[IslamE]

Me too, I guess people who visit FR are better informed, unlike those people who are spoon fed their news from TV, I can’t figure it out, unemployment is high, and that’s not including those who have given up looking for work, taxes have increased, pay checks have shrunk, cost of living has gone up, gas prices are rising too, groceries are getting smaller, yet everyone acts like nothing is wrong, it’s like the calm before the storm, I’m questioning my sanity, it’s as if what’s right is wrong, and what’s wrong is right, strange times!

[familyop]

"...yet everyone acts like nothing is wrong, it’s like the calm before the storm, I’m questioning my sanity, it’s as if what’s right is wrong, and what’s wrong is right, strange times!"

That's because we're living in our improved environment without all of those awful smokestack industries and the scary breeder men who worked in them. [Oh, yeah, a whole heap of irony and sarcasm there--not about you but about our contemporary leadership.]

Do you see? Look at third world countries known for their agricultural and energy production without much manufacturing. Do you see farther?