The majority of Americans seem OK with just waddling through life, accepting the lies and misinformation blasted from the boob tube and their various iGadgets by their owners, gorging themselves to death on Twinkies and Cheetos, paying 15% interest on their $10,000 rolling credit card balance, and growing ever more dependent on the welfare/warfare state to provide and protect them from accepting personal responsibility for their lives. A minority of critical thinking people have chosen to question everything they see and hear being spewed at us by the propagandist mainstream media, the corporate fascist government, and the powerful banking cabal that has an iron grip upon our throats as they choke the life out of the global economy in their never ending desire for more riches and more power.
The decline of the Great American Empire cannot be attributed to one factor or one bogeyman. There are a multitude of factors, villains, and choices made by the American people that have led to our moral, civil, social, and economic decline. The kabuki theater that passes for our electoral process is little more than a diversion from our imminent fate. Neither candidate for President has any intention of changing the course of the U.S. Titanic. Our rendezvous with destiny has been charted, and there aren’t nearly enough lifeboats. Those who built the ship and recklessly navigated it into a sea of icebergs will be the 1[SUP]st[/SUP] into the few lifeboats. The leaders we’ve chosen, the choices we’ve made, and our unwillingness to deal with facts and reality have set in motion a disaster that cannot be averted. It’s a shame the majority of Americans have the math aptitude of a 6[SUP]th[/SUP] grader, because the unsustainability of our empire can be calculated quite easily. Math is hard for Americans, but denial and delusion are easy.
Oddly, a couple of late September days in Wildwood NJ were able to crystalize many of the aspects of our cultural and economic decline in my mind. I should have just enjoyed the 72 degree temperatures, a few beers, and the freedom to read a book on my deck. I wish I was just oblivious to my surroundings, but my weekend in Wildwood NJ was an eye opener. Everywhere I turned I saw something that made me laugh, shake my head in disgust, or wonder how our government could have become so inane, incompetent and out of control. We all generalize based upon our preconceived beliefs, but sometimes what you see is what you get. The weekend started normally with a morning bike ride on the boardwalk with my wife and son to the Hereford lighthouse in North Wildwood. Along the way we passed the usual suspects on the boardwalk: the obese, the tattooed, the pierced, and the blue haired. I wish I was exaggerating, but I saw a dozen hoveround and rascal scooters carrying extremely obese Americans on par with this person
If I wanted to be politically correct, I’d call the fat asses cruising on their “free” rascal scooters, the weight challenged disabled on their powered mobility enhancement vehicles. You know a trend has become a massive scam, when South Park dedicates an entire show to the shame of obesity and the scooter brigade. The majority of the scooter squad jamming up the boardwalk was less than 50 years old. They weren’t disabled. They were just too obese and lazy to wobble down the boardwalk to the next junk food joint. They were certainly in the right place. The Wildwood boardwalk is home to pizza topped with cheese fries, chocolate covered bacon, fried Oreos, funnel cake topped with powdered sugar, and 64 ounce sugar laced lemonade. The place would make Nanny Bloomberg’s head explode.
We’ve all seen the commercials for the Scooter store urging anyone on Medicare to rush in and get a power scooter or wheelchair “at little or no cost to you”. The entitlement “free ****” mentality permeates our culture. There is a cost and it is over $800 million per year, paid for by the 53% who pay Federal taxes. Records from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show that the cost of motorized scooters and wheelchairs to the government health service for senior citizens rose 179% between 1999 and 2009, the last year for which full records are available. This data is fascinating as the number of Americans over the age of 65 only increased by 18% over this same time frame. The bill in 1999 was $259 million; in 2009 it was $723 million – and is surely over $1 billion today. This is another billion dollar scam being funded by your tax dollars, but there are no spending cuts possible according to our beloved Congressmen.
A recent report by Medicare’s inspector general also showed that 61% of the motorized wheelchairs provided to Medicare recipients in the first half of 2007 went to people who didn’t qualify for them. (Only people who cannot get around without one are supposed to be eligible.) The inspector general found that Medicare is billed an average of $4,018 for a motorized wheelchair that normally sells for $1,048. As a taxpayer, you will be shocked to find out that people are selling their “no cost” Rascal 600 B mobility scooters on eBay. I’m sure the keen eyed government drones working in the Health & Human Services agency are policing the resale of taxpayer paid for scooters. I find it amusing that scooters have various naming classes, just like BMW and Mercedes. The vast majority of people I see tooling around on their “mobility scooters” are just plain fat. They aren’t over 65 years old. On my Sunday bike ride I was flabbergasted and amused by the sight of a 350 pound woman on a Rascal with the pedal to the metal pulling a 275 pound man in a wheelchair attached by rope. The plague of slow metabolism is sweeping the countryside.
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DECLINE, DECAY, DENIAL, DELUSION, & DESPAIR The Burning Platform
Decline, decay, denial, delusion, & despair
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That a whole lot of something. I just couldn't read it all. I think I've sucked down to many brews.
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This thread is about to be just like me. " totally TRASHED"""""""""
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Harry Manback
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Bummer, dude. I can't even see OP's original post. How does Brown Reggin's troll thread survive eleven plus pages, and this one doesn't?
Bummer, dude. I can't even see OP's original post. How does Brown Reggin's troll thread survive eleven plus pages, and this one doesn't?
40 and out
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Does anyone know where i can get ups socks? How's that?
Speedy Cerviche
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Huh. 5 D's
texan
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Been a while since I have seen Hee Haw. LOL Hoax
Side note.... I use to love watching Roy Clark and Buck Owens play.
Roy could play anything so great. His banjo picking was the best to me.
Not a super country fan, but I always appreciated one of America's greatest pickers.
Lue C Fur
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island1fox
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How Democracies die :
Loser Liberal Hippies Take over as University and College Professors.
While making huge salaries and tenure they teach how evil the country is.
They deal in a world of 18 to 2i year old mush heads that can vote.
Elect politicians only interested in their own power --make people dependant on them
Elementary and mid level education --no discipline or accountability on students
Belief that all should attend College --idiots or not
People hook themselves on drugs
People do not take responsability for their offspring pump them out and abandon
Crime soars.
Leaders of country denounce hard work and success -want them to contribute more(fair share)
Young generations look as capitalism and success as evil--take more from the dirty rich
Country goes from 47% on entiltlements to 80% ++
Leaders call for equal results not equal opportunity
Country goes into death debt cycle
Country strips Miltary defense capability
Evil that does exist in this world -is final victor
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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I just noticed that the title of this thread would make a great country song.
ajblakejr
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add a few more words and the song becomes Legendary!!!
Divorce, Dang, Dog, Dodge, Dallas,
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