Is the country (USA) better off than it was 8 years ago???

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10 trillion more in debt
Safety wise
Wages haven't gone up
Food stamp use up 50 percent from under 30 million to over 45 million.
A country divided
 

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the worst extended period of economic growth in recorded history

if the labor participation rate remained the same, unemployment would > 8% today (a political death sentence when success mattered)

Healthcare system in decline because of Obamacare

racial tensions increasing, condoning violence against the "systematic" racism of police officers

national security a mess, porous borders

selectively enforcing the laws of the land

the world ablaze, decon 3, Russia walking all over us in the international arena, hundreds of thousands of people dying

dividing us on race and economics, "punish your enemies"

telling minorities selfish, racist white men are holding you down

bashing our country while traveling abroad, bashing your political adversaries while abroad, diminishing the integrity of the White House in every imaginable way

undeniable collusion between our press and the democratic party, shameful



an epic colossal clusterfuck in every imaginable way, but success and character and integrity and honesty just don't matter anymore
 

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The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
The slow one now will later be fast
As the present now will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a' changin'!
 

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the times they are a' changin'!

They changed with 9/11. On top of The Trauma of that, people have Intuition, some more powerful than others, an ability to sense stuff such as when a Truth they do not want to face is in fact True, in this example that their government in fact, is not what they were told all their lives that it was: "Their Protector" but that in actuality their government is not that at all.

While the vast majority will never ever allow themselves to face certain truths many people's "intuition" ends up forcing them to exist in a state where, inwardly, they know that truth to be a fact of their life.

The response?

Could be that a response to this would be to cower in Total Fear. Refuse under any circumstances to Rise Up against said Government. To choose to pretend everything is OK and nothing is wrong. To use a Domestic Violence example:

To just keep letting their abuser beat on them.

An large portion of the residents of this country literally do not give a portion of a fuck anymore about their safety and they've somehow lost that most basic component of being "human" and alive which is Self-Preservation, The Will to Survive.

My theory is 9/11 Rocked Them, initially due to just the sheer Horror of it plus the revelation that they (USA) were not in fact immune to attack, then came "intuition" on many of their parts that "something was just not quite right about the story", something disturbed them and continues to.

And will for as long as they remain alive, whether they realize what that is, that is causing the disturbance within them or they do not.

Add onto that what we have now: Blacks and Liberals getting to set The Agenda for this country. Everything Wille99 laid out above...

A real large percentage of "Americans" have chosen just to lay down, do nothing. But Hope they'll be OK, just hope things turn out OK. But they themselves will do absolutely NO thing to risk getting seen as Counter this Government.

Because inwardly they are terrified.
 

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It's a complete shit hole and Obama is to blame along with the crooked liberal news media!
 

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We're in Bad Shape, and nobody is going to tell me Different

Hey BAS, what happened to my "QUOTE" Button and the other buttons that used to be there for me?

Also missing is, on the main page, "Go To Last Post" within a thread. What would cause all of that stuff to disappear? To just not be there anymore?
 

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no... the bigger problem, will be the ramifications and fallout from the last 8 years , especially if we don't turn things around
 

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The better question to ask is: Are "you" better off today then 8 years ago.
Very difficult sometimes to look around and see if things are better or worse in general then 8 years ago.

But real easy to answer for yourself if "you" are better off today then you were 8 years ago.
 

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US has gone far downhill last 8 years.

I cant imagine how much worse the next 4-8 will be if Hillary wins.

God help us all...
 

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The better question to ask is: Are "you" better off today then 8 years ago.
Very difficult sometimes to look around and see if things are better or worse in general then 8 years ago.

But real easy to answer for yourself if "you" are better off today then you were 8 years ago.

Can't say but I just paid 3000 dollars I Obamacare fines yesterday after a 6 month extension (April 15).
 

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