Well that figures. I had no idea the machine would rack up another 9 trillion dollars in debt - I should have pursued gov’t jobs in some ways years ago. I knew how bankrupt it was in 2008. I still kept going after the private sector.
I look now and I don’t recognize the America I knew especially from about 1996-2004 time frame.
That place looks like the Allies bombed it out of existence.
I remember what it was like to be able to walk to kindergarten with my neighborhood friends in 1966.
Veterans of WWI, II, Korea out shoveling snow, or mowing their lawns, or fixing their cars, or tending their gardens and small businesses.
There was always someone around we could turn to for help and we were safe thanks to them.
If we misbehaved our parents found out about it from them too!
That was a community. No government coercion required.