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Is America Over?
    #9830092 - 02/19/09 10:11 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

We seem to be losing not only our competitive edge, but also our will to prevail and our visionary ingenuity.  Has the world turned?

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Re: Is America Over? [Re: mofo]
    #9830138 - 02/19/09 10:16 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

nothing lasts forever and you never know when your turn is up....



sucks but that's the way it goes...


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Re: Is America Over? [Re: grymmtymm]
    #9830182 - 02/19/09 10:24 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)



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Re: Is America Over? [Re: mofo]
    #9830285 - 02/19/09 10:41 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

America is too individualized to say things about 'our competitive edge', 'our will to prevail' or 'our visionary ingenuity' that effectively capture the state of the country. It's possible to use statistics to describe the majority, but in a country this large 100+ million people can be considered a minority.
I think this whole idea of The Fall of America has become a media frenzy that is clouding a more specific story: the failure of the federal reserve to operate within it's own system. Manipulating the economy through interest rates is a system of control that is no longer working. It's not at all surprising that a system utilizing the mechanics of fractional-reserve banking could experience a recession like this.

Maybe it would be more appropriate to talk about losing the image of our competitive edge, will to prevail and visionary ingenuity.


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Re: Is America Over? [Re: Tedwilto]
    #9830295 - 02/19/09 10:43 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

George Orwell said in "1984" (paraphrase from memory here):

The ruling class never relinquishes control of society unless it is by their choice.

I always took it to mean that the ruling class chooses to relinquish it's power by refusing to show maturity or responsibility to continue to run the society further. It applies to the world in your towns workplaces and nations as much as in global politics.

I'll never forget this truism, it is one of the most insightful ones I've ever learned and has shown to be open to many different contexts whenever applied to power dynamics.


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Re: Is America Over? [Re: mofo]
    #9831179 - 02/20/09 01:14 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

If we are losing who's winning?

It's more like we are shooting ourselves in the foot. How can we reward visionary ingenuity while rewarding losers and punishing winners?

I always get a kick out of this belief that Americans are special somehow. "Our will to prevail","the American worker".Both dem and Rep candidates spout this crap all the time. We just picked the right system and now that we are going away from it these past decades. It shouldn't be surprising we are losing all those things.

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Re: Is America Over? [Re: mofo]
    #9831206 - 02/20/09 01:20 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

I think the United States will remain the #1 nation in the world until the day the Lord returns.


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Re: Is America Over? [Re: aDoS]
    #9831575 - 02/20/09 04:33 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Are people here actually suggesting that they like the idea of The USA telling other countries what to do? The USA should only offer other nations advice if people of those nations are asking for advice. People who derive their sense of importance based upon telling others what to do are people who lack a life of their own. They lack hobbies and interests of their own. Any desire by The USA to meddle in the affairs of other countries is the result of Americans not knowing how to enjoy their own lives due to not having any hobbies and interests of their own.

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Re: Is America Over? [Re: aDoS]
    #9831625 - 02/20/09 05:08 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

> I think the United States will remain the #1 nation in the world until the day the Lord returns.

He came, He saw, He left in disgust.


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Re: Is America Over? [Re: mofo]
    #9831689 - 02/20/09 05:48 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

the world has turned
but the USA might still hold on

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Re: Is America Over? [Re: mofo]
    #9831737 - 02/20/09 06:17 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

mofo said:
We seem to be losing not only our competitive edge, but also our will to prevail and our visionary ingenuity.  Has the world turned?




It is quite an assumption that these things are true.

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Re: Is America Over? [Re: Lakefingers]
    #9831739 - 02/20/09 06:18 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

america's done for. and it's about goddamn time, now maybe people will finally wake up.


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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time
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Re: Is America Over? [Re: Jack Albertson]
    #9831748 - 02/20/09 06:23 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

How do you figure?

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Re: Is America Over? [Re: Redstorm]
    #9831769 - 02/20/09 06:35 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

how do i figure what? that it's over or that people will wake up?


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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time
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Re: Is America Over? [Re: Jack Albertson]
    #9831793 - 02/20/09 06:51 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Why don`t we stop fooling ourselves?
The game is over,
Over,
Over.
No good times, no bad times,
There`s no times at all,
Just The New York Times,
Sitting on the windowsill
Near the flowers.

We might as well be apart.
It hardly matters,
We sleep separately.

And drop a smile passing in the hall
But there`s no laughs left
`Cause we laughed them all.
And we laughed them all
In a very short time.

Time
Is tapping on my forehead,
Hanging from my mirror,
Rattling the teacups,
And I wonder,
How long can I delay?
We`re just a habit
Like saccharin.

And I`m habitually feelin` kinda blue.

But each time I try on
The thought of leaving you,
I stop...
I stop and think it over.

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Each time I try on the thought of leaving America,
I stop...
I stop and think it over.


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Re: Is America Over? [Re: Jack Albertson]
    #9831825 - 02/20/09 07:10 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

The former.

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Re: Is America Over? [Re: Redstorm]
    #9831846 - 02/20/09 07:21 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

it's a matter of survival. A real human knows how to survive.


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Re: Is America Over? [Re: Jack Albertson]
    #9831870 - 02/20/09 07:32 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

The former was your claim that it's over for the US. I'm not sure that's clear.

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Re: Is America Over? [Re: Redstorm]
    #9831989 - 02/20/09 08:18 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

well clearly im confused as to the usage of that word. but i think it's clear, i mean there will still be an america, but the america that we're used to is on its deathbed.


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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time
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Re: Is America Over? [Re: Jack Albertson]
    #9832004 - 02/20/09 08:25 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

What makes you think this?

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