Santorum wants to impose 'Judeo-Christian Sharia'

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Originally Posted by Sea Demon

It's all relative wherever you live. And I'm definitely not going to shoot for a living standard like the slums of Mumbai, India. The facts remain that our economy is still performing poorly, jobs are lacking as unemployment is still a huge factor, our deficit is running in the Trillions and the current administration thinks we need to add more to it, government waste and fraud is ramapant with tax withholdings, and overall national debt is increasing and will negatively impact future generations. Obama simply can't escape HIS economy. That's reality.....mate.

You miss my point entirely. You might have heard the saying "I complained about having no shoes, until I saw a man with no legs". Yes all those things may be making your circumstances less than ideal, however compared to the rest of the world, you still have it good. Now that truly is reality.

BTW it's not Obama's economy. It is yours just as much as his. Government fraud and waste has been a staple of governments since the dawn of bureaucracy. Your collective consumption habits have as much to do with the state of the US economy, as any programs Obama has put into place in the last 3 years. Anyone else as president, now matter the political party, will do just as poorly as long, as you continue to do what you do now.

No-one can magically fix"crumbling" infrastructure without funds and where will they come from? Reducing the size of the government? Like that will ever happen. Government fat cats the world over know how to work the system to stay right where the cream flows.

Unless you learn from history, you don't learn anything. Do some reading on the 1899 and 1929 depressions and see what you can learn about how to get out of the mess you are in. It is not a new situation at all, just the players involved are new.

Doesn't mean you need to lower your standards to Mumbai slum level, but it does mean you may have to lower your expectations for a while.

Best of luck, because we are all going to need it.