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Once Upon a Time in America

Have you ever before in your life feared government?  I mean, really feared it?  There's good reason to.

“ When the s*** hits the fan, for more than two centuries the best people in the world have been able to count on one thing: escaping to America. Even before there was a United States, the land we call America was a different place. In America, a peasant could own land. A slave could fight — literally — for his freedom. An Irish cop could arrest an English criminal. In America, a Russian could speak his mind, an Italian could renounce the Pope, a Serbian could marry a Turk, an Asian or an Indian could find space to move, a Catholic could get divorced, a Jew could eat bacon, and a housewife could get a job. A … well, pretty much anyone could do most anything. Maybe not at first, and certainly not without ridicule if you chose do something really silly — but the choice was yours. In America, you were free. It's apparent where this lament is heading, which is why it's so lamentable.  I'll skip right to it ... But now that we have this wonderful place, this precious idea — what are we doing with it? Already, the government runs our children’s education and our parents’ retirement. Now we’re allowing it to usurp our banks and nationalize what remains of our auto industries. Within weeks, Washington promises a plan to dictate our health care. To do all this, we’ve let Washington run up enough red ink to impoverish our grandchildren. As if all that weren’t enough, the president still found the time to kick our friends in London and Tel Aviv while courting a genocidal, election-stealing maniac in Tehran. He even gave a speech in Cairo — that oppressed, impoverished Old World megalopolis — in which he assured the world that America really is no better than anywhere else. Well, once upon a time, we were. Page 1 of 2  Next -> ” So Rodge, what's the solution?  Same as always. H/T hispaman