Is This The Death Of America?

I wouldn't get too worked up about your elderly dropping like flies from malnutrition if I were you. I really think it's just an excuse for your "leaders" to hold meetings at expensive resorts (It's what they do best.)

As for your "free" health care...if you're taxed out the wazoo, then it's not really "free", is it??? LOL.

You just keep thinking we're on the verge of collapse. We'll see who hits rock bottom first

I would like to correct you slightly, Amigo.

I think that America is about the only "democratic" western country that HE would be able to survive in.

The farce re. the clipped or unclipped voting papers would not have happened anywhere else, which also applies to all the "grey areas" re. postal votes and other lawyer type dirty tricks. If it HAD have happened in another Country, then the FREE press would have exposed this straight away, and there would have been uproar.

If Bush had got into office by fair means in any other country, and handled the economy and war in a similar manner, there would have been a vote of no confidence by now.

Bush only survives in America, because he has the media on a firm leash. Any journalist worth his or her salt must feel sick to their stomachs, at having to toe their Companies line so as not to incur the wrath of the White House.

Pitiful, really. "Leader of the FREE world....". That always makes me smile.

JustWonders wrote:

I wouldn't get too worked up about your elderly dropping like flies from malnutrition if I were you. I really think it's just an excuse for your "leaders" to hold meetings at expensive resorts (It's what they do best.)

As for your "free" health care...if you're taxed out the wazoo, then it's not really "free", is it??? LOL.

You just keep thinking we're on the verge of collapse. We'll see who hits rock bottom first

JW, I have developed a deep and abiding affection for you.

This post is an example of why.

Hell yeah!

Steve (as 41oo) wrote:

Do you think its credible that a posse, sheriff Nutbush out front, with rest of world in hot pursuit cannot capture one man unless Bushcracker is leading them a merry dance? Of course Bush knows where the binman is. Its much more useful to have him on the loose, ready to strike at american children any time anyplace.

You cannot produce an iota of evidence to support this theory.

Brandon9000 wrote:

Steve (as 41oo) wrote:

Do you think its credible that a posse, sheriff Nutbush out front, with rest of world in hot pursuit cannot capture one man unless Bushcracker is leading them a merry dance? Of course Bush knows where the binman is. Its much more useful to have him on the loose, ready to strike at american children any time anyplace.

You cannot produce an iota of evidence to support this theory.

Well unless I've missed something, we have not caught obl. How do you account for that? Are we still looking?

America needs an enemy like the communist threat. bin Laden and al qaeda fullfil that role. I dont deny they are dangerous people, but its more useful to have them on the loose imo. And I just said imo, its an opinion not the general theory of relativity.

gustavratzenhofer wrote:

How did this happen? How did a piece of offal rise to the highest position in the country?

I think it's a reflection of the dumbing of America.

No other country on earth has a populace so ignorant and uninformed.

Yep, it is the beginning of the end.

The question is: Why are Americans so ignorant and uninformed?

If recent projections are on target, by the year 2050, the USA will no longer be the world's biggest economy, although it will still be in the top six.

November 10th 2004.

"Fed raises again, but what's next? "

"The central bank said it raised its target for the fed funds rate, an overnight bank lending rate, to 2 percent from 1.75 percent. It had previously raised the rate in June, August and September."
http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/10/news/economy/fed_rates/


2% as at Nov 2004



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"September 20th 2005"

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - "The Federal Reserve Tuesday raised its short-term rate target by a quarter point to 3.75 percent, its 11th straight quarter-point rate hike."

3.75% as at Sept 2005

It definitely is the death of America we once knew and loved. The probability that it can return to what America once was will never happen. This administration destroyed America for good.

Gosh what a pessimist you are. Were you inebriated when you wrote this? Because if you were, I can forgive the idiocy of these comments as an expression of "in the cups" melancholy.

Run your head under cold water and come back and tell us that you truly believe

1) America is destroyed for good.
2) The America "we" once knew and loved is dead.



We have lost most of our allies and friends including many Arab countries.

