but talking today to people about it they just shake their heads and say, basically, that I don't know anything. (grrr) Add to all that you've said Bush, Jr's constant dipping into the SS fund and it's no wonder. I've always yelled I want to know when and where Bush's dipping led (of course, to the Iraq war, no doubt).
This country has for decades made it harder and harder for married couples to actually have and raise families at a "replacement rate" (gods, I hate that phrase). They keep wages as low as they possibly can get away with, while raising money on anything necessary for life, and then scream that we're having too few babies! You can't convince me these people didn't know exactly what they were doing. They've been writing the outline for P2025 since the old PNAC days.
The goal is to completely demolish the country of the United States of America, and to remake it into one of their own design. They tried it in Iraq and it was a complete and utter failure. But the damage they did to Iraq is long lasting and one wonders if they'll ever get a functional country back again.
The US is now basically in the same boat... unless we can find a way to skunk all these repugs out of the government and take it over for the good of the very people for whom it was meant. And that means everyone... rich, poor, citizen, immigrant, and everyone in between. We used to have a delicate balance that created the most profitable years a country could ever see... but the advent of the rise of rich repugs during the 1950's (especially) spelled doomed to the entire idea that was "America."
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