The End of Our American Project

[PoliticalChic]

"The Vore buffalo jump site in Wyoming...was used five times between 1550 and 1690, and holds the remains of 20,000 buffalo. That means 4,000 or more buffalo were killed each time the jump was used. Other buffalo jumps in the West displaythe remains of as many as 300,000 buffalo. These sites were so numerous,in fact, and held such large deposits of bone, that for many years they were mined as a source of phosphorus for fertilizer!"
Frison, G.C., "Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains," pp.239-44

Large amounts of meat were left to rot and herds of animals were decimated, and sometimes driven to local extinction. Buffalo and antelope traps killed so many that it took the herds decades to recover.

Did I mention that you are a moron?

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

The American project ended in 1913

you mean when we became a real country wiht a real government?

There's no better example of Foreign Ideas Hostile to American Principle, than THAT!

 

[PoliticalChic]

10. "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
Attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)



Nowhere can a better description of Liberal governance be found. Those 'good intentions' are the heart of Liberalism....but, while they rarely pan out, they do serve as the impetus for the rules, statutes, regulations, laws, doctrines that have strangled liberty.



a. Good intentions, idealism, informed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill and affirmative action..

"You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, saying, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe you have been completely fair... This is the next and more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity—not just legal equity but human ability—not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result."
LBJ in the Commencement Address at Howard University on June 4, 1965 on affirmative action

Eloquent.




But, as is true of most Liberal initiatives, "feeling" passes for "knowing."

What it did was stifle the innate ability of the people it claimed to help.


b. "Welfare rolls tripled in the decade after Johnson came to office. Unprecedented crime rates had made living in a major city a daily exercise in self-protection. Aggressive affirmative action had outraged the members of the white working class who were most directly affected. School busing had enraged parents- a rage that burned even hotter as high-profile liberals such as Teddy Kennedy piously praised public schools while sending their own children to private schools. The poverty rate, which had been dropping rapidly from the end of WWII through the first half of the 1960s, had leveled off...and stopped going down..."
Charles Murray,"By The People"



c. "This week, the U.S. Census Bureau is scheduled to release its annual poverty report. The report will be notable because this year marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. In his January 1964 State of the Union address, Johnson proclaimed, “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.”


Since that time, U.S. taxpayers have spent over $22 trillion on anti-poverty programs (in constant 2012 dollars). Adjusted for inflation, this spending (which does not include Social Security or Medicare) is three times the cost of all military wars in U.S. history since the American Revolution. Despite this mountain of spending, progress against poverty, at least as measured by the government, has been minimal."
War on Poverty After 50 Years Conditions of the Poor in America




These facts denote the bitter end of the nation the Founders left us, 'our American project.'
R.I.P.

 

[JoeB131]

These 'Noble Savages' were responsible for the extinction of a number of animals.
.... The aim was to kill as much as possible as quickly as possible, with the minimum risk to the hunter. There was no concern for conserving future stocks, nor for taking only as much as was necessary to meet present needs."
Whelan, "Wild in the Woods: The Myth of the Noble Eco-Savage"

A favorite Indian device was the ‘jump’, which meant stampeding herds of animals over a cliff, so that the fall would kill them, described in "Playing God in Yellowstone," by Alston Chase.

You do realize most of these books written by "experts" never got past the Mississippi, right?

The fact is, the extermination of the bison was intentional as an act of war against the Plains Nations.

The Buffalo Harvest

"Although the army was plagued by strategic failures, the near extermination of the American bison during the 1870s helped to mask the military's poor performance. By stripping many Indians of their available resources, the slaughter of the buffalo severely reduced the Indians' capacity to continue an armed struggle against the United States. The military's role in this matter is difficult to asses. Sheridan and Sherman recognized that eliminating the buffalo severely reduced the Indians' capacity to continue an armed struggle against the United States. The editors of the Army and Navy Journal supported the proposition, comparing such an effort with Civil War campaigns against Confederate supplies and food sources. Forts provided de facto support for hunters, who used the civilian services often found near army bases. Officers and enlisted personnel also killed buffalo for food and sport, though the impact of their hunts was minute when compared to the organized efforts of the professionals." (The Military and United States Indian Policy, p. 171) "In 1874, Secretary of the Interior Delano testified before Congress, "The buffalo are disappearing rapidly, but not faster than I desire. I regard the destruction of such game as Indians subsist upon as facilitating the policy of the Government, of destroying their hunting habits, coercing them on reservations, and compelling them to begin to adopt the habits of civilization."

Genocide.

 

[JoeB131]

There's no better example of Foreign Ideas Hostile to American Principle, than THAT!

Foreign to you, maybe. Most Americans are good with it, which is why government grows every year no matter who is in charge. Republicans talk a lot of smack about shrinking government, but they usually end up growing it.

 

[JoeB131]

Did I mention that you are a moron?

Wow, blaming the victims. How special.

We genocided the shit out the Native Americans.

Deal with it.

"Oh, but they didn't have a word for it yet!!!"

******* retard.

 

[initforme]

The fact that Jefferson owned a slave takes him off my great American list. Slavery is an awful thing propagated by those who were too lazy and cheap to do any work themselves.