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thepeel · Joined: 08 Aug 2004

There was a video where Koresh (at 32min) justified shooting poeple and said "god would have to sort it out". Then, Real Time finished downloading.

Maybe there is some wider, peaceful, context in that I'm missing? I generally try not to support shooting people.

stillnotking · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Location: Oregon, USA

Kuros · Joined: 27 Apr 2004

For there to be an actual Fall, economically speaking, wouldn't the US's GDP (as measured by PPP values) have to actually go down?

I understand the usage of decline as a relative figure; should the US grow 2-3% every year while other countries grow 5-6% every year consistently, there could be said to have been a decline. But as far as a Fall is concerned, I just don't see it happening in the near future.

djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I agree that Bush was moving in the direction of Fascism, but he turned around 5 years later and found out no one was following him. Just as big a problem for him, you can't be a dictator without an army and there is far too much evidence that the military is not happy with his leadership.

We are now in the midst of the process of choosing his successor and there is no sign of him moving to cancel the elections. Twice before in our history we have had presidential elections during major wars and neither Lincoln during the Civil War nor FDR during the Second World War cancelled elections. Bush would be very hard-pressed indeed to find an excuse to do what they did not.

As much as I dislike Bush, I don't believe he ever had pretensions to be a dictator.

I also don't believe the US is declining and falling. It's on the wrong road right now, as the overwhelming majority believes, and we as a people are working our way through the process of fixing it. Our system can't prevent mistakes, but it does have the institutions in place to correct mistakes. In my opinion, the alarmists should have more faith in the country.

stillnotking · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Location: Oregon, USA

arjuna · Joined: 31 Mar 2007

How to Create an Angry American

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgfzqulvhlQ

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

Cheonmunka · Joined: 04 Jun 2004

A lot of people talk about how America is bad. Yet, those people are all well-fed, not starving; they all have houses and cars and anyone could go to school and make something of their life.
I was thinking seriously about emigrating with my family to the US. The houses are really big. Cars are cheap, gasoline is cheap, well, cheaper than any other western country. It seems like a really easy place to live except for one nagging thing that puts the brakes on for me - it seems there are too many who have psychological problems (problems of the mind rather than of need) and they create a huge problem of crime. America has everything - everything needed for a good life for everyone. It could be a wonderful country. But, why the general violence?

These Tim McVeigh-like people are nuts to think that because their violence is rationalised they are morally immune. There was nothing wrong with the country that they hate so much.
I can't understand how people who have so much in their country that is good, hate it and so make it worse for everyone.
It's people like those who say, "We have too much tax, let's take arms against our fellow Americans" who cause the most damage. They are ridiculous.

djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject:

America doesn't have affordable healthcare, nor affordable university, and jobs in the middle and southern states are not so easy to come by. everyone who wants to work needs to look to the coasts, where housing is much more expensive. The days of wine and roses in America seem to have passed. They may very well return, but it's not a great time to be in the middle class right now.