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A commenter named Henry Cave Devine made the following observation, excerpted from a longer "j'accuse" panorama:
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Consider] the mess in the US: it is much larger than the Greek disaster, riddled with corruption, lies, pretense, political deception, self-serving Congresssional leadership and a moronic and deceptive White House during the Bush administration and for at least a decade before. The US public opinion polls show that 70+% of the public believe the US is still in a recession, 80+% lack confidence in that nation’s leadership and 50+% place blame on the current White House.
Consider where America is today: severe unemployment problems with grim prospects for substantive change; two losing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at massive financial and human-life cost; near-meaningless overblown legislation for healthcare and financial services regulation that miss all the key concerns/problems of the system and play right into the hands of the worst greed in America; systemic debt problems from on top at the government level right down to the mortgage and credit card burdens at the individual level… bombs that have still not completely exploded; an emergent domestic terrrorism problem with no meaningful safeguards over decades and not much better protections now nor on the horizon; and worst of all an arrogant sense of massive entitlement to a “good life without earning it”, which is killing America, the global capital of obesity, sloth and insularity.
I think HCD overdoes it with the final three, as "sloth" doesn't characterize the manic disposition of most Americans and they certainly WORK harder than most Eurotards, who are generally slackers compared to Americans with a job. But obesity and insularity are two very bad traits that the US should own up to, and fast food is really one letter away from its true nature: "fat food."
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