Saturday, November 28, 2009

Why Europeans hate US

"Big dreams are mobilizers of the human spirit. Think of the ancestors who left their homelands penniless, scorned, victimized, or persecuted for their faith or ideas. Some of them had to marshal the courage to cross an unknown sea to a new land. They had to start over. They heard people saying, "You'll never make it." But they did anyway. And many of those who arrived on our shores endured harrowing times beyond imagining.
"Through darkness and uncertainty, what kept many of them alive and carried them through were big dreams: lss of riches than of freedom for themselves and their loved ones. In their own unique ways and through the most trying circumstances, they held to great goals, and in so doing they discovered a central source of human capacity." [page 137]
The Other 90% by Robert K. Cooper


"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus (1883)

AmericanReader:
The dependent-minded peoples of this planet
hate US because of who we are:
We are those who want to take responsibility
for our lives and to live free.
"They said, 'You'll never make it.' But we did anyway."
We are the worst their civilizations had to offer.
And we did anyway.
How could we?
How dare we?
That's something they will never understand.






created by government spending
can never fully compensate
for the wealth and personal initiative
that are destroyed by the taxes and controls
imposed to pay for that spending.

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