Originally Posted by SteveZ

I flat don't buy into this "End of America" garbage.

We made it through a brutal civil war
We made it through World War One (with everyone else on our back!)
We made it through the Great Depression
We made it through World War Two (with everyone on our back)
We made it through the Cold War, and the "police actions" and other wars along the way (with everyone on our back)
We made it through several oddball presidents and their cronies.
We made it through screwball Congresses, from McCarthy to O'Neill at the helm.
We added five states in the last 102 years (two in my lifetime!)
We sent people to the Moon and back, and the Space Shuttle still can shuttle.

In comparison to previous generations, we eat better, live longer, and have a greater standard of living. Our kids as a whole have greater opportunity than any previous generation, and debt-be-#^@%# will outlive, outlast and outplay us all, as we have done to support all before us.

What we are going through today is MINOR in comparison to all of the other things this country has seen and endured. All the doom-and-gloom rhetoric by those who have a profit motive of their own to keep our spirits at a low level are but tin sounds.

We WILL make it through Bush, Obama, Pelosi, Frank, Reid, K Street and everything else, because WE CAN! In the grand scheme of things, we still have it made in comparison to anyone anywhere else.

God bless America.