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Posted on 04/07/2010 12:05:15 PM PDT by IrishMike
According to recent polls, 60 percent of Americans think the country is heading in the wrong direction. The same percentage believe that the U.S. is in long-term decline. The political system is dysfunctional. A fiscal crisis looks unavoidable. There are plenty of reasons to be gloomy.
But if you want to read about them, stop right here. This column is a great luscious orgy of optimism. Because the fact is, despite all the problems, America’s future is exceedingly bright.
Over the next 40 years, demographers estimate that the U.S. population will surge by an additional 100 million people, to 400 million over all. The population will be enterprising and relatively young. In 2050, only a quarter will be over 60, compared with 31 percent in China and 41 percent in Japan.
In his book, “The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050,” über-geographer Joel Kotkin sketches out how this growth will change the national landscape. Extrapolating from current trends, he describes an archipelago of vibrant suburban town centers, villages and urban cores.
The initial wave of suburbanization was sprawling and featureless. Tom Wolfe once observed that you only knew you were in a new town when you began to see a new set of 7-Elevens. But humans need meaningful places, so developers have been filling in with neo-downtowns — suburban gathering spots where people can dine, work, go to the movies and enjoy public space.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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DAVID BROOKS...enough said?
Populous with just what KIND of folk?
We won’t get more halcyon years if the land is taken over by more takers than producers.
Creepy out of touch New Yorker
Author of “Boobs in Paradise”
so guess he knows all about everything
certainly more than us rubes in fly-over country
Uh huh. Thanks, Dave - yeah, we’re all gonna be just fine now that the Right People are in charge. Some chapstick will help those lip burns from kissing 0bama’s throne.
More prattling by Brooks. Yawwwwwwwwnnnnn....
“His work also appears in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The American and on Politico.com.”
I wonder why he doesn’t contribute to American RINO?
...Disney theme parks need to open a new branch: LiberalLand.
They’ll take all your money at the door and then all the rides and consessions are “free” (after paying a fee of course.)
Only the rich and powerful would be let in outside of a handful of poor black kids on “Affirmative Action” ticket - paid for by the middle class that would never be allowed in to LiberalLand.
And the people inside LiberalLand think that the place is beautiful. They don’t see the ruin they’re causing outside of their bubble.
And the New York Times could lay off a bunch of journalists to buy their billion dollar office in LiberalLand where they will continue to put out their happy talk about how beautiful it is where they’re sitting....
I don’t feel better either. I think this is closer to reality:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/quinn/quinn27.1.html
I should be on my way out by then.
Brooks uses past performance as a model. Well, problem is, until NOW:
1. This country has never walked a socialist path.
2. America had not been invaded by 20 million ILLEGAL aliens
3. America was never beset with $15 trillion in debt.
4. America has never been more educationally dumbed-down
5. America has never had a regime so willing to cede national sovereignty than the one currently in power.
6. America has never had a regime hellbent on destroying her heart and soul.
So... past and present are like apples and oranges. We are NOT the same country anymore.
“I have an iPad! America is doing just great!”
This guy hasn’t been out of the DC - NYC Acela corridor in 20 years. Like he knows anything.
It sounds like he is describing Boca Raton, a liberal paradise.
The NYet Times lied on behalf of Soviet Communism and got a Pulitzer Prize for their efforts. Even when it later was shown to be a fraud of an article, the Pulitzer committee saw no point to retracting the award.
WHY would I feel better today about something that MIGHT happen in 40 years? In 40 years I will be dead, my kids will be getting ready for Social Security and my grandkids will be heading full bore into middle age!
Yeah, I feel better about our current situation.
See you all on April 15th. In your respective towns. At the nearest Federal facility.
(Thanks to another FReeper for this one!)
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