BiggerPockets

I'll fight for my big screen TV and iPhone.

Seriously, that's what it'll take to get the people up in arms about anything these days. Crazy times, Mike.

The only good fight left I know of Mike is to create enough wealth so that I may protect my family. Money talks and creates options and although the dollar continues to devaluate, so does other currencies.
Since I am not a militant, I can not do what I wish would be done - that is, a revolution and overthrough our corrupt government.

Our country was formed on the basis of freedom and relief from over taxation. I was not alive then of course, but I am willing to bet we are taxed more now than the original settlers were back in England.

I'll never forget how patriotic I felt right after 9/11. As many did I watched the news live as it was happening and felt completely helpless. I even called my dad and told him I was taking my kids to Canada b/c I feared for their lives.

For weeks after I would see American flags everywhere, huge flags on poles in the back of pickup trucks, draped over the top of jeeps and huge window stickers galore on every car.

I even said to myself since I really couldn't move to Canada that I was going to enlist and fight for our country. I never did, but have the highest respect for anyone who has, does or will risk their lives to protect our country.

Obviously like most I became angry when it became about Saddam instead of Bin Laden. I wondered what happened? why are giving up on kicking Bin Laden's @ss???

Either way I think it takes some major tragedy for Americans to stand up and fight for something. I think Josh's comment on right on the money, people are more concerned about their big screens and cell phones and believing in the mentality that the government OWES them something.

I regretfully never enlisted but I have taken control over my future and the future of my family and that I think is very American and very much worth fighting for.

Mike, I think the shipped has already sailed, it left the shores along with the last election. The only thing we can do is worry about ourselves now b/c no else will.

Yea and I was dumb enough to move to IL :(

i will second that commetn that IL is Bass-Ackwards! From the politicians to and morons that vote for them...and I have lived here for 30 years!

How about those selfish, heartless, money grabbing, "It's about me and screw you" capitalist republican and so called libertarians, UH?

I'm afraid that you've got your labels wrong. The Republicans have proven to be almost as socialistic as the Dems. They're both a disgrace.

The "selfish, heartless, money grabbing, It's about me and screw you" capitalists are what has made this country great and made our 'poor' people richer than the vast majority of people in the rest of the world. What other country has 'poor' people that have a big screen tv and a cellphone?

Should I claim that everyone who bring a child to this world would be responsible for that child? Pay for his/her health, education, etc? Sure. But what if they don't? Should I, as a tax payer pay for this child's education now, or build bigger prisons later?

I'd vote for the prisons! If you had any actual experience dealing with these deadbeats, you would know that their children follow in their footsteps. They don't stay in school and they become deadbeats and criminals just like their parents. I see it EVERY DAY!

Mike

I have a belief that if congress wants to send troops to war that 1/3 of the eligible children of the politicians (including the president's) should be a part of that group! Won't that make things a little more interesting?

Not really. Biden's got a kid in Iraq. One of the current dem candidates running for governor here in VA is touting his Iraqi veteran daughter. I think you'll find a lot of politicians have kids who have either been or are there, and many of them are war veterans themselves. I would even hazard a guess that politicians and their children as a group, have a much larger percentage of military service in their families than the general population as a whole.

Doubt, tho, that they'd accept a couple little girls. :wink:

But, to Mike's question, "the fight" to reverse this course will come with the ballot. Clinton enjoyed one party rule in his first two years, and the squabbling dems squandered their opportunity then. 2010 will be the first opportunity to re-establish some form of two party rule and stem the uncontrolled spending. The Republican leadership still appears to be in shell-shock and disarray, with tail tucked between it's legs, quietly whimpering out warnings against everything Obama wants and is getting via the single party rubber stamp. Somehow the Republicans have to regain a backbone and morph into a cohesive message worth listening to, and get it's ranks into the voting booths.

All good points, but not a single person answered the question (except maybe Will who implied no). Is there ANYTHING that you would be willing to fight (risk your life and liberty for)? Any of our freedoms? If you answer is no, you would be in the company of the vast majority of people in the world. Look at what happened in Nazi Germany. The Germans were able to get people to march right into concentration camps to be exterminated by the millions, with nary a fight. Clearly, they were not even willing to fight for their lives.

Is there ANYTHING you would be willing to fight for? ANYTHING AT ALL?

Mike

Unfortunately, your freedom isn't being threatened from abroad. As predicted by the communists decades ago, the fall of the US is coming from within.

Is there ANYTHING that you would be willing to FIGHT for? ANYTHING AT ALL?

I sadly hate to admit but I sometimes feel like the frog in the bunsen burner experiment. Unless it directly affects my family, friends, or someone in my small world...I read about, hear about, talk about it and then go on with the gruesome task of living.

There's such a brainwashing going on by the liberal media and the current adminstration. They are totally comfortable peddling outright lies knowing that no one takes the time to check the facts. This last speech in Cairo was in my opinion nothing more than positioning.

And another note.....

I have always believed that nothing is free....whenever someone tells me, "It's Free!" I start looking for the hook hidden in the worm.

So, now....around the corner is June 12th the conversion to this new digital signal, and the puppetmasters are so concerned about dissemnating information to their human resources that they are willing to give convertor boxes away FREE.

Maybe I'm the only one who's apprehensive but one can't help but to wonder about the future uses of this technology.

I think I'll take a bold step: cancel cable, refuse to get a converter box and hold out for a better offer. Maybe, I'll wait til they start coming door to door to bring this new signal into my home. I'll then ask for something of value (flat screen and new tennis shoes), in exchange for the oncoming invasion of privacy.