Amazing video I just found
Submitted by NoFreedom on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 17:22I haven't posted on daily paul in awhile but check posts every day to gain knowledge and hear everyone's thoughts. I just came across this video that was put on utube yesterday. This young man has talent, intelligence and compassion and a message to share. Being from the older generation it pleases me to see young people getting involved and taking action in whatever way they can during the turmoil we are facing.
The only thing I can share with him is that it wasn't like this decades ago when there were no entitlements, we helped each other as neighbors and our country was respected throughout the world because we were the ones that responded to the needs of the world when there was famine and injustice. The church hospitals never turned anyone away that needed treatment and this was before Corporatism put them out of business. No one received welfare, food stamps etc yet no one did without because we would not ignore others needs. It was compassion and caring for others that made this country great, not our government.
I would offer to this young man that it is Corporatism greed (not Capitalism) with the help of our greedy and corrupt government that will totally destroy the American people and the American dream that did once exist in our country.
"We the people" must once again determine our future and stop the madness before it is irreversible. We can't expect our youth to know what it was like before, only to tell them about our experiences and history and trust that we can, as individuals join together and change the course of our future.
I think his message is that we are not alone and that each one of us can make a difference. I hope his video goes viral especially with our youth and that he has more video's to share in the future.
Love his piano
Not so crazy about his "madman" effects!!! Just me.
But to the serious part, it also really gives me hope seeing the young people come to this way of thinking. That is very encouraging because they are so courageous and won't take being pushed around long. Some of us older ones have now been pushed around so much, killed in the dark of the night, that we take a more cautious approach with these people. We don't like it, but we keep trying to fix it with "their" methods of voting, etc.
However, as an older person, it really embarrasses me that we have this mess to hand to the younger people. Makes me want to kick myself for not being more involved or something. This just isn't right to hand a communist America to my grandchildren. Sh*t is about the only word that comes to mind.
We've got to get ACTION into our mindsets.
Pfft
That video is a globalist wet dream.
Shocking (and sad) to me
how everything has to have a sexual connotation in today's world. Or perhaps I should say in today's raped world so that I will fit in here.
Not true
Then you only heard what you wanted to hear. A fireman risks his life for such little pay and a huge bank receives our tax dollars so that they can continue to make huge profits and not loan out money to small businesses so that they fail. Our government not only allows this to happen but helps it happen with that fireman's taxes.
Our government pays people NOT to work from the taxes that working people pay. How long do you think this can continue?
Free markets work because competition work. Capitalism works but what we have is Corporatism....GE, Walmart, the World Banks etc who all thrive and grow because our government helps them to. We are all responsible for helping our neighbors and families not the government. Church hospitals used to take care of the poor and needy but our government and corporatism made it financially impossible for them to do so.
We were a self sustaining country and took care of each other before foodstamps, welfare, medicaid, free housing etc. People with needs received food, medical care and a roof over their heads WITHOUT tax dollars and our government.
When this house of cards collapses and our economy crashes we WILL return to depending on each other because our government will not be there. We may soon be deciding whether to join together as a nation or to become slaves to the elite with no liberties nor freedoms.
I didn't listen to the music but . . .
I agree with all you are saying. I too remember when America was like that. So sad that its become like this.
Blessings )o(
Blessings )o(
Thanks for sharing
I wish other baby boomers would share their experiences on Daily Paul. We know what it was like and I hope that maybe some day Americans will come together and realize that we need to rediscover ourselves.
hmmm . . .
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
baby boomer here--
it wasn't all 'peaches' back then.
The horror of Viet Nam was very real to me. I had friends who came home in body bags--
I lived in fear during that time, and I didn't even trust the media then.
Also, though I have never used food stamps myself or been on any kind of welfare or government aid, have never used socialized health care, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.--
I remember being hungry as a child. Some of us were. My parents were hard working but poor.
Worked very hard to get an education, very hard--went hungry to get an education, and somehow I missed the 'success and wealth' boat--
not hungry anymore, but only because I have worked hard to stay fed and keep those I love fed, and by that I mean--I grow it and make it myself to stay well-fed.
Still don't use any government programs--
and I am appalled at the waste.
Appalled. I was at Whole Foods last week, and I took some significant-to-me people to get a 'snack'--and I saw entire meals crammed into the garbage bins--one or two bites taken out of huge salads, etc.
Those significant to me were horrified, too; I have taught them well. I felt very, very sad. SO much waste.
But I don't remember the Pollyanna stuff either. I think that my parents and grandparents were as "snookered" by parties, etc. as anyone is now--
and I loved, adored, respected them--
Parents/grandparents 'blamed it all' on whatever president got into the white house; I remember relatives who thought J. Edgar was a sweetheart and that the CIA was 'protecting' us--lots of people were FAST asleep back then!
but I believe this boat ride to loss of freedom began LONG before my day--
I grew up on how heroic my parents' generation was to have 'done' WWII--while feeling deeply conflicted about war--
and then I learned the 'other side'--
I MET the 'other side'. And things changed for me. (Only the parent who fought in WWII had been outside the U.S.; I lived and worked in a country *we* fought in WWII and saw the 'other side' first hand)
I am the first person in my family to 'wake up', and many of my family of origin (most, overwhelming majority) are still asleep . . .
