POSTED RESPONSES TOP A COLUMN BY JEFFREY SIMPSON IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
If you study American history, you will know that this is a nation which never, never anticipates or plans ahead.
It has gone through many crises only after having pounded its head into a wall many times.
That observation has remained true from the creation of the Constitution - after the pathetic Articles of Confederation - to entering World War II.
Another debilitating American characteristic is its obsessions. There are always obsessions, and the Tea Party is only the latest manifestation of this.
It has gone through many crises only after having pounded its head into a wall many times.
That observation has remained true from the creation of the Constitution - after the pathetic Articles of Confederation - to entering World War II.
Another debilitating American characteristic is its obsessions. There are always obsessions, and the Tea Party is only the latest manifestation of this.
Of course, it never hurts to endlessly be told you are number one in just about everything: it becomes pretty hard for those who adopt this naive faith to believe the country is being driven over a cliff. How can that be for Number One?
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A reader in the U.S. writes:
"Everyday life down here isn't all doom"
Oh yes, indeed, everything is just fine in Dorothy's Kansas.
Americans are busy demanding homes with three-car garages, five bedrooms, three baths, and central air out in godforsaken desert sprawls like Arizona or California or Nevada where the future water supply is non-existent.
Or building such crappy chipboard villages on valuable farmland in places like the Midwest.
Granite counter tops as far as the eye can see, and Jack-and-Jill sinks from coast to coast.
All of it requiring more roads, more cars, more fuel, more electricity generation, more maintenance with absolutely no thought for the future at all.
And so many of the buyers have saved no money for what they think they deserve.
And meanwhile you keep hundreds of bases abroad and an armed forces of over two million butting into everyone else's business. And you cannot even run your own affairs.
You are killing civilians daily in Pakistan, in Afghanistan, in Somalia, in Yemen, and supporting Israel doing the same in Palestine.
But how very nice that your weather is beautiful.
The quoted reader demonstrates exactly why the United States is declining, declining in economics, declining in ethics, declining in democratic values.
