I felt a real feeling of pride knowing that I was a part of something bigger than life
I grew up in the 60s and in 72 went into the Army. I felt a real feeling of pride knowing that I was a part of something bigger than life. Since I got out, I feel a sense of loss. In there I felt like I belonged to a family that has been around for hundreds of years.
I love America but I am sick of the puppet show that is today’s government, educating people and letting them know what goes on behind their backs may make people see the light.
The government owns the media and you see what they want you to see. Wake up America before it is too late and too far gone.
OORAH
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August 6th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Thanks for joining OK.
“The government owns the media and you see what they want you to see.”
I personally think that it is the other way around, that the media owns the government. But the result is exactly the same: We are ruled by an elite political and economic oligarchy. What hope do we have as long as Americans believe what they hear, see, and read in the MSM? How can one reason with someone who gets their information from the MSM? What is true is quite ofter very difficult to ascertain, but that has been true throughout history. The “battle” is for what is true. Americans need to think for themselves and quit letting some reporter or editorialist do their thinking.
I use to think that Americans were like the ostriches and Rip Van Winkle, but I have changed my mind. Ostriches take their heads out of the sand once in a while, and Rip Van Winkle woke up after twenty years.
“Wake up America before it is too late and too far gone.”
Best regards to all OK.
“DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION.”
To the Republic!
PS: It is time that Americans think and act like Americans and not a “bunch” of globalists. We can “start” by bringing the troops home, stop buying foreign goods, and closing the borders. Our founding fathers were NOT a bunch of globalists! They were American patriots in their “actions,” and not a bunch of flag “wavers.” One of the first things that George Washington did was to slap tariffs on English goods. I “don’t care whether foreign goods are cheaper and/or better. So what?
August 6th, 2010 at 11:12 am
PS to post no. 1:
I had a great time yesterday touring the
US Navy destroyer, the USS Kidd, in Seattle,
WA. (The USS Kidd is named after Rear
Admiral Isaac C. Kidd who was killed aboard
the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl
Harbor. It is the third ship to bear his
name.) As I was standing on the deck I
observed two Coast Guard patrol boats
maintaining a security perimeter around the
USS Kidd (Great sight!). Guess what the
patrol boats were powered by? — two Honda
high-powered outboard motors. This is my tax
dollars at work — helping to increase the
trade deficit with Japan and creating(?) more
American jobs?
August 7th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
I am retired USCG, we used mercury engines and they were very unreliable, The Honda performed 100% better and it is probably made here in the USA. Mercury is probably made in Mexico or Canada.
Most so called Foreign cars are built right here in the USA. Look to see where Ford, Chevy, and dodge are made, Mexico or Canada. So what is Foreign
August 7th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Number 2’s response to no. 3,
Thanks for your service in the USCG.
Following are some of my thoughts on foreign produced goods and foreign owned American manufacturing and industry:
I DON’T disagree with what you said.
BUT where does that take us? — foreign built, or foreign owned manufacturing plants in the USA? If foreign owned, where does the engineering, design, technology and profits go? Where are the parts made, if the “assembly” is done in America?
I don’t like the solution. It means that my country is becoming toast, or is toast. Our trade deficits are giving the “key” to America to foreign owned companies and/or foreign governments. All one has to do is to look at how much of American debt and corporate equity is owned by foreign interests. If the Chinese, Japanese, etc. don’t show up at a Treasury auction we are insolvent. And they didn’t print the US dollars that they loan to us. They treat their industries as national treasures, and they are not for sale to the highest bidder as most of Wall Street is.
I for one would up the price to Mercury, etc. to make the engines that the Coast Guard needs.
And that goes for all of the other supplies and equipment for the US military, including the Air Force tanker replacement contract. I believe that Americans CAN build what we need and need NOT be reliant on foreign governments and companies. (If we can’t build the products we need we better start learning.)
I agree with George Washington and ALL of the Presidents on Mount Rushmore: “TARIFFS.” Americans don’t have a Constitutional RIGHT to buy foreign products, whether they are cheaper and/or better, to the detriment of America. If I were a member of Congress I would vote for tariffs on the importation of goods into America (But I would not get elected.). The Chinese and the Japanese, etc. certainly had and have no problems in restricting the importation of American goods into their countries. I also think that the ALL Americans should have to compete with Chinese, Mexican, etc. labor like those in American manufacturing have been doing for decades.
We have built up the Chinese economy to our DETRIMENT by shifting “massive” amounts of American manufacturing to China and by “running” to Walmarts to fill our houses with Chinese made goods.
A good website on American manufacturing and industry:
http://www.economyincrisis.org/
As Patrick Buchanan said decades ago: “Buy American, or Bye, Bye America. (A great book by Patrick Buchanan: “The Great [Economic] Betrayal.”
Best regards to my fellow OK.
“One” American
PS: The bottom line for me is that it is “time”
that we Americans start fixing our problems
rather than running to a foreign company or
country. We are close to folding
economically and financially, and we “can’t
maintain a strong military unless we have
a strong economy. The Chinese must be
laughing all the way to the bank, as
Americans help build up the Chinese
industrial and military machine, and then
“loan” us back the money to help finance the
US government and our next war.
August 12th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Thanks for joining Oaths Keepers glad to stand
with you my friend. Thank you for your years of
service to our nation.
August 17th, 2010 at 11:59 am
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been going on for years. But “THE” war for the American economy has been going on for decades, and we are LOSING. This war is for the “very” survival of America, not to bring democracy(?) to the Middle East and Central Asia.
http://vdare.com/roberts/100816_americans_are_history.htm
August 18th, 2010 at 11:02 am
PS to post no. 7:
Paul Craig Roberts in the website noted above quotes Lenin: “What can be done?”
I personally do not believe in quoting such contemptible men such as Vladimir Lenin unless it is absolutely necessary to make a point.
Writers, not necessarily Mr.Roberts, who refer to the rulers of the former Soviet Union frequently put Joesph Stalin in the worst light. (I suspect that the reason in some cases for contrasting Stalin with Lenin is to make Lenin “appear” somewhat palatable to the uniformed.) I believe that it was Lenin who was the most evil, even though Stalin probably killed more human beings. A Soviet foreign minister who served under both Stalin and Lenin said that Lenin had the colder ice water flowing through his veins. The thinkers and those at the beginning are in many cases the more evil, since they set up the ideology that the others follow. (Todays rulers of communist China are following the evil philosophy of the “thinker,” Karl Marx, who died over one hundred years ago.)