Deere scared?

[TomKioti]

I felt it was mildly ammusing with a hint of sarcasm and a touch of wuzup!

 

[Bradford Timber]

It's interesting.

When I was a kid, our educational system sucked.

I am amazed how much better it is now that I spend a lot of time helping my children with homework and school activities.

As a young man I thought our manufacturing base was going away.

Now I am amazed how much better our products are and how many millions of people around the world are living better lives.

As a middle aged man I thought that America was over and done with.

Now I realize that the only problem that a American has is the man in the mirror.

 

[Dusty]

It's interesting.

When I was a kid, our educational system sucked.

I am amazed how much better it is now that I spend a lot of time helping my children with homework and school activities.

As a young man I thought our manufacturing base was going away.

Now I am amazed how much better our products are and how many millions of people around the world are living better lives.

As a middle aged man I thought that America was over and done with.

Now I realize that the only problem that a American has is the man in the mirror.

When I was a kid, I learned a lot from our educational system, friends, relatives, parents, neighbors, and even strangers. It was a different time than today, where children are sheltered from others out of fear. I was even learning when I wasn't thinking that I was learning. Our formal educational system has been reformed, some for the better and some for the worse, but what they now teach isn't what they taught when I was in school because that information hadn't yet been learned. They didn't know about computers, because computers weren't invented at the time. Same for space travel. They didn't teach about lots of things that we now take for granted in our everyday life because they didn't exist.
As a middle aged man, I never thought that America was over. I did believe that we had problems, but nothing that was any different than any other civilized country was experiencing. In fact, it was the time of the greatest expansion of knowledge that the world had ever seen. For the first time, man was able to travel outside of this planet and visit other places as far away as the moon. I have never given up believing in America, no matter how difficult the times or circumstances of life.
Now, I don't see any of the present problems of America as unsurmountable, and I definitely don't see the problem as the man in the mirror. The man in the mirror has the ability to teach his children and for that next generation to continue on the proud heritage of this great country. How and if they will do that, I, nor the other person in the mirror will not know, because change is slow, and at other times it happens quickly. Our lives are so short in comparison to the world we live in, but that is why the future is always in the hands of the present. I believe that America still has a bright future, if the leaders of the present don't waste opportunities to make it better.
Dusty

 

[BobG_in_VA]

It's interesting.

When I was a kid, our educational system sucked.

I am amazed how much better it is now that I spend a lot of time helping my children with homework and school activities.

As a young man I thought our manufacturing base was going away.

Now I am amazed how much better our products are and how many millions of people around the world are living better lives.

As a middle aged man I thought that America was over and done with.

Now I realize that the only problem that a American has is the man in the mirror.

Funny stuff. A couple of quotes about "learning". Mark Twain said "When I was 14, I thought my father was a fool. When I became 21 I was amazed at how much that man had learned in only 7 years."

Winston Churchill said: " When a man is 20, if he is not a liberal, he has no heart. When a man becomes 40, if he is not a conservative, he has no head."

I subscribe to both the above tenants. BobG in VA

 

[TomKioti]

I'm encouraged by the latter comments however, I have to disagree. I think were (the U.S.) in serious trouble. I think the overall moral fabric of the Nation has been severely eroded. I feel people no longer respect eachothers right to disagree. Politicians are being shouted down and spit on at college campuses when they try to defend our right to have LEGAL immigration. The ACLU uses every available asset to remove God out of our schools, and public places under the guise of seperation of church and state. Our education system keeps re-writing our history to suit it's own politically correct agenda. Our definition of marriage is in deep trouble. We have horribly corrupt politicians in both parties. We are under attack by a brilliant enemy that uses all these things to it's advantage and we don't even see it. Our own media spew hate America propanganda 24-7 and actually compromise our troops safety while our brave troops are dying. Meanwhile we have a Globalist President that not only wants to erase our borders but in fact wants to sell our ports and airlines to foreign interests.

And that's the short list.

My friends I'm sorry but we ARE in big trouble.

 

[CDsdad]

I think the overall moral fabric of the Nation has been severely eroded.

There's our problem.

It started with our toleration of the immorality of the 1960s and 1970s. Immorality was embraced in the 80s and 90s. Now it is a part of mainstream everyday accepted life for most and especially the demon-possesed American media. Not only are people expected to tolerate and accept immorality, they are often criticized and to some point persecuted for being moral.

That's the main reason Dan Quayle was made fun of so much, besides being kinda goofy, he had morals and the media knew it. America will pay one day, and not only financially.

 

[BobG_in_VA]

OK folks, I tried to lighten it up but we seem to want to go on a rant for or against something somewhere by somebody. I'll take a stand and say this is not the place for politics one way or the other. I'm sure there's a bunch of websites that would welcome all of that. This is TRACTORBYNET. Let's please maintain what this website is about. If you want to flame me send me a PM, but lets keep this place what it was meant for....to share about a common thread in this maze of fabric,,,,tractors/equipment. thanks in advance.

 

[TomKioti]

CD,

Great post. I think were paying in spades now. Bob your right. No problem no flame. Relax
Oh by the way wasn't Winston Churchill a politician?

TomK

 

[CDsdad]

No flame for you Bob. Sorry to get wound up. Stuck on an oil rig and want to go home, you got a spare helicopter?

 

[jwcinpk]

Come on Bob there's not much else to read in the Mahindra forum. Hope your 6000s still treating you well! Besides they're right we are in trouble!