Inflation has risen? Are you kidding me? The inflation rate has gone WAY down from what it was in the 80's. Inflation is also a normal part of an economy. Economists are worried now that the dollar isn't inflating.
Quality of our goods and services have declined? What are you basing this off of? And even if this is true its because we import so many things these days.
Taxes are higher? Since the 80's taxes have significantly dropped.
Maybe when you grow older you just realize how many things were always wrong with the world that you never noticed when you were younger. The world has always sucked, its not like that is something new.
Politicians are only as bad as the people who vote for them. People love to criticize politicians, but what about the people who put them into office? We freak out anytime a politician combs his hair the wrong way and expect these people to deal with the fickleness that is public opinion. If one of their dead grandfather's did something the least bit questionable we have a hissy fit.
The American public can concentrate on any one problem for a month at the most and jumps on hot button issues like crack/cocaine. Then they completely forget about it.
Our government is in debt because it is a reflection of our flagrant lifestyle. The government in many ways is a perfect embodiment of the American people. I don't really see how you can complain when they do the exact same things that we do. If you want to change the government, you should change the society that elects that government every year.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
