[Soren]

I wonder how we are going to explain how we pissed away the greatest nation ever

You know the decisions made by TPTB are so flawed that you really have to wonder if it has been intentional. Part of the globalists' stated strategy includes equalization of living standards among nations, including the reduction of US living standards.

[doc]

Equalization of living standards does not apply to those making these decisions.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

Bingo. If one steps back from the trees to take good long look at the forest, the forest looks suspiciously like a country being intentionally ground away to mediocrity. Can't have those uppity Americans getting in the way of globalization, what with their high standard of living and quaint notions of freedom.