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America's 'Oh [crap]!' Moment
US News ^
| 10/30/11
| Niall Ferguson
Posted on 11/04/2011 7:30:12 AM PDT by dervish
Edited on 11/04/2011 7:33:38 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: declineofthewest; economy; niallferguson; usexceptionalism
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posted on
11/04/2011 7:30:16 AM PDT
by
dervish
To: dervish
Ya want to know exactally what date was the REAL start of our decline as a country, November 22, 1963, when that STUPID, LEFTIST, COMMUNIST BASTARD Lee Harvey Oswald(and/OR his band of co-Cospirators) Killed JFK and PUT that TEXAS, BASTARD LBJ in office. The GREAT SOCIETY started driving our country into the ground!
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posted on
11/04/2011 7:35:13 AM PDT
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: All
3
posted on
11/04/2011 7:36:34 AM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: US Navy Vet
Actually, if I was pressed to pick a deciding moment date, that is the one I would go with also.
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posted on
11/04/2011 7:36:36 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: dervish
What is this site that advertises Newsweak?
If you advertize Newsweak then you ain’t no friend o mine.
5
posted on
11/04/2011 7:36:56 AM PDT
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
To: cuban leaf; US Navy Vet
I’d blame the Beatles...
(and the banning of DDT)
6
posted on
11/04/2011 7:39:56 AM PDT
by
null and void
(MSGT Dean Hopkins USMC (ret) WWII-Korea-Vietnam 11/9/1925-10/22/2011 My hero, my Dad)
To: cuban leaf
You need to read Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism”. It started long before that.
7
posted on
11/04/2011 7:40:34 AM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Happiness is a choice)
To: dervish
Niall Ferguson bump for later.......
8
posted on
11/04/2011 7:42:01 AM PDT
by
indthkr
To: US Navy Vet
To: US Navy Vet
JFK issuing the executive order tha allowed federal employess to unionize and no longer be Civil Servants, that was the beginning of the decline.
To: US Navy Vet
Sure OK you make a good case.
But do you contend that John was the only good Kennedy? Because the rest of his family have been lying thieving leftist scum. I just wonder if you really think John was dramatically different from the rest of them.
11
posted on
11/04/2011 7:45:18 AM PDT
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
To: dervish
Their title was less offensive than yours. At least they bleeped a letter.
12
posted on
11/04/2011 7:45:22 AM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: Christian Engineer Mass
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posted on
11/04/2011 7:49:14 AM PDT
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: dervish
Without all this we would be living in portable housing and throwing spears at each other.
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posted on
11/04/2011 7:49:52 AM PDT
by
oyez
To: indthkr
Ya want to know exactally what date was the REAL start of our decline as a country, November 22, 1963, when that STUPID, LEFTIST, COMMUNIST BASTARD Lee Harvey Oswald(and/OR his band of co-Cospirators) Killed JFK and PUT that TEXAS, BASTARD LBJ in office. The GREAT SOCIETY started driving our country into the ground!
Nope.. The Great Society was an expansion of the New Deal. FDR is the real culprit, with a nod to the early 20th Century progressive who laid the foundation for the social engineering movement.
To: US Navy Vet
Joe Kennedy, Jr. couldn’t have been that bad of a guy.
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posted on
11/04/2011 7:51:54 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: US Navy Vet
Nah - the beginning of the end goes way back to the thirties and FDR’s campaign policy of appealing to his separate constituencies as groups instead of as Americans.
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posted on
11/04/2011 7:53:43 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: dervish
More from the article.
What we need to do is to delete the viruses that have crept into our system: the anticompetitive quasi monopolies that blight everything from banking to public education; the politically correct pseudosciences and soft subjects that deflect good students away from hard science; the lobbyists who subvert the rule of law for the sake of the special interests they representto say nothing of our crazily dysfunctional system of health care, our overleveraged personal finances, and our newfound unemployment ethic.
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posted on
11/04/2011 7:54:11 AM PDT
by
Track9
(Make War!!)
To: dervish
Our culture, language and way of life was the underpinning of our society. When we failed to protect those we started our own demise.
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posted on
11/04/2011 7:55:23 AM PDT
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: netmilsmom
It started long before that. Genesis 3?
20
posted on
11/04/2011 7:56:36 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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