As the World Passes Us By...

[bridgit]

'Watching the wealth of our nation - as well as the blood and body parts of our soldiers - poured down a rat hole in Iraq is not the only thing that grieves me.

It's that we hardly notice as the world passes us by.

We are led by reactionaries who see the world is as it was in 1949, when America was the last nation standing. Or maybe as it was a century before that, during the time of the robber barons. Who knows what they really see?

Meanwhile, the Euro has surpassed the dollar in value; it's been this way almost from the day it was founded. China, which holds the paper on America, is now the world's fastest-growing economy. India's is the second-fastest.

Moribund America, however, slides deeper and deeper into debt. We have no jobs. We make no things. We make no capital investments in our future. Our housing bubble, which has sustained the economy for years, is bursting as I write.'

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0830-29.htm

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. A Pessimistic Doom & Gloom Commentary

Just the way I like it. The truth. We're screwed. Good Night & Good Luck!

[bridgit]

3. i know huh, it's all like, "Thank you Sister Mary Sunshine"...

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[knowbody0]

2. Power corrupts

Absolute power corrupts absolutely


We were cursed by hubris, and like all evil, it eventually eats itself.

[bridgit]

4. i'm sick & tired of saying 'sad but true' but you are right...

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