FAREWELL, AMERICA?

Let's cut to the chase: Just Default! Most Americans seem to think they are still living in the great decade of the 1950's. No debt, ruling the world roost with only better times ahead. Wakey, wakey, dysfunctioning Washington! You've got close to $17 trillion debt !!! ($7 trillion added in just 5 years by Obama). Both political parties, most of their respective followers and the U.S. media seem oblivious - in what passes as serious discussion of the issues - to the notion of deckchairs on the Titanic. The U.S. really needs a massive fiscal shock; and only by defaulting might it finally shake it awake from it's 50's myth parade. A diet of too many Hollywood films have given many Americans - 40% of whom don't have a passport and have never been outside the U.S. - an invincible image of themselves. America needs to get real now; or in 20 years this once great nation could sadly, be just that.

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