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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou Can’t Move Forward if You Insist on Standing Still
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/you-cant-move-forward-if-you-insist-on-standing-still/Snip:"When this writer was a wee lad, America went to the moon. Yes, we did that. We did brave things, bold things, things that mattered to the world, things that were investments in our future.
Nowadays, America is being ruined by a load of greedy, cowardly, short-sighted poltroons. We couldnt do an Apollo today, folks. We cant even keep our roads paved properly or our bridges up in the air. We cant even keep Grandma fed or Junior safe in his school. America is stuck."
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You Can’t Move Forward if You Insist on Standing Still (Original Post)
riqster
May 2013
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redqueen
(115,103 posts)2. K&R
freshwest
(53,661 posts)3. K & R. Blunt and cranky nails it again.
Rex
(65,616 posts)4. Avarice will get us all killed off.
nt.
riqster
(13,986 posts)5. A deadly sin, indeed. nt