LiberalLoner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-27-10 01:13 PM
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I have this feeling of impending doom. Anyone else have that, too? Updated at 2:09 PM
I'm reading so many articles about how much ground the average American worker and family have lost since the 1960's, and I think, even if we have a recovery for the billionaires, how will that help all the rest of us?
I have this feeling that between the game being rigged and bumping up against the limits of certain important resources like water and arable land and oil, we are never going to get back to "normal." I fear things will keep getting worse and worse. In the back of my mind, I think, even though I am doing fine right now due to my husband being military, this won't last - how can a broke nation continue to pay its military? And I expect a day not too far off where the paychecks stop. It seems to me to be very possible to starve to death in today's America.
On top of that, I feel so many of my fellow Americans have gone insane. Those who feel Palin would be the best president - those who are certain beyond any doubt that the end of the world will happen within the next few years (and who secretly maybe want to make it happen with nuclear war or whatever.)
I'm just not able to tell myself anymore that maybe things will be okay. That maybe we can turn this ship around in time to avoid the iceberg. I think we have already hit the iceberg and I think we are going down. And those of us not already in the icy water, anticipate the way it's going to feel, and shiver.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8825326Liberals own the govt and the primitive feels like this.
asdjrocky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-27-10 01:23 PM
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11. These are scary times.
I can't find any work at all, I have no money coming in, and I'm 50, years from social security or medicare.
asdjrocky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-27-10 01:32 PM
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19. I know you do.
You're a good person. Adoption? Not a bad idea. Maybe I can find a nice family that needs a wired Uncle that's really good at growing cannabis.
Well crap how is it this dummy can't find a job?
Half the jobs here have a requirement of being able to grow pot plants.
Maybe if you quit growing weed and stopped smoking it you could pass a drug test and get a job.
Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-27-10 01:42 PM
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28. I'm just waiting for the shooting to start.
I think we're headed for either a revolution and/or civil war.
Chances are we won't be the ones firing the first shot but, we will fire the last one.
