Is anyone worried about the state of this country?

[Andre1969]

Today's society is such that no matter where you are CNN can reach you?

It can only reach you if you turn it on. I say those other networks stink outright, so make the switch to Nick-at-Nite brand reeee-runs! Well, okay, Nick-at-Nite is pretty annoying these days with its Full House marathons, so take me to TVLand!

 

[unclemick]

Hmmm

I always worry. Today I recognize - I wasn't born with the 'happy gene' - so I don't take myself so serious anymore.

Have relatives/friends still duking with insurance over rebuilding post Katrina with varying degree's of success and the the Knothead Marine is back in Iraq for the third time.

Youngest nephew bought a house in Pennsacola and is getting married in Kansas City in June.

Salvation Army wedding outfit - shirt, tie, suit, and dress shoes - under thirty bucks including tax. That's good - now the gift registry - that's bad.

War, Famine, pestilance on CNN is kind of relaxing in a strange lefthanded sort of way.

heh heh - second cup of coffee.

Bon Temps Rolliere.

 

[audreyh1]

I always worry. Today I recognize - I wasn't born with the 'happy gene' - so I don't take myself so serious anymore.

That's great! That's really the problem - way too many gloom and doom people taking themselves WAY TOO SERIOUSLY. Of course the media works hard to feed that attitude.

Audrey

 

[HFWR]

Serious worry wart here, but I've come to realize that my sphere of influence doesn't extend beyond my own mind/attitude... Can't fix the world...

 

[Lakewood90712]

A lot of us are worried. The history of at least the last 100 years of these United States is to let problems, sometimes very big problems fester until it's a crisis, then REACT. It always worked in the past BUT, we may hit a brick wall to high to pass over some day.

We have let big business interests run the direction of the country for a long time, not just with George W. at the helm.

Cheap energy until recently , and outsourceing manufacturering of consumer goods to keep prices down ,  and printing money so people can pay astrononmical real estate prices and buy stocks on margin and drive fat SUV's.

We have indeed sold our souls to the devil to keep the upper middle class and above happy. Sending loads of cash to the oil producing nations that we should not be trading with at all.

I may be dead and gone before it really hit's the fan ,but we all have the next generations to worry about and , weak hands have ruled the west for decades.

Just my 2 cents worth.

 

[poyet]

Wouldn't the US tax dollars be better spent helping people reconstruct the New Orleans than intervening in so many countries with so little positive results ?

 

[Maximillion]

Reduce the Armed Forces budget by 80%, spend the money on Health Care, Education, Social Programmes for US Citizens.

Great Britain was Great, until it allowed Generals to run the country, the US is mimicking Victorian England.

The US needs more Females in Government, they bring a more realsitic agenda to the table.

 

[REWahoo]

Wouldn't the US tax dollars be better spent helping people reconstruct the New Orleans than intervening in so many countries with so little positive results ?

<Removing moderator hat...>

You may have something there Poyet. If the US would mind it's own business and be more supportive of our foriegn friends, we would have the $ to do more good both at home and for those in the world in need.

We might even be available to have our military come over and help France with your growing student riots (only if invited of course ). It seems a shame that so many of your young people are unemployed...what is it, something like 30% employment for French under the age of 26?

Reduce the Armed Forces budget by 80%, spend the money on Health Care, Education, Social Programmes for US Citizens.

Great Britain was Great, until it allowed Generals to run the country, the US is mimicking Victorian England.

The US needs more Females in Government, they bring a more realsitic agenda to the table.

Maximillion, you want to discuss the Canadian slaughter of thousands of baby seals? Didn't think so.

What's the saying? "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

<...moderator hat back on.>

Hey, how about those Longhorns!!!

 

[mark500]

Ah. Doom and gloom. I don't buy it. Most of us are probably over 40. Your parents probably said the same thing about the future of the country back in the 1960s when they watched you smoke pot, protest, and engage in "free love". (BTW, the boomers went from " 1960's change the world" to " 1980's conspicuous consumption".)

Sure, the USA has problems. Always has. Always will. So does France, Germany, and yes, even the latest fad, China.

 

[ShokWaveRider]

Ah. Doom and gloom. I don't buy it. Most of us are probably over 40. Your parents probably said the same thing about the future of the country back in the 1960s when they watched you smoke pot, protest, and engage in "free love". (BTW, the boomers went from " 1960's change the world" to " 1980's conspicuous consumption".)

Sure, the USA has problems. Always has. Always will. So does France, Germany, and yes, even the latest fad, China.

Point taken. But The USA/We could at least make a little effort to balance a budget and reduce debt!

All we hear about is how well the USA are doing in and managing the war. I am not sure anyone cares about the war any more, except the millitary of course. I think people are getting a little more educated about national debt and inflation and the price and reliance on overseas energy.

I am a believer in looking after your own first.

Put it this way, would you pay for your neighbors child to have an operation if your child need a similar one and you could all but afford to do the one?

This county need enough of it's own operations, that it omits to fund in favor of foreign interests and preferential government projects. All at the expense of the american people who seem to matter a lot less these days...... until they stop paying their taxes that is.

SWR

 

[bruce1]

Maximillion, you want to discuss the Canadian slaughter of thousands of baby seals? Didn't think so.

This got me curious (I am home with a cold and bored) and I wondered what the true story was so I googled seal hunt and came up with about a milion save the seals sites who all cry and whine and show pictures of a cute baby seal about to be clubbed. Many of these had donate now or send money to save the seal buttons front and center.

