America on its way down. Is it?

[August]

Originally Posted by Skybird

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.