What has America become?

Georgelookwhosecallingthekettleblack.
Did ya say the same thing when the demalibbers ran south for the winter?
I gotta a problem with the left trying to turn the greatest country in the world into their world. Show me in this article where he’s wrong or lying Ya can’t.
You know what else is funny every time someone or something happens that you don’t like you folks say if ya don’t like what’s going on run go somewhere else when in fact libbers are the first to run and in many cases the first to threaten to run.
It’s been the liberal way for as long as I can remember run from the truth run from the answer and threaten to run if you don’t get your way.
KSP Kick Scream and Pout and when that fails run.
All because the right got tired of giving in to the left and their Socalist agenda.

Pelosi where do you get the rest of your news from MTV
Whoever is responsible for you must really be proud.

Yes this is the land of special interests and double standards!

We all shout about OUR freedoms as we whine about others freedoms.
Like the author of the article said " we all support the constitution .but only when
it supports OUR political ideology ".

I think the pendulum swings back and forth and at times it seems we have lost our marbles. I believe that one of the theme's he's hitting on is the public's unwillingness to judge anything. It's as if the public let's out a collective groan when someone judges anything or anybody. The horror and indignation! My oh my!

And Pee air, why not exagerate a little more in order to make your case! I have not seen anyone ever burn books, Tell me when and where we tell someone from another race that they can't succeed? Tell me how God favors anyone over another?

This is what the left does. Having lost the arguement they have dwindled down to nothing but baiters. They are the perpetual Lucy Van Pelt's. Always pulling the ball away and moving down the field. In term's of the recall, they are going to get clobbered. Obama will get his in the fall. No matter what, it will be fun to watch.

I couldn't agree more, yert49.

I do not find Ken Huber to be a "wimpy crybaby" as Georgedubyabush dubs him. Quite the opposite. What he says in his editorial is oh-so-true. Most of the hypocrisy and irony can be laid at the feet of lefties.

For example, let's look at the mining issue in northern Wisconsin. The same Dems/unionista's complaining about "Walkers' job losses" (not really, since he has stopped the job-loss bleeding after the Doyle years) are not going to vote for a mine that would bring thousands of long-term jobs to Wisconsin. For generations to come. WHY? Simply because they don't want Walker to have any accomplishments. (By the way, Dale Schultz who is siding with his Dem buddies in this matter is a total RINO and not a Republican in any sense - he needs to get the boot). Imagine - unions NOT wanting the work - much of which would employ union members!!! Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face! Don't lay the blame on Walker on this one...

In some ways I think Huber is correct. But I think he misses one point.

Someone's idea of "America" is being sold to America 24/7. It is none stop. and America Consumes America as it choses, one day buying an idea from the civil rights isle (as an example) the next buying an idea from the constitutional isle.

But it is always "buying" something that it seems to need or want just at that time. Like any consumer, all this buying leave America with strange collection of knickknacks and other oddities as well as a good strong core of utility purchases.

Why does this happen?

Because America decided from the start to invent itself as a living breathing and evolving nation, not governed by any preconceived notion other than the natural rights of man at birth, naked, unclothed by assumption and owing to no religion or potentate. A clean slate as it were at the beginning, but a slate once written upon could not be erased by some whim in the future. So each idea is there as part of a history that can be looked upon and said, yes that was a good idea or no, we won't be doing that again.

To have it any other way would be living in another country that had never invented itself.

Finally JMann! You wrote something that I can agree with. However, a shared
value is not always bought. It is learned. Wisdom was bestowed upon our
founding so that mistakes and shortcomings could be corrected.

"and in many cases the first to threaten to run." - Tom

I'm still waiting for Baldwin to move out of the country.

Apparently he's a liar.

"Tell me how God favors anyone over another?" - yert

God favors His elect over others, but I know that is too deep a subject to cover in a
stupid blog comment.

If you're serious, we could start with the word "elect"...

You hit that between the eyes jman,yert "buying" was analyltical,not literal.

What those on the right can never seem to understand is just because some are
different from them,they also have rights to do things that they would not.
They always seem to feel if they don't like something it is unamerican.

PDN just because you asked in the last blog and seem interested here is a good explanation. ( sorry if you already past this stuff, no offense intended )

http://www.wimp.com/particlephysics/

RT
In more ways then one.
Maybe if he wasn’t so busy making commercials for the 1% he would leave but hey that’s how capitalism works. Every time I see him in those commercials I laugh here’s a guy and for that matter here’s Hollywood talking up the 99% and there they are making money hand over fist and complaining about the country.
Just so Hypocritical.
Completely out of touch with the real world

Funny how people seem to forget that in one year (October 2008 - October 2009), Wisconsin lost 130,000 jobs (thanks, Governor Doyle!). Unemployment levels during Doyle's terms reached highs of over 10%. (Also, after Obama's Stimulus Bill (aka: Generational Theft Act) was passed, Wisconsin lost 84,700 jobs - whatever happened to "shovel-ready?" )

No matter how the anti-Walker folks want to spin it, with the aide of the liberal-run Urinal/Sentinel, Governor Scott Walker has lowered the overall unemployment rating to 7.6%. And lest we forget, as the Urinal/Sentinel even has to begrudgingly report, the political turmoil and unrest in our state is playing a big part in hindering job growth at this time. Businesses are taking a wait-and-see approach before doing anything. They know if Walker remains in office, Wisconsin IS open for business. On the other hand, if another anti-private sector business leftie becomes governor, Wisconsin will go backwards - to the days of higher taxes, more rules, regulations, and fees - scaring private businesses away.
Now, last time I checked, this blog was not about Governor Scott Walker. If you wish to continue to comment on him, go to my previous blog and type to your hearts content!

