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Originally Posted by jimjamuser

America WAS great after WW2 because of the economic strength of the "common man" AKA the middle class.
The elites became like economic "vampire squids" as they sucked the wealth and power of the middle-class gradually away. Today, the upper 90% of America has more wealth than the lower 60%. That change was accomplished gradually and by mechanisms like OUTSOURCING to China and other countries. Now China has our middle class and has military strength and is aggressive toward the US. The decline of UNIONS was "another brick in the wall" toward US degradation.

Someone once said that the only country that can destroy the US is the US itself..........internally.

The elites have used their wealth in places like Florida to build houses and condos right on the barrier islands and the low areas like Fort Meyers. Now Global Warming has told Florida that "it is time to pay the piper". Smarter states like Oregon declared a 1/2 mile exclusion zone of no building on their beaches. The common public has parking places where they can walk or bike to the beach. The rich elites build their large homes where they can see the water from their 2nd stories. It's called a good compromise. In Florida, the elites will take advantage of this current climate change hurricane crisis and buy up Fort Meyers and the Barrier islands. Floridian tax dollars will pay for NEW bridges to those barrier islands so that their chauffer-driven Cadillacs can be driven over them. The middle class of the hurricane survivors with total damage to their homes will be shortchanged by the insurance companies and will not be able to meet the new (stilt basement) codes, which are a somewhat good safety requirement (not as good as the Oregon solution). The new codes will price more of the "common man" out of the area.

The common man will be forced by climate warming conditions to migrate to north central Florida or further north. The elites of Florida will have the wealth to remain on the ecologically dangerous barrier islands of the Florida coast. They may even eventually build some RENTAL condos slightly inland so as to continue to have a source of common-man-type worker bees. Meanwhile, since the last 8 years globally have been the warmest in recorded history, mother nature in the form of hurricanes will continue to BATTER (an often-used word lately) Florida's coast and also other southern states' coasts. Finally, in 2 or 3 years Florida will give up rebuilding and create a no-building zone 1/2 or 1 mile from the rising water line - like Oregon did years ago!

I think that I have seen that scyfy movie..........