Posted on 03/15/2015 9:21:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Or a government shill... Yup, I agree on the rest of your comments too.
Our country has been in an economic depression since 2008.
Yep ... it’s kind of hard to save the country when it’s just a minority that wants to save it!
LOL
I just had a conversation with a friend about this and then I see this article
Can you immigrate to wascist countries like Japan, China or Indonesia? Heck no. They want their countrymen doing the work.
You can go there as an employee but, not to emigrate.
No, those people want to come to Murica, Australia and Europe.
I’ve never heard of anyone emigrating, en masse, to Guatemala, Brazil or anywhere in South America. Emigration to South America ended with WWII.
Now, they do end up in Canada, often on their way to the U.S and is that really so bad?
So they settled and didn’t make it to Murica.
Canada has the per capita wage as the USA @ $54,000+.
Cuz for sure no one was trying to get to Mexico, whose average per capita is a pitiful $9,400 a year....not much more than China or many other Asian countries.
Coke, McDonald’s, Levi’s, Hollywood? We got it and they want it.
Need help during a disaster? Yeah, we’ll be there 1st and won’t even send you a bill. Then, our citizens will send more aid dollars, services and products than all other countries combined.
America the beautiful...
America is hanging-on, but our national debt has gone up 70% under 0bama. I notice they didn’t mention that. The next president is going to have to deal with that little gem.
We have very little heavy industry. Few, if any steel mills. Few, if any operating shipyards. The farmers are being put out of business. The fishing industry is dying. The only thing booming id narcotic drug sales.
The nations of the earth all deal with entropy in their own way, some more successfully than others. Here in America, we are blessed with a high capacity to overcome entropy but, despite that, the system has increased in complexity and it is increasingly difficult to find the energy to maintain order. As such, chaos is creeping into our lives and we see it as a general decline.
To overcome this decline, we need either A.) more energy or B.) less complexity or, better yet, C.) more energy and less complexity.
Bump for reading later.
I was born in 1942 and would nominate the apex of American exceptionalism as being the the years immediately following the end of WWII, for obvious reasons. The decline began in the 1060s with the loss of the war in Vietnam politically, and culturally the turn toward socialism of the Great Society.
1060s should read 1960s.
the light hearted nation of good people, church going, family oriented solid nation....
lets pray that our latino influx offers some good to offset the bad....I don't know what that would be...
(when is the last large scale conflict the Chinese had?)
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Korean war? They were still in the stoneage and they stopped America.
They can absorb unlimited losses-America cannot.
I was born in 1965.
My personal opinion is that I was born near the apex of American Exceptionalism.
In my life, I have watched the decay of this nation, and I have grieved...
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Ditto. (1967)
The world I live in was decided/shaped before I was born.
Education for foreigners but our children can't even read cursive and many barely read. They rank low in math and science.
Our bad jobs get outsourced or sourced to illegals and our good jobs get taken by H1B and other visas, hundreds of thousands a year.
The average take home pay of the family is down.
We have a President who was raised by moslum communists and America hating black liberation churches.
its late and someone else can continue ....
In my life, I have watched the decay of this nation, and I have grieved...
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Agreed.
Various people have been betting against the United States of America pretty much since 1776. They have all gone home losers
Decline? Ladies and gents, I give you Miley Cyrus. The harsher reality is picturing in one’s mind the day when the media, wall street, the fed and all other sycophants decide that Obama can/should no longer be propped up and the crash that follows will be spectacular.
America currently runs a 342 billion dollar trade deficit with China.
342 billion dollars.
America needs to make things once again. Bring back American industry.
If you focus on those 20 signs and ignore a hundred other signs, you might conclude we are not in decline - you’d be whistling past the graveyard though.
Disagree. War, welfare, socialism, morals, abortion, gay marriage, no borders, no true leaders, vast corruption in government, etc. do not bode well for our grandchildren.
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