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Is the Second Great Depression Imminent?

I found this quote and I thought it really hit our issues on the head:

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers

Socrates 400 BC

We are living in very troubling times, but if we managed to live through tyrants such as Hitler in the not too distant past, I think we'll survive this too. Granted, it may require us to do things many have never learned (our younger generation) and the rest of us have forgotten (those old enough to remember the 60's and 70's), but frankly, a return to values will save us. I do not believe we will be reduced to rioting in the streets and carrying guns and knives for protection.

Thursday Outlook: Crude Awakening

Is it my imagination or have we lost America? We seem to drift aimlessly searching for solutions to our issues and yet we are supposedly the society of the entrepreneur. In order to "put food on the table and pay bills" as David so eloquently states it, we have to do the hard thing and start making changes ourselves. It begins by applying pressure upon our governmental representatives and subsequently standing up and DEMANDING change. If we work as a cohesive group to force those we hire to represent us to actively work together to reach a solution we will succeed. Otherwise, we will continue to have this conversation forever.

Thursday Outlook: Crude Awakening

Your "ranting" sounds an awful lot like the rest of us David. The most frustrating issue of all is the fact no matter how loud we complain, the idiots in Washington JUST DON'T GET IT. It won't matter who we elect this fall; every one of them (I'm including presidential and congressional candidates here) is truly clueless and would rather pander to the special interest groups then look at some of the viable options you noted above.

Maybe you could run for President!! Fry in 2012!