Recession - Thank you America.

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SlorgNet said:
Well, it's OK to detest a government or a ruling class, but we should remember that ordinary Americans are victims of the US system. People got credit cards because they had no other choice. People took out huge mortgages because they had to (you have to live someplace).

That said, it's true that the US Empire has deeply corrupted the US public. Too many people think it's OK for an American President to be God Emperor of the Planet. Our $800 billion annual military budget (yes, it's really that big, when you count nukes, Veteran's Affairs, foreign aid, and Iraq) has poisoned our economy with positively Soviet levels of waste and internal corruption. Our corporate-owned mass media deliver the worst news in the world -- they shamelessly hyped the Iraq War and didn't become critics until it was obvious the war was lost. Even then, the best reporting comes from the public mass media of other countries (BBC, etc.).

As an American, I loathe the Empire. It benefits noone except Halliburton and Boeing, and it violates every principle of democracy, tolerance, reason and justice ever created, including the ideals of the American Revolution (a rebellion against the British Empire). The US Empire needs to go -- not now, yesterday. Get out of Iraq, talk with countries instead of bombing them, chop that military budget in half and spend $400 billion on education, science, renewable energy and the environment and hey presto - America will be back. If we don't do this, then we go the way of the Soviet Union.

 QFT

 

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