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2025-06-03 Economy
The American Dream Died by Suicide
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Posted by Besoeker 2025-06-03 05:09|| || Front Page|| [239 views ]  Top

#1 the American dream is not contingent on cheap baubles from China, it is more than that."

Yes, we have been sold out. But the problem is NOT the consumer, it is Washington.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-06-03 05:19||   2025-06-03 05:19|| Front Page Top

#2 When GIVERnment policies are not about building individual wealth but transferring wealth; this is the result.
Posted by Airandee 2025-06-03 06:32||   2025-06-03 06:32|| Front Page Top

#3 ...Read the story of how Schwinn not only laid it's head on the chopping block, but gave the executioner the axe to do it with.

TWICE.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-06-03 06:38||   2025-06-03 06:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Housing? Self inflected wound.

The original solution was Levittown built for WW2 veterans who had GI Bill mortgages. The houses were, by later standards, bare bones: 750 sq ft (70 m2), with no basement or porch.

Now people want HGTV tricked out houses. Throw in fed-state-local requirements and zoning regulations and the price keeps getting higher.

The truth is that all those responsible don't really support 'affordable housing' beyond a talking point.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-06-03 06:54||   2025-06-03 06:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Indeed. "Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder." -- Arnold Toynbee
Posted by DooDahMan 2025-06-03 07:06||   2025-06-03 07:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Excellent comments, all !
Posted by Besoeker 2025-06-03 07:50||   2025-06-03 07:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Toynbee never fought the Asyrians.
Posted by Secret Master 2025-06-03 10:19||   2025-06-03 10:19|| Front Page Top

#8 "A true America First agenda should start with squarely facing our homegrown failures."

No one voted to be $34T in debt.
No one voted to become a minority in our own country.
No one voted for Muhammed to be the number one name in NYC.

The failure is our that our votes barely matters.
There are not enough gallows to fix things.
Posted by mossomo 2025-06-03 12:42||   2025-06-03 12:42|| Front Page Top

#9 "we" didn't "commit suicide".
This was done to us by an elite class that hates us, that wants us replaced.
Why do I think if I research whoeever the fuck this writer is, I'll find out exactly what I think I will?
Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-06-03 13:39||   2025-06-03 13:39|| Front Page Top

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-06-03 14:17||   2025-06-03 14:17|| Front Page Top

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Posted by badanov 2025-06-03 15:11||   2025-06-03 15:11|| Front Page Top

#12 "[MAGA] is an emotionally gripping narrative built on a sliver of truth and vast helpings of myth."

The Free Press continues to drift slowly left.
Posted by KBK 2025-06-03 22:20||   2025-06-03 22:20|| Front Page Top

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