08.06.2008 3:00 pm
The cause of current social chaos isn’t difficult to determine
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The article “Fear Spurs Teens to Carry Guns, They Say” was interesting reading. What I find interesting is what the Post-Dispatch and like minded liberals find as cause-and-effect relationships, and as being self evident. Other well worn examples being poverty and crime, and internal combustion engines and global warming. Let me suggest an unthinkable (to liberals) cause and effect relationship: Fifty years of welfare and our current urban social chaos. The “Post Dispatch” probably would never consider doing an article drawing causal relationships between the millions of teenagers that go armed into our rural fields each year (almost always with their fathers), and yet somehow manage to shoot only ducks and deer.
David Armbruster
Ferguson
Good letter David.
But I’m afarid that the panty waists & liberal “sheeple”
that love the Post Dispatch, do not want to hear anything
postitve or uplifting about those nasty scary ole guns
I’ve made that point a hundred times to the “guns equal crime, more guns equal more crime” numbskulls. I have added 5 guns to my collection in the last year and to date, still haven’t committed a crime with the one given to me at age 12.
Every November 3-400,000 people carry high-powered weapons into the woods and fields and no one gets murdered. Can’t say that about St. Louis now can you?
It’s the same mentality that says terrorism is caused by poverty. Pure BS. the 9/11 terrorists were educated, and middle or upper class.
Um, doesn’t David realize that Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare have brought millions of people out of poverty? You think its bad today, try going back to the 1930s. I’m sure McCain would approve.
The banning guns idea is silly, too (see Mark Kleiman’s blue state view of why banning guns doesn’t help, for example). I wish liberals would drop the issue altogether. If it makes a red-stater feel safer to have CC, so be it. Maybe then we could get the gun lobby to support better tracking and id for gun dealers that are funneling weapons to drug dealers.
K.T.
Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare are vote buying schemes that have already burdened this country with $53 TRILLION dollars in unfunded debt. Next up, “free healthcare” for all.
These programs appear to be “successful” in the same way that my neighbor with the big house, the new cars and the fancy vacations appears to be successful. In reality, however, he’s buried in debt and scrambling to take on more in order to maintain the illusion.
If you’re wondering why the U.S. dollar is and will continue to be in free fall, look no further than these “successful” social programs. Yes, we managed to rescue some folks who were adrift at sea, but we swamped our boat in the process.
The sound you hear is that of dollars being printed. But hey, we care.
Bart,
Don’t be jealous of your neighbor.
You forgot to throw in that trillion dollar war in Iraq and the expansion of the federal government under President Bush. You can’t raid the coffers and expect government programs to be solvent. At least the Neo-bots are getting their self-fulfilling prophecy: say government fails, get elected, then make government fail.
And if social programs are driving the dollar down, then how do you explain the rise of the Euro? I thought Europeans with their universal health care and social welfare programs we’re headed for disaster, but now their vacationing in the U.S. and importing our cheap goods.
Kendalls Tau, The leadership of western Europe went to the right last election cycle. Now, why is that?
Kendall’s Tau
There are only 2 states that don’t have some type of concealed carry. I didn’t relize that there were 48 red states.
David your last sentence pretty much explains todays problems,no fathers for guidance in anything.Then all the excuses for not getting an education to prepare for making their own way in life.Social security and medicare is paid for by the recipeients through with holding from wages earned all through working lives and had large surpluses untill the funds were put into the general funds to be spent on so many other things.
Medicaid,subsidized housing,free breakfast and lunch programs at schools,food stamps,and a myriad of other programs are paid by the taxpayers for the non working,the ones that take no responsibilty for their own livelyhood.Socialism at work!! LS
I think that the root cause of societal ills is the no fault divorce.
I just lost my job at Chrysler and a lot of people left there have been married and divorced numerous times. They can’t afford to retire because they are paying child support/college tuition for kids they had from their multiple families.
These people have 35, 40, and even 50 years of seniority. Most won’t be able to comply to the physical aspects of the automaking process. They have rights to the jobs because of their seniority, but their presence will be counterproductive because of the limitation’s of age.
If you are going to get divorced, there should be a valid reason (abuse, adultery, etc).