Let's get back on the post topic: "What has America become?"

"Wisdom was bestowed upon our
founding so that mistakes and shortcomings could be corrected. "

Now see, I can't abide that. Wisdom is earned by study or experience. A person who never thinks for them selves can possess no wisdom because he/she has not taken the time to think the answer through themselves. Spouting off what someone else speaks as wisdom is first dogma and if institutionalized, becomes theology and then religion ( when most stop to question and think for themselves).

As far as I can tell, the founding fathers were all well fairly well educated (for the time compared to the rest of the population ) and what the wrote was based both on earned past experience an earned intellectual knowledge.

I am 100% sure that some guy in the sky did not spit wisdom on their frontal lobes. To even think that was the case in the founding America is the most un-American thing you can do, and you take away the idea that America invented itself and continues to invent itself free of potentate and prejudice.

Boy George:
Ask yourself if you owned a company would you be willing right now to move to Wisconsin with everything that’s going on with the recalls.
You could come here right now assuming one thing and in a few months if Walker were to lose in a recall have everything you thought changed.
Not that’s he’s going to lose in a recall but any business owner in his right mind isn’t going to take that chance right now.
The same holds true for the country, no business owner or corporations going to take a chance until Obama’s out of office.
We need closure on O care and Recalls before anything’s going to change drastically in the business world.
And I’ll ask you right now they are saying things are getting better show me where?
Have you been to the grocery store of late do you see how much things cost a family and just wait till gas gets to $5 per gallon.
Proves once again that the trickle down affect works only this time in a negative way.
When business is scared to do anything due to a know nothing do nothing President as we have who’s going to hire for fear of the future.
When gas goes from 3 to 5 per gallon in a month you’re going to trickle down to the middle class once again.
No new jobs and the cost of living sky rocketing.
Fewer taxes collected by government while they continue to spend freely.
The federal Government has done one thing in the past 3 years shown everyone how Not to run a business.
Unless of course you have something to fall back on such as the Tax payers I guess they call us their Ace in the hole,

"whatever happened to "shovel-ready?" "

That was the train, but you didn't want it.

Did you know that the train would have created more long term jobs than the construction of the XL pipeline? the XL pipeline will have a lot of short term temporary jobs, but in the long term pipelines require very little maintenance and up keep especially with automation.

Trains now they have long term jobs because there is so much interaction to keep people moving through the system, inspect tracks and ro road bed maintenance.

Republicans have lots of "shovel ready jobs" but the are usually done by people like you who just keep shoveling out on America what ever is on the floor the republican barn.

Given elephants........ that's a whole lotta' shoveling goin' on.

jman99: You DO have a sense of humor - for a leftie! Gosh, the car-speed choo-choo would have created more long-term jobs than the Keystone pipeline!!!! Good one! :)
From the Urinal/Sentinel: 55 (yes, 55) permanent jobs would have been created by the car-speed rail!!! Wow - I sure bet that a major pipeline/construction/maintenance/etc. like Keyston would have created lots more than 55 permanent jobs! Ya think?

See: http://www.jsonline.com/business/83698652.html

He did negotiate with the unions Dumbya. Those unions and school boards knew what was coming when they approved the contracts with NO changes in December 2010. Now some of those teachers were fired because the stupid school boards did not negotiate new benefits and savings into the contracts. To try and turn this around and say that the Unions wanted to negotiate then is pretty sophmoric not to mention disingenuous. Why do you think so many other smarter and wiser school boards saw the political tea leaves? Your a day late and a dollar short as usual. It was nothing but greed that did in the unions. they are on the outside looking in and will be for a long, long time.

"Wow - I sure bet that a major pipeline/construction/maintenance/etc. like Keystone would have created lots more than 55 permanent jobs! Ya think?"

How many in Wisconsin?

Anyway, buried pipelines like the XL require just a couple of crews at a central location ( not Wisconsin) to monitor the line. other crews (not Wisconsin) monitor galvanic protection and another crew (not Wisconsin) launches internal monitoring cameras to check for internal problems.

Local contractors are used IF there is a failure and a specialized splice crew (not Wisconsin) is sent out to repaid any breach.

55 jobs for Wisconsin ( low ) and cars off the road ( lower road costs, less pollution, lower health care costs) would have been a good idea.

You may have missed this in your last blog:
"Oh Gee, look federal money at work in Wisconsin

Hemmer, why are you not out there protesting this?

Well, because this time it is a Dem who thinks it is a wast of money but it is a republican who wants the deal and not just any Republican.

"U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, a Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota who stands to inherit the bridge in a newly configured congressional district, has labeled it a waste of government money. Environmental groups have objected to the project, saying it will harm the river.

In contrast, the Minnesota congresswoman currently representing the Stillwater area, Republican Michele Bachmann, the bill's sponsor in the House, was "thrilled" with the House action Thursday.

"This is long overdue, and this bridge is commonsense," she said."

http://www.leadertelegram.com/news/front_page/article_d678d74e-642f-11e1-8311-0019bb2963f4.html "

I still don't see you protesting against this.