Totally screwed.

Because they sure as hell aren’t going to sell any!

Totally fuked.

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Just like the soviet union when they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan and trying to compete spending billions on national defense. But not like the now Russia which has billions of proven oil reserves.

Basically, candy coat it anyway you want, put a nice socialist agenda tilt on it –

but we are fuked.

And it isn’t even BAD yet.

More and more companies are going over sea to find their brainpower. Now it is true that many of those foreigners are becoming educated in the U.S. colleges. But our own children are not going to college nor have the drive to be educated in the sciences. So can we agree that there is a real need to improve our educational system from K through 12?

I could go on but the point I was trying to make was this. To be the best and stay the best is an on going process. The claim of being the best is only valid as long as you are the best. This is still the greatest country in the world but will only remain so as long as we continue to strive to be the greatest. And not just claim we are. I do not know how old you are, but to see my point on education ask someone younger about something that was common knowledge when you were in school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism

Like I said, you must just enjoy your daily ass kicking.

I’d rather be “sackless” than “brainless”.

People all over the world come here for medical treatment? Maybe.

And Americans are going abroad to get THEIR medical treatment.

“A forecast by Deloitte Consulting published in August 2008 projected that medical tourism originating in the US could jump by a factor of ten over the next decade. An estimated 750,000 Americans went abroad for health care in 2007, and the report estimated that a million and a half would seek health care outside the US in 2008. The growth in medical tourism has the potential to cost US health care providers billions of dollars in lost revenue.[4″

Looks like we have the first there JW.
And which country would you rather live in then Phantom?
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You really need to go back and reread my 8:33 post, dude.

Unless you live in Mexico.

Mexican people are proud of their country too. But not proud enough to change it.

Instead, they are content to serve as a low wage caste US work force EAGERLY exploited by a nation that has lost its appreciation of the value of labor.

Those who wave a flag and shout “USA USA USA!”

Or is it more the claim of those who want their country to be better and loudly say so?

We are:

Dependent on foreign nations for our energy.

DEEPLY indebted to China.

The ONLY western nation that does not have health care for all of its citizens.

Importing goods and exporting raw materials.

That will do for a start.

America, in our time is well on its way to being a sort of new type third world nation. I say this because it is true, not because I hate America.

I say we can do better.

Sackless Haters being anyone who does not agree with the following:

We don’t make refugees, we admit them. When the rich of the world get sick, they come here to be treated, and when their children come of age, they send them here to our universities. We have a supple political system open to reform, and a wildly diverse culture that has moments of stress but plenty of give.
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In other words, no one. It is a widely diverse culture, now, isn’t it. Why am I not surprised.

We don’t make refugees, we admit them. When the rich of the world get sick, they come here to be treated, and when their children come of age, they send them here to our universities. We have a supple political system open to reform, and a wildly diverse culture that has moments of stress but plenty of give.

Do the sackless haters have enough to post here?
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. . .and just who do you consider “sackless haters”, people who disagree with you? And who the f_ _ _ are you to decide who’s ideals set the country on its course? Part of what sets this country apart from others is the fact anybody can voice their opinion without thought police coming down on them.

My point being I would not want just liberals, or conservatives, or independents, or socialists, or communists, or atheists, or religious freaks, or any one group running this country. It is an amalgam of all those beliefs and more. It is the best in the world for it.

With Democrats and liberals back in charge, I find reason for small hope. Still, I feel that America’s best days are behind it.