How did we get from here...

We will start by asking a really obvious and basic question.....

How did we get from here.....



To here.....


I contend it starts early in our schools. This Snippitt is from the Story of Stuff (there are at least 4 more parts), and this is what your children are being taught at thousands of schools across the country, with cute little cartoons, and an instructor who gets her information and statistics from what "the textbooks tell her".....

Somehow WE (the U.S.)are the only people who use this STUFF. Hmmmm..and everybody else just lets us come and take it, trashing the planet us evil Americans. Notice her textbooks don't tell her that we are the country with the strictest environmental laws in the world. And I guess the "progressive" agenda of envoronmentalism, with all the laws banning logging, overfishing, and pollution for the last 50 years just haven't worked...
remember this ad...

that was 1970...evidentally it didn't work...she says
"in the last three decades alone 1/3 of the worlds natural resource base has been consumed, gone...less than 4% of our original forests are left...40% of the waterways have become undrinkable...and our 5%of the worlds population is using 30% of the worlds natural resources"...really...WOW ! All of these statistics are easily arguable, but you won't see that here...Clearly Greenpeace,the Sierra Club and the EPA have been HUGE failures. Only people that have never had to run a successful entity, that actually had to produce positive results in order to survive, would believe we should continue on this path. Because success to them isn't positive results, but publicity, so that you keep donating your money and tax dollars to pay their wages to promote their cause.
For instance when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi bragged about closing coal plants in California, she negelected to mention that for every ONE the U.S. closes. China opens TEN. That doesn't include other industrializing nations like India and the middle east. She also doesn't mention that other countries, that don't produce products to sell, sell their natural resources to other countries in order to enrich themselves, so they can BUY this STUFF... like blue jeans, dishes and food etc. etc. Not just to the U.S., but to China, India, Russia, Germany, England, France, Italy, Spain and on and on. But our kids are being taught that only us EVIL AMERICANS, you and I, are responsible for all the worlds evils. You are paying the school system to teach your own children that YOU are stupid and evil...isn't that great !??!!??
It's no wonder we can't get our own kids to listen to us, you evil earth destroyer you.

follow that up with way too much of this in our schools.....

They are teaching our kids a song about praising the President as our saviour, not God, Jesus, or our country, but a person. I just can't imagine if any other presidents administration had done this, what would have been said of them.
By the looks of it, I would say the historians are right. The "Greatest Generation" has already come, and unfortunately at our generations defining moment, in our arrogance, we don't seem obligated in the least to even try to learn from the "Greatest".
We need to learn that the reason that this group of people has the RIGHT (for lack of a better term) to assault these men at the Democratic National Convention in 2009,.....

It is because somebody Else's Grandfather, Brother, Sister, Mother, someone Else's best friend, or somebody Else's Father they never had the chance to meet, did this....

Remember, that like in life, we don't get to choose our nick-names. In any endeavor, we can only hope to be remembered in the same breath as the "Greatest", and this generation will have to live with the name that is given to us.
We need to start making sure that our generation, as well as the next, understands why the "Greatest Generation" sacrificed to preserve what was left to them.
It's beauty is in its simplicity, and since its existence has created the most powerful, generous, and free people that the world has always envied and ever known. It is clearly in our best interest to try and preserve it....


And now in "I can't believe that actually came out of their mouth"
segment....

more to come.....