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When did America stop being great?
Maclean's ^ | March 2, 2016 | Scott Gilmore

Posted on 03/06/2016 6:13:03 AM PST by rickmichaels

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To: rickmichaels

January 22, 1973


41 posted on 03/06/2016 7:15:14 AM PST by kjam22 (America need forgiveness from God..... even if Donald Trump doesn't)
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To: rickmichaels

January 20, 1989


42 posted on 03/06/2016 7:15:51 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown, are by desperate appliance relieved, or not at all)
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To: Mears

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43 posted on 03/06/2016 7:19:31 AM PST by Mears
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To: rickmichaels

When we set aside God and the Constitution to worship negros.


44 posted on 03/06/2016 7:23:38 AM PST by exPBRrat
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To: rickmichaels

The date is clear: when we switched the NASA budget to welfare.


45 posted on 03/06/2016 7:25:43 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: oh8eleven

No LEO is not considered manned space flight - except in the most limited sense. Those shuttle flights were pointless and a joke. The best vehicles were specifically killed as they could have had dual use LEO and NEO. Nuclear powered vehicles were also killed, along with the first attempts to have real inner-solar and interstellar vehicles.

That you are totally ignorant of the Second American Civil War - complete with deaths, mayhem, riots, and unlawful imprisonments, just shows how little most Americans know of their country’s recent history.

Regardless, it is not the Federal Governments job to make laws regarding the environment or private property. You folks should have cleaned up Erie and Cuyahoga River yourselves, instead of waiting for the Feds.

Contend but the preponderance of the EPA’s actions took place in the West - where the Fed always tries out new powers and new reaches before bringing them inland.


46 posted on 03/06/2016 7:35:37 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: US Navy Vet

‘Zackly.


47 posted on 03/06/2016 7:46:22 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: rickmichaels

When did the word “but” take over the world? 17 buts in this piece, 9 of them starting off a sentence.


48 posted on 03/06/2016 7:47:49 AM PST by Buttons12
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To: PIF
Those shuttle flights were pointless and a joke.
The only point I agree with you on and the #1 reason I put NASA on my list.
49 posted on 03/06/2016 8:15:01 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

Yep just like Social Security was meant to support destitute elderly people. Back then, life expectancy was 55 years old? If we want to be accurate, we should raise it to 75 years now


50 posted on 03/06/2016 8:26:04 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: rickmichaels
I remember it. These were very popular.


51 posted on 03/06/2016 8:28:37 AM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Back then, life expectancy was 55 years old? If we want to be accurate, we should raise it to 75 years now.
But that would just support/extend the second part of the SS scam. The first of course is that it's a Ponzi scheme.
Second is if you re-set the age of eligibility to the age when most people are already dead, there's no sense in having the program at all.
I'd rather it stayed at 65 and let the people who earned it get it - and then let the DemoRats figure out how to pay for it - they invented it.
52 posted on 03/06/2016 8:33:35 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: rickmichaels
It started in the mid-60's, after we got rich, fat, and happy in the 50's. We were fading fast in 1980, but Reagan bought us another 25 years - albeit by planting the terrible idea in DC's head that deficit spending was OK if there was a higher goal to achieve ("defeating the Soviets" became "saving the children" - and that was it.) Clinton weakened us further, the dot-com boom/crash spoiled a generation of American workers, then 9/11 broke us.

I have a feeling Obama has been paying off our enemies not to launch terrorist attacks on our soil during his term.

53 posted on 03/06/2016 8:37:05 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: rickmichaels

There were so many things, but the one that strikes me is re-electing Clinton. Things seemed relatively normal, even prosperous for several years after, but that was the turning point.


54 posted on 03/06/2016 8:43:38 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: rickmichaels
When did America stop being great?

The peak was Reagan's defeat of the Soviet Union in the cold war and the collapse of communism. It's been downhill ever since, thanks to the growth of libtardism.

55 posted on 03/06/2016 8:44:32 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: rickmichaels

1860, Lincoln was elected.


56 posted on 03/06/2016 8:48:11 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: oh8eleven

I suppose until you have had the experience of having the Federal Government come after you personally because you have been legally deemed the wrong race to practice your profession, been held at bay with locked and loaded .50 cal weapons, shot at, seen friends shot dead, seen property seized, been thrown in a Federal prison for the crime of practicing your profession, watched the profession you loved & the raw material destroyed by its new practitioners who are now legally deemed your Special Masters over whom you have no appeal, watched the fruit of you labors, all the money, labor and time be legally stolen by your new Masters, stood helpless as SCOTUS ruled against you, been castigated from every pulpit in your area, called vile names in print & public - you will not see what I’m saying until, like me & mine it is too late and no one can or will help.

NASA is the least of you worries ...


57 posted on 03/06/2016 9:49:48 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: bgill

I tend to agree with this. 11/4/2008 was the final nail in the coffin.


58 posted on 03/06/2016 9:56:13 AM PST by Jenny217
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To: rickmichaels

We were basically done by the late 1960s, but we still had a pulse. Today, we are flat-lining.


59 posted on 03/06/2016 2:57:22 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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To: smokingfrog

“Matt Damon v John Wayne?

No contest.”


I agree.

Matt Damon is a far better actor than John Wayne was.

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60 posted on 03/06/2016 4:35:23 PM PST by Mears
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