A Sad Day for America

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1. retire05

   January 20th, 2009 at 10:19 pm

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   Mac, knowing that I share in your depression and disappointment that our nation has become a nation of people who care more about getting something for free than freedom, who don’t bother to look beyond Amerian Idol for their next president and couldn’t tell you the first line of the U.S. Constutition, I though maybe you would appreciate my putting this “historical” moment in prospective, at least just a little.

   We have heard so much about all the people that managed to leave their jobs and travel to see the First Socialist Democrat president ever inaugurated.

   Try this:

   In 1964, the population of the United States was 191,889,000.
   In 2008, the poputation of the United States was 303,824,640

   The reports are there were an estimated 2,000,000 attendees to the coronation. That is 6.5% of the population.

   In 1965, at the inauguration of LBJ, there was an estimated 1.5 million attendees, or 7.8% of the entire population.

   Historic in numbers? Only by count, not by percentage of the population.

   And let’s not forget that also we were enbroiled in a long war that LBJ inherited (as Obama has). I cannot find the cost of the LBJ inauguration, nor the number of security that was provided for the 1.5 million that attended. But this much I can compare.

   I heard the other day that the security had been beefed up for the Obama coronation because of fear of violence from white supremacists types. Could the fear of “white” supremacists have been any greater this year that in January, 1965? Could the threat of anti-war protesters been greater?

   This inauguration was media hype, and Obama, and his inauguration team were determined to live up to it.

   Now we will see if the media continues the love affair when they are ham strung by the fairness doctrine, or their own personal taxes go up, or as was reported in Politico a few days ago, the new administration keeps them at arm’s length, spending that press capital faster than a sailor on shore leave.

2. Dave

   January 20th, 2009 at 11:32 pm

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   WOLVERINES!!!

3. Marilyn

   January 21st, 2009 at 3:18 am

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   Re: population growth. The last I heard our population was pushing 400 million. And is projected to be nearly 500 million by 2050. It is worth noting that China’s population was 500 million in 1953 (1953 edition of World Book Encyclopedia). Today China has three times that number and people haven’t been beating down the gates to sneak into China. And remember China’s one child law? It isn’t going to take us 50 years to get into the same fix if we don’t fix our immigration problems.