To: Rascal who wrote (43272 ) 9/11/2002 1:16:13 PM From: Jim Willie CB Respond to of 281500 I dont wish to pursue that course of discussion here anymore while I love patriotism, sometimes it is in real bad form when systemic problems must be addressed which have little to do with foreign attacks I find most flagwaving to be moronic usually by empty-headed types who have little understanding of the dynamics behind conflict we have so so much to do at home our entire economic debt-based system is undermined not by foreigners, but by ourselves immediate gratification foreigner support financially socialist irresponsible spending the end of the road spells BANKRUPTCY it has nothing to do with foreigners and everything to do with domestic mindset geared toward entitlement of the good life, the now now now not working toward a goal, but rather taking and seizing the goal in the first step with debt paying for it we have set up policy to circumvent all recessions, all system threats of failure by printing money without view of consequences WE HAVE SEEMED TO ATTEMPT A REPEAL OF ECONOMIC LAWS we invite very serious economic revenge !!! we have a cultural illness that is life-threatening we are indebted we are fat as hell we are arrogant and pushy we dont read and learn much we play video games instead of expanding our minds we foist our system upon others, despite its huge faults I will debate anyone on this score I am just sick of vacant thinking that underscores some kind of magical phenomenon dictating that America will continue to be a leader in all things financial, social, political, military, blablabla are we better than Rome? we have gradually seen a degradation in morality, in responsbility, in education, in individual learning our debt-based system was transported to Latin America now an economic and banking implosion we were willing to transport our mfg base to Asia now we have a death defying trade gap not to mention Asian Banking vulnerability to having replaced hard assets by debt assets in their reserves, almost at the point of our gun to their heads no, the US Hegemony Era is coming to an end the WTC attack represented an apocrophyl event nothing is viewed the same not our security AND NOT OUR AMERICAN SYSTEM SUPPOSED SUPERIORITY this system has spawned debt, fat, scandal, bankruptcy, obesity, little foreign language proficiency, little math proficiency, colossal accounting illiteracy, and blind trust in charlatan criminal political and economic policy makers the next vote of confidence comes in the FOREX with USDollar its fundamentals have put our nation at the greatest risk in our entire 230-year history (a history which most citizens dont even read about) / jim