Let's impeach the president.

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Originally Posted by dmek25

whatever happened to all for one and one for all? i don't like the way politics are. its ok to give Exxon million dollar tax breaks, while the gap between the rich and the poor keeps on widening. in our lifetime there will be no more middle class. i take it 70 that you are doing alright. im glad for you

Not really. Not really at all. But what I have is mine and mine alone and I'm not naive enough to believe that a poltician is going to make it all better. That was the mistake of those people in New Orleans. They stayed in their houses thinking someone else had the ultimate responsibilty for their well being and that, to me, is a form of insanity. I shiver at the mindset that says "water's rising, better go upstairs. Water's still rising, better get on the roof." The water that killed those people rose at a rate of about one foot an hour. If they had walked two or three miles they would have been fine.

In fairness, this mentality, is not confined to the poor and the dispossessed. On some level, I hope a big meltdown does come, beause a lot of middle and upper middle class suburbanites are going to look equally foolish. There is a frightening lack of stoicism in this country. People have no endurance for anything other than sex and traffic.