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To: Road Walker who wrote (347439)	8/18/2007 4:11:24 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) of 1574894

What's becoming clear to me is that we have neither the political or emotional will to recognize, much less take steps to correct our problems. Oil dependence is a perfect example. It's our achilles heel and our biggest opportunity to lead the world away from an imminent disaster. We can be the problem or the solution; and the solution is a huge business opportunity and as such a way to increase our standard of living. In the last 50 years, this country has gone through a great deal of social change, change that would have destroyed many societies. I think people have become afraid of change. I think that's a common theme with many Republicans. They want to maintain as much of the status quo as possible. And as a passing note......Americans move around a lot more than other peoples. Its not unusual for a European even now to be born, live, work and die all in the same place. To us, that appears to be a very quaint notion. Meanwhile all that moving around gives us what psychologists call anomie........we aren't as grounded as we could be. But what's seriously frightening is our acceptance of debt to maintain a standard of living without the production to back it up. The twin deficits and private debt. It's total denial. It will all have to be settled, and that settlement process will be painful. Yeah but that started not long after WW II. When we decided that we were good at military intervention, that's when American debt started to go through the roof. You may be right that the "Average American lives a standard of living that is far above his worth". But a big part of that is the vision and will to move forward with the next generation of opportunities. We always had that; I don't think we do anymore. Don't you think that's because Bush and to a lesser degree......Clinton.......had no vision of the future that excites? We should be talking about people visiting Mars and mining the asteroids and setting up a city on the moon......but then we don't have the money to do those things anymore.

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