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Title: America is still the Land of Dreams
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URL Source: http://jwpegler.blogtownhall.com/20 ... still_the_land_of_dreams.thtml
Published: Mar 8, 2011
Author: Eric Blankenburg
Post Date: 2011-03-08 21:52:50 by jwpegler
Keywords: None
Views: 34029
Comments: 45
The continuing poor economic situation really got me thinking about what America is all about and what it means to be an American. I don't like to write about my family, but given the ugly situation in Wisconsin and elsewhere, I feel the urgent need to write about my wonderful wife and how she is realizing her dreams in America. When I got divorced a few years ago, a friend advised me to take a broader perspective on potential partners than women in my local area. During my career, I've traveled the world many times and I've met a lot great people. So, I took his advice. I found a great woman in the Philippines. We were married in May, 2007. My wife opened a home day center in the fall of 2009. She found the regulations, she passed her state inspections, she acquired customers, and she served her customers well. Her customers love her. In her first year in business, my wife netted over $40K. Not bad for a girl from the third world in her first year as a business woman in America. We are now saving so that she can open a large day care center. She has dreams of opening many day centers. She will do it. In her short time in America, my wife already knows that your dreams can come true. She has seen it. She has done it. Her dreams are coming true every day. She is thankful for being in America. Nothing will stop her. Unfortunately, American leftists just don't get it. They are so tied up in their income distribution, collective bargaining nonsense that they can't see the real America. To them, the entire concept of America is lost in the haze of political nonsense. My wife grew up in a one room bamboo hut. She picked root crops for her grandmother's family business. Her daily shower was pouring a bucket of water over her head. Now she is a successful business woman in America. In spite of the county's problems, America is still the land of dreams and opportunities. My wife has demonstrated this. All I can say is: Shame on the lazy. Shame on the government bureaucrats. Shame on the political left. Shame on them all for trying to destroy this country and what America represents to humanity across the world. Shame, shame, shame
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#1. To: All, A K A Stone, go65, capitalist eric (#0)
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You mean like Ike Eisenhower was against it at 90% tax rates? Or Teddy Roosevelt when he went after the robber barrons? Wake up. Reality is not a dream.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
it's a nice story, but I think what you are missing is that what liberals want is for everyone to have the opportunity to get a good education, start a business, and succeed whereas conservatives want to end public education, end any ability for the uninsured to get health care, and torpedo programs such as the small business administration if it means concentrating more wealth at the top. You don't seem to have any concerns about the income distribution that has concentrated half the nations wealth into the hands of its 400 richest citizens. Liberals see that as a problem, you don't.
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
What you are missing is individual imitative. My wife came from a one room bamboo hut to being a successful business woman in America. No government help required. My wife is thankful and you are angry. Even though that you and I agree on many things, this is our difference -- you are angry and we are taking care of our future.
Go F yourself, loser. No one cares about your BS leftist newsletter or website or whatever it is you get your information from. No one cares but you,
My wife is thankful and you are angry. Even though that you and I agree on many things, this is our difference -- you are angry and we are taking care of our future. Sorry, I'm not angry, I'll leave that to the right-wingers who would start asking about the citizenship/immigration status of your wife. All I'm pointing out is that liberals generally favor giving people the tools to help them succeed - education, health care, loans, etc., while conservatives generally favor concentrating wealth in the hands of the rich (though they do favor spending trillions outside the U.S. on military adventures).
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
No one cares about your BS leftist newsletter or website or whatever it is you get your information from. No one cares but you, Rut Roh.. sounds like wifey's parents, siblings and the kids are all coming to visit. Good for her, I would charge too to take care of them.
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Reality is leftist now? Fact Eisenhower's tax rate was 90% on the rich. Teddy Roosevelt went after the robber barons and wanted a socialized health care system. That was the Republican party once.......
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
That was the Republican party once....... Delusional hero worshipping by those who believe that Free Trade ever actually existed.
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It's called the American Dream because you have to be a sleep to believe it. The Top 400 have more wealth than the Bottom 155 million. It's revolution time. See Libya. Tunisia. Egypt for details.
but that's because they work harder. Even Jwpegler will admit that broker making $150 million a year is a far more productive member of society then someone who starts their own small business since the rich people create all the jobs.
