Maggie's Farm

Germany/asylum: several clever aphorisms come to mind, like the refugees have made their own beds, now they ought to lay in them.

The remedy to the damage and destruction, the murder most foul and the barbaric actions of Muslims can only be met with a force strong enough to overcome once and for all that which threatens all others.

Death sudden, overwhelming, final, no hesitation, and thorough by whatever means will accomplish the end result — elimination of the Evil.

A lot of folks think these thoughts; many are brave enough to utter them aloud. No matter how the issues are swaddled in euphemisms or rationalized away by saying "Oh, but we're not that barbaric", it still comes down to boots and steel.
We need only to look back on WWII. No matter the sidebar issues, the political scheming, the dance for Power and Control, our country did take up boots and steel and rid the world of Evil.

I chose the word Evil to describe the enemy which threatens the world. There is a moral, perhaps spiritual paradigm assumed. Can there be any doubt that the followers of Islam do harm to all other people?

A sword still in its scabbard is nothing but a club.

A man that does not fight for his freedom is nothing but a doormat.

Yes, Donny, I am saying just that. Both. We learned what worked in WWII against the Japs. This cannot be dismissed as a racist policy, the conversation is much bigger than that.

As the Japanese invaded and conquered other Pacific nations they were ready with the bulldozers and open graves. Most of the victims were still alive when they were buried.

Different dynamics against the Germans, unless you want to stretch the concept of "racism" to fit the war against White Germanic people. I'd just as soon leave that out and look at all the millions shoved into the ovens. That evil enough for you?

Nowadays we are all squeamish, don't want war, don't want bloodshed. I sit at my keyboard every day and express moral outrage against Muslims. Even with two towers and almost four thousand lives lost, "Oh, we mustn't offend them, there are some good Muslms." How big a price do we need to pay before we stop the advances of an invading army?

While all is being said, not much is being done.

To address a scourge such as Islam we must think in terms of extermination.
Think: Dresden;
Think: Hiroshima and Nagasaki;

Collateral damage? Every time some unfortunate guy gets beheaded and the video goes viral?
Really, collateral damage? You're worried some kids or old people are gonna get killed? When they kill one of ours, we kill one hundred of theirs.

It has been seen and experienced in most every other country in the world, from the "super-powers" to the Third World yocky-dock countries: Islam is not a good thing. It benefits nobody, apparently not even the adherents.

We are all listening to rumors that something bad is gonna happen. Instead of cowering and hoping that it won't happen near us we should be fire-bombing Baghdad and other concentrations of Muslim terrorists. Can't find 'em? Enlarge the target area.
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Typical Liberal tactics. Can't refute the message so try to invalidate the messenger

.Makes me wonder which side you're on, Donny the Bear Jew Donowiitz.

Yawn, I'm getting bored talking to you.

Hey Bear Jew, I didn't think Maggie's Farm needed a bouncer.

"... in fact, lay off the bullshit entirely." Good advice for you to heed.

I don't know what kind of crowd you hang around with but where I come from people lose teeth talking like that.
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Donny, you need to get your headlights adjusted. I served Army six years during Viet Nam, blowing things up and killing people.

I'm not trashing any military so relax yourself.Don't get your knickers in a knot old boy.

End of World War I, short recession and then boom times. The Roaring Twenties. Economic and technological growth.
The WPA, part of the New Deal, came along too late to help returning soldiers and before they knew it we were tooling up for WWII.

Adjusting from war time to peace time was an enormous shock for the U.S. economy. Factories focused on war time production had to shut down or retool their production.
A short Post–World War I recession occurred in the United States following Armistice Day, but this was followed by a growth spurt. The recession that occurred in 1920, however, was also affected by the adjustments following the end of the war, particularly the demobilization of soldiers. One of the biggest adjustments was the re-entry of soldiers into the civilian labor force. In 1918, the Armed Forces employed 2.9 million people. This fell to 1.5 million in 1919 and a mere 380,000 by 1920. The impact on the labor market was most striking in 1920, when the civilian labor force increased by 1.6 million people, or 4.1%, in a single year (though smaller than post–World War II demobilization in 1946 and 1947, it is otherwise the largest documented one-year labor force increase). In the early 1920s, both prices and wages changed more quickly than today, and thus employers may have been quicker to offer reduced wages to returning troops, hence lowering their production costs, and lowering their prices.

Same thing happened after WWII. Returning GIs were able to buy a first-time home or go to college.
The "Eisenhower Years" were a time of growth.

The New Deal produced a political realignment, making the Democratic Party the majority (as well as the party that held the White House for seven out of nine Presidential terms from 1933 to 1969), with its base in liberal ideas, the white South, traditional Democrats, big city machines, and the newly empowered labor unions and ethnic minorities.

While I'm at it, let's kick the can about Social Security, heh heh.

'scuse me BD, I don't mean to be hijacking the thread; one thing led to another and, well here I am, within the length of my cable tow; but, yeah, I am drifting a bit.

John the River: I think I found that parenthesis you were dangling.

Our Social Security

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program.
He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary;
No longer Voluntary

2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program;

Now 7.65% on the first $90,000

3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from
their income for tax purposes each year;

No longer tax deductible

4.) That the money the participants put into the independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the
general operating fund would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program and no other Government program;

Under Johnson the money was moved to The General Fund and Spent

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.

Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed