Is America Doomed-You Decide

Very well said

Good opinion piece

The excesses you are describing are like growing pains, and this economic cycle is more painful than anyone in my generation has experienced, so we are cranky and don't like it.  We like our Republic to be friendly and approachable and give us what we need when we need it. 

Americans love to work, and when you take the work away, they don't just lose money, they lose self respect as well.  Then the hostility and anger take over and finding someone, anyone to blame out of frustration is what we are seeing with a lot of  the unrest. Most people know someone who has been adversely effected by the economy.  In my own family, I find myself giving assurance that this is temporary, and everything is going to be better.  We just need to be patient, and do the best you can for now, and never give up on yourself.  

The same sentiments can be said about our country.      

I agree with most comments in this thread.  America is still  in an infant stage with two competing ideologies, the one on the far left and the one on the far right.  Like most Western Democracies, eventually I suspect America will end up somewhere in the middle, disregarding the far left and far right ideologies. 

American media does not necessarily contribute to the maturing process in America. 

America will come of age though, this economic crisis has brought many of the problems to the forefront.

Nice rant!

"Finally for those of you who live in the hinterlands of extreme right wing lolly gogging I reserve the most scorn for you. For you see, I have never liked you because you are lazy. You have no minds of your own so you let demogogues carry your load."

Now, before you accuse others of being "lazy" or for "lolly gogging", you might to want spend just a few minutes learning the basics of things like spelling and punctuation.

Then, spend a few more minutes, formulating an original (or at least, semi-original), line of thought.

Simply rehashing liberal whines and talking points, whilst mangling grammar, will cause others to presume that you are not only lazy, but have in fact been listening to left-leaning demagogues.

Worse, they will assume that your ignorance is greater than your arrogance.

You have no room for debate in this. I simply wrote the truth which is clear enough for all to see despite the mishaps in grammar.

bpulhem your frustration is quite understandable even for me as an outsider. It was the old boys Wall Street network that with their reckless manipulations caused this financial crisis in the first place. Lending money to people from which they knew they wouldn't be able to repay the loan not even the interest on it, that at the time were peanuts too. But all is a fabrication to keep their own buddies in charge. Which idiot is providing bailout money without putting adequate requirements for re-regulation, change of management and so on. Only your government, because Paulson as Treasurer at the time was involved in one of the banks that should lose billions form another as the last one went broke. Nothing better to use someone else's money to bail yr friends out. Government is lying to you! And the banks have no respect for you that's why they charge you with fantasy expenses for their lousy service as account holder. The same here is happening. It makes you really sick.

I really appreciate your comments on this issue and this Opinion article. In essence-this is a scenario that began over four decades ago with the destruction of long standing Banking Regulations (Specifically-Abolishing the Glass Steagull Act and others) along with the Rage from the Right Wing Establishment during the cultural revolution of the 1960's. My amazement at our cultural attitude today allowing the likes of the lowest of low life personalities to occupy high profile media positions (Beck Limbaugh Hannity and others)to engage in advocating failure of our Governing Leaders is astounding! This in turn has given rise to even more virulence with psychopaths using the Blogosphere to encourage Assassination of our President! I may not like the policies of my Government or; the Governments of other countries, but to advocate killing them is pure lunacy. In summary-many folks on the Fringe Right take issue with my comments but I believe it is time we began coming down Hard on these Know Nothing fringe radicals and expose their stupidity to the world.

Nice "rant"  :)

Thank you. Define "rant".

You should trace it back all the way the great Abraham Lincoln, who started us all on this path when he instituted the National Banking Act in order to fund the Civil War, which the Northern States did not wish to do.

He may have freed the slaves, but he put us all on the path to slavery to do it. Destroyed half the country and is responsible for hundreds of thousands deaths.

Just think if he could have found a way to reconcile the freaked out Southern States, and maybe purchased the freedoms of slaves, where our country would be today.

Maybe the solution lies in voting Libertarian.

I think dismemberment (Of BOTH leading Parties) needs to be central in future change. Then allow the Libertarians, Independents and other groups to become involved. None however should have any ties whatever to those who seek their power through wealth exchange.

PROTIP: When writing, don't capitalize every other word. It makes you look like an illiterate.

"For you see, I have never liked you because you are lazy. " Funny how the Republican Party is generally not at all composed of the demographics that are best known for free-loading.  Rather, the Republican Party tends to be strongest in states with low rates of unemployment, low taxation, and hard working, middle-income earning individuals.  The left, on the other hand, seems far more composed of the urbanite, hedonistic swine so full of itself as to conjure up a self-image of being the "elite" (whatever that may be) and the non-working class.  That is to say, the free loaders. You live in quite the little dreamworld, my friend.  Quite frankly, I'm surrounded by doctors on a daily basis.  Namely, because I am one.  We're not big fans of leftists.  We're the hardest working, smartest group of people you'll come across.  And we're heavily Republican.  We busted our butts getting to where we're going, and we'd expect as much of anyone else.  That sort of demographic doesn't take kindly to the left, its excuses, and its attempts to mold the United States away from its independent and freedom-loving, government-fearing origins.  Nor of creating a permanent underclass subservient to the whims of the government, which is exactly what the leftists have been up to. My response to your rant about "debut cards," chemicals in the food, and the like?  Well, don't get a debit (or I assume that's where you were going with that) card, pay your bills on time, or don't spend more than you earn.  Rough concept, eh?  And as for the chemicals in food, well, raise your own.  You speak of taking control of something, but really from reading this rather aimless piece, I'm left with no real point other than 1) Corporations bad 2) Don't listen to Limbaugh 3) Credit bad I'm wholly unimpressed and wholly uninspired.  As for the dust storms and the melting ice caps, they've been doing that for time immemorium, and so they shall when you and I are gone.  Might I ask you why you continue to buy into this babble when 1) global temperatures have been cooling for several consecutive years now 2) the models creating this Chicken Little model of climate change are again and again wrong--rather, not even close.

Good posts Hugh Askew and Cmartel2. It warms my heart to know there are still some intelligent, hard working, realist folks out there. I'm in the Army, and it is "strongly encouraged" that I not publicly display my political affiliation or my disapproval of current policy/my Command in Chief...so keep up the good work and continue to do it for me. God bless the USA.