
earn enough to pay taxes. Any kid with gumption strives to do better
than his parents. Unfortunately some lose track of their main mission of
raising their kids properly.

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