[K-oneTexas]

Now is the time to work toward building the future ... not waiting for the collapse and then rebuild.

[Obadiah]

Now, the big names are an inarticulate President,...

Personally, I think this is a cheap easy and shot at Bush, but maybe he's talking about Truman here.

[rabscuttle385]

If we falter on a credit card payment with just one card, all of the credit card bankers gang up and nail us for 29.9+% interest rates. That’s usury pure and simple, but our politicians are so busy collecting campaign donations from those credit card companies, they let this usury abuse continue.

They don't stop the practice because they are too right at the forefront, leading the charge themselves. What do you suppose happens when you fail to cough up money to the IRS or another government agency?

When some customers become adamant about getting action or service regarding their poorly made product, I suggest that they contact the factory bosses and I then give them the phone number for the Chinese, Mexican, or Indonesian Embassy. I tell them to explain their problem to the person who answers the phone, and I send them off.

If they bought the product from you, give them names and numbers for the U.S. distributors who imported the product in question.

I graduated from high school in 1960 and went out into the world. I had a job the next day. There was no putzing around in and out of college for a half-dozen years.

The author must have been white. Neither 1960 nor 2008 were perfect, but some of the shenanigans going on in 2008 are definitely worth putting an end to.

I just hope that, come November, we citizens have the guts to follow through on our disgust and kick out all those who have contributed to our sad state of affairs. They have helped mightily to destroy America as we knew it, and their carelessness and voracious self-interest has to end.

That goes for all of you rabid "you're a traitor if you don't vote for McCain" McCainiacs. Just say no to McCain: he's part of the establishment that is destroying these United States.

[xtinct]

I, too, recall the good old days when housing, gas, food, and everything else was much less expensive and American made.

Corrupt politicians, bank managers, American CEOs, etc. should be hung on the highest tree for the state that America has become.

Start with the Carter Administration/Congress who let the foreign auto makers in here... then move to Ted Kennedy who was instrumental in allowing illegal immigrants into the country (Do you know that Americans are paying for elderly Russians, Irish, Mexicans, Muslims and Asians who never worked a day in this country?)... then move to the nitwits who pay our farmers not to produce, then nail the Clintons for NAFTA, etc., etc., etc. It's all about individual greed with these people without considering the ramifications of their actions on everyday Joe's and Jane's.

[illiac]

“I discovered pizza, a new cultural import from Italy.”

As I recall (mind getting older, here), pizza was not an Italian creation......

[paul51]

I just hope that, come November, we citizens have the guts to follow through on our disgust and kick out all those who have contributed to our sad state of affairs. They have helped mightily to destroy America as we knew it, and their carelessness and voracious self-interest has to end

1.Most of them don't have to worry about an election each cycle.2.the potential replacements are as corrupt as the originals.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

” I just hope that, come November, we citizens have the guts to follow through on our disgust and kick out all those who have contributed to our sad state of affairs. They have helped mightily to destroy America as we knew it, and their carelessness and voracious self-interest has to end.”

How you going to do that?

If you vote, the only choices are enemies of the Republic.
One may argue uselessly, their degree of animosity to the nation, but they are all enemies.

[calex59]

Hear, hear. I feel exactly the same way and for the same reasons. I am 66 and have led a life very similar to the authors. Out of school at 17, into the army for a few years, out and into a job(working in the lumber industry, which is all but gone now)and eventually retirement. Our country can still be saved but it is rapidly growing too late. Start voting your convictions and forget about the lesser of two evils. Never vote for an evil. Write in candidates and vote for conservative congressmen and senators, get the liberals out of our schools, government and news media. Give America back to Americans. BTW, anyone who thinks that sending our jobs to other countries benefits America simply has rocks in their head. I don’t care what BS numbers they try to produce to prove it, they are fools, trying to fool the rest of us.

[mnehring]

When did Conservatives become such whiny little b***es who let what happens in DC run our lives. We are Conservatives, we believe in the individual over the system. If you don't like Made in China toys, don't buy them. Don't rally for the government to make more regulations. If you don't like Saudi companies investing in US banks, bank at a local, US owned bank. If you don't like Japanese cars (albeit most are made in the States) don't buy one. If you don't like illegal immigration, stop doing business with those who hire illegals.

When did we lose our identity as the individual over the system?

What happened to the scariest words in the world (according to Reagan)- I'm from the Government and I'm here to help. It seems we now are just whining that someone from the Government isn't speaking those words on the issue we want, not that they are speaking those words in the first place.

Jim Horn's article expresses what I see as the very problem we are facing, and it is not the content of his article but Horn's attitude. He, like liberals, is still looking to government to fix our problems. He is telling the individual that the system is the solution.

[mnehring]

As a boy, my icons were great men, real men: Edison, Einstein, Ford, Truman, Eisenhower, Rockefeller, DuPont, Audie Murphy, and others, men who got things – good things done. Other great names were John Wayne, Patton, Rocky Grazziano, and Gregory Peck. Elvis (who didn’t shirk the draft), Monroe, Piaff, Sinatra, Costello. Now, the big names are an inarticulate President, dysfunctional drug besotted underpants-less bimbos in Hollywood, an ex President who can’t keep it in his pants, ignoramus America hate-spewing actors, and rapacious investors more adept at pillaging than creating.

I swear, we need a new category, whineCon. We the people chose who our icons are. Just as he seems to reinforce the choice our icons are underwear-less bimbos, he could also have chosen the CEO of the world's largest company who started in his parent's garage with a couple of thousand dollars or the hero mom who pulls her kid out of a fire. I guess Mr. whineCon Horn wants the government to regulate who are icons are now?

Maybe if we spent more time creating the world we want around us instead of complaining about the government, we wouldn't have the problems we do.