I was really after the other side of the story that does not hit the news because it is not sensational. I found a couple and here is a link to one. It is probably equally biased in it's point of view.

http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/seal-phoque/myth_e.htm

Bruce

 

[REWahoo]

Here is one more that attempts to present both sides of the issue.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4392217.stm

 

[bruce1]

Good Article REW
I was farm raised and animals were to be used. Treated well and not hurt but used for meat, eggs, or fur.
Bruce

 

[Andre1969]

It sounds to me like this seal hunt is kind of like the deer cullings they have to do around here from time to time. The populations just get too big for their own good and put a strain on the ecosystem. Now I'm not a hunter myself, and could never kill anything unless I really had to (like if I had to rely on it for food or if it was attacking me and it boiled down to me or the animal) But I understand that it has to be done from time to time.

I think the main reason that people rally against the seal hunt is simply because the things look so cute and cuddly. I bet if it was a hunt against snakes or bats or something, the cry wouldn't be nearly as loud.

 

[Rustic23]

Stop watching the news!

Yep, if you watch CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS then the U.S. is about to drop off a cliff. If you listen to Rush, or watch Fox, well it’s not that bad. Ever wonder why one President’s 5% unemployment rate is bad, yet another’s 8% is OK. While I don’t have the stats to back this up, it seems there are far more folks trying to become Americans than there are Americans trying to become something else.

It mystifies me that someone from Canada would say the U.S. should cut their military 80%. I’ll bet your politicians are real glad we don’t, because your budget would surely go up. In fact it mystifies why someone from Canada would even bother to give us advice on how to run our country. I can not ever remember a time when I went on a forum board and suggested how another country should give up it’s socialistic ways.

I do believe the United States is the greatest country in the world, heck, we even provide a free source for foreigners to criticize us. I vote, right now, enough of the rest of the country voted like I did, and I am happy. In the 40 years I have been voting this has not always been the case, when it wasn’t, I went on about my business and waited for another chance to vote. I did not engage in destructive personal attacks that called the President stupid, moron, idiot, or worse. The press may not respect the man, but they should respect the position. They don’t, and that is a shame, it hurts us all.

 

[Cut-Throat]

I did not engage in destructive personal attacks that called the President stupid, moron, idiot, or worse. The press may not respect the man, but they should respect the position. They don’t, and that is a shame, it hurts us all.

Is this what the other side was trying to accomplish when they actually impeached President Clinton for a Personal Problem? Bush Jr. has run this country into a ditch so bad it will take decades to dig out from it!

GMAFB!

 

[Maximillion]

REWhaoo, 80 Americans a day are killed by Guns and don't throw stones at the French, look at the Unemployment rate for Black Males and the % that they occupy in your jails.

The Seals need to be culled, this has been going on for Centuries and is just a differant kind of fishing.

Canadian experiance with US Armed Forces was your bombing our base then refusing to accept responsibility..

My recent trip to Florida when I told some people that hand guns are banned here, in all honesty they could not believe that we did not carry a knife or mace to defend ourselves(which we don't, Mace is also banned as are Tasers).

Brigitte Bardot now resembles the Michelin Man and needs to get her facts staright, thenthere was the American Humane Society bragging about all the restaurants that were no longer carrying canadian Sea Products, all turned out to be False.

 

[REWahoo]

CFB, is that an onion on your belt?

 

[REWahoo]

Stop watching the news!

Yep, if you watch CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS then the U.S. is about to drop off a cliff. If you listen to Rush, or watch Fox, well it’s not that bad....

I've always considered myself a bit of a news junkie, and since retiring I've had the opportunity to watch a lot of it. I've come to believe TV news is as hazardous to your health as smoking three packs a day or dining in all-you-can eat Chinese buffet restaurant.

The constant drive to one-up the competition and create/hype the latest crisis is nauseating. Pompous, egomaniacal talking heads invite guests with opposing views who shout at each other and call it "reasoned debate". According to the news we are doomed, self-destructive sheep destined for a future of deprivation and misery.

Then they cut to a commercial to sell us a new car, lite beer, and the latest thing in no-stink cat litter.

Only in Canada France America.

 

[mark500]

With regard to the "peaceful" Europeans, why is it they always have those dictators popping up- resulting in the USA having to bail Europe out (WW1, Hitler, Milosevic)?

 

[wildcat]

All we hear about is how well the USA are doing in and managing the war

Man you must be watching Fox news with all of the other Kool Aid drinking Republicans I hear the polar opposite - mix that together and you get fair and balanced.

 

[Maximillion]

er Mark, you did not bail Europe out, you waited for 2 years until you were attacked until you entered WW11.

Serbia was UN, all nations were involved, including Canada.

Afghanistan is UN, Canada is heading up that mission.

Korea was UN, Vietnam, you went alone, we all know what happened there.

Had the UN listened to Canada , Korea would have been a united country.

 

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

And, let's see...where did the UN come from?

We did the same thing in WWI. Just shows how much smarter we were than the Europeans.

Dream on, Max. Hope you never have to wake up to the real world.

 

[Maximillion]

Not from the US who have failed to pay their share of the bill, they owe the UN millions.

The UN came from the failed Leauge of Nations.

Dream on Ed

 

[Zipper]

Zip it Howie!

Ed's on our side.