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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	A Socialist America
	Date:	10/13/2009 10:42:40 PM

No I don't. This is just one man's intellectual view.
The neocons actually convinced Bush that we should go into a country that posed no threat to us and depose it's leaders. We have sacrificed the lives of our troops, spent billions of dollars, increased the national debt, and for what? To see if we could build a democracy in the Middle East? Iraq is much worse off today, there is no democracy there (in fact, once we leave, it will probably fall to a civil war and make it vulnerable to Iran), and we're much futher behind in the real war on terror -- the Taliban is regaining it's position in Afghanistan and the bad guys are still living in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan. I won't even go into how the rest of the world views us. And while we were having "adventures in Iraq" the financial infrastructure of the country fell apart.

I don't see how we should be more alarmed. People voted the way they did because they didn't like the path this country was following. What about Katrina? We failed to help our own citizens, but let a tsuanmi hit South East Asia and we're all over it.

Those of you who still think we're the greatest nation on Earth and that everyone wants to be like us are living in a pumpkin shell. The US has been seriously evolving since the late 1960's. The gap between the haves and the have nots has gotten bigger -- there isn't much of middle class anymore.

Some of the people here chose to go about with blinders on, not realizing that changes are coming whether they agree with them or not. I think it is a pretty sad commentary on our country and on this state that anyone who can send their kids to private school does, because the state of public education is so bad. People will give their kids all sorts of material BS that amounts to nothing, but scream like banshees at the thought of higher taxes. For the first time in my life, I'm living in a place with no community services or resources. And I find that alarming. Not some guy in Washington who has written a book intellectualizing socialism.