Stephen ,, I don't worry about threats from the outside of America. We, us,
can take care of them.

We are declining from within. The inequity of rich to poor, of government
to private sector ( take a look at pensions ), of those who can afford the
best schools and those who must accept schools that are totally useless.
Don't you find it crazy that the politicians who are making decisions about
public education never send their own kids to public school? Ted Kennedy
comes to mind here.

In 1975 we faced nuclear power such as Russia and the cold war. Today we
destroying ourselfs. We are crumbling from the inside.

Those that have don't care about the folks at the bottom. Take a look at
Walmart. The auto makers are going out of business in the USA, they are
building cars in China though.

And as the taxes go up and up and the middle class disappears, government
continues to give out huge pensions, and keep on spending.

Stephen ,, we are killing ourselves.



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"Stephen Trapani" wrote in message
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NE Sailboat wrote:

Stephen,, we are in a whole lot worse off shape than 1975.

Never in our history has the difference in wealth between the rich and
the poor ( all of the rest of America ) but so great.

We have millions of illegals running around and the federal government
won't even protect the border and enforce the immigration laws.

Then there is the mess in the middle east.

Oh, I forgot... check out what the government is spending and the debt it
is amassing.


Do you think a bank in the USA would get away with giving illegals who
have entered our county by sneaking in a credit card ..

Do you think that would happen in 1975? It is happening now! Bank of
America.

I sorry to say it,, but I really don't give us much of a chance to
continue.

Well, there was massive doom and gloom in the seventies. Plenty of
"experts" would go on and on about how the level of inflation definitely
would result in a massive collapse in less than five years, guaranteed. My
family left Hawaii where we lived to get to a place where we could live
off the land and survive during a collapse. And of course anyone who was
around then can remember how inevitable nuclear annhilation was,
considering the massive buildup and how we had enough armament to blow up
the world "300 times over."

As we can all see now, there has been drastic improvement in these areas
since then. Since then I've been much more aware of the ways our society
is improving and much more aware of how all the supposed "decline" that is
occuring is actually more of a temporary blip in history, because mankind
has an overwhelming desire and ability to improve their lot.

Stephen

"Stephen Trapani" wrote in message
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I remember in '75 when the country was coming apart. Plenty of people
said the country couldn't last five years the way things were going. The
ecomomy was supposed to collapse if nuclear war didn't get us first.

Stephen

NE Sailboat wrote:

Don ,,, I may be going over to the other side ,, but... in my opinion,
our country is on the brink of coming apart. Everything is broken, the
whole system. Health care, the government spending, the war in Iraq,
our industys, ....

Great speech by Bill Moyers recently.. read it ,, you can find it on
the net.

Powerful stuff.

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"Larry" wrote in message
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"Skip Gundlach" wrote in
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effectively $500 a week

Isn't this the same reason, insurance paying, that a hospital bed to
just
lay there and die is $400/day and every doctor in the building comes
by
to "say hi" and charges $250 every time he pokes his head in the door
and
smiles at you. (Every doctor in Orangeburg, SC, pulled this crap on my
father who was dying at Orangeburg Regional Medical Center, a profit
center for the medical profession to be sure.

It's how doctors afford yachts, waterfront mansions, fancy cars,
cruises
to exotic places....

I call it "victimization". You're in a position of helplessness and
"they", be they doctors or lawyers or boatyards or tradesmen you are
forced by circumstances to hire quickly to fix something threatening
your
home....feeding at the insurance and victims' tits, sucking as hard as
they can for as long as they can milk it.

CEOs do the same thing to the stockholders....sucking as hard as they
can
on the company's tit, milking it for all they can get, until they
either
get fired and move on to the next board meeting or drive the company,
like Enron, into bankruptcy.

It's the American way! This boatyard is sucking on it just as hard as
any of the rest of the milksuckers.....like bankers.

Larry
--

It's almost as if everyone expects the gravy train to end soon and they
have to grab as much for themselves as possible.
Where's the long term planning? If the Big 3 American car
manufacturers are doing do badly, why are their CEOs hauling in so much
money?
The whole system is rotten and our children will pay for it.