[FlingWingFlyer]

According to abc’s new poll, 69% of “americans” approve of this. We’ve come a long way comrades.

[kabar]

An absolutely superb article. This deserves to be read. Immigration policies that import poverty are killing this country.

[mainestategop]

BOOKMARK AND BUMP!

[stylecouncilor]

Good read ping.

[US Navy Vet]

It’s in California.

[jobim]

A hearty THANK YOU for introducing us to this article, and to the one at First Things magazine(http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=6564)

Root cause of our downward spiral? Perhaps this article is getting to bedrock.

[television is just wrong]

hmmm, interesting read. go through pasadena a lot. lots of closed buildings lately on Colorado.

[Chode]

wait till the can't pay for the Rose Parade...

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"The United States failed to produce a new generation large enough to buy the existing housing stock, or fund existing pension programs, or maintain the wealth that the West thought it had"

It is a central tenet of Communist economic theory that Capitalism requires a continuous increase in demand in order to hold together, i.e. Capitalism is itself a Ponzi or pyramid scheme.

Is this guy a communist?

If Capitalism is indeed a good theory (which I believe it is) then it should work regardless of changes in demographic trends. To suggest otherwise is to suggest that Capitalism is wrong, and that maybe Marx was right.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

What California and Pasadena has to return to is the central conservative truth that only culture can save it from economic and social ruination."

If most Americans starting living truly Christian lifestyles then they would live much more frugally.

I grew up with a mother and father and three other siblings in a two bedroom house. Today you would be accused of child abuse if each and every child didn't have his/her own room. Most of my life we only had one car which was purchased used. We only had one TV and entertained ourselves by imaginatively using refrigerator boxes, blankets, sticks, rocks, etc.

If the vast majority of Americans started living frugal lifestyles (i.e. no IPODs, Game Cubes, home jacuzzis, jet skis, bass boats, etc.) then even if we had scads of children the overall demand for stuff would go down.

You can't have it both ways. You can't plead for people to be more old-fashioned and have more kids, while at the same time demand that they continue buying loads of modern-aged crapola.

If it turns out that the commies are right and capitalism requires an ever-expanding pyramid of suckers to keep the Ponzi scheme going then capitalists are not going to want people to get in touch with their traditional values.

[wideminded]

When I visited Pasadena a few years ago I got the impression that it was once a wonderful place, but now it’s expensive, crowded, and not always so attractive. Kind of like the rest of LA.