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>>>about how this country could only be brought down from within. <<<

There is only one thing that can keep the country from being brought down - The solution can be found in just one single word.....

CONFIDENCE

If you do not have confidence that the bank will be secure and you can get your money back plus interest - you will not use that bank... If you do not have confidence that stocks are viable, you would shun them... and on and on...
If you did not have confidence that the Government was acting in your behalf, you would not support it...

Even money - the perceived value of money is what gives it value - and you have to have confidence in that. The same with goods and services.

So, what we have seen for the past 8 years has been a drumbeat of rhetoric such as ‘Bush Lied - People Died’ till people accepted it... There was the America’s Bad syndrome, the Anti-War groups, and on and on... So, finally we lost confidence...

I would love to be able to post positive, encouraging, uplifting things, but I have not seen anything that builds that confidence. Certainly nothing from the Øbama administration is.

Actually, I guess that loss of confidence goes back even further... We used to never lock the house, left the keys in the car, kids used to play anywhere without fear, neighbors looked out for each other..... Do you have the confidence for those today? I know I don’t...

I can remember one of my Grandfathers who laid the blame for confidence loss to Franklin D. Roosevelt. He contracted with farmers throughout the area to grow crops for Stetz & Ellis which was later bought out by Libby McNeil & Libby. He said that with the advent of the ‘New Deal’ people changed... For years and years - even through the Depression, if someone gave you their word, you could have confidence that they would do what they said. He said that it completely changed with the ‘New Deal’. You could shake hands with someone to buy 50 acres of tomatoes at a given price, and come harvest time, if someone offered a penny more a basket, your deal was out the window - it was everyman for himself...

I think G.W. Bush tried hard to keep that confidence alive - and if we had not had the Dimocrats clobbering him everytime he did, he might have succeeded in avoiding the path we are on today.