In your opinion is America [the USA] on the upswing and growing stronger or has it leveled off or is it on the downswing as a society Are we living during America's highest point? Starting on a downward trend? or is the best yet to come? Rocket River
That and the fact that China is entering it's industrial revolution. We won't have it bad in America, but our time at the top is numbered.
i think we've rolled into a big pothole. we will rebound because the world needs us to do so. we live in a global community whether we want to admit it or not. i think this is a good thing. overall, i think minorities in this country have it better than they used to and this trend should continue. we are still relatively young as a country and the thinking that we will one day fall like rome is absurd. we are all connected now for better or worse and the question we should be asking is whether or not the world has jumped the shark or will we get it together and agree to disagree.
Thanks. I had such high hopes after Watergate. I saw this country survive the resignation of a President amid corruption and scandal. I thought we could get no lower, and would rebound. I was dead wrong.
Only trouble is, in 1985, blue collar manufacturing jobs were being lost. Nowadays, white collar, $50-100K a year jobs are being replaced by minimum-wage jobs at your local burger joint. What's going to save us this time around, oh great Sultan of the Trickle Down?
hhmmm The Carter years and the 1st Reagan Years? I don't recall that being such a HIGH TIME Rocket RIver
See, this is where the short-sighted liberals' thinking breaks down. They are unable to comprehend how the economy continues to BOOM (robust GDP growth, unemployment at an extremely healthy 4.7%) even as jobs are "shipped off" for people in places like China to make a 25 cents per hour and live in a company dorm and like it. Innovation is something that liberals simply cannot envision in their brains. Flashback 20 years ago and companies like Microsoft, Dell, Google, etc either never existed or were just starting up with a handful of employees. Now they all employ thousands of people in the US. Huh, whoddathunkit 20 years ago? The US economy, with its capital, legal and employment structures are by far the best in the world and will allow this country to continue to prosper for a long time. The liberal talking points are simply intended to scare people and garner votes for protectionist candidates. yawn.
Care to answer my question, instead of spewing your ideological spin? The only boom in this economy is going into the pockets of CEOs and the government. When do the people get to benefit from the "boom", as they did during the 1990s? Would the answer be when a Democrat is elected President, and we finally get a balanced budget again? Also.....I find your sentence The liberal talking points are simply intended to scare people and garner votes for protectionist candidates absolutely comical. Speaking of scaring people, how come we haven't seen this since Dubya's re-selection: I guess he doesn't need it to garner votes any more, does he?
