[Nachum]

Who got to Charles K.?

[I see my hands]

To: Chas. K.

You're over.. played out. Now disappear.

[WHBates]

It didn’t just happen, it took getting rid of Carter and a new vision.

[madprof98]

Maybe he’s angling to become the NYTimes’ resident “conservative.”

[HerrBlucher]

Kraut has soured. What a fool. Then again, nothing really surprising these past few days, he has always been a liberino.

[devere]

What are we #1 in making any more?

Weapons, I assume.
Aircraft, if Boeing can ever deliver the dream-liner.
Farm equipment (Caterpillar and Deere).
Farm commodities.
Higher education, I suppose. The lead we had is too great to completely lose overnight.
Finance? not any more.
Software? moving offshore.
Fiat money, unfortunately.

We’re not economically dead, but we are in serious trouble.

[crazyhorse691]

The late ‘70s was a period of malaise. People were saying oh, the American era is over. The big dictatorships in the world are going to dominate us. That was a reflection of the terrible economic conditions, the stagnation and the inflation late ‘70s

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Who knew that Jimmy Carter writes under another name?

[TrumpisRight]

Anyone know how to get Krauthammer a message from a citizen of the UNITED STATES of America? Does he take input from the average citizen or is he in a world closed to us average citizens?

[greene66]

American decline?

Well, this week we can now add military decline to economic decline, cultural decline and moral decline.

[JPG]

Whoa, Charles needs to take some serious time off, like until after the ‘12 elections. He is letting the ‘old mondale’ in his veins show forth too much.

[LibLieSlayer]

Hey SOUR kraut... please pick up the red phone... obama needs his ass kissed today.

LLS

[danielmryan]

I'm of two minds. Given the shinola that's been applied to the U.S. economy over the decades, it's easy to buy in to the declinist story - to the point where an anti-declinist seems a fool.

On the other hand: ordinary Americans, very much including new and/or young entrepreneurs, have been very good at pulling the fat out of the national fire. This mitigative countering makes anti-declinism the way to bet, once different hands take the D.C. tiller.

One of the reasons why Atlas Shrugged is so popular is because it captures the essence of this struggle. If there were a real-life John Galt, he or she could push the U.S. over the edge in times like these.

[dforest]

Charles has descended into dementia.

I don’t wish to hear anymore from him.

[Lazlo in PA]

Chuck, there is one huge difference between then and now. Monetizing the debt.

[bwc2221]

Krathammer has never been a conservative. The fact that many conservatives - including FReepers - is a mystery to me.

[hinckley buzzard]

Sad. The Kraut has passed his prime and is now reverting to his idiot-'rat roots. The malaise of the seventies and the revival of the 1980's didn't just happen you moron. Electing Jimmuh Cahteh and Ronald Reagan respectively had a great deal to do with both.

And btw, you obviously have not a clue as to the meaning of "American exceptionalism." Like most ignorant liberals, you fail to grasp what it is that does in fact make America exceptional in all the world, even at this late date.

What a disappointment.

[True Republican Patriot]

Is he paralyzed from the neck down? He never moves and is always in the same identical position while gasping for air like Christopher Reeves always did? But he is sounding more and more like he is on Obama Koolaid!

[erlayman]

The downsizing that is taking place now should have began happening in 2000 when it was obvious that the manufacturing sector was shifting. I do think that we aren’t headed to third world status yet but “normal” is gone for good (and for bad).

The economy will rebound hopefully with more efficient government, and a more vibrant economy, but unlike the early ‘80’s is there are no niche industries (auto industry, paper, rubber, airlines, etc.) to bail us out.

[central_va]

You can’t live in the D.C. area and not become a swamp monster. Very few can live there and remain “normal”.

[mountainlion]

With Obama’s ratings lower than Bush I think Obama is almost gone. When the Republicans finally make steps that are favorable to business the economy will come roaring back. The rest of the world will say they did it again.

[FreeReign]

Gross debt as a percentage of GDP was 35% back in 1980. Today it's around 80% with more and more government spending to follow.

Krauthammer thinks happy days are around the corner all because we get to keep our puny tax cut.

Charles Krauthammer is a complete and utter idiot.