I hate to spoil all the fun with data and facts, but remember - they voted for this fool twice and look at what he has accomplished thus far...
Posted on 12/30/2014 1:30:46 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
How do you think 2015 will be for you? If you’re typical, you’ll be pessimistic; and, if you’re typical, you’ll be wrong. Only 21 percent of Americans agree with the proposition that “life for our children’s generation will be better than it has been for us” — 76 percent disagree.
Well, barring some unforeseeable calamity — what Nassim Taleb would call a “black swan,” or Donald Rumsfeld an “unknown unknown” — the 76 percent are mistaken. The next generation of Americans will lead healthier, happier, more fulfilled lives than the present one.
That sentence could have been written at any time since the Mayflower landed. It would always have been true (for the settlers, at any rate; it was a different story for the indigenous tribes). And it would always have prompted skepticism. No doubt, had opinion polls existed at the time, 76 percent of Puritan emigres, their faces grim and thunderous over their lace ruffs, would have prophesied damnation. And I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if 76 percent of Americans in 1776 weren’t hanging their white-wigged heads in despair at the debt level (or whatever the fashionable panic of the day was).
Anxiety about some imminent catastrophe seems to be hardwired into our genome. We are killing the planet! Our borrowing is unsustainable! Immigration will overwhelm us! The world is frying! We’re overdue for an ice age! We’re overdue for an epidemic! We’re overdue for an asteroid strike!
Every civilization has separately evolved its own End of Days scenario: Ragnarok or Judgment Day or apocalypse or Armageddon. The eschatology varies, but the idea that life as we know it will come to an end doesn’t...
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>> Only 21 percent of Americans agree with the proposition that “life for our children’s generation will be better than it has been for us” — 76 percent disagree.
And that ~20% represents the productive optimists.
I like Hannan.
America buys everything from China, and is now approaching 18 trillion dollars in debt.
Why is the 76 percent incorrect?
Americans need jobs.
British author Dan Hannan is deluding himself. He exhibits a normalcy bias.
Civilizations DO rise. Civilizations DO fall. We are in the hands of YHWH, our Creator. (YHWH is pronounced “YA who awh”).
Hannan seems to think that despite the fact that America continues to sin egregiously against YHWH that it will not be punished.
He bases his opinion at least partially on polling. (As if people’s opinions will somehow influence the fate of the nation.)
We, as a nation, continuously commit four sins that cry out to Heaven for justice.
1) The taking of innocent life (abortion)
2) Stealing a man’s wages (income taxes)
3) Stealing from widows and orphans (inflation through “Quantative Easing” - the current term for stealing the value of assets denominated in dollars)
4) Sodomy (the celebration of homosexual practices which YHWH Himself calls an abomination)
We have already been judged and found wanting. We are now in the punishment phase.
Will things get better? Yes, but not until after we have been severely chastised.
And only then if we repent of our sins (stop doing them) and turn to YHWH and beg his forgiveness.
I think you are right.
The other fact and cause for alarm is that all of this puffing up of false good news on the economic front is being swallowed by all and sundry and it is a blatant, easily uncoverable lie.
In Nov. 2008 - when Obama won his first election there were 102 million jobs in America.
Today, there are 98 million jobs and all you read in the press is how Obama solved the unemployment problem; worse, the sheep buy it.
Today, we were told that the US resident population has crossed 320 million. Less people are supporting more non-workers than ever before.
I hate to spoil all the fun with data and facts, but remember - they voted for this fool twice and look at what he has accomplished thus far...
The author seems to be hopelessly optimistic. I prefer to be hopefully pessimistic.
In a couple of years we can put Obama on the Terror Watch List.
>> turn to YHWH and beg his forgiveness.
Have you considered lending YHWH a hand instead of dragging your heals?
Leftwing idiots blame the decline on boomer retirement factors. Of course, they never provide an adjusted projection of the decline. They just yap and yap and yap....
Sorry, Dan, but you’re all wet on immigration.
None of the previous generations had millions coming for the giveaways of a welfare state that through affirmative action immediately favors the immigrants over the majority of previous citizens. Also, none have come from a continent that despite great natural resources continues to vote itself into socialist economic calamity after economic calamity. None have brought majority welfare-dependent, school-dropout, out-of-wedlock social failures—at least three generations into their move here.
Little of our past experience gives confidence that we are not now importing the voters that will pull the US below its previous heights.
Optimist by temperament.
/johnny
I’m optimistic! After a long sludge since the crash in 08 I really feel with cheap gas and pent up demand were finally going to be on a economic boom. For all our sakes I hope so. What is too bad is how doom and gloom so many posters on FR have gotten.
No heal dragging here.
I work nearly every day to improve my lot and the lot of those around me. I ask nothing of “government” except that it stay out of my life.
My prayers, however, are more important. They go something like this...
1) Thank you for your mercy. (I should be dead.)
2) Thank you for your grace. (I do not deserve it.)
3) Thank you for your provision. (By your hand, I am not in want.)
4) Thank you for your protection. (You have prepared a table before me in the presence of my enemies. They have not even touched a single hair on my head.)
5) Please help me to assume the right posture before you that I might continue to receive your blessings.
6) Please help me to be a pleasing son in your eyes.
The figure I saw indicated that only around 22% of the illegal immigrants who were covered by the immigration amnesty program of the Reagan Administration in the mid-1980s were ever actually legalized. If true, then that tells me something very important about the whole subject of immigration and amnesty: A lot of illegal immigrants don't see an "upside" to legalization. In fact, they are probably smart enough to recognize that signing up for citizenship (and a Social Security number) is probably a huge con game just to get them to buy a ticket to America's new slave class.
Better sooner than later! Jan 20th can't get here soon enough!
Tell that to the people at tax time.
Yep, it’s the optimists who pull the cart.
Really? That’s hard to believe—do you have a link?
Also, the Dems are already getting the illegals to vote as it is, but they’ll be certain to get them legalized too.
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