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Old 08-21-10, 07:27 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Skybird View Post
The statistics on unemployement, shift in welath structures, social structure etc etc are hardly all becasue of wishful thinling by ameroican analysts wishing the US bad.

I think you make it too easy for yourself.
I make it how I make it, and make no mistake Sky, regardless of what Speigel or anyone else says, I and my fellow Americans are making it. You want evidence then there it is. I don't need to rely on some unreferenced statistics of at least questionable origin and context. I'm a trade school teacher and see it myself. I deal with the very people that Speigel is talking about every day and can recite literally hundreds of success stories that I am personally acquainted with. Real people making better lives for them and their families.

As I said, if we had listened to the doubters our country would have fallen apart hundreds of years ago. They have always underestimated us and while I won't claim to know what Speigels motivations are in this particular article, I do know that the picture they are painting from 3000 miles away is not the picture that I'm seeing here with my own eyes.
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