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
At stealing more. Their productivity is impressive. ;}
Berkshire takes $2.25 billion from Burlington. Productivity in action. ;}
She didn't do it by herself did she.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
The reason she lived in a bamboo hut was because there was no govt to build roads and infrastructure. Living in a bamboo hut is what you get when you don't have govt partnered with individual initiative. See libertarian paradise Somalia..........
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Libertarians want all the advantages government provides, just without the the cost or restrictions. If it were not so, they would move to Somalia.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
LOL What I see on this thread from Godforsaken, Lusysmom, and mcgowanjm is jealousy and anger. liberals generally favor giving people... Yep, and that's the problem with the country.
Again, you haven't been anywhere so you don't know squat. The Philippines has plenty of government, but most of the wealth and power is concentrated in their capital (Manila) because everything is politicized. The same thing is happening in the U.S. Most of the wealth and power are being concentrated in the District of Columbia (and NYC) because the left has politicized the economy and forced businesses to go groveling to politicians to either beg for handouts or fight the latest attempt by politicians to rape and pillage them. The left likes to talk about how America is becoming a third world country. And it is, but not for the reasons the brain dead believes. It's the left's fault that this is happening.
I work with people from the Philippines. I have all my life. To say that the Philippines has too much govt is nonsense. I just asked my co-worker if she every saw any govt services where she grew up and she said no except for a military convoy now and then. In any case you filthy libertarians claim that if there was no govt the population would thrive but its the opposite. Without govt services areas in America would look like rural Philippines. For example if not for the govt built and run Tenn. Valley Authority was not started, that whole region would be in the dark since the people there are poor and rural and were not attractive customers to private enterprise. The Philippines is what you get when you have crony capitalism and minimum and badly financed public services - the Tea Party ideal.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Remember that the Phillipines is a US Protectorate. So what goes on there generally has our blessing until the pot boils over, then like Mexico we drain off the steam until the next regime creates the same probblems. Those living on the outer islands generally see squat. During the Marcos era they were often at the mercy of roving government thugs taking their land, and imprisoning or killing those who objected. Which led to a fairly large migration to the US, with all expenses paid too, including education, housing, cars and a job. And generally able to work at reduced salaries compared to others in the same profession since they were receiving out right US gov handouts.... free gratis. But heh, we were making the world safe for democracy by enabling dictators and reaping the spoils, so all was good.
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After they ousted Marcos the Phillipines kicke dthe Americans out though I don't know if business ties are still as strong (fruit) or if the Japanese or Chinese (both Red and Taiwanese) have taken over the American business roles. With that said, the system of corrupt crony colonialist rule continues even if the USA is no longer calling the shots. The govts the Phillipines elect seem to be reform minded but the oligarchs are very powerful there and tend to make change tough.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
I thought we were kicked out by a volcanic eruption....lol
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Without govt services areas in America would look like rural Philippines. For example, if not for the govt built and run Tenn. Valley Authority that whole region would be in the dark and look like a third world region where there is no electricity and no or few govt services...
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
You are missing the point as usual, I didn't say the Philippines has too much government is rural areas. I said that the Philippines has a politicized economy and therefore most of the wealth and power is concentrated in one city -- Manila. This is exactly what is happening in the U.S. -- the entire county is suffering but metro-D.C. is booming. This is a direct consequence of the left politicizing the American economy over the last several decades.
Electricity brought private industry to the area and that created jobs.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
No, the third world in general is what you get when the economy becomes politicized. Politicizing everything is the left-wing ideal. Politicizing the economy didn't work in the Soviet Union, it didn't work in the third world, and it's not working here.
I seriously doubt that you are even employed. Tell us what you do for a living and how you came to work with people from the Philippines.
Just like Stalin. The little person getting screwed is a natural and predictable outcome of big government politicizing the economy. History has made this very clear.
And here you are wanting to see the little guys in Wisconsin screwed.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
We protected Marcos as a trade off for making the Phillipines safe for corporations and commerce. United Fruit didn't seem to object.
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And now evidently its okay for states to pass legislation without even the semblance of a quorum and against their own constitutional restrictions. That one will really come back to bite.
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Working in any hospital in the nation is one avenue.
