CrazyHorse!
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The 75th anniversary of the US Social Security System was this past weekend. How should we handle the program from this point?
- Abolish Social Security. Pay off current retirees' benefits but let everyone else out of the program. Individuals should be responsible for their own retirement. (46%)
- Privatize Social Security, but require people to contribute to some form of retirement in it's place. (27%)
- Reform it: Require more individual & employer contributions to keep it solvent for the next 75 years. Social Security is too important to allow it to go under. (15%)
- Don't change it. Social Security is working, so keep it going as is. (4%)
- Reform it: Increase the retirement age. The system works, but people work longer now and that's how we'll keep Social Security viable. (4%)
- Don't know/undecided (4%)
- Reform it: Reduce benefits. Social Security is important, but there weren't the retirment plan options we have now, so we can cut back on benefits to save the program. (0%)
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Paul Hobbs
Hey Man! I have wanted for several days to look up Hokahey which I have heard you sign off with on numerous occasions. I always thought it meant “Today is a good day to die.” I finally looked it up. It doesn’t mean that at all. It means like “Let’s roll” or similar expression.
Love the Harley and ride a Super Glide Custom myself. Am a member of Patriot Guard Riders and the local HOG chapter.
If I had your email I could send you a photo of me at the Crazy Horse Mountain in SD. I love that place.
Paul
Patrick Diestel
Paul:
I don’t know where you looked, but you need to look upward … to the heavens … and ask the Lord for forgiveness of you and your ancestors ways. From the day they arrived on the shores of the Atlantic, whites have been destroying this land and attempted genocide of the native people. Twisting the powerful “Hoka Hey!” into some nonsense for cowboy wannabes is sinful.
Let me correct you.
“Crazy Horse. Hoka Hey! [It is a good time to die!] The story of Crazy Horse, legendary mystic and warrior.” by Vinson Brown (ISBN 0-87961-173-1) … “Hoka Hey! was the war cry used by Crazy Horse, legendary American Indian mystic and warrior, to inspire his doomed people in their final battles against the white invaders. His cries filled his people’s blood with fire and led them to deeds of extreme bravery and sacrafice. For they knew that Crazy Horse was at every moment where the battle raged thickest, thinking only of his wounded men and getting them off the field to safety.”
Tom doesn’t need a photo of you at the mountain carving in the Paha Sappa (Black Hills) … he rode his motorcycle to the Avenue of the Chiefs to admire the passion and reverence to the native people shown by Korzack and his family at Crazy Horse Mountain. Perhaps he should send you a photo of the disgrace that is our United States … the Wounded Knee National Monument … a memorium to the cowardly act of the US government murdering unarmed women and children in another attempt to remove the greatest culture the world has known. This is what white people do … when they cannot attain the same level of spirituality that another person posseses, they want to break the spirit of the one they admire.
Tom and I spent a few hours on the Pine Ridge reservation when we visited Wounded Knee. As we observed the conditions and interacted with the people, I was ashamed to be a US citizen … the same feeling I get when I see how this country treats our military veterans, especially those wounded in battle … not with respect, but with disdain.
You mentioned that you’re a Patriot Guard rider. Thank you for your service to our country, and your on-going service to the fallen hero. Going forward, I hope that you can feel the spirit of Crazy Horse as he rallied his warriors during the Battle of the Little Bighorn … “Hoka Hey! It is a good day to fight! It is a good day to die! Strong hearts … brave hearts … to the front!. Hoka Hey!”
Patrick