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The United States is in big trouble

The United States is in big trouble

Date published: 9/7/2009

The United States is in big trouble

So it's finally come to this: Our country has outsourced the jobs Americans need.

Our mortgage companies are foreclosing on our homes, and the government will reimburse them for their loss.

The government has declared our 4- to 5-year-old cars clunkers and offered the car industry another bailout in the incentive-to-buy program, which we are paying for. I wonder what the used-car lots are going to do with their inventory of clunkers.

You know the terrorists can't whip us face-on, but they are doing a darned good job helping us to eliminate the middle class by forcing us into a socialist government.

We are no longer a producer but a consumer nation, and this will destroy us eventually.

We don't even grow our own food anymore, and other nations haven't the same guidelines as we do when it comes to how food is produced.

We are the largest consumer of fossil fuel and are allowing foreign nations to control us by paying out the nose for it.

Cost of fuel affects all businesses large and small, and this has been the straw that broke a lot of backs in this meltdown.

Our elected representatives don't seem to have the slightest idea what we are going through. They vote themselves raises and have a separate retirement program that hasn't been abused and used for things other than what it was intended for.

Come on, Americans. We need the nation that once was and can be again. People have died trying to get here, and others have died to defend America. Let's not allow those sacrifices to be in vain.

Wilbert C. Jennings

Spotsylvania



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Date published: 9/7/2009


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Wilbert (posted by BLK , Sep. 8, 2009 9:21 pm)   
Did you just wake up from a Coma??? We were in Trouble the whole 8 years GW Bush was in Office. Pres. Obama is Trying To get US out of trouble and it is working, IT may seem slow to You, But it takes time to stop the Economy from Failing then Push US out of the Red !! ,, You said cars 4 or 5 years old ?? Most cars of that age are still worth More than 4500... The car had to be under 25 yrs old and get less than 18 MPG.... You're a Republican aren't You ?? Stop with the Un True Statements .

the punishment goes on (posted by testexam , Sep. 8, 2009 8:27 pm)   
"Americans would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance under a plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday.." - - - YAY, you get punished by death for being old. you get get punished by neglect for being disabled. NOW, you get punished by taxation-no-representation for being Healthy.. whatever happened to Obama saying he WONT force you to take public option ? hmm,looks like he red the HR Bill where it says tax for VOLUNTARY uninsured. cant win with this czaristic regime

viola:marriage=union (posted by kspecial , Sep. 8, 2009 6:59 pm)   
I've done 'em both. Didn't like 'em. BUT, it STILL takes a LOT of (basically UNIONIZED) people working towards a common goal to accomplish a goal that one can't attain individually. Pull in the same direction, for godzake!

Publicus (posted by raymaelynn57 , Sep. 8, 2009 6:57 pm)   
You are right, I can buy whatever I want and I buy AMERICAN CARS. You buy what you want. If you noticed, I directed "my slant" at both sides of the aisle. BUY AMERICAN. I purposely tested many cars, I like the American model the best with pricing, options everything esle. Now you are anti union and feign your decisions on this. You are so easy to see through. My god. Publicus, take a nap.

Another definition of "union" (posted by PUBLIUSTWO , Sep. 8, 2009 6:18 pm)   
One could also call a marriage a union. Depending on where you believe morals are derived. That could be a man and a woman, or a host of other less than traditional couples or trios or more. Yes, kspecial, it takes a "union" of good quality people to make a good quality car, but there is a distinct difference (and I know that you know this) between that eutopic scenario and the one run by thugs from Chicago and New York (and Washington DC).

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