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I'm surprised the retard did not also ask for my SS number.....
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Government bureaucrats are not "little guys". Government unions are the most power political pressure groups in America. They dump hundreds of millions of dollars into campaigns every year to elect their own bosses (leftist politicians) who then collude with them to force people to pay for their rotten and destructive monopolies. Any and all attempt at even the tiniest bit of reform gets met with bitter opposition and millions of dollars funded by forced union dues. The real people getting screwed in Wisconsin are the same people getting screwed everywhere in the U.S. Namely, taxpayers who are forced to pay government monopolies and children who are forced to suffer in those monopolies. This cancer that has spreed throughout society needs to be cut out and radiated.
He spends too much time on the internet to be cleaning bed pans.
The lie-berals and leftists aren't interested in reality. To them, it's all about how you feel. Or, in plainer terms, "good intentions" are all that matter. Which is why our country is on a paved road to Hell... Paved with those "good intentions."
Socialist ass-hats think "There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." And yes, that IS from LF's answer to Ben Bernanke, go65, leading disfunctional and delusional socialist of the forum. "You want me to kill THE ENEMIES of Jappos, I'll kill THE ENEMIES of Jappos, Rebs, or Sioux, or Cheyenne... For 500 bucks a month I'll kill whoever you want. But keep one thing in mind: I'd happily kill you for free." Algren, "The Last Samurai" They claim good intentions, but the reality here is that the left is filled with angry, envious people who care more about punishing the successful than anything else. We see it on this board every time someone distracts a conversation with half facts and falsehoods about "income distribution".
I don't know about that - you two seem to be obsessed with what garbage men are paid. If you were happy with your own lives and accomplishments, would you even care what garbage men make?
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
Garbage collections can be provided in a competitive market. There is no reason for this to be an expensive government monopoly.
So you say.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
I have private sector garbage collection today in Redmond, WA. Let me tell you how this works: Government garbage collection: Three guys on a truck -- one driver, two on back. They mosey through the neighborhood at a snail's pace, banging up garbage cans, making all kinds of racket Private garbage collection: One guy on a truck -- the driver. He zips up to a can, pushes a button, two mechanical arms come down, which picks up the can and empties it. This guy by himself zips through the neighborhood at 4 times the pace of the government garbage collectors. I don't even have to buy my own can. They supply the can that works with their automated system. It costs me about $15 bucks a month for a huge can plus an even larger recycle can. They also have one for yard waste that I don't use. They collect the garbage even on holidays. The government doesn't innovate. The government isn't efficient. The government doesn't care about service, cost, quality, or happy customers. Why? Because the government is a coercive monopoly and so are the unions that staff government jobs. We have to blow apart all of these government monopolies that crept up in the 20th century. Schools, fire protection, garbage collection, even roads and parks inside of neighborhoods. All of these things are already being done in various parts of the country.
We have the same system - we pay the city and the city contracts out.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
It's best to play these at the same time to get the full effect. Government garbage collection: Private garbage collection:
The city here contracted some smaller private company, but the service really sucks. They are always spilling garbage everywhere on the streets and missing the cheaply made, unwieldy and not well engineered cans (garbage sticks inside due to their configuration) that they supply. Waste Management was our company until a few years ago.... they seemed pretty good but I guess they weren't fast enough with the kickbacks.
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My only complaint is coming home to find an overturned bin in my driveway.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#2. To: jwpegler (#1)
Unfortunately, American leftists just don't get it. They are so tied up in their income distribution,
#3. To: jwpegler (#1)
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#4. To: go65, capitalist eric, godwinson (#3)
(Edited)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#5. To: Godwinson (#2)
(Edited)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#6. To: jwpegler (#4)
My wife came from a one room bamboo hut to being a successful business woman in America. No government help required.
#7. To: jwpegler (#5)
Go F yourself, loser.
#8. To: jwpegler, go65, Rek (#5)
No one cares about your BS leftist newsletter or website or whatever it is you get your information from.
#9. To: Godwinson (#8)
Reality is leftist now? Fact Eisenhower's tax rate was 90% on the rich. Teddy Roosevelt went after the robber barons and wanted a socialized health care system.
