Comments on: Seriously U.S. Americans, What the Flying Fuck?! http://dbzer0.com/blog/seriously-usamericans-what-the-flying-fuck A bug in the code of the universe. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:12:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: KC http://dbzer0.com/blog/seriously-usamericans-what-the-flying-fuck/comment-page-1#comment-5476 KC Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:24:13 +0000 http://dbzer0.com/?p=1506#comment-5476 I wrote about it not so long ago. IMHO, most Americans wouldn't care even if they did know about it as we have a long standing policy of "boot to the face of anyone who isn't **me**". "Me" is going to have to look down the barrel of a M16 before "me" decides it's a bad thing to have soldiers policing the streets. I wrote about it not so long ago. IMHO, most Americans wouldn't care even if they did know about it as we have a long standing policy of "boot to the face of anyone who isn't **me**". "Me" is going to have to look down the barrel of a M16 before "me" decides it's a bad thing to have soldiers policing the streets.

]]> By: db0 http://dbzer0.com/blog/seriously-usamericans-what-the-flying-fuck/comment-page-1#comment-5475 db0 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:08:43 +0000 http://dbzer0.com/?p=1506#comment-5475 But that's part of the problem. I do very much understand the financial problems most people have and I also know from history how easy it is for a demagogue to use this frustration and fear to make a dictatorship come true. Most people do not remember that shortly before Hitler came to power Germany was in a severe depression and his party promised to help them recover. Because people were not paying attention to anything else than economic policies, they ended up with Nazism. But that's part of the problem. I do very much understand the financial problems most people have and I also know from history how easy it is for a demagogue to use this frustration and fear to make a dictatorship come true. Most people do not remember that shortly before Hitler came to power Germany was in a severe depression and his party promised to help them recover.

Because people were not paying attention to anything else than economic policies, they ended up with Nazism.

]]> By: Karen http://dbzer0.com/blog/seriously-usamericans-what-the-flying-fuck/comment-page-1#comment-5474 Karen Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:41:08 +0000 http://dbzer0.com/?p=1506#comment-5474 Most U.S. Americans don't know about it or believe it. I pointed the situation out to my mother-in-law last night, and she accused me of spending too much time reading junk on the 'net. Most people I know are so wound up about the financial situation that they aren't paying attention to anything else. People are worried that the money they have in the bank is not safe; that their job may be eliminated because their employer can't make payroll; that whatever money they've carefully invested toward their retirement has vanished; that they, too, might be unable to pay the mortgage and find themselves on the street while the bank forecloses on their home; that they may be unable to pay their utility bills to keep the refrigerator and the lights and the heat going this winter. Given the time limits on welfare and the paltry sums both it and our so-called "social security" grudgingly pays, we have a lot of people in danger of falling into a financial "safety net" made of embroidery thread. If a soldier kills you, at least you won't be hungry, cold, or homeless. I myself am not in any immediate financial danger, but I do worry about my fellow citizens who live on the edge. Isn't it amazing that such a rich country, supposedly a democracy, does so poorly by its people? Most U.S. Americans don't know about it or believe it. I pointed the situation out to my mother-in-law last night, and she accused me of spending too much time reading junk on the 'net. Most people I know are so wound up about the financial situation that they aren't paying attention to anything else. People are worried that the money they have in the bank is not safe; that their job may be eliminated because their employer can't make payroll; that whatever money they've carefully invested toward their retirement has vanished; that they, too, might be unable to pay the mortgage and find themselves on the street while the bank forecloses on their home; that they may be unable to pay their utility bills to keep the refrigerator and the lights and the heat going this winter. Given the time limits on welfare and the paltry sums both it and our so-called "social security" grudgingly pays, we have a lot of people in danger of falling into a financial "safety net" made of embroidery thread.

If a soldier kills you, at least you won't be hungry, cold, or homeless.

I myself am not in any immediate financial danger, but I do worry about my fellow citizens who live on the edge. Isn't it amazing that such a rich country, supposedly a democracy, does so poorly by its people?

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