24 Statistics To Show To Anyone Who Believes That America Has A Bright Economic Future

Things have gotten so bad that most of our high school students cannot even answer the most basic questions about our history.
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Compulsory socialist-entitlement K-12 schooling is the origin of the “political-cultural-moral-educational” problem and abolishing it is the solution!

Since the mid-1800 our nation's children have attended compulsory socialist schools. While at first they presented a lukewarm and generic Protestant worldview they have been utterly godless since the mid-1960s.

Is it any wonder that we have produced generations of citizens that see government compulsion as their Redeemer and Savior, and worship at the altar of socialism?

Solution: Immediately begin the process of complete privatization of all K-12 schooling. Work toward complete separation of school and state.

since when did Conservatism equate to 'get all you can get' out of the system?

Do you people, that feel a CEOs job is to make as much money as possible from every single situation possible, think that's not the definition of greed?
its unbelievable how some here defend greed in the name of conservatism instead of capitalism.

IMO greedy conservative is an oxymoron...
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U.S. “free” trade with China is the main problem:

#10 Our economic infrastructure is being torn apart right in front of our eyes. In 2010, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities a day shut down in the United States. Overall, more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have shut down since 2001.

All the cell phones that I have bought have “Made in China” on them.

How can we as a country survive if we don't make our own clothes,TVs, cameras, computers, cell phones, etc? Answer: we can't.

So STOP TRADING WITH OTHER COUNTRIES AND MAKE THINGS IN THE U.S.A. AGAIN.

99% of China people were peasants 20 years ago. Now they are making high tech smart phone, computers, machinery, steel etc while the U.S. declines.

A bunch of points without any explanations of what caused them. What the heck good is that. It’s like getting the punch line of a joke without getting the build-up. Okay to know, but, where’s the rest of the story?

How did the country get to the state we’re in? That’s the major points we’re missing in the story.

adorno said: "How did the country get to the state we’re in? That’s the major points we’re missing in the story."

It seems to me that there is an economic inevitability to much of what is happening to the US.

I can't imagine anything other than government interference which would explain how a billion Chinese and a billion Indians would have to accept standards of living which are just a fraction of what we have had in the US.

To the extent that the governments of China and India permit their people to engage in productive behavior, they are going to level the playing field. Until their standards of living equal ours or at least approach ours, there will not be a single thing that we can do to stop their progress. Anything that we try to do will backfire and harm us.

What created the wealth of the US was economic freedom and an economic meritocracy which rewarded the productive and punished the non-productive. The majority of Americans don't believe in that anymore and believe that they can vote themselves into wealth. China and India will punish us severely until the falsity of that belief becomes evident to our starving population.

Unfortunately, I think that is going to take quite a while. I'm concerned that so many Freepers don't get this.

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