Aug 04, 2008 2:11 AM GMT
Hey I had a conversation about this the other day and my friend and I discussed some interesting ideas. Wanted to see what you guys think.
So despite what Bush says, as I'm sure almost all of the other Americans on this site know, things aren't goin' too well right now.
Houses are loosing value, and from what some news commetators say, the housing bill will help Freddie and Fannie more than everday people. Gas prices are coming down, but still very high. Food prices are increasing. Real wages are actually lower than in the 1970's. The American dollar is losing value. For normal middle-class people, things are getting hard.
And not to mention jobs outsourced overseas, just making it worse. And even though this thread isn't necessarily about the presidential campaign, but from my Independent viewpoint, doesn't seem like either of them really has an all-encompassing solution.
I know my ideas are kind of scatter-brained, but given current circumstances along with the development of new economies (China, India, Brazil), it seems as if America's time as the only superpower may be coming to an end. Other empires have come and gone, sometimes with a military defeat, others with political strife.
It seems to me as if America's may be ending, at least partially, because the elites are pursuing policies that benefit them and not the entire population. i was talking to one of my professors once, and she said that she predicts eventually America will become like a Latin American country with 2 classes: rich and poor. With outsourcing of jobs, loss of buying power, and foreign competition (I know that's a whole other thread too) that most of the middle class will fall into poverty.
Is this America's fate? To become a 2-class society with most of it becoming poor, and then being bought up by international companies?
So despite what Bush says, as I'm sure almost all of the other Americans on this site know, things aren't goin' too well right now.
Houses are loosing value, and from what some news commetators say, the housing bill will help Freddie and Fannie more than everday people. Gas prices are coming down, but still very high. Food prices are increasing. Real wages are actually lower than in the 1970's. The American dollar is losing value. For normal middle-class people, things are getting hard.
And not to mention jobs outsourced overseas, just making it worse. And even though this thread isn't necessarily about the presidential campaign, but from my Independent viewpoint, doesn't seem like either of them really has an all-encompassing solution.
I know my ideas are kind of scatter-brained, but given current circumstances along with the development of new economies (China, India, Brazil), it seems as if America's time as the only superpower may be coming to an end. Other empires have come and gone, sometimes with a military defeat, others with political strife.
It seems to me as if America's may be ending, at least partially, because the elites are pursuing policies that benefit them and not the entire population. i was talking to one of my professors once, and she said that she predicts eventually America will become like a Latin American country with 2 classes: rich and poor. With outsourcing of jobs, loss of buying power, and foreign competition (I know that's a whole other thread too) that most of the middle class will fall into poverty.
Is this America's fate? To become a 2-class society with most of it becoming poor, and then being bought up by international companies?
I wanted to end on a cheerful note.
