The 'End of America?' Not Exactly

These words were written this week - at a time when America's economy is doing very well, contrary to the pessimistic lies spread by the MSM.
The US economy is now growing at a pace of 2.2% per year, slower than it did before, but nevertheless, it's growing. Productivity has grown by 2.6% in the 1st Qtr of 2008. The unemployment rate remains low, at 5.5%. Last year, Americans won 50% of all Nobel Prizes, incl. 50% of all scientific Nobel Prizes. In the year 2006, American scientists won all scientific NPs. Has China ever won a single scientific NP? America's economy is the most competitive one according to the WEF, and America is the 3rd best place in the world to do business in.

Now let's compare it to the economy Reagan inherited in 81. A double-digit unemployment rate, a double-digit inflation rate, a huge debt, a huge FY81 budget deficit, a slowly growing economy, and few new inventions. And yet, Reagan confidently predicted that America would recover economically, that it would once again become an economic superpower. It did.

Well, the freedom-hating leftists have learned that they can make most Americans think we are losing a war that has just seen one of the most spectacular positive one-year turn-arounds in the entire history of warfare, they have convinced most Americans that we are in a depression in a time when we aren't even in a recession and even the rate of quarterly growth is increasing one quarter to the next, and they've generally convinced most people that we're going to hell in a handbasket despite general relative prosperity and a very comfortable existence. Given that, they probably smell blood and hope to talk the country into dissolution so they can get rid of those "damn human rights" and oppress us like the cattle they think we are.

i blame the democrat party. all you hear from them is doom and gloom, from the environment to the economy and the only ones who can fix or prevent the "end times" from happening are obama and a senate and congress full of democrats.

boy, are we in for alot of trouble.

I am not a conspiracy theorist but if you wanted to destroy the US you would have started implementing unconstitutional programs that would grow out of control (social security, medicare) welfare, Department of Education, etc. You now can't spend the money you want or need on the military. Now you can't afford overseas commitments. You can't afford the best weapons especially in the numbers needed. You don't allow the continued development of our nuclear deterrent systems and on and on, the left want to preside over this slow decline of the US while blaming the right. Thus is the Marxist method pure and simple.

Well, we need to do something about our overuse of Myley Cyris or we could be entering a Mad Maxian wasteland of barbaric scavenging and primeval lusts.

I disagree with the premise of the piece. The problem is not with what the public wants, it's with what the public thinks.

Consider, an uninformed, poorly educated and isolated population is fed a pseudo-crisis by the dammit-crats who also offer a solution which just coincidentally requires bigger government and more taxes. When the republicans are questioned about it, they have no solutions because there is no crisis! The MSM portrays the republicans as clueless and uncaring and the public buys it hook, line and sinker!

The purpose of the constant false alarms is not to satisfy some public want, but is to stir the latent herd mentality and foster clamorings for more government action (control). The writers are not simply feeding pop culture, they are (knowing or unknowing) instruments of the left.

If the herd mentality is stirred by the good guys and heads in the correct direction, does it cease to be a herd?

The country is in recession if you consider one of the major economic indicators. The Cement industry is in the tank and it does not look good for at least a year and a half and the implications are dismal.

Energy costs are out of control and super market prices are on the rise. If some economist is saying we are in a growth pattern it is because inflation is causing it. My standard of living is on the decline faster than the quoted quarterly increases.

I wish our leadership in this country would get their heads out of their buts and take a good hard look at what their lack of action is doing. I am against unnecessary regulation but the energy speculation is killing our future. Can't someone come up with a way to prevent the total melt down of our economy?

Our creative abilities have been fueled by affordable energy and the more we continue acting European in terms of ridiculous fuel pricing policies the quicker we will be going down. Hopefully our nations fabric is fashioned more like a submarine than like a boat so that we can release some ballast (massive welfare entitlements)before we reach crush depth. America is going down. I just hope we can change course before it is too late.

Given honest information (unlikely by MSM)most will know the right thing to do and naturally go toward it. In its absence, they can be herded off a cliff like a bunch of lemmings. Thanks to the MSM and the Lefts control of it, they get a steady diet of BS. There are not that many people that wouldn't know the right path and take it without prodding on their own. Only the Left thinks most of the people are too stupid to be trusted with the truth, and need our big nanny to lead us! So, no 'clc' the good guys don't need to herd people, that is used for leading cattle to their slaughter.

Re; If the herd mentality is stirred by the good guys and heads in the correct direction, does it cease to be a herd?

No dc, it is simply no longer a herd stampeading over a cliff.

Personally, I think all the Doom-and-Gloom is nothing more than a set up by the MSM/Democrat propaganda machine. If Obama gets elected, within the hour we'll hear how the economy is suddenly improving, racism will be a thing of the past, Americans are happier, the sun is shining brighter, and global warming isn't as bad as we thought it was.

Make no mistake, this election is a coordinated full-frontal assault. The Liberals are pulling out all the stops in a determined effort to get one of their own in the White House. This is a make-it-or-break it effort to gain power and push their Socialist agenda while they have control of congress and the Media is flexing every muscle it has to help influence the election.

Unfortunately, there are millions of gullible Americans who still listen to them.

It's pretty hard for me to get even remotely convinced that we are in any kind of recession no matter how much propaganda is shoveled out of the Drive-by MSM. We live in a semi-rural, agri-business dependent area not some wealthy elitist community. Yet every week some of my son's friends are heading with their families to Disneyland/Great America/Universal Studios/Sea World/Animal Safari Park, etc. Or to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Or up to the Bay area. Or to a major league baseball game in SF or LA. Or a Sierra camping trip. Or a fishing excursion. Or over to Hawaii. Most have all the latest cell phones, some even iPhones, Play Station 2s and 3s, Nintendo Gaming Systems, XBox, and all the latest games to go with them. You can't find a Wii System available without a 3-week to a month wait. Many of the kids got brand-new cars for graduating from high school.Some are going off to first-class universities in the fall. So even though I see some concern over gasoline, particularly diesel with the fruit/vegetable/dairy/fiber truckers and the subsequent rise in food prices, until people are giving up on all the "fun" stuff and limiting themselves and their kids to the necessities, I am not buying into the pessimism.