[A-List] We need counter-propaganda to the likes of this

[Nadja Tesich]

cb.
Of course we need counter-propaganda.How is the question.
Nadja
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> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 11:29:00 -0500
> From: cb31450 at gmail.com
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> Subject: [A-List] We need counter-propaganda to the likes of this
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> http://www.livinglakecountry.com/blogs/communityblogs/117113233.html
>
> Fighting Liberal Lies!
> What happens when you live without liberalism and few unions
>
>
> By Jim Hayett
> Feb. 28, 2011
>
> Not often do I get the chance to watch Glen Beck since I prefer to
> watch or listen to the stock market wrap-up on weekdays. But for some
> reason I was glued to Beck when I surfed channels and saw a picture of
> two cities 65 years apart.
>
> All of us at one time or another most likely received an email about
> the story of two major cities: One in Japan and the other in the US.
> Sixty five years ago, Hiroshima started to rebuild their city after
> hundreds of thousands died when the US dropped the A-Bomb. The entire
> city was in ruins with no chance of ever recovering from the aftermath
> of a nuclear attack. Sixty five years ago a city in Michigan was
> making cars and had the icon as one of the top production states in
> the US. Fifteen years later both cities made major decisions that
> would ultimately change their fate and their people.
>
> The pictures seen in this URL
> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349112/posts have been
> tossed around the internet over the past few years. I forgot how to
> post pictures on my blog so I will let you peruse through the old and
> new pictures of Hiroshima and Detroit.
>
> Fifteen years after the A-Bomb was dropped, Detroit moved to a liberal
> democrat run city and has been mostly that way for the past 50 years.
> Hiroshima saw the affects of socialism and decided to move away.
> Detroit escalated the unions and thought liberalism and the unions
> would move Detroit to even higher levels not seen by any US city.
> Hiroshima decided that neither the unions nor liberalism could bring
> their city back to life.
>
> Today, Japan runs a 92% high school graduation rate while Detroit
> barley gets 50% of their kids to finish 12th grade. Yet 50 years ago,
> before the teachers union and the NEA adopted the unions, and the
> liberal democrats took over, Detroit was a model city. Now it’s one of
> the armpits of America.
>
> Today, Detroit is a complete mess and Hiroshima is a model city. One
> removed all aspects of socialism and US liberalism while the other
> embraced liberal democrats and our unions. Need I say more?
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> jhayett - Feb 28, 2011 7:35 PM
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> look at these pictures of the before and after before you opine please.
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> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349112/posts
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> referee33 - Feb 28, 2011 7:38 PM
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> Just a quick question - how many millions/billions of dollars in
> aid did the US provide Japan? Is it possible that might have had some
> effect also?
>