Posted on 07/17/2012 6:27:45 PM PDT by Kartographer
Do you want to see where this country is headed? If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous. New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon Valley has Google and Facebook. Those are the exceptions. The reality is that most of the country has been experiencing a slow decline for a very long time and once thriving cities such as Gary, Indiana and Flint, Michigan have become absolute hellholes. They are examples of what the rest of America will look like soon. 60 years ago, most Americans were decent, hard working people and there were always good jobs available for anyone that was willing to roll up his or her sleeves and put in an honest day of work. But now all of that has changed. Over the past decade, tens of thousands of manufacturing facilities have shut down and millions of jobs have left the country. Cities such as Cleveland, Baltimore and Detroit were once shining examples of everything that was right about America, but now they stand out like festering sores.
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I love the Great lakes a much as I hate it.
It’s bitter sweet
Look around.
The Youngstown mob is dead,The Pittsburgh Mob may still have a connection.
Obama slayed the NY Mob early on in his administration.
I claim no knowledge of this, but I have seen The Chitown mob.
I've seen you post that meaningless nonsense many times here. It's like a weird mantra or something. Who, exactly, is "sending jobs overseas"? What jobs, exactly? And how do you propose stopping this alleged practice? Some new, big government edict or crackdown on businesses?
If what you are trying to say is that taxes need to be reduced, bureaucracies and burdensome regulations (EPA, for example) need to be eliminated, and the thug unions who have priced themselves out of the market need to be reigned in, then okay - - just say that, (shrug) although I can't imagine you would get any argument here. In fact, it's a "Captain Obvious" thing. That's why the phrase, "Stop sending jobs overseas", is such a boring eye-roller.)
Anyway, there's some friendly, unsolicited advice. Take it or leave it.
FRegards,
LH
I am all for that too. Again, the absurd and punitive US domestic tax rate is part and parcel of NWO policy. They are the enemy, regardless of party team colors.
The Fed Is the Enemy
We need to end PC First, then End the concept of Globalism. We need to impose Levies on imported goods! It worked for harley-davidson. Seal the borders too. Any illegal should be charged with espionage and sentenced to 10 years in slave factories.
We need to end PC First, then End the concept of Globalism. We need to impose Levies on imported goods! It worked for harley-davidson. Seal the borders too. Any illegal should be charged with espionage and sentenced to 10 years in slave factories.
And this is with all the debt moron Obama has given to his welfare queens.
Obama borrowed 5 trillion $ in a few years. How much is that per working person? If you borrowed $100,000 yes you could appear to be well off for a few years. But this is what this Marxist goon Obama has done and even with that America is going down hill fast.
Increasing socialism and letting China steal factories and technology is a way to disaster and collapse and that is what Obama and democrats have been doing.
Well stated.
Yes it does!
Hoping we can make it there in late August.
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They are all very bad, especially TX, so all the Yankees and Californians should leave as soon as possible!
So true, same for FL. The way things are going, there may have to be forced migrations - all LIBs to the North & East, Conservatives to the South & West.
It may be the only way to preserve our sanity; USA is a myth. We are united on NOTHING.
HEY! How can you tell if your girlfriend is getting fat???....If her belly button has brush burns from her ta-tas?
You need a bigger bag of flour.
In Republican Bucks County (Bristol Twp-democrat) Pennsylvania, where it used to be safe...
ARMED ROBBERY: As the victim was exiting his vehicle on the 1400 block of Veterans Highway, Bristol, two males with their faces covered pointed a gun at the victims head and demanded money. Four dollars and an iPhone were taken. Robbery was reported on July 6 at 1:18 a.m.
ARMED ROBBERY: As the victim was exiting his rented room on the 5000 block of Bristol Pike, Bristol, he was approached by two males in their early 20s wearing masks. One of the males armed with a gun told him “Hold it right there.” The gun was described as a nickel plated handgun. Taken were $20 and some medication. Robbery was reported on July 6 at 5:11 a.m.
ROBBERY: The victim reported that he removed money from the register to put it in the safe at a property on the 8500 block of New Falls Road, Fairless Hills, when a white male, 5-feet-8-inches, heavy set with a tattoo on his right calf and missing teeth wearing black shorts with white stripes wrapped his arms around the victim and poked the victim in the side and said “give it to me.” Believing it was a knife, he handed over the money. Robbery was reported on July 7 at 4:15 p.m.
There seems to be something missing from the descriptions...
Ha, these women have 5 children on purpose. This is so they can get more food stamps and a bigger welfare check etc.. And these women do not want to marry so that they can get welfare etc. That is their job: to crank out children so they can sit on their fat ass all day bath-mouthing America. badmouthing the “man” , and voting for democrats. Democrats take the money that we worked so hard for at the point of a gun so they can give to these mothers who laugh at us and vote for democrats. They know exactly what they are doing. They don't want a father in the home so they can get welfare. And now I see a mother out there on the street corner with their 5 children and the children are in between cars begging us for more. I laugh at those creeps and give them nothing! This is just ONE problem government and the welfare state has created. This Children are not born out of the love of 2 people but these evil mothers put them on this Earth so that the mother can get a bigger welfare check so that the mother doesn't have to work. it's pure evil and done on purpose. These children weren't planned nor wanted but only for a little more money coming into these cretins' pocket, used. So what kind of monster is this kid now created by the government . Government doesn't do anything right.
Erect tariffs to stop the bleeding NOW. Every manufacturing plant in the USA is part of our National Defense infrastructure. Every manufacturing facility that closes is a national tragedy. Killing a patient cures the cancer. That is what Free Trade is doing to the USA.
Yes that NEEDS to be done. Also the government needs to be reduced at all levels.
But there is also another huge problem. It is the dollar, the us currency. The U.S. has to get a new currency NOW. and it has to make the exchange rates to other countries like china something that is more natural. Since you can pay people in China 50 cents an hour to work in a factory : that is not natural. And china has 300 million middle class people now which they (china) never had 20 years ago. So China people are not really living on $2 a day . It is the exchange rate when you change dollars for the Chinese currency that is the problem. So even if you eliminate the EPA which has to be done by the way: even if you do this then eventually all our factories will move to China because who would pay workers in the U.S.A $20 an hour when they can pay China creeps 50 cents an hour. And China exploits this and so they keep the currency at this exchange rate.
The the result is China has gleaming new factories as in the factory that makes ipads which has 200,000 workers and is the size of a U.S. city while we have only mcdonalds left. We cannot survive if everything that we use, touch or see is made in other countries. WE have to change U.S. currency and not trade with any country were they manipulate their currency as in China.
Like the statement says “If the shoe fits, wear it”.....right? These people are forcing racist views. There are many, many great blacks out there that are going to suffer for these other animals.
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