An Excellent Opinion on the Decline of America.

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  1. loong

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    Like O'Reilly or not, this successful commentator/journalist nails the issue of "America in Decline".

    O'Reilly's article covers a comprehensive explanation with the use of the irrefutable facts of History, statistics, and a persuasive set of conclusions that, to my mind, are indisputable.

    Still, predictably, the Political Idiots of the Owebamarrhoidal ilk, will find fault with O'Reilly's brilliant analysis.

    These brainless twits will insist with the predictable over-reaction of the OWS, and the Commie/ Socialist Agenda of the Monumental Mendacious Fraud and Racist OwebamaCrapster, to what is a reasonable Governmental Saety Net ....... and require a Government mandated Entitlement System similar to, or in excess of, that FAILED, or FAILING European Socialistic System, our Political Mendacious Charlatan OwebamaCrapster is crafting ..... to the detriment of any hope of our beloved America recovering from the depredations O'Reilly has perceptively listed.

    And, if this Monumental Mendacious Fraud, Commie/Socialist, Racist OwebamaCrapster gets re-elected.......then say farewell to the ENLIGHTENED CAPITALISTIC SYSTEM (buttressed by our Great Constitution, the most wondrous Political Document the World has ever known).

    The ENLIGHTENED CAPITALISTIC SYSTEM (controlled by our Constitution) made us the Greatest Nation the World has ever known for over 200 years.

    As stated, all of America's achievements will go up in smoke, if there will be the SYSTEMIC CHANGE that the Monumental Mendacious Fraud, Commie/Socialist, Racist OwebamaCrapster is in the process of achieving, by replacing the ENLIGHTENED CAPITALISTIC SYSTEM with a shopworn, Historically Documented FAILED Socialistic/Commie System......which, if this Mendacious Political Charlatan OwebamaCrapster gets re-elected, will degenerate into a predictable COMMUNISM. Hopefully, not a brutal Communism of a Stalin or Mao....but a DISASTROUS COMMUNISM nevertheless.

    Here is the link to O'Reilly's article (a must-read):

    http://townhall.com/columnists/billoreilly/2011/10/29/america_in_decline/page/full/
     
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    P. Lotor Banned Past Donor

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    I didnt read the article yet, but just out of curiosity, why does bill refer to himself in the third person on his show?
     
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    Sometimes he does.....most times he does not.

    That's what a significant number of celebrities do.
     
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    Excellent article by O'Reilly, but I suspect he may be in trouble now as it looks as if he may have plagerized me in giving us all the reasons America is in trouble. I suspect I'll be getting a call from Mr. O'Reilly very soon so as to help smooth out his copycat posting.
     
  5. Lady Luna

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    That article is right on. I especially liked this part:

     
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    G'luck on that. :)

    BTW, I could make the same claim you do.
     
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    In general terms I like O'Reilly and I think he's a good person in the sense I believe he has his heart on the right place.

    What he, and many other Americans, don't seem to realize is that America isn't -- and never can be -- a peaceful island in a wild Ocean.

    How, for instance, is America going to compete with countries who invest massively in their people by e.g. providing free (or almost) higher education? You can find this ideologically disturbing, but the results are what count. As a result of this massive investments of European and Asian governments, now *economic mobility* and *economic growth* are higher in many European and Asian countries.
     
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    Until reading this paragraph, I didn't know Bill was such an authoritarian. Apparently he's anti-individualist and believes suspicion of authority is a character flaw.

    That rather disturbing paragraph is incidental to his main point, though: that our current problems are largely caused by debt incurred from entitlement programs. And on that point, he nailed it: if not for Medicare and Social Security, the government would be rolling in cash that it could use to stimulate us out of this mess. One of the greatest flaws of the modern USA is that we, the people, demand so much free stuff from the government.
     
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    Did Bill miss the part where America transitioned from capitalism to corporatism? I see that he failed to denounce the costs of the wars that have immeasurably benefited our nation.

    But what else can you expect from the war/corporate profiteering media whore brainwashing the Fox masses?
     
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    An incomplete and regurgetated opinion is usually the same as a lie and a propaganda: the only way to sell the propaganda is to first tell a lot of regurgetated truths
    Don't care about the rest of your article/opinion as soon as fox/oreilly was mentioned.
     
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    America already has experience with the unbridled capitalism that the right-wing wants so much.

    Slavery, child labor, company script, corruption at all levels were the result.

    It was the labor movement, the New Deal, the Second New Deal and the Great Society that raised this country to a global power.
     
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    I am working two part-time jobs and earn less in a month than I used to earn in one week before the plant I worked at was sold. I am seeing politicians throwing money at other countries and increasing the deficit while jobs are disappearing, and I don't see the average American receiving any benefits at all from the billions we've spent on invading Iraq, destroying the country and building it back up. I see zero benefit to the average American by our intervention in Afghanistan, Libya, Uganda, Pakistan, etc.

