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BUT, I can't imagine the years 1940-1950 for my parents...where I was totally shielded (loved) from the bad things of the world.
Shield them but also teach them TRUTH when you see they're being told otherwise.
Funny...people always thought that the Millennium would bring the end of the world as if it would happen overnight...I always figured it would be a slow burn...maybe I was right?
Hate to say it but next decade will be rougher IMHO.
The decade for me was a very good decade, with exception of this past year. I believe the next decade will be the one from hell.
Slow down. 1 more year to go in this decade.
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I think the Time analysis has more to do with blaming Bush for everything bad and failing to recognize any good.
After all, the DUmmies won in 2006 by proclaiming that the Bush economy was the worst (Stocks were 13,000 plus)
The wars were lost bla bla blah.
Turns out the decade was pretty good for most of us who didn’t buy into the class warfare charges of Marxism, and the abstract of hope and change a Marxist promised.
The Marxist promise for the next decade, your hard work pays your neighbors way, or economic justice for all.
Plenty of good stuff happened in the decade.
Reject the axiom of “two failed wars”. Iraq was, all told, a smashing success, with 29 million fairly civilized and educated people no longer living under a monstrous mass murderer-dictator, their society turned into a reasonable facsimile of a democracy. And it was done with a fraction of the, still tragic, casualties that such conflicts usually cost.
Credit to the US military, and kudos to the CIA, for once, and even the State Department and the civilian contractors who worked very hard to give the Iraqi people a future. And credit likewise to George W. Bush who oversaw it.
Special notice goes to Donald Rumsfeld, who not only oversaw much of the war and occupation, but also conducted a US military force modernization program that totally changed the character of our military, despite the obstinate objections and inertia of a large handful top generals and admirals.
George W. Bush’s real presidential errors were first, to try and restore much of the power of the US congress that had been gravitating to the president over many years. Unfortunately, the Republican congress proved itself a failure with self-discipline, and ruined the idea.
Second, he overused the unconstitutional presidential signing statements, which eventually will lead to a major showdown at the Supreme Court.
But all told, the decade was not too bad. New Orleans was punished for wasting decades and money they could have used to defend themselves. It was truly their own fault that Katrina flooded them, and they have likely not learned their lesson.
The stock market hasn’t yet had a catastrophic failure. That remains for likely next year.
Rabs posted this Schiff article and pinged me to it. Sadly the Republican party has their brand name on the decade, deserve it (all) or not.
'genetic homophobe' told me to tell you that Walter Williams is subbing for Rush today New Years Eve(he is on now) . We were listening to Walter Williams talk about free markets long before Peter Schiff was on TV.
“The past decade was the party; the one ahead will be the hangover.”
For a lot of people, yes. For those of us that paid attention; not so much. ;)
I don't know whether this is quibbling or irony, because I cannot believe that Schiff's argument with Time is seriously intended.
For those of us who never believed that unexpected wealth and unearned prosperity are anything other than ephemeral steps on the path to hell, the decade has been hell. It has simply made no sense. The incompetence to think that it is ok to run the printing presses and hand out the moola and you won't have to pay for it was stunning. Well the incompetence of Bush and Greenspan and Lott gave us the greater incompetence of Obama and Bernanke and Frank and Dodd. But many did not understand the incompetence of the former, and that was hell. The incompetence of the latter is now self-evident.
For those who think that you earn your way to prosperity by competently providing goods and services that others are willing to pay for in free market transactions - where the other party has the power to withhold his participation or seek other sources of supply - the decade has been shear and utter hell indeed.
So like one of those Zen jokes about heaven and hell, understanding that the world made no sense and had departed any sustainable course was hell. That it has crashed and gone the way of all false economies, is, if not heaven, at least some gratification that the universe makes some sense and the copybook in heaven is ultimately brought into balance. That Obama is failing is not hell. We comprehend why he is failing. If he were succeeding while doing all the wrong things, that would be hell.
Screaming a lie louder Peter will not magically change fiction to fact. You were wrong about the Iraq war from day one. Grow up, admit it and move on rather then trying pathetically trying to rewrite history to fit your desperately ignorant dogmas.