Dow down 512 points today and over 1200 in the last 10 days

Regardless of what your political leanings are none of our elected officials are willing to do the job they were sent to do. Since our leaders can't compromise and figure out what programs to cut or reduce that problem will solve itself and it won't be pretty.

The hard choices and cuts are going to be made for us whether you like it or not.

I blame it all on special interests able to give bucketloads of money to lawmakers. Why listen to your constituency when you're bought and paid for by lobbyists.

WayneH wrote: I blame it all on special interests able to give bucketloads of money to lawmakers. Why listen to your constituency when you're bought and paid for by lobbyists.

exactly

WayneH wrote: I blame it all on special interests able to give bucketloads of money to lawmakers. Why listen to your constituency when you're bought and paid for by lobbyists.

Read this. It is very scary but interesting.

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of
...Edinborough, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some
2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a
permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until
the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts
from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal
policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of
history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations
always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."

We are somewhere between apathy and dependence

I think there is some bondage in there, or is that just me.

I thought we weren't a democracy....now you're saying we are?

daisypusher wrote: I think there is some bondage in there, or is that just me.

I agree. I think we are between dependence and bondage already.

archer wrote: I thought we weren't a democracy....now you're saying we are?

Have you not been understanding what PS has been preaching - or does he need do continue... lol

daisypusher wrote:

archer wrote: I thought we weren't a democracy....now you're saying we are?

Have you not been understanding what PS has been preaching - or does he need do continue... lol

:can't hear

The Viking wrote: As many know I have been home sick for a month. They finally figured it out.

Did they find feces in your cranium?