On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 00:04:03 -0600, "Burled Frau"
wrote:


Again, I want say thank you Barak Hussein Obama!

The firearms industry is pretty happy with the boy, also.

Although that bubble should be bursting in about 3 years.

Price increases stuck after escalating during the Clinton
administration. Availability of guns, ammo and components for making
ammo is improving now that anxious hoarding demand has been mostly
met, but prices have not returned to pre-election levels and very
probably won't.

My guns have appreciated more than many of my other investments since
the election while my machine tools and house have depreciated
significantly. They're paid for so the depreciation creates no
hardship for us. Everybody's gotta live somewhere, we live here.

There was a spurt of patriotism, flags on every porch etc, after 9/11.
The outrage then was against Osama Bin Laden and Muslim Jihad. Our
swaggerwide Texas cowboy pres at the time said "let's go to war" and
we said "yea". But too many Americans have short attention span and
little stamina or conviction, tending more toward greed. Years later a
charismatic senator from the midland with Muslim ties emerged,
promising hope and change. The populace was tired of the war and hurt
from an economic recession so they embraced his promise of change
without questioning what that change might be or what it might cost
long term. The American populace has had no regard for long term
since greed was accepted as a valued behavior starting in the '80s.
Americans able to vote sought immediate gratification at all levels
from welfare parasites to fat cats.

Since the election, on the current watch, the fat cats have been taken
care of with bonuses from bailouts but others not so much. Now
Americans are reconsidering. But most are still self-centered,
focussed on what they can glom from the public treasury, accepting
creation of staggering debt for our progeny rather than focussing on
how we can pull together as a populace of a country determined to
survive, produce and prosper.

In a global sense, we are easy prey.

Don Foreman wrote in
:

There was a spurt of patriotism, flags on every porch etc, after 9/11.
The outrage then was against Osama Bin Laden and Muslim Jihad. Our
swaggerwide Texas cowboy pres at the time said "let's go to war" and
we said "yea". But too many Americans have short attention span and
little stamina or conviction, tending more toward greed. Years later a
charismatic senator from the midland with Muslim ties emerged,
promising hope and change. The populace was tired of the war and hurt
from an economic recession so they embraced his promise of change
without questioning what that change might be or what it might cost
long term. The American populace has had no regard for long term
since greed was accepted as a valued behavior starting in the '80s.
Americans able to vote sought immediate gratification at all levels
from welfare parasites to fat cats.

Since the election, on the current watch, the fat cats have been taken
care of with bonuses from bailouts but others not so much. Now
Americans are reconsidering. But most are still self-centered,
focussed on what they can glom from the public treasury, accepting
creation of staggering debt for our progeny rather than focussing on
how we can pull together as a populace of a country determined to
survive, produce and prosper.

In a global sense, we are easy prey.

Beautifully and accurately stated, Don!

Thanks!