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Originally Posted by Leland Pate

We've successfully dismantled the incredible industrial strength this nation once had and sent it abroad. We are now coasting and spending the wealth created by generations gone by. Our economy is based off of flaky accounting practices, exotic banking, and services related crap bought with foreign money. We have no production, no savings, and no reason to even remotely think this is over.

Yep, you've nailed it! This is why I'm pessimistic about our country's future.