Where Did America Go And Who Took It?

[Punch The Clown]

Anyway, I had a call in the local shopping mall yesterday. It happened to be in the Best Buy store. Anyway, the patient, that was there spending my tax money decided to have a grand mal seizure, but this is all besides the point. What I did notice was the amount of buying going on. Tons of high end, high tech devices. After the call I told my partner, who is in her late 20's, about "Pancakes for Breakfast". It was a book that I used to read as a child. From what I remember this family goes to Grandma's house for a few days for Christmas. All the kids could think of was Grandma's pancakes. Day after day goes buy and no pancakes. Finally, on the last day of their visit Grandma made pancakes, and the kids were overjoyed. My partner thought it was crazy that anyone would wish for pancakes. Norman Rockwell's America is dead. Too bad as I think it was a better one.

[dogboysdad]

I like pancakes.

[Big Ben]

I had pancakes today, actually was waiting a few days for them.

[KnickKnack]

America died in 2008. But it was on life support for a long time before that.

I prefer waffles myself. :)

[Cal30M1]

Waffles are better but on the rare cold morning I can eats me some pannycakes!

[toolman]

Good post Clown! peace toolman

[paid4c4]

Stu, good thread regardless of how truthfully sad it is. What happened to our country? The change has been gradual over the recent years as we change from a democracy to a socialist state, all without a bullet being fired. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your view we are seeing the beginning of armed confrontation. The "Occupy" movement is the beginning and gives dissidents a platform to act as a magnet to draw those who don't work, don't like democracy and don't like those of us who do work or who have worked. I believe they call themselves the 99%ers which comes down to the haves and the have nots. Those that don't work and don't have want what those who have worked and do have and sooner rather than later will attempt to take it by force. You say this sounds impossible, stock up on ammo and stand by.
Bill
PS: Happy New Year

[paid4c4]

Do I know how to stop a thread or not!
Bill

[timshufflin]

I look forward to the new America. I'm sick of caring, pass the cheese.

[paid4c4]

I look forward to the new America. I'm sick of caring, pass the cheese.
and the ammo!
Bill

[Punch The Clown]

Listen, I'm talking a lot more fundamental. We could have fun all day with a 25 cent ball. These kids need a $500 playstation. Try coming home from work and tossing your kid a ball. He'd look at you like there's something wrong with you. Peal off $100 and tell him to go to the mall and he'll be your best friend for about an hour.

[timshufflin]

I would never waste .25 on my kid. They got nothing as children and liked it :)

[KnickKnack]

I wrote about this on the old forum. Our parents wanted to give us the best, because they had seen the worst. So they worked their butts off for us. We assumed that we had to do the same thing for our children, but along the way some of us, especially the Liberals, made one big mistake. We gave our children everything except the same work ethic that our parents had given us. Perhaps because we wanted our children to have it even better than we had it. Also it was the age of Credit. Buy it now, pay for it later... if you had the money later. All the Liberal children went to college, expecting high paying, easy jobs when they came out, even though they didn't work for a thing and partied on Daddy's dime through college. When those jobs evaporated or simply were not there in the first place, all those kids had absolutely no idea what to do. So it was back home to mommy and daddy to be supported again. Now we have a nation full of these people, expecting to be catored too for the rest of their lives. When mommy and daddy are gone, they want the Government, and whoever is still working, to support them. Social Security and LBJ's socialist programs were only the tip of the iceburg that Americans bought into or had forced upon them. When all those people expecting Government to care for them drank the final Kool-Aid in 2008 and elected Obama on nothing more than empty promises of "change", the America that our parents knew officially died. There were some signs of reviving parts of this Nation over this Christmas. But we will never again be a "whole" Country. Secession of some States cannot be that far away if Obama is re-elected. I've also said that the handwriting is on the wall for 3 new Nations to replace the old United States. One on each Coast and one in the Mid-West, which will be most like the old America. The catalyst now is the Canadian Pipeline. If the States that this will affect can't get it with the current administration, and if this administration gets 4 more years to screw it up, those States would be better off forming a new Union.