Snail Darter = Gerbil Worming = HopeyChanginess
Why do some Americans feel that all is terrible in the state of our Union.
It seems to me that the better things get, the worse the screams of despair.
US child mortality is the lowest it has been since the mid Seventies.
The US poverty rate is the lowest it has been in over 20 years.
We no longer need to worry about a nuclear war with the Soviets.
The life expectancy has risen 4 decades in the past 160 years.
The USA's GNP has increased by better than a factor of 4 since my birth.
Polio was eradicated during my lifetime...and TB essentially before.
Would you like to argue that there have not been huge advances in medicine?
The world is a MUCH safer place than when I was born...can you say Global Thermonuclear War?
The environment is cleaner by every measure. Global Warming...it doesn't exist.
In 1903, accidental deaths by firearms came on at 3.1 per hundred thousand...by 1993 the rate was 0.6 per hundred thousand.
Why don't we do somethin? Why does nothing seem to get better? Who is to blame? Where is the gov'mint?
This is what you hear from the professional breast-beaters. And that is exactly what I believe it to be...a professional association of complainers.
When I was 14, John Kennedy demanded..."ask not what America can do for you, but what you can do for America." There were millions who responded.
That was just before a small minority of worthless lay-abouts became media darlings. Tune in, turn on, drop out...became the words of the day. Even though these were only the words of a small minority, they were given stature beyond their true worth.
I blame my generation, the media, and cowardly politicians.
American morality was hijacked by focusing angst on the war in Vietnam. I've got news for you children...not everyone was against kicking the crap out of the commies. Most of the country thought it was worthwhile just on general principles. It wasn't the body count that turned Americans against the war, it was the lack of will of the stinking, slimy, politicians to fight it right and fight it to the bitter end. The parents of those boys and girls dying in Vietnam were the same people who kicked the shit out of Japan and Germany...truely the greatest generation. They knew what losses were...but they also know when politicians were full of shit. Many of their children were spoiled and worthless...willing to sell their freedoms for hot-tubs and sweet, sweet, words. All of our current poor crop of politicians are from my generation.
Understand no matter how good things get, the professional whiners will never stop. As long as there is one poor child, one threatened Snail Darter, one gun in the hands of a free man, or one minor accident that could have been prevented by a 500 million dollar government program...these whiners will be with us. Its their job.
I hope our children do better.
It seems to me that the better things get, the worse the screams of despair.
US child mortality is the lowest it has been since the mid Seventies.
The US poverty rate is the lowest it has been in over 20 years.
We no longer need to worry about a nuclear war with the Soviets.
The life expectancy has risen 4 decades in the past 160 years.
The USA's GNP has increased by better than a factor of 4 since my birth.
Polio was eradicated during my lifetime...and TB essentially before.
Would you like to argue that there have not been huge advances in medicine?
The world is a MUCH safer place than when I was born...can you say Global Thermonuclear War?
The environment is cleaner by every measure. Global Warming...it doesn't exist.
In 1903, accidental deaths by firearms came on at 3.1 per hundred thousand...by 1993 the rate was 0.6 per hundred thousand.
Why don't we do somethin? Why does nothing seem to get better? Who is to blame? Where is the gov'mint?
This is what you hear from the professional breast-beaters. And that is exactly what I believe it to be...a professional association of complainers.
When I was 14, John Kennedy demanded..."ask not what America can do for you, but what you can do for America." There were millions who responded.
That was just before a small minority of worthless lay-abouts became media darlings. Tune in, turn on, drop out...became the words of the day. Even though these were only the words of a small minority, they were given stature beyond their true worth.
I blame my generation, the media, and cowardly politicians.
American morality was hijacked by focusing angst on the war in Vietnam. I've got news for you children...not everyone was against kicking the crap out of the commies. Most of the country thought it was worthwhile just on general principles. It wasn't the body count that turned Americans against the war, it was the lack of will of the stinking, slimy, politicians to fight it right and fight it to the bitter end. The parents of those boys and girls dying in Vietnam were the same people who kicked the shit out of Japan and Germany...truely the greatest generation. They knew what losses were...but they also know when politicians were full of shit. Many of their children were spoiled and worthless...willing to sell their freedoms for hot-tubs and sweet, sweet, words. All of our current poor crop of politicians are from my generation.
Understand no matter how good things get, the professional whiners will never stop. As long as there is one poor child, one threatened Snail Darter, one gun in the hands of a free man, or one minor accident that could have been prevented by a 500 million dollar government program...these whiners will be with us. Its their job.
I hope our children do better.
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