http://biggeekdaddy.com/miscvideos/TedNugent.html

“You do raise a valid point, along with Mr. Giraldi, that socialism thrives in northern European countries.”

Yeah, I thought that was a germane phenomenon, and that there does seem to be somewhat of a … Leftward directionality to the arrow of modern world history in its entirety too. But I will say that your post did strike me as raising a very astute point that I at least had never thought about and that is the role of Christianity in that phenomenon.

Striking when you think about it: No matter whose leaders it has come from, European, African, Asian or whomever, nor even what kind of leader it came from, including the most virulent religion haters imaginable such as Leninist communists, the core message of the most vociferous partisans of that Leftward direction especially has often been cast in the language of Christianity, hasn’t it? “We are our brothers’ keeper” and etc.

Of course much has been a bastardization of same, but, still….

Very very interesting Nino.

(And by the way I loved your opinion in the Ricci case.)

Cheers,

Meanwhile, “Communist” China’s public spending as a % of GDP is 30%. Canada and America have very close public spending levels, but Canadians get “free” “health” “care” out of the deal.

I don’t see Americans fleeing America as the Brits and New Zealanders and South Africans are – yet. How bad does it have to get, though? Brazil, the Philipines, Thailand, Uruguay, and Slovenia are just a few countries off the top of my head where someone with a modest nest egg could conceivably live a better life than in America.

What is to be done? I see far too many people merely documenting the decline of America and western civilization, and I see too few solutions being proffered .

Yes, Mr. Patrick J. Buchanan and many others might probably not be around to see that happen; because, it is gradually happening.

Wise Latina women and very wise Muslims breed faster than White Europeans do.

White European women choose abortions of their offspring.

America was founded on Christianity 300 years ago. Today’s America is without Christianity.

A de facto Muslim man got elected to White House where Christianity is utilized, but Islam is actually practiced.

Mr. Patrick J. Buchanan has already become a minority now!

What ruined the “rest of the world” was that it was destroyed in a war, actually several wars. I don’t want to compare life in Italy or France or Germany or Norway to America b/c we have not had to deal with all the physical and human devastation of a succession of wars since 1900 — not very long ago. So I am speaking most directly to America and what America could have been. As for the likes of South American europeanized countries, they have been economic failures until recently, and they are plagued by deep-seated racism of “gringos” vs the natives and mulattoes.

I think there IS a direct correlation to the socialism of this country and the arrival of poor immigrants of a Catholic background. Can anyone here honestly say we would be LESS socialist without the likes of the Kennedy clan, the Moynihans, the Leahys, the Dodds, the Bidens? Add in the Cumos, the pseudo-conservatives like Giulinani and Molinaris, the Pelosi family? Not to mention the innumerable Jews on the left in the media, the academe, in politics. True, there was a strong WASP contingent in there as well, but they didn’t get their massive programs until the Catholic immigration waves and Jews moving into positions of power in many institutions, and now with yet more Catholics from Mexico?

You do raise a valid point, along with Mr. Giraldi, that socialism thrives in northern European countries. But I think that is more b/c they were homogenous as a people — but not anymore, and now look how their social experiment is falling apart. Anyone been to Norway lately? If not, be prepared to see what looks like a mini Pakistan and Somalia in Oslo, its capital city. London is not even English. Paris is a mess. Germany too.

In the end, I guess I have to throw my hands up and say “Who knows?” I sure as hell hope we don’t keep drifting toward socialism. But it has been gaining steam and it looks like with all the Mexicans now that our hopes are fading and it may take a generation or two for Mexicans to be in a position where they have something to lose (money) through promoting socialism and want to be left alone to spend and invest as they see fit.

I don’t know the answers. I am just here reporting what I see. Just the facts, maam.

What do you EXACTLY mean by ” hardest working ” ?

To be sure they are a lot of slackers- i mean look at slave holders that is the ultimate slacker of all and yet they profited much despite be lazy and self rightous. And our last president was the biggest slacker of all- born with the most, made the least. How could you people actually respect that-huh?

WASPs undeniably shaped America for much of its first 200 years, but their “self reliance” benefited from creating institutions that supported their supremacy. That broke down when large numbers of “outsiders” gained access to university education after the Second World War.

“I’ll say this as a Catholic and someone with Italian bloodlines, but America was ruined the minute all the Catholics and Jews came here in large numbers early last century….”

But Nino, presumably you mean “ruined” in the way the U.S. has moved in a more liberal/Leftist/socialist/social democratic direction. And thus you must also believe that much of the *rest* of the world is ruined too since since it has tended to go even further in that direction than the U.S.

So, did the Catholics and jews “ruin” that rest of the world too?

I suspect with the kind of “ruination” that Buchanan talks about and that Nino means there’s a big generation gap concerning its perception. Us older folks, steeped in what are old verities and beliefs see what’s going on in the U.S. and indeed see it as the very definition of what we always thought was “ruination.”

But I suspect younger folks don’t see it that way at all. Not that they don’t see that it has problems, but I think at the very least they’d point out that our “old” nation had problems too, with many saying they were worse.

A tricky thing saying what exactly constitutes “progress.” In the eye of the beholder to a great degree. And it seems to me a dicey thing betting against America no matter how much ruination it can seem to me to be inviting. 200+ years with the same government, creating the greatest amount of wealth and freedom ever seen in the world ain’t chopped liver in terms of modern human history. And maybe the much shorter and less successful reigns of nearly every other modern government—if not all—is a good argument that those who are against having an elastic enough system to accommodate the kind of big changes we had with the New Deal and Mr. Obama must not mind the kind of periodic upheavals and revolutions you see in other countries since that may be the only real option. Upheavals and revolutions and etc. with all the dislocations and civil wars and sufferings and etc. that can accompany same.

Not an ideal choice, but life is indeed usually a matter choosing between less than ideal options.

No dogs or Irish, eh Pat?

All of the stuff we see now is just part of the process that was put into motion in the early 1900s. I guess it is zero coincidence that the New Deal and all of that coincided with the arrival of millions and millions of catholics? With Jews assuming positions of power? Nah, it can’t be!!! It, it, it, it just CAN’T BE!!!!

Please….

So, Pat, stop complaining about government. Obama’s tendencies would not be honored by the people were the people serious about small government.

“..it is a disaster which must be blamed squarely on those fraudulent “conservatives”, Messrs. Cheney and Bush…”

This is like saying Rahm Emanual doesn’t “look” for opportunities, he simply reacts in the only way past events allow him to.

Even if you were right, and Bush were some cartoon-like “100% screwed up”, still, your basic premise is kinda dumb.

http://www.patrickfoydossier.com/patrickfoydossier/Endstation_America.html

Team Obama is certainly a disaster, but it is a disaster which must be blamed squarely on those fraudulent “conservatives”, Messrs. Cheney and Bush Jr. You might even call Obama the “Bush blowback”. The failed Cheney/Bush co-Presidency is only a proximate cause. Looking at the big picture, Buchanan cites Garet Garrett, who was reacting against FDR. From the aftermath of the 1965 edition of Garrett’s Ex America: “Before his death in 1954, Mr. Garrett retired to a cave on a river bank at Tuckahoe, New Jersey, where he lived very quietly with his wife, making notes and comments on the passing show of monstrous human folly.”

Patrick Foy