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your link don't work.

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Ahhh, damn. Sorry Med. That was an excellent speech too. I'll try to find it again.

Vi

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Here ya go, try this one Med. You'll enjoy it, I'm sure.

http://www.fame.org/HTM/Edwin%20Vieira%20Speech%20to%20the%20Rotary%20Club %20of%20NY%203-25-03.htm

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Yes, excellent speech. You know we're not that far apart on a lot of issues, I am just concerned that the society is heading for an elite VS serfs scenario,and since you are in the elite category, you don't seem to mind, whereas I find myself slipping into the serf domain and don't like it for shit. I'm too old to go into the streets and fight unless they squeeze me too much, but I see that scenario coming if they don't turn this country around. Class warfare is not that far away in my humble opinion. How many jobs do we have to lose before the unemployed or underemployed revolt. I'd say with the current trend, we're only 5-10 years away from insurection. hopefully by then I can convince my wife to sell out and move to a more serene environment or I may have to strike out on my own. There is a distinct underclass of once gainfully employed citizens being created by offshoring and Illegals taking jobs, maybe you don't see that in your circles but rest assured it exists. Unfortunately, I see no way back to the constitutionally controlled government without complete rebellion. The founding fathers repeatedly professed that in their writings, it is up to the people to contain the government. What has happened is the government controlls the history books and we only learn what they want us to learn. I'm pretty sure Mcgraw-Hill is run by government spinmeisters. They start us out with that rediculous pledge of allegiance when we are in kindergarten and work us from there. it is not untill college and some progressive professors that we really start to question the bullshit. Youll find that the most radical believers in our government never made it through college, or ever questioned their authority. When I first started smoking pot, the light came on, bingo, I could see clearly the smoke and mirrors being foisted upon the citizenry.

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Well, you've made a lot of good points. I completely agree that the elites have taken over the executive and legislative branches of the federal government. That's why the recent defeat of the amnesty bill was so important. The sane people in the legislative branch listened to the people for a change. There is a new media threatening the elites ... its called conservative talk radio. Millions of listeners phoned their reps and demanded that the amnesty bill be defeated. Interestingly enough, we aren't hearing a peep from the mainstream media about how talk radio had a hand in this defeat. Wonder what they're trying to cover up? *lol*

By the way ... on the money issue, the federal income tax is all part of the hoax/scheme.

Vi

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I don't know about talk radio, but I phoned them, emailed them and wrote them. That frikin Harry Reid (I went to high school with him, he used to live on my street) sent me a form letter basically telling me to go shuck corn, that we need a comprehensive immigration bill (Spell Amnesty) and he was moving forward on it, so fuck him, I'll not vote for him again and I know that's like cutting off my nose to spite my face as he is the ranking democrat and a new guy would be a lot less able to graft for Nevadans, But it is a matter of principal.

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You've stated the problem in a nut-shell there Med. As long as we have the preception that our representatives are "grafting" for us, and electing those who "graft" the best, the country will continue to slide into oblivion.

Vi

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That's where their re-election campaign money comes from, The asphalt contractor who got the road contracts, The building contractor that got that federal building contract, the farmers that got those huge farm subsidies checks, If they don't bring the bacon, no funds. Now a jr. senator would be a lot less likely to influence huge moneys slated to Nevadans. Makes me no nevermind as I've personally never recieved one red cent, But school revenues and such might suffer.

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very nice insights Vi!

it's definitely a well proven method for our government to use the guise of an emergency, no matter how real or unreal, to coerce more power from the flaccid hands of the inattentive masses who have distanced themselves ever further from truly being "We the people"... to most Amerikans it's more like, "they the people"... "they", never being quite what "we" want but damn sure making a go at it!

we've come a long way from "to wit, three hundred and seventy-one and one-quarter grains of silver."




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- Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, Hero to the servants of big government, Racist War Monger