#10. To: jwpegler (#0)
#11. To: mcgowanjm, jwpegler (#10)
The Top 400 have more wealth than the Bottom 155 million.
#12. To: go65 (#11)
but that's because they work harder.
#13. To: go65 (#11)
#14. To: jwpegler, go65, capitalist eric, godwinson (#4)
My wife came from a one room bamboo hut to being a successful business woman in America. No government help required.
#15. To: lucysmom, jwpegler, go65, capitalist eric (#14)
My wife came from a one room bamboo hut to being a successful business woman in America. No government help required.
#16. To: Godwinson (#15)
See libertarian paradise Somalia..........
#17. To: go65, capitalist eric (#6)
(Edited)
citizenship/immigration status of your wife.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#18. To: Godwinson, capitalist eric, go65 (#15)
The reason she lived in a bamboo hut was because there was no govt to build roads and infrastructure.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#19. To: jwpegler, capitalist eric, go65 (#18)
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Again, you haven't been anywhere so you don't know squat.
#20. To: Godwinson (#19)
The Philippines is what you get when you have crony capitalism and minimum and badly financed public services - the Tea Party ideal.
#21. To: Rek (#20)
Remember that the Phillipines is a US Protectorate. So what goes on there generally has our blessing until the pot boils over, then like Mexico we drain off the steam until the next regime creates the same probblems.
#22. To: Godwinson (#21)
After they ousted Marcos the Phillipines kicke dthe Americans out though I don't know if business ties are still as strong (fruit) or if the Japanese or Chinese (both Red and Taiwanese) have taken over the American business roles
#23. To: Rek (#22)
#24. To: Godwinson (#19)
just asked my co-worker if she every saw any govt services where she grew up and she said no except for a military convoy now and then.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#25. To: Godwinson (#23)
Tenn. Valley Authority that whole region would be in the dark and look like a third world region where there is no electricity and no or few govt services...
#26. To: Godwinson (#19)
The Philippines is what you get when you have crony capitalism and minimum and badly financed public services - the Tea Party ideal.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#27. To: Godwinson (#19)
I just asked my co-worker
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#28. To: Rek (#20)
During the Marcos era they were often at the mercy of roving government thugs taking their land, and imprisoning or killing those who objected.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#29. To: jwpegler (#28)
Just like Stalin. The little person getting screwed is a natural and predictable outcome of big government politicizing the economy. History has made this very clear.
#30. To: jwpegler (#28)
(Edited)
Just like Stalin. The little person getting screwed is a natural and predictable outcome of big government politicizing the economy. History has made this very clear.
#31. To: lucysmom (#29)
And here you are wanting to see the little guys in Wisconsin screwed.
#32. To: jwpegler (#27)
Tell us what you do for a living and how you came to work with people from the Philippines.
#33. To: Rek, jwpegler (#32)
#34. To: lucysmom (#29)
And here you are wanting to see the little guys in Wisconsin screwed.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#35. To: Rek (#32)
Working in any hospital in the nation is one avenue.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#36. To: jwpegler (#18)
Again, you haven't been anywhere so you don't know squat.
#37. To: Capitalist Eric (#36)
"good intentions" are all that matter
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#38. To: jwpegler, Capitalist Eric, Rek, Goodwinson (#37)
They claim good intentions, but the reality here is that the left is filled with angry, envious people who care more about punishing the successful than anything else.
#39. To: lucysmom (#38)
I don't know about that - you two seem to be obsessed with what garbage men are paid
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#40. To: jwpegler (#39)
Garbage collections can be provided in a competitive market. There is no reason for this to be an expensive government monopoly.
#41. To: lucysmom, go65, capitalist eric, rek (#40)
(Edited)
So you say.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#42. To: jwpegler (#41)
#43. To: All, lucysmom, go65, capitalist eric, rek (#41)
(Edited)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#44. To: lucysmom (#42)
(Edited)
We have the same system - we pay the city and the city contracts out.
#45. To: Rek (#44)
The city here contracted some smaller private company, but the service really sucks. They are always spilling garbage everywhere on the streets and missing the cheaply made, unwieldy and not well engineered cans (garbage sticks inside due to their configuration) that they supply. Waste Management was our company until a few years ago.... they seemed pretty good but I guess they weren't fast enough with the kickbacks.
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