[lit-ideas] Re: Bush taking apart SS
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 00:55:44 -0400
I couldn't agree more. Government is of the people, by the people, for the
people. Otherwise, what's the point in having it at all?
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/10/2005 12:46:39 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bush taking apart SS
>
> Marlena asks: Are you really willing, now that I have FINALLY come to
> some sort of emotional calm after the angst, to have people like what
> Brian are proporting to do STOP???
>
> Eric: I tend to be more a nationalist than a globalist because whatever
> is close at hand seems more real to me. I would rather see
> well-educated Americans thoughtfully provided with social services and
> national defense, and in turn generating creative ideas, innovations,
> research, and quality work--rather than imagining it happening in other
> countries.
>
> Globalism is too much entropy for me. Instead of having hot progressive
> civilizations mingled with cold backward civilizations, everything moves
> toward the entropic middle...the lukewarm corporate just-a-labor-pool
> middle.
>
> I know I'm backward and should identify with the whole world, but my
> imagination and sympathies are too limited. These qualities are so
> limited in me that I feel that, if we are not going to have a government
> that will maximize the good for Americans first, then this country
> certainly isn't worth fighting for or even supporting. In fact, if we
> are not going to promote the general welfare for our own citizens, then
> America is just an empty patch of ground with some houses and roads on
> it that belong to China. Last one out the door please turn off the
> light.
>
> Always feeling massively entitled,
> Eric
>
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