I just remember that *I* looked on and saw great abundance when I was hungry, and now I am REALLY glad for that hunger.
That hunger is why I am what I am today.
That hunger is why I live the way I do--
not because I saw people helping people, but because I had to work at a very young age in order to eat.
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
This is what we are all about
Thank you for sharing! I might have been misleading about the American Dream. I too grew up poor with 4 other sisters. We didn't have alot of food but I never starved. We didn't have air conditioning but I didn't die of heatstroke. We didn't have a television but played together outside. We wore handmedowns and still survived. In highschool, I actually had to wear the same skirt to school every day but yet I wasn't alone. We had bad times but life was more simple. My parents worked hard and we had a roof over our heads.
We didn't have alot of money but we didn't rush around and lose sleep at night with worry because we knew we had family, friends and neighbors. I started working when I was 17 with just a high school education and have owned and managed 3 small businesses which I found very rewarding.
I have NEVER taken a dime of money from local, state or federal government and am now working as a cashier for just above minimum wage. I want to work and be productive and believe that it will keep me physically and mentally healthy. It's called good work ethics and my childhood also contributed to who I am.
I too despised Viet Nam, we lost over 60,000 young men and women plus the hundreds of thousands of Viet Namese men women and children who died. For what? I am still asking that question.
I also ask myself why are our children dying in Iraq and Afghanistan? To keep us safe and free? It makes me sick to hear those words. We would be safer and freer if our troops were here protecting us and their families, not dying and being injured.
I guess I look at things differently than most. I learned from living poor, working hard and giving to others. I always worked, had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I learned to care and appreciate others and found great satisfaction from raising my children and seeing them turn out to be compassionate and hard working adults.
You and I have strong work ethics and appreciation for life and liberty. I don't think that we are in the minority but rather typical of our generation.
I don't blame the American people for the wars or horrible things that have happened in the history of our country. I blame our government. I also don't blame the people of other countries for the cruelties and abuses in their own countries, I blame their radicals and governments.
I grew up with the Pollyana attitude that our government was wonderful and the US could do no wrong until I discovered Ron Paul and started reading more about our history and leaders. I now feel that people all over the world are innately good and that we tend to blame them because of what actions their government take just as they blame us for ours.
We need to look inside ourselves and wake up to what our forefathers tried to warn us about and stand together as a people to take back our country and show the world that freedom is life.
So
We should feed the world? You're only listening and reading the parts you want to hear or see.
Don't be so blind.
we used to
Now we bomb them
we never would have "had" to feed the world if . . .
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
we and our ancestors in the other Big nations (Europe ostensibly)--
hadn't taken away from them their ability to feed themselves by taking out their farms and putting *our* (all said tongue in cheek; I never did any of this) huge plantations in--
*we* starved them and then fed them with the engineered seeds and chemical fertilizers of the 'green revolution' as far back as in the 50s and 60s--
"third world" countries have never been "third" any kind of world--
they are people, like us--
and they were enslaved LONG before *we* were--
we just (our ancestors especially) thought we were, somehow, 'better' than they were--
*sad*
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
Unreal, didn't know that one either
It makes me sick each time that I find out that some government purposely caused pain and hardship for the innocents. For what? Money?
The "Dust Bowl" in the US was not an event caused by nature but rather by the US government telling farmers that too much food was being produced and forcing them to plow under their fields. With droughts, which are part of the natural cycle, and no crops to hold the soil, the Dust Bowl was given life.
A full decade of horror enveloped the midwest with millions of tons of topsoil being blown away and lung conditions from the dust killing young and old alike. Chalk up one more for a great decision by our caring government.
I agree
I think sometimes we have to be reminded how extreme and ridiculous the gaps are in our country. For example, in my mind, Global warming is something I fell for when I saw the documentary that Gore did but then I listened to other scientists explain how his statements are totally incorrect and misleading.
Gore focuses on global warming with emissions etc to push the world in a certain direction (which if it he does succeed, he will be a very wealthy man because of his personal investments) but he totally ignores the pollutants that are dumped into our lakes, rivers, streams and oceans by refineries, pesticides and chemical companies etc. These types of pollutants are so much more damaging to nature and ourselves than CO2 could ever be. Yet, our government fails to stop or even recognize the real threat to not only our planet but to wildlife and ourselves and our health.
Our government is not about saving us or our planet but about money, greed and power. Knowledge is power and we need to use our knowledge to stop them.
His other youtube video is good also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_jjoVO9Jzw
It's pretty good
Like most media, it relies on emotion and faulty logic to drive home a point...but it is a good point.
Sometimes we need the reality check
Wake up call....look at the extremes and we see the failures. Hopefully with our eyes open we stop being docile, remote and rather take action.