So. Who here still thinks that the USA will EVER be back where it was in the 'economically on-fire' era of Bush's early reign?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, August 29, 2016 14:10
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Again, a Dark Angel ref:
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Look around at all this. Built by people who got up every morning, worked hard trying to make a better life...then the Pulse happened and everyone got scared. They blinked, and before they knew it, they’d turned over the store to a bunch of thugs who were happy to take it off their hands. Overnight, the government, the police, everything intended to protect the people had been turned against them.
We are in a state of severe change.
Like our climate.
Wanna jump in denial?
The laughing Chrisisall
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Maybe it was the downturn you needed to have. Too much spending, too much consuming. It can't go on for ever, you know. 
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Hello,
Like our climate, eh? That made me smile, because...
I'm much more worried about the social and economic climate than I am about the temperature.
Mother nature is a powerful, indomitable force that can squash us like bugs...
but I feel like I'm much more likely to be squashed by my overlords and my fellow man. At the very least, those forces take less time to wreak their havoc. That's change I can believe in.
--Anthony
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Maybe it was the downturn you needed to have.
Where have I heard that before?
"I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?"
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The weather is as it always has been , in varying degrees of flux.
The economy ? Wont' be takin off any time soon if we're hit with a round of tax hikes. Oh, and it'd be nice to repeal ObamaCare, too.
For starters. Do those things, and we can START talking about returning to 5% unemployment numbers, instead of being well above 8%.
"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
We are in a state of severe change.
If the 1970s taught us anything its that the US can NEVER recover from tough economic times.
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Time will tell, I'm not looking tjhat far in the future, probably 'cuz I've only got a few decades left anyway.
As to too much spending, etc., Magons, I'd say too much BORROWING! We were so encouraged to use credit that it had a lot to do with what's happened to us. I STILL get junk mail to get a credit card, even tho' we've got shitty credit because we ran into hard times and it took us years to pay off the ones we had! I'm perfectly content with only an ATM/Visa, and we'll stay that way no matter what; house is paid off and we've got some retirement put away, so I'm not thinking too far in the future.
I think we'll bounce back, most of the time we do; I don't think it'll ever be to the extent we had in the '50s and '60s, OR (hopefully!) to where we were before the BushBubble burst, but we'll be okay in the long run. That's just my opinion.
I worry for those coming after me, and more for climate change than anything, but there's nothing I can do beyond what I am doing, so c'est la vie.
Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off 
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My geology professor thought Al Gore and his inconvenient truth was a joke. He said the man new just enough to be dangerous without really having a clue as to what is going on. He said throughout our extensive geologic history the climate has fluctuated often and violently with no clear discernible pattern, that natural sources (volcanos and the like) will put out more pollution than we can and that, frankly, we don't have the capacity to CAUSE global warming.
That being said, I'm still all for alternate energy and protecting our environment, we may not be capable of destroying the world, but we can certainly ruin things on a more local scale. But when it comes to climate change, I'm more inclined to believe the scientist that was my college professor than a politician looking for attention.
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"That being said, I'm still all for alternate energy and protecting our environment, we may not be capable of destroying the world, but we can certainly ruin things on a more local scale."
Hello,
Good words.
This is a place where I think the environmentalists swerve into a brick wall time and again.
They believe in man-caused climate change. Others don't. But almost everyone can agree on the individual remedies that would make our lives better.
But instead of everyone agreeing on the same cure for different perceived diseases, they'd often rather argue over which disease is the right disease.
You've got it right, Trader. There's good reasons to do good things that aren't contingent on any theory of global destruction. Each of those things is good for us on the small scale where it's most important for personal decision making: They benefit the individual in tangible and timely ways.
Selfishness can herald the way to better living, just so long as we're not so selfish that we all have to agree on why we're doing it.
--Anthony
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Quote:This might make AURaptor sad; he LOVED where we were just before it burst! Our economy was ON FIRE!!!
Originally posted by Niki2:
I think we'll bounce back, most of the time we do; I don't think it'll ever be to the extent we had in the '50s and '60s, OR (hopefully!) to where we were before the BushBubble burst, but we'll be okay in the long run. That's just my opinion.
alas, we had no fire insurance...
The laughing Chrisisall
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