"Poor
people in America's twenty-first century enjoy options and privileges
that even the wealthiest couldn't claim one hundred years ago. Far from
oppressing the working class, the corporate system has vastly improved
the purchasing power of all Americans." - The 10 Big Lies About America, by Michael Medved
"An
advertisement keeps popping up for a new paraphrase of the Bible. It's a
full page, color photograph of a woman who appears to be young,
sophisticated, well educated, with a hint of cynicism. 'Pastor,' the
caption reads, 'if you want to reach me, you better watch your
language.' The inside cover elaborates: 'Distracted by deadlines and
bills, this is the only time she takes to nurture her spiritual life.
You can't afford to lose her attention when you reference Bible passages
that are too lofty and obscure.' Why can't a good pastor respond, 'No,
this isn't about making things comfortable for you. If you are baptized,
then this speech that the Bible uses is your language. You have to make
an effort to understand it, to live in its world, and to breath its
air. If you are too distracted by deadlines and bills to take any time
outside this one hour a week for your faith, then you'll pardon me for
not losing the rest of my congregation to the world just for you."
- Dr. Michael Horton, (From A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God Centered Worship)
"If trouble must come, let it come in my day, that my child may live in peace." - Source unknown
"Maybe
the prophets wanted the rich to invite the poor into their homes, maybe
they wanted the poor to be befriended and supported by gentle arms of
friends. Maybe friendliness. But at least justice, at least the rights
of the poor respected." - Dr. Lewis Smedes (1921-2002)
"We
are presently working discretely with all our might to wrest this
mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local
nation states of the world." - Arnold Toynbee, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1031 (as quoted in the United Nations Exposed)
"Having passed historic legislation to make American factories the
fairest, cleanest, safest and finest place on earth for industrial
workers, liberals then turn around and backed free trade agreements that
say to U.S. manufacturers: "If you want to get out from under all these
liberal laws, if you want to be rid of those demanding U.S. workers and
unions, shut down your plant here, lay off your U.S. workers, move to
China, make your goods there, and export them, free of charge, back to the USA.
Pocket all the money you save and put it into executive bonuses and
laugh at us liberals on the slopes of Teluride and Vail." Day of Reckoning - How Hubris, Ideology and Greed Are Tearing America Apart, by Patrick Buchanan
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Monday, October 10, 2016
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Misc. Quotes for Tuesday, May 24, 2016
"Free Trade results in giving our money, our manufacturers, and our markets, to other nations." - William Mckinnley, 1892 (from Day of Reckoning, by Patrick Buchanan)
"No site better captures yesterday's America than Detroit, forge and furnace of America's democracy. Detroit is the burned out case of American cities. The Empire of the Sun has its revenge. Japanese imports helped kill the city that built the weapons that destroyed the empire. Now grandsons of the soldiers of the imperial army work at high paying manufacturing jobs once held by the fathers of ten-dollar-an-hour retail clerks in Macomb County.
"But why blame the Japanese? We did it to ourselves. We Americans created a post war trading regime, in which, over 25 years, Japan bought 400,000 American cars while selling us 40 million Japanese cars, a ratio of 100:1. One president after another sat still while a third of America's greatest industry was shipped off to Japan...
"Americans no longer make their own cameras, shoes, radios, TVs, toys. A fifth of our steal, a third of our autos, half our machine tools, and two-thirds of our textiles are made abroad...
"The decline and fall of Middle America was neither preordained nor inevitable. It was engineered in Washington D.C. Wages have fallen and the standard of living of American families has stagnated because of a basic law: the law of supply and demand. The price of labor has been dropping because the supply of labor has exploded...
"Having declared free trade and open borders to be American policy, why are we surprised that corporate executives padlocked their plants in the Rust Belt and moved over seas? Why keep your plants here when you can manufacture at a fraction of the cost abroad, ship your goods back, and pocket the windfall profits that come from firing $20 an hour Americans and hiring fifty-cent-an-hour Asians? A pair of Nikes that sells for $150 in the United States costs $5 in wages to make in Indonesia. Any wonder that Nike president Philip Knight is the fifth richest man in America, with $5.2 billion, while his Indonesian workers make 31 cents an hour?" (Emphasis mine)
(From The Great Betrayal: How American Soverignty and Social Justice are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy, by Patrrick Buchanan)
"No site better captures yesterday's America than Detroit, forge and furnace of America's democracy. Detroit is the burned out case of American cities. The Empire of the Sun has its revenge. Japanese imports helped kill the city that built the weapons that destroyed the empire. Now grandsons of the soldiers of the imperial army work at high paying manufacturing jobs once held by the fathers of ten-dollar-an-hour retail clerks in Macomb County.
"But why blame the Japanese? We did it to ourselves. We Americans created a post war trading regime, in which, over 25 years, Japan bought 400,000 American cars while selling us 40 million Japanese cars, a ratio of 100:1. One president after another sat still while a third of America's greatest industry was shipped off to Japan...
"Americans no longer make their own cameras, shoes, radios, TVs, toys. A fifth of our steal, a third of our autos, half our machine tools, and two-thirds of our textiles are made abroad...
"The decline and fall of Middle America was neither preordained nor inevitable. It was engineered in Washington D.C. Wages have fallen and the standard of living of American families has stagnated because of a basic law: the law of supply and demand. The price of labor has been dropping because the supply of labor has exploded...
"Having declared free trade and open borders to be American policy, why are we surprised that corporate executives padlocked their plants in the Rust Belt and moved over seas? Why keep your plants here when you can manufacture at a fraction of the cost abroad, ship your goods back, and pocket the windfall profits that come from firing $20 an hour Americans and hiring fifty-cent-an-hour Asians? A pair of Nikes that sells for $150 in the United States costs $5 in wages to make in Indonesia. Any wonder that Nike president Philip Knight is the fifth richest man in America, with $5.2 billion, while his Indonesian workers make 31 cents an hour?" (Emphasis mine)
(From The Great Betrayal: How American Soverignty and Social Justice are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy, by Patrrick Buchanan)
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