I'm not judging you, but you never said either what you do at a school. For all I know you could be the computer tech at an elementary school. If you're optimistic then clearly you've not really been paying attention. Not to the economy or to the general state of government. We are closer to the reality of global government than at any other point in history, including the introduction of Wilson's 14 point plan and the League of Nations concept floated immediately after WWI. Now we're about to install not only the most liberal President in all of American history but we're also about to embrace a Congress where two branches of government are firmly under the control of the left. Tell me about checks and balances when one party controls two branches, and rests just one seat from control of the USSC. That was one of my essay exam questions on the final I just gave two days ago to my Honors American Government Students.
So tell me, what books you've been reading? Have you read any of the books on the list at my FR home page? The Creature From Jekyll Island: An In Depth Analysis of the Federal Reserve. Have you read that? How about Confessions of an Economic Hitman? Shadows of Power by James Perloff? None Dare Call it Treason? by Gary Allen?
The issues can seem to be fairly benign IF you don't do an analysis that includes a totality of the nexus between the devolving morals of our society as well as the progression of international economic sabotage by the Fed and the international banking cartels and then tie that to our history. Simply put: Taking each issue (or administration) as being isolated and without connection; then things don't seem bad at all. But connecting the dots while using history as a guide and it's easy to see that Rome has begun to burn as Nero tunes up the fiddle. So tell me what books you've read, what you do at the school and how long you've been doing the research.
That's such a blinkered view--"Things are bad NOW, thus, things will ALWAYS be bad from now on!"--that it's not worth discussing.
Your belief is that your view is THE view. You're not interested in a discussion, because you've already got the answers. You've already said I'm completely wrong. Why should I waste my time engaging in a discussion with someone who already knows what I've read, who I am, my credentials, my life history...without ever even asking?
NOW you ask, but I can see where this discussion is going to go. It's pointless, because you already know it all.
Simply put: Taking each issue (or administration) as being isolated and without connection; then things don't seem bad at all.
Again--even before you have the answers to the questions you've posed, you make an assumption about how I came to the conclusions I've reached. That's really stupid behavior.
BTW, although I have done everything from janitorial work to electronic publishing (it's always interesting to see how those who supposedly approve of working Americans and who, I'm guessing now, sniff at the liberal academic culture, always start off by putting down an opponent as one of those "computer techs at an elementary school" or some other "lower class" type), I'm neither a computer tech nor a teacher. (Nor a janitor.)
P.S. Just to let you know where I'm coming from, no, I don't read the nutty fantasizing by John Birchers. Keep taking your Laetril.