Marginalized In American - Can You Handle The Truth? (unemployment, Clinton, insurance)

[progressive25]

And I ask myself today, what does the United States gain if it inherits the whole world but loses its soul? The soul that made this country a unique experiment — a beacon for the whole world to envy. Today, the United States my ancestors and I knew no longer exists. In many ways, it has become similar to the aristocracies and totalitarian countries they fled.

Link.

[saganista]

Where's my blankie? The filters of a perplexed nostalgic longing are far more distorting than any that Dan Rather might ever have used...

[GregW]

I have to disagree with Saganista for a change. The economic evolution of our country for the last forty years has only served to widen the gap between the investor class and everyone else. This has been the goal of our government, including the Clinton led government, and it has worked quite well.

Under these people we have invaded, for the basest of reasons, foreign countries with out cause. They allowed international cartels loot us of countless billions by fixing oil prices in a huge marketing experiment. Then, with very low marginal tax rates, they have forced us to pay the bill.

The world I expected to live in effectively died in ‘Nam. I got home from that war, went to college on the GI Bill and saw the future I expected disappear in a near economic collapse. The world I expected was a middle class income and job security until I retired. That world was replaced by a nightmare of job eliminations, useless unemployment insurance, increased taxes, constant wars, absurdly expensive cars and houses and no way to get off the treadmill. Now I face the likelihood of my social security and pension becoming worthless in another bout of rampant inflation. I am, needless to say, no a happy camper.

[skoro]

I share some of your frustrations with how the economy has been bastardized to benefit the few at the expense of the many. But I see some faint signs of hope for the future. The middle class may rise from the ashes. It better. Because if it doesn't, America becomes another western hemisphere oligarchy like those in Latin America.

[fatchance2005]

Originally Posted by skoro

I share some of your frustrations with how the economy has been bastardized to benefit the few at the expense of the many. But I see some faint signs of hope for the future. The middle class may rise from the ashes. It better. Because if it doesn't, America becomes another western hemisphere oligarchy like those in Latin America.

Or a bunch of smaller ones as some advocate.

[KrissyK]

Originally Posted by fatchance2005

Or a bunch of smaller ones as some advocate.

I'd rather be small and free than big and under the government's thumb.

[spiritual sky]

you ask what does america have to gain, if it looses it's soul. She sold her sole,for a new lover. Now she has soles to gain.

[Visvaldis]

America never had a soul (but a wallet).
Unbridled Capitalism has no need of a soul.

[GregW]

Any kind of unbridled lust for anything is the seed of destruction. Unbridled lust is another term for addiction and addicts can never be satisfied.

[BigJon3475]

All in one thread and it's like a conglomerate of disinformation.