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What's our greatest threat?

Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 2 months ago to Ask the Gulch
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Imagine two guys at a 4th of July picnic, after imbibing a bit too much, and laughing too much, the conversation gets serious. The guys names are Hector and Dewey, and here's an edited version of their conversation:
Hector asks, "What is the greatest threat facing the United States today? Dewey replies, "As I see it, there are three. One radical Islam, two the Chinese, three those knuckleheads in congress." Hector says, "Wrong, not even close. Here's the answer. The gravest threat facing the United States comes from within, when our best people refuse to get involved. When the men and women we need to fight those threats you mentioned -- radical Islam -- China, stay on the sidelines. That's our greatest threat."
Excerpted from "The Refuge" by Ben Coes.
So...what does the Gulch think? What is the U.S.'s greatest threat?

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  • Posted by bsmith51 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Which is why we need a Convention of the States to clarify certain elements (e.g., the welfare clause) of the Constitution and reign in the Court's power.
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  • Posted by bsmith51 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    If you argue the point, they always characterize you as some voodoo witch doctor who denies science.
    But science isn't the object of dissension. It is how government corrupts science by paying researchers to support alarmist theories that would require massive government intervention.
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  • Posted by bsmith51 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    If you argue the point, they always characterize you as some voodoo witch doctor who denies science.
    But science isn't the object of dissension. It is how government corrupts science by paying researchers to support alarmist theories that would require massive government intervention.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    3 good choices. But if we are listing threats, there are about 20 or so more that I could add.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    This Supreme Court is driven almost entirely by personal agendas rather than their job of passing on the Constitution's relationship to the question before them. That makes them useless as a part of the three way checks and balances as imagined by the Founders.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 10 years, 1 month ago
    What's the greatest threat to the U.S.?
    Easy answer--US. Otherwise known as Americans.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    What's the gig? Writing is my next career and the first book is doing well, considering I'm a nobody and it's self published with authorhouse. 85,000 downloads and counting.
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  • Posted by bsmith51 10 years, 1 month ago
    A Supreme Court that could render toothless so many listed threats, instead gives them teeth.
    If only these "brilliant" jurists could read and understand words.... But that would make them "extremist" and "unqualified" to serve on the court.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    You're my kinda guy.
    Got any spare time? Write, call, complain, be a gadfly. Join with others who may not be Randoids but have a work ethic.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    By "WE" you mean "THEM?"
    As the water gets hotter even though we're turning red, we keep on keeping on.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Also, just for amusement's sake, you might read a longish short story called "Digging the Weans" can't remember the author, but it tells of an archeology dig of the U.S. a thousand years hence. Funny and sad.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I can't help but thinking that BHO is not what he seems. His childish playing games makes me think that he is merely an avatar for the people who are backing him and using him to foster the radical liberal agenda.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't think that there will be a way to survive it. If the money is no good, even gold and silver will lose much of their value. Probably owning useable stuff that people will trade for might work. Money-wise, we'll have to start over from scratch. Anyone know if any Knights Templar are left?
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    True.
    This year, they have come up with a name for it: "Low information voters." In a ruder way, Morons who vote.
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