[kearnyirish2]

They just keep throwing out these stories as diversions from the loss of our country and way of life, and try to make us appreciate the rapid fall in our standard of living by telling us how much worse things could be.

I was baffled by a couple of older co-workers talking about problems in some Third World dump half a world away; they were both in bad financial straits, and completely apathetic in terms of our own elections...

[skeeter]

Its tough, especially for older Americans, who've never known anything but opportunity and expectations of an even brighter future, to imagine that their formerly high standard of living is now in mortal danger. They think that while people may languish elsewhere the good times will roll on here forever.

They need to understand that destroying their standard of living is the specific goal of this administration and the foreigner who calls himself president. And he's well on his way to accomplishing it.