The world is laughing and is excited! And this is why.

[ej510]

They are watching a country self-destruct. We are watcching the end of a world power. We have a shitload of ihnorant people, that care about flag pins, guns, gays, and religion. They also afraid of the truth If you tell the truth then the american people will reject you. If you tell the truth about Vietnam, Granada, Afghanistan and both of the Iraq wars then you are painted as unpatriotic. These were not wars where we defended the country. We killed millions of innocent people. And yes the war in Afghanistan was corrupt because it was about a oil pipeline. They do not understand policy. America better wakeup before we become a 3rd world country.

[GoldieAZ49]

1. The dem party yes, the country no

Wright offering himself as available for the VP slot, in jest, will get laughs all around.

[ej510]

2. I disagree this country is in shambles!

[Benhurst]

3. As Bette Davis would have saId,

"What a dump!"

[Tesha]

13. Yeah, the "shambles" stage won't happen for another five years or so. (NT)

[grantcart]

5. The dollar's decline in the last 8 years has wiped out 30% of the total

accumulated wealth of the United States. It would be hard pressed to find a world power in history that had a similar loss of total wealth in such a short period of time.

[GoldieAZ49]

7. We would be hard pressed to find a country that had our total wealth

I don't like us selling ourselves to China, but a total shambles? no.

America has weathered difficulties before (far worse than this), and we will again.

[ej510]

10. As long as we keep electing the Bush's of the country.

We will continue on down our downward spiral.

[grantcart]

14. Your in complete denial

The problem is that in addition to simply lose our 30% of our assets we have lost 50% of our manufacturing base. An economy that is based entirely on service cannot rebuild its weallth. We actually have to have something to sell other people.

There is one thing that could bring those dollars back and that is tourism but it requires a foreign policy that people outside of the United States actually like.


As per your statement on "our total wealth", our wealth is based on the perception of the dollar, in other words on paper. The perception of the value of your home is also based simply on 'paper'. In the last 2 years the average home in America has lost 12% of its value in dollars. In the world's eyes and in world currencies the value of your home has decreased about 40%.

In the past America was able to rebound or 'weathered' economic troubles because our manufacturing base was based on cheap labor and it was just a matter of time before our entrenpenurial skill invented more products that people wanted. Having lost a cheap labor base the possibility of rebounding with manufacturing no longer exists.

[Romulox]

19. Our wealth isn't measured in the exchange rate vs. the euro

That's a bizarre metric, to say the least.

[Bullet1987]

4. I think the media is helping to split this country along racial lines

and if anything serious happens. They'll be every bit to blame...they're acting as instigators.

[ej510]

6. The media has been one of the biggest contributors to the destruction of the dollar and the country!

[L0oniX]

8. As an extreme leftist and peace nick I am against all POLICY wars.

Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia's Invasion of East Timor 1975 backed by Ford and Kissinger, Panama, Granada, Afghanistan and both Iraq wars were and are policy wars. Did I miss a few? Post them too.

As a matter of humanity I do not support the troops while they are in service but I do support their health care when they come home. It's not totally their fault that they were brain washed and the blame is also on our society for its worship and romanticism of war and its so called hero's.

Americans seem to never put themselves in others peoples shoes around the world and so they continually fail to care or understand and so Europe sits back and watches Americans make ass carrots out of themselves in every way.

Yes I am a leftist and without me in the Dem party it will continue to move to the right with people like the Clinton's and the DLC leading the way.

[Eurobabe]

9. No one is talking about the issues that matter

American has been reduced to Sound Byte nation.

[mkultra]

17. that phrase itself is kind of soundbytey

[ensho]

11. kick - the US is crumbling to death as planned by the neo cons

nt

[ej510]

12. This country has been cannibalizing itself for almost 3 decades now.

[Summer93]

15. Demonstration of the fruits of greed

Here we have most people sitting in their comfortable chairs and thinking that they can just make money do all the physical labor for them. They sit, eat and get obese and wonder why. Most people in this society live a sedentary lifestyle.

Our young people are no longer capable of using language in written form. They expect everyone to change to reading in text-it format.

Enough of the complaining - the other side of this may offer opportunities that no one has yet thought of.

[Jamastiene]

16. So, anyone who cares about gay people is "ihnorant," huh?

What, exactly, does "ihnorant" mean?

[info being]

18. No, the world has already moved on

Sorry...America has become quite irrelevant out here in the real world.