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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe were once a nation to be envied. We are now a nation to be pitied.


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We were once a nation to be envied. We are now a nation to be pitied. (Original Post)
CousinIT
12 hrs ago
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RainCaster
(12,714 posts)1. Not pitied, reviled
We are shunned. It affects everything.
bdamomma
(68,097 posts)5. Yes unfortunately
look at how the tourism numbers are going down.
dem4decades
(12,692 posts)3. A nation to be avoided, a nation to be distrusted.
A nation to be remembered as once almost great.
Celerity
(49,493 posts)4. Above all else, a nation to now be feared. nt
bdamomma
(68,097 posts)6. It is not the
time to do this:
Iamscrewed
(160 posts)7. Oligarchy
Study the past tax structure-compared to economy then to today. This isn't fucking rocket science. The sleeping idiot's need to be woken up before we're wading through the stinking decomposing bodies.
Demobrat
(10,143 posts)8. A nation to be distrusted. Our word means nothing.
Cha
(309,990 posts)9. Those Billionaires & Corps who won't pay their Fair Share
of Taxes Are Unamerican
TY!
FakeNoose
(37,225 posts)12. And they get most of the benefits of our government working for THEM!
Even so, they want to cheat Uncle Sam (and the rest of us) without paying for their ample benefits.
Fla Dem
(26,564 posts)10. Not a little truth a whopping big TRILLION $$ TRUTH!
red dog 1
(30,748 posts)11. Great post, CousinIT
Love the Ferlinghetti quote, and that billboard needs to be put up all over America...it's perfect!
Upthevibe
(9,490 posts)13. Kick. N/T