The worst part about our demise is like being told you don't have much time to live. Anyone with an internet hook-up, and an IQ exceeding two digits, can access world information sources not screened by our 'free press'. From that knowledge one can only be frustrated in watching America being led down the garden path - blind to the fact it leads to quicksand.
It's difficult dealing with the awareness that I can do nothing about passing on to my son the America of my father's generation. Worst - our debt will have my son's children paying for the sins of the pretenders and traitors that have been elected during my lifetime.
Here in California we're being asked to float a bond issue of $15,000,000,000.00 ( that's fifteen billion dollars for you government school types ) for bonds coming due this summer. Has the state, regional or local governments laid off those on the government employment gravy train? No.
Instead they're cutting back on police and fire protection, as in Oakland ( the murder capital of the world ), where surrounding police agencies have been invited in to fill the gaps where Oakland police layoffs have been made.
This is not the country I was born into. My dad's generation would be down city hall with a rope in his day. Today's citizens don't have a clue about what is going on, and could care less as a result of the media's collusion with the slugs in power.
I guess FairOpinion, Consort, Dane and TWS won't dare to respond to the content of the article. The easiest way around it is to attack the author. Label him a Kerry supporter. That should do it.
I pity those who know the danger, and insist on silence. Rather, they should be demanding President Bush tell America what he will do to provide protection and incentives to reinvigorate American manufacturing and small business. But that would be contrary to the pie-in-the-sky NWO big boys our politicians are falling all over themselves to impress.
I realize the election is eight months away, and a lot can happen to reverse present trends - with politicians being the kind of spineless bottom dwellers they are. It's just that I'd hate to see marxists democrats beat GW to the punch about the unfair trading policies crippling our country.
When, if ever, will GW take control of this election? The Bush trait of going slow ( remember "it wouldn't be prudent"?), and letting the other political slug decide which issues America wants addressed has got to end, NOW!!!
Are the active FR political types taking the time to inform the president about America's problems? Are they getting feedback? Do the rungs at the top of a ladder give a twit about the rungs at the bottom of the ladder? How is one to know? Is the article false? If so, why doesn't America hear a response to truthfully contradict the content of the article?
Put differently, should you have confidence in a bank that loans more money than it has on deposit? If that doesn't bother you, would you still be motivated to give your money to a bank that has given over control of its assets to a third party having limited attachment to the community in which the bank is located?
This is the kind of relationship America has with the privately held Federal Reserve System - thanks to Congress, the 'executive' branch, and the judicial system.
IMHO, our world record debt will sink us faster than the Titanic, just as soon as we don't serve the ends of the money changers of the Federal Reserve. As Ross Perot was want to say, "you can hear the big sucking sound...." of our economic foundation being broken apart from under us.
Who cares? The real question is, who knows? What have the dominant parties done to educate America about our dangerously precarious economic and financial position? Nothing!!!
In 1960 I attended a politial party in San Francisco. Notice was taken of one guy who was making a lot of noise showboating himself. I asked who he was, and was told he was a newly elected Assemblyman. His name was Willie Brown.
From where I stand that guy personifies California politics. Image is the game and power buys that. Like Jesse Unruh is famous for saying, "Money is the mother's milk of politics." Life is a free lunch, prefered parking, and any perks they can vote or take for themselves. Rome's burning. The politicals know it, and but for a few, they're all intentionally looking the other way.
A land of opportunity. For whom? In the present scheme of things it's only true for American politicians who are looking and acting more and more like their scumbucket brothers south of the border.
That author(Buchanan) attacks himself with his incessant fatalism. Same political trait as todays democrats.