On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:50:37 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
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What a shame.
The USA used to be populated with hard working people who
preferred to make their own decisions, and who preferred
freedom.
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Those days are gone and THEY AIN'T COMMIN BACK!

"Free trade," Multi-lateral Investment Agreements, stealth
chains/rollups, domestic deregulation and transnational
corporations have done far more damage to the US economy and
socio-cultural-political environment than any slight increase in
CO2 is ever going to do to the physical environment.

While many people would still like to make their own decisions
and still prefer freedom, the socio-cultural and economic
changes/reality and rapid increases in the complexity of life are
continually reducing the benefits of these traits except possibly
in personal satisfaction, which won't pay the bills.

The truth of the matter is that your (and your community's) level
of socio-economic status, which in turn now largely determines
your level of "freedom," is now determined to a large extent by
forces outside your control, e.g. NAFTA/WTO, Goldman-Sachs, and
the possible PIIGS [default]. The few factors still within your
control, such as boozing/wenching/fighting on the job, are
negative factors only, in that these may well get you fired, but
the absence of these behaviors does not in anyway assure your
continued employment or advancement in your chosen trade or
profession, even with multiple employers.

Your complaints/observations are certainly valid, but the
assumption that these changes are due to governmental actions
does not appear to be correct. Rather the governmental actions
are simply responses to rapidly changing conditions such as
massive outsourcing, financial manipulation/fraud and
undocumented immigration. Most unfortunately, this results in
treating the most obvious symptoms in the order of the public
outrage rather addressing/correcting the root causes, thus
shoveling sand against the tide.


Unka George (George McDuffee)
...............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).