do any of you feel sort of... bizarre, like the planet tipped upside down, or that you're all in a sort of twilight zone episode where the Sun is plunging toward the Earth or something?
Most definately. Between the warm weather in New England, The six feet of snow Denver has had, Tornados in the South, London fog and whatever else has happened, makes you think the earth has tipped off it's axis abit. Must be from all the Nuclear testing North Korea is doing!
Between Global warming, Nuclear weapons and biological "accidents" that spread super viruses, I don't think we will make it to the year 2100. The century of 1900-2000 may have been filled with Wars and civil unrest, but overall it was probably the last century of progress and improvements in the general population.
We had a growing industrial revolution that let our grandparents get good jobs, live in suburbia and retire with nice pensions and heath insurance. They lived in communities where you could go to bed with your doors unlocked and there was still plenty of green space and undeveloped land. To them the U.S. could only get better. We had put a man on the moon and outlasted Communism in Russia.
But here we are in the next Century. Our middle class is just about gone. Jobs are either Medical or law related, the rest will find themselves working at WallMart. Illegal immigrants clammor over here to get our $7-$8 dollar an hour jobs, while our $15-$25 dollar an hour jobs go to India or China where they pay far less. Health insurance? Good luck. Pensions? ROFLOL. Job security and retiring after 20+ years at the same company? Nope. Not any more. They'll fire you after 10 years and replace you with a kid a third of your age and for half the salary. Our technology is far worse. Electronics are so poorly made and disposable we can't even get a Space Shuttle launched. Today more kids know what a Hyundai is than a Cadillac.
Pres Bush wants us to spend Billions on Mars exploration? How about we spend that money on Heathcare for our Senior citizens? Mars will still be there long after we have gone extinct.
But until then, our weather will continue to get wacky. Terrorists will still come visit us and bring death with them. The healthcare system will still keep crumbling as less of us have insurance and new viruses decimate the population. Most Seniors will continue to live below the poverty level while CEOs live in obscene luxury. And don't forget about all those missing Nukes from the Cold War.
Makes you want to move to Wyoming doesn't it?
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