[TheForge] Patriotic rant....

[Ralph E Douglass]

Bill245@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 6/20/02 11:34:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> douglass@ptdcs2.ra.intel.com writes:
> 
> > f these other folks want what we have then they need do the same thing
> > we did. Fight for it
> 
> Especially if you define "what we have" as disproportionate influence over
> world politics, culture, entities, events, opinion, etc., isn't that what
> they believe they're doing?
> 

They may believe that. But all they are really asking is that we give to
them what took us a long time to build and earn. Is it right that we
have so much? I am not sure. But I am sure that we have what we have due
to the work of our fore-fathers and due to our work now.
Yes we were blessed to have been in a land of great natural resources.
But many other places have that as well. What is different? It is the
choices that were made to have a freer society where that with hard work
you too can have. Today it is much harder to do this, but it is still
possible. And as others have stated, even our less fortunate here
usually have it much better than other parts of the world.


Ralph
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