CrazyHorse Loc: Kansas

Herewith an e-mail I received this date that should be of interest for its pictures, as it evidences Capitalism vs. Liberalism.

The Scientific community said, "Hiroshima and Nagasacki could never be rebuilt,
the 'hot radiation contamination' will turn those cities into a wasteland for thousands of years!
Shame, Shame on you, America!" . . . Now its 66 years later!


What happened to the radiation that
lasts thousands of years?

HIROSHIMA1945 See attached picture.

We all know that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in August 1945
after the explosion of atomic bombs.
However, we know little about the progress made by the people of that land
during the past 65 years.


HIROSHIMA - 65 YEARS LATER See 5 attached pictures.


DETROIT- 65 YEARS AFTER HIROSHIMA See 5 attached pictures

What has caused more long term destruction -
the A-bomb,
or
Government welfare programs created to buy the
v**es of those who want someone to take care of them?

Japan does not have a welfare system.

Work for it or do without.

And I don’t think there has ever been a better explanation of
the importance of incentive than this example

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and
all applicable to this:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating
the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another
person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the
government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have
to work because the other half is going to take care of them,
and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to
work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

Hiroshima 1945


Hiroshima 65 yrs later


Hiroshima 65 yrs later


Hiroshima 65 yrs later


Hiroshima 65 yrs later


Hiroshima 65 yrs later


Detroit 65 yrs later


Detroit 65 yrs later


Detroit 65 yrs later


Detroit 65 yrs later


Detroit 65 yrs later

working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina

for a different interpretation:

http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2011/feb/18/chain-email/chain-e-mail-says-welfare-programs-caused-more-lon/

CrazyHorse Loc: Kansas

Quid Pro Quo, WCS: Else where on 1PP the thread of Detroit was posted with the involvement of Coleman Young and his liberal policies effect upon Detroit. After WWII, General Douglas MacArthur was in charge of Japan and the reconstruction of Japan. MacArthur wrote the new Constitution for Nippon, and started the Japanese on the road to democracy and recovery. When Truman relieved MacArthur from his post in Japan, Nippon's foreign minister, Shigeru Yoshida, is quoted by William Manchester, in his book "American Caesar - Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, as follows:

Tokyo was stricken. After a half-decade under "Makassar Genuni," Field Marshal MacArthur, the Nipponese were the most prosperous, least troubled people in Asia. They "deeply respected MacArthur," Sebald recalls, "he had managed with his superb instinct to act with restraint and deftness in the exercise of the unparalleled power of his position."...
Three months earlier, the people of Kanagawa Prefecture, which includes Yokohama, had commissioned a bronze bust of him with the legend on the base: "General Douglas MacArthur -- Liberator of Japan." Now Yoshida, in a broadcast to the nation, said that the General's accomplishments in Nippon were "one of the marvels of history. It is he who has salvaged our nation from post-surrender confusion and prostration, and steered the country on the road [to] ... reconstruction. It is he who has firmly planted democracy in all segment of our society. it is he who has paved the way for a peace settlement. No wonder he is looked upon by all our people with the profoundest veneration and affection. I have no words to convey the regret of our nation to see him leave." The Diet (Japan's congress) passed a resolution of gratitude; Naotake Sato, the president of the House of Councillors, and Kaotaro Tanaka, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, wrote the General of their personal anguish, and Hirohito appeared at the embassy, the first time an emperor had called on a foreigner with no official standing. Taking MacArthur's hand in both of his, he told him of his own profound distress." Id. at p. 652.

It goes on, but you get the picture. In no small part is the present success of Japan a measure of MacArthur's drafting of and the adoption of the Japanese Constitution, and his administration of the reconstruction process and the setting up of the structure of Japan after the war. Without question, MacArthur did not set up todays American liberalism in Japan, but rather instituted an American free market capitalism system of economy and a government functioning as the servant of the people with freedom and liberty, not the other way around, of the people serving the government. Obama's view of government today is the antithesis of the government MacArthur instituted in Japan. I would highly recommend folks on 1PP to obtain and read the entire book.

LurkingTom Loc: North Dakota

Once again I'll post this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g09GtnWdBjc