Comments on: Ron Paul: Prepare for the Worst! http://www.bikerrepublic.org/2009/11/ron-paul-prepare-for-the-worst/ The Extreme Activists of the Biker Rights Movement! Keeping an Eagle Eye on Liberty. Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:46:59 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Betsy E Lister http://www.bikerrepublic.org/2009/11/ron-paul-prepare-for-the-worst/comment-page-1/#comment-922 Betsy E Lister Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:53:34 +0000 http://www.bikerrepublic.org/?p=618#comment-922 I so wish Ron Paul had been elected President. We would not be in this mess. I so wish Ron Paul had been elected President. We would not be in this mess.

]]> By: dave http://www.bikerrepublic.org/2009/11/ron-paul-prepare-for-the-worst/comment-page-1/#comment-920 dave Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:31:21 +0000 http://www.bikerrepublic.org/?p=618#comment-920 I remember the stories of the Great Depression being told many times around the kitchen table. None of it was in sorrow. It was in AWE. It brought out the best and the worst of people but from what I've heard so often it was only the few who shamed themselves by their behavior. I'm old enough to know some from both sides of that. My white uncle was nursed by the black lady across the street after his mother died in childbirth. That same black woman's children were fed and clothed by my grandfather because their father had long since gone. He gave them chickens and taught them to garden in the narrow space between their houses. He and the nursing woman were exemplary human beings. But there were lowlife people too. My own father-in-law abandoned his wife and five children because he was one of those selfish cowards. He traveled the country not for work but for fun and thrills. He got all that from the abandoned wives other cowards left behind. He fathered more kids across the country than he left to starve back home and he never worked a day in his life. My wife and her brothers lived on coffee and bread six days out of the week and their mother ironed and sewed in swap for a chicken on Sundays. But they and others like them made it and they made it with their dignity in tact. I don't for a minute think that the caliber of people today can come close to those of the Great Depression. This time round there will be more cowards and thieves and killers than heroes and heroines. So be it. It changes NOTHING. I remember the stories of the Great Depression being told many times around the kitchen table. None of it was in sorrow. It was in AWE. It brought out the best and the worst of people but from what I’ve heard so often it was only the few who shamed themselves by their behavior. I’m old enough to know some from both sides of that. My white uncle was nursed by the black lady across the street after his mother died in childbirth. That same black woman’s children were fed and clothed by my grandfather because their father had long since gone. He gave them chickens and taught them to garden in the narrow space between their houses. He and the nursing woman were exemplary human beings.

But there were lowlife people too. My own father-in-law abandoned his wife and five children because he was one of those selfish cowards. He traveled the country not for work but for fun and thrills. He got all that from the abandoned wives other cowards left behind. He fathered more kids across the country than he left to starve back home and he never worked a day in his life. My wife and her brothers lived on coffee and bread six days out of the week and their mother ironed and sewed in swap for a chicken on Sundays. But they and others like them made it and they made it with their dignity in tact.

I don’t for a minute think that the caliber of people today can come close to those of the Great Depression. This time round there will be more cowards and thieves and killers than heroes and heroines. So be it. It changes NOTHING.

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