To many people it seems the world is ending and for many people it actually is. We have entered a period of great extinction in more ways than one and The United States seems unable to prevent it or even to get out of the way. Global tensions are high, terrorism is as strong as ever, global warming has caused some dramatic climate change already with the polar ice caps melting enough to allow shipping through the Arctic Ocean (for the first time in human memory),an intensification of weather patterns and a redistribution of rainfall resulting in drought in some places and flood in others. On top of that, The world population is exploding and they want a share of the American model of prosperity.

Our economy is not the driving engine of the world that it once was. We have lost much of our wealth in consuming imported products from China. The price of gas is continually going up, as is the price of food, and will continue to go up for the next two years at least.
600,000 have lost their job this year and one million people have gone into foreclosure. An article on MSN's website today said that Craig's list has grown tremendously because people are trying to sell things to make ends meet. Our financial institutions are either being bought or bailed out by the government because of bad debts equally hundreds of billions of dollars. The stock market appears to be crashing. Even Susie Orman considers this the worst economic situation since the 1930s.

We're fighting guerrilla wars (financed by the Chinese for billions of dollars)in two countries and we are not winning either. Yet the threat of terrorism looms as large as ever! Will we have to lose a city to terrorists before we mobilize as we did in World War II? China is still growing leaps and bounds every day, Russia is back and is once again presenting challenges, Iran is still arming. The US dollar has lost its standing in the world, we are in competition with China everywhere for natural resources, our infrastructure is old and in need of repair.

While we are rotating over the drain, many other of our fellow Americans are doing pretty well maintaining the status quo(they're the ones voting Republican of course). That is probably why our leaders aren't acting more decisively on our behalf, they are all doing very well!

Of course, the big reason for the increase in the price of oil and food is that a larger portion of the world has more money, is now able to eat better, and that there is a corresponding

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