Taking America For Granted

[Terri]

By Thomas Sowell
July 4, 2007

When my research assistant and her husband took my wife and me to dinner at a Chinese restaurant, I was impressed when I heard her for the first time speak Chinese as she ordered food.

My assistant was born and raised in China, so I should have been impressed that she spoke English. But I took that for granted because she always spoke English to me.

We all have a tendency to take for granted what we are used to, and to regard it as somehow natural or automatic -- and to be unduly impressed by what is unusual.

More (http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/tsowell/2007/ts_07041.shtml)

[papajaxxx]

Too many Americans today are not only unconcerned about what it will take to preserve this country but are busy dismantling the things that make it America.



Sadly, this is true. :banghead:

There are many on the left who would call Dr. Sowell a liar or misinformed.

Many average Americans are bombarded daily with hard work, living their lives, propaganda, slanted views in the media, show/movies with hidden agendas, temptations, advertisements and many other subliminal mind control suggestions, that they have trouble discerning the chaff from the wheat.

Sometimes, too much information clouds the truth.

How do you change the course of a ship going the wrong direction?

Answer: One degree at a time.

[qrayjack]

What was peculiar about Western civilization was that it was the first civilization to destroy slavery, not only within its own countries but in other countries around the world as well. But the Che Guevara t-shirt & Mao Tse Tung handbag left is obsessed with socialism/communism.