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In the Hour of Our Pride

Submitted by Mel Schneide, May 19, 2007 23:30

Now, we're the country that's becoming a third rate power with a first rate military.

Our national debt is approaching ten trillion dollars, a figure normally used by astromers only.

We should rename the 'dollar', the 'dollarette' as its value is shinking by the day. The almighty dollar

This administration has literally given away the store to special interest groups, such as the banking

industry, oil companies, and the drug industry. The middle class is being crushed by low paying jobs,

no health insurance, and phony statistics that keep telling us how good things are.

Our industries are rapidly being reduced to rubble as we can no longer compete. Visit the middle

states which have become 'rust buckets'. In ten years, the big three auto makers may very well

be a nostalic memory. Are we becoming Rome? It sure looks like it to me!

will soon be replaced by the Euro as the de facto currency.


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T.R.C. Hutton 

May 21, 2007 14:06

Yes, democratic from beginning. You forget that 1776 has to be judged not by today standarts, but by standarts as... [MORE]

M.Petkov 

May 23, 2007 21:51

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Angelo Muirragui 

May 20, 2007 16:55

Now, we're the country that's becoming a third rate power with a first rate military. Our national debt is approaching ten...

Mel Schneide 

May 19, 2007 23:30

Not a word from Mr. Murphy about the most destructive analogy of all. Rome became soft and vulnerable through its... [MORE]

Clifford Nelson 

May 19, 2007 06:28

Of course it is. One would have to be blind not to see it. Exactly alike all the old empires?... [MORE]

Barry Bright 

May 20, 2007 10:31

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M. Ficino 

May 18, 2007 06:05

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