http://www.wallsofthecity.net/2009/01/it_is_for_the_children.html defending our rights from the ramparts Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.wallsofthecity.net/2009/01/it_is_for_the_children.html#comment-1602 Linoge Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:59:18 +0000 http://www.wallsofthecity.net/?p=1047#comment-1602 I will have to take a look at that site, Rosemary. Thanks for pointing my readers and I towards it, and you have a great week as well! I will have to take a look at that site, Rosemary. Thanks for pointing my readers and I towards it, and you have a great week as well!

]]> http://www.wallsofthecity.net/2009/01/it_is_for_the_children.html#comment-1601 Rosemary Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:21:09 +0000 http://www.wallsofthecity.net/?p=1047#comment-1601 Great post. I agree with your commentors as well. That is why we should all go to <a href="http://www.theconservativeunderground.ning.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theconservativeunderground.ning.com/</a> and sign up. I did that yesterday, and we need one place where we can grow in numbers. That is what the demonrats did with moveon.org. We are smarter than they are, so let's get a move on! lol. Have a great week. Great post. I agree with your commentors as well. That is why we should all go to http://www.theconservativeunderground.ning.com/ and sign up. I did that yesterday, and we need one place where we can grow in numbers. That is what the demonrats did with moveon.org. We are smarter than they are, so let’s get a move on! lol. Have a great week.

]]> http://www.wallsofthecity.net/2009/01/it_is_for_the_children.html#comment-1600 Linoge Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:03:05 +0000 http://www.wallsofthecity.net/?p=1047#comment-1600 Hell, almost none of the representatives who voted for the pointless bailout measures were held to account for their actions during the election immediately afterwards. Americans simply do not care, and our politicians are capitalizing on that malaise. And, unfortunately, this is a compounding problem... the people do not care, so they keep re-electing crooks, who keep trying to get away with more and more things, and then people care even less, and so forth, so on. Our children are watching us, and learning, and I fear for the direction we are headed. Hell, almost none of the representatives who voted for the pointless bailout measures were held to account for their actions during the election immediately afterwards.
Americans simply do not care, and our politicians are capitalizing on that malaise.
And, unfortunately, this is a compounding problem… the people do not care, so they keep re-electing crooks, who keep trying to get away with more and more things, and then people care even less, and so forth, so on. Our children are watching us, and learning, and I fear for the direction we are headed.

]]> http://www.wallsofthecity.net/2009/01/it_is_for_the_children.html#comment-1599 David Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:04:36 +0000 http://www.wallsofthecity.net/?p=1047#comment-1599 "...do we also want to completely remove the concept of "consequences" as well? Hell, who am I kidding - we already have." Indeed. Do you happen to recall over 20 years ago when congresscritters were caught kiting personal checks written on their accounts in a congressional "bank"? Consequences? Slim to none. Have things changed? Uh, no. Barney Frank bears a large portion of the blame for the collapse of Fannie and Freddie, but he was re-elected. Consequences? None. And so it goes. Frank is not alone in bearing no consequences for the results of his actions; many in Congress are skating for the destructive things they've done. "The fault lies not in the stars, Brutus, but in us," I believe The Bard wrote. As long as greed and stupidity and ignorance rule in the voting booth, public "servants" will only rarely be held accountable for their behavior. “…do we also want to completely remove the concept of “consequences” as well?
Hell, who am I kidding – we already have.”
Indeed. Do you happen to recall over 20 years ago when congresscritters were caught kiting personal checks written on their accounts in a congressional “bank”? Consequences? Slim to none. Have things changed? Uh, no. Barney Frank bears a large portion of the blame for the collapse of Fannie and Freddie, but he was re-elected. Consequences? None.
And so it goes. Frank is not alone in bearing no consequences for the results of his actions; many in Congress are skating for the destructive things they’ve done.
“The fault lies not in the stars, Brutus, but in us,” I believe The Bard wrote. As long as greed and stupidity and ignorance rule in the voting booth, public “servants” will only rarely be held accountable for their behavior.

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