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YOU are a conservative Syn(I look at myself as a conservative Dem)....I speak of the crazed RW neoCONS(like the OP) that are screeching about Obama ruining our country and let these last 8 yrs fly by without a peep as Rome burned around them and THEY danced in the flames....I have seen nothing in the past to show you to be one of those folks.I have never looked at YOU as a neoCON Syn.
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We did save America last November. Wonder what McCain would be doing in there now? Getting the lifeboats ready for him and his rich buddies and letting the rest of us sink.
There is a difference. Your parents came here, LEARNED THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE USA and assimilated in to our culture. Today that is not the case. They flat out refuse to learn our official language and refuse to assimilate but instead try and force their ways on us by threatening this govt to give them special rights or else. Then they force their cult religions into our schools, have our religions banned from being mentioned, fight to have the word "God" removed from our money, from our court system, make us remove statutes of famous American heros from the court house as well as remove monuments that read our Constitution.
Then they fight to have the word Christmas removed from our culture, now they are working on banning Halloween because it offfends some one. They get govt grants (free money) to open gas stations, C-stores and hotels while your parents had to work to build theirs.
Back then there was a better work ethic too. Today it's how much can I get away with not doing while still collecting that pay check. And the old saying that anything is possible here is no long true. Neither are we free anymore. USA has fallin to 16th place among free countries and still falling as this crooked corrupt govt takes away more and more of our freedoms as they get more and more corrupt (and get to vote for their own pay raises every year). We are now just a number and there is no longer any loyalty to our own.
But we who remember when America was great do thank your parents for contributing to that.
I would just like to add the following points:
1. Temporarily shoring up businesses on the brink of collapse is a FAR cry from nationalizing industries in the style of Venezuela or Russia. Enough with the fear-baiting.
2. Rebalancing the tax breaks from concentrated on the wealthy to concentrated on the Middle Class is Democratic, not socialist. Seriously. Enough with the fear-baiting. Enough with the fear-baiting.
3. There is no official language of the United States. Look it up if you don't believe me. We are FREE (the root of that word freedom conservatives love to yell but hate to practice) to speak whatever language we want. Most of the assimilation to English in the 19th and early 20th century was due to fear of brutality, racist attacks, and terrorism committed by Americans who felt threatened by something new. Enough with the fear-baiting.
4. No one's taking your Christmas away. Say "Happy Holidays" is only logical in a pluralist society in which you don't know what religion one might be and during a time of the year when there are multiple holidays for everybody (such as Christmas and New Years). Enough with the fear-baiting.
5. The only people trying to take Halloween away are conservative Christians. We liberals love to celebrate our pagan heritage of witchcraft and occultism.
My parents immigrated to this country with almost nothing and after 30 years, they are both American citizens, successful and they know for a fact that no other country on Earth would have allowed them to have the kind of life they have today. Growing up, I heard so many similar stories from people who came to this country with almost nothing and after 3, 4 years, they already had their own small business. If there is one thing about this country that makes it so incredible is the fact that everything is possible here, which is the essence of America and the reason why this country is so great.
When I hear Obama talk about Socialism, big government and higher taxes, I feel really angry and frustrated because so many people like my parents came to America in particular, because America offered something that no other country offered: freedom, liberty, limited government and economic opportunities.
Like them, so many other immigrants left behind countries like Germany, Ireland, Italy and many others because they knew America was much better.
Immigration is one of main reasons why this country has been so successful for the last 200 years. If this country is no longer attractive to immigrants and becomes just another mediocre socialist European style bureaucracy, I am afraid, it will be the end of America as we know it.
Interesting thread. So the OP is concerned that America won't remain attractive to immigrants? Why am I guessing that the OP's next thread will be ranting about all the foreign folks moving to the U.S.
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