    So I'd like to hear about the benefits these wars have brought to the people of this nation, not the corporations who profit from war, but the people who are paying for it.
     
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    I could recommend a great attorney for you.
     
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    LMFAO!!!! Get real buddy.
     
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    Although, as a Democrat, the Great Society has led to more negative consequences such as de facto segregation, busing, development of the modern American slums, and the end of rugged individualism.

    I would argue that the New Deal and the Second Deal were more successful and worthwhile than LBJ's Great Society, partially because the states would ask the federal government to engage in those initiatives. The Great Society was regulated federalism, and therefore more authoritarian.

    Furthermore, it should be known that the abolishment of slavery was carried out by Republicans, not Democrats. Child labor, company script, and an end to corruption among businesses and government would be carried out by Progressives, who were eventually absorbed by the Democratic Party.
     
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    What most people don't realize is those countries that have a somewhat "successful" form of a socialistic government (Denmark ?) are homogenous.....unlike our country.

    Some DIVERSITY is devoutly to be wished for.

    However, America, with its PC laden BULLCHIT, blows up any of the advantages of MULTI-DIVERSITY into a DISASTER !!!

    This is the very reason why we simply can't have Socialism because the average performance of a homogenous society can take care of the small percentage of its lowlifes.

    This is not possible where a SIGNIFICANT proportion of the human garbage in America is significantly disproportionate.

    We have EXTREME IGNORANCE & LACK OF EDUCATION of a sizable portion of our population: ~13% of our population are negroes. Despite its superb athletes, and entertainment geniuses ..... 90% of this category are basically ignorant parasites, potential and actual criminals, and reduce the average educational levels in our Secondary and lower educational System to the point where it is a joke.

    And, this appalling situation is magnified TIMES TWO ..... by the flucking Illegal Immigrants.

    And, let's not forget to add to the Black & Latino Trash the White Trash.....basically, the OWS -type of chitheads (and, they are also a significant number).

    ENTITLEMENT AGENDAS to take care of this human garbage places an intolerable strain on ANY Economic System.

    THERE ISN'T ANY ECONOMIC SYSTEM THAT CAN SUBSIDIZE THIS TRASH !!!

    A Socialistic Govt with it's "entitlements" CANNOT POSSIBLY SUPPORT the HUGE DEFICIT that this HUGE LOAD of Human Trash causes.

    The Enlightened Capitalistic System (buttressed with our wondrous Constitution) is the only solution to the HUGE DEFICIT that this HUGE LOAD of Human Trash causes.

    The Enlightened Capitalistic system (buttressed with our wondrous Constitution) can only solve this seemingly impossible problem by IMPOSING MORE RESPONSIBILITY ON OUR HUMAN TRASH !!!

    PERIOD.

    END OF STORY.
     
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    Too bad.

    Dunno if you fall into this category or not......

    But, it's not unusual that Political Idiots choose to be Political Idiots.

    Nothing surprising there.
     
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    After you copied me!!!!!!!
     
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    that could defitely be something celebs are prone to. however, oreilly does refer to himself in the third person several times in every episode. unless Talking Points is the name of his intern..
     
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    O'Reilly is paid $23 million a year to be a fool. There is no doubt Fox gets value for money. But on the OP. America has guaranteed its failure by not investing in:

    1. education
    2. child development
    3. infrastructure
    4. research and development
    5. American industry
     
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    IMO, stylistically, the third person form could be said to be required by the Talking Point FORMAT.
     
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    P. Lotor Banned Past Donor

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    i'm not sure if I agree, but either way he chooses the format
     
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    Point made.

    I certainly would agree with you on some of those ding dong countries.

    However, because of 911 Afghanistan sheltering Al Queda. And, having the Baghdad Psycho threatening our Strategic Oil interests, and that Monster becoming a Second & Worse Ahmadinejad ........that is another story.

    One would think that Afghanistan, Iraq (and even Pakistan) coulda been handled differently ...... like carpet bomb the chit outa them. Pakistan wouldn't use their nukes because their delivery systems aren't there......also, they'd be notified that we would simply obliterate them if they even thought of retaliating.....and mean it.

    Jes speculating.
     
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    Well, now.

    There ain't anything wrong with choosing that format.

    That criticism might be stretching the point.
     
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    Some Political Idiots are beyond being just Political Idiots.

    Their conclusions about REALITY are so bizarre that in reading their farfetched crappola one can't help thinking of something I must have read:

    These Political idiots remind me of a Dick with coke on his head....a Sheenus.

    :omg::omg::omg::omg:
     

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