Most of our allies? What allies have we lost since Bush took office?

What Arab countries are demonstrably less friendly to us than they were in 2000?


We are now engaged in a war that sees no end with the prospect of more American soldiers sacrificed and $5 billion spent every month for whatever goals this administration seems to imply/claim. "Stay the course" is not a goal.

What nonsense. How many different ways can the President explain our goals before his opponents cease braying the Democrat Party mantra?

More of the Reid, Pelosi, Kennedy and Dean "Big Lie" approach.

If you don't agree that the goals are reasonable or desirable, simply say so.

Why is it that Democrats are incapable of articulating what they believe the goal should be or what the plan for achieving any goal should be?

"Establish milestones" is neither a goal nor a plan.

As adled as Murtha appears to be, at least he has articulated an actual plan. It's idiotic, but it's something.



This administration has bankrupted our government from a surplus to the largest deficit in our country. We are not sure how many generations into the future our children will be paying on this debt.

I am not a fan of deficeits; nor am I fan of the extent of government spending this administration has launched, but remember the last crippling deficit we faced and how quickly it was turned into a surplus? Why do you suppose this one is going to prove so utterly intractable? Our country is not bankrupt, and we can return to a surplus situation in our lifetime let alone untold generations from now.

This country is now known for torturing our prisoners in our military prisons. We have lost our moral compass.

I haven't lost my moral compass, and I doubt you are about to admit that you have lost yours. You Libs crack me up. Long before Abu Ghraib, whenever anyone had the temerity to champion the moral leadership of America, you would descend like locusts to blanket the foolish jingoist with all the evidence for why America has long been an international reprobate: slavery, slaughter of Indians, Jim Crow, internment of Japanese, the bombings of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the murder of Allende, the backing of Right Wing Death Squads in Central America, Napalm and Agent Orange in Southeast Asia, CIA coups throughout the world, etc etc etc....

Now you have the nerve to argue that our country has lost the moral sheen you would never before accept?

This country now has the Patriot Act that takes away our constitutional rights to privacy and to defend ourselves in a court of law.

More nonsense, or are you seriously suggesting that the Patriot Act has resulted in a society where we have no privacy and we are unable to defend ourselves in a court of law? That's what you wrote. Do you mean it or do you acknowledge you were engaging in high handed hyperbole?

This country is now in a struggle to prevent fundamentalist christians to include ID into public school science courses.

The country can hardly be in a struggle with any group of law abiding citizens. There is a group of people who are in a struggle with another group of people relative to this subject, but that is far from the dire attack on our nation that you suggest. Since when are these issues not subject to public debate and the political process?

This country is in termoil resulting from the incompetence of this administration to handle Katrina properly and efficiently.

What? Katrina has come and gone. Whether or not they should be, the areas Katrina has ravaged are no longer front page news, and to suggest that there is a national turmoil centered on the aftermath of Katrina is ludicrous. I notice, as well, how you seem to have totally exonerated the Democrat Governor of Louisiana and Mayor of New Orleans. But, you're right, they had no responsibility for their citizens.

Energy prices have escalated over 50 percent during the past year, and many on fixed income must decide on medicine, food, shelter or fuel.

Balderdash

Most home buyers are using creative financing to buy their homes. With interest rates increasing, many will forfeit payment of their mortgage, and their homes will be repossessed by the financce company.

Most? What utter and absolute nonsense.

With the huge government and private deficit, inflation for our future is a given. Many are sitting on home equities that may be lost when the housing bubble bursts.

Our economy can handle some inflation, so predicting certain inflation doesn't tell us very much. Presumably, you are predicting catastrophic inflation, and that's (I'm sorry I'm being so repititive here, but you're forcing me) just nonsense.

Stock investments are down for this year.

What do you mean by this? The amount of money invested in the market? The number of shares purchased?

I would venture to say that on any and every aspect of what you might be trying to say here, you are wrong.

What motivates someone to post this ridiculously dark vision of America?

I can't help but think of you as politically bi-polar as I suspect your were prancing about with optomistic glee during the Clinton years.