I’m not too impressed with this article. I will go after each line item:
1) Maybe crime is up in DC, but it is way, way, down in New York. Seems like more of a problem with political will than a degenerating society. Overall crime, I believe is also down in the US.
2) You can AND COULD always find crackpots if you look hard enough for them. The one difference in the past was that we did usually keep them locked up and out of sight.
3) TSA only exists due to Muslims blowing up the World Trade Center. If that crime didn’t happen, then no full-body scanners.
4) People take anti-depressants because it’s, essentially, a legal high. If they were around 100 years ago, people would have taken them back then. As it was, 100 years ago, Cocaine was legal, and people used it (and that is where Coke got its name).
5) The gang problem has grown, largely, due to Hispanic gangs. The problem is border enforcement and the unwillingness to send those people back. It has nothing to do with American culture.
6) Yes, it’s hard for kids to get jobs when they get worthless degrees. Perhaps if the government got out of the way of college education (i.e., dumping money into loans and grants), as things once were, this problem would largely go away. It also hasn’t helped to have no-fault divorce give women the right to walk away with a piggy bank. No man in his right mind would marry a girl with an American-mindset.
7) Criminals are getting meaner. No, criminals were ALWAYS MEAN, but the Internet lets us find out about it.
8) Thieves steal what has value to them. Right now, due to the fact that China (and India) are growing like mad, copper is worth a lot of money due to demand competition. If plumbing were made of gold 100 years ago, I challenge anyone to say that their homes would have been safe from strippers back then.
9) Cities decline when they don’t serve a purpose anymore. The UAW drove automobile production out of the United States, and Detroit (and similar cities) pay for that. Expecting things to not change is unreasonable. The large cities in Texas (and the rest of the South) were much, much, smaller when Detroit was big. So could we say that things got better, or at least broke even, in the past 60 years?
10) The specific example of cities going broke has more to do with bankers being unregulated, which should NEVER be allowed to happen (hence the real estate crash), than with any overall decline of the quality of America. The cities did what they always did, they spent the money they collected in taxes and didn’t save up for a bad day. No different than what happened in the Great Depression.
Have a nice day.
You said it with facts. Great job. See my 2 post above.
B.S. No euphoria associated with SSRIs, tricyclics or others. Sometimes I wish there was. I've personally been on both sides -- Assistant Psychologist and patient.
Crime is down in many cities because they refuse to report them. Nashville is a good example, where the official policy is to under report crime to make it seem safer Anyone who really believes that crime has gone away is deluded.
re: #5
American “culture” is the market for what the Hispanic gangs are selling.
Plus just the federal government has 17 trillion in debt: thanks for nothing Obama.
120 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
Obama borrows trillions from china so Americans can buy China products and Americans and local governments borrow more in credit cards etc. Gas will be $5 soon . yeah nothing is wrong (sarcasm).
We have massive unsustainable debt so that the dollars we borrow are basically paper IOUS and that's all we are producing damn IOUS.
You ‘d think you'd be better off is someone kept lending you 100,000 $ every year too . Yeah you'd live off that debt and buy many china gadgets with that debt. That's what the U.S. is doing living off debt . that will lead to collapse because we don't produce even the things we use only IOUs.