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If the "ideas" in the preceding quotes were received as the assaults on your sensibilities.....that they are on mine......and you checked and doublechecked your own "take" on what is "so".....just for the comfort and reassurance that your own sanity is still intact......my last post here might seem a mere snippet, or like a song.....that you just can't hear often enough.

I'm not Bob Woodward or Ron Suskind, and this format does not allow the posting of a book length response to baseless and unreasonable statements.
The record of the last ten years, speaks for itself. My efforts, that I share with you in my posts on this forum, are much closer to the remarkable brevity of Ustwo, than they are to the sheer volume of a Woodward or a Suskind book on a similar subject.

Just as I cite the work of Suskind and Woodward, I'll cite or retrieve portions of my own posts here, in the future. I've got a "work around" to the sabotage of the former search functionality here, so everything is still retrievable. In 1980, I was close to the age that my son is now. The national treasury debt was $995 billion, vs. $8,500 billion, now. There was a newly passed energy policy that put our country on attainable goal to energy independence that we could have been benefiting from, about....now. Annual military spending was $134 billion, and it was the Soviet Union that was headed for a long and costly experience of being mired in Afghanistan, not the US.

US foreign policy was moving our country in a direction of admiration, with less foreign animosity as each day passed, not more. People trusted the words that came out of the POTUS's mouth, and he was honest and direct enough to speak publicly of a "national malaise", and offered his ideas on what to do about it.
Consider that President Carter emerged from an era that saw a criminal president....an unwavering liar who fired the special prosecutor who was investigating his administration, resign in disgrace....to avoid impeachment and certain conviction, on the heels of the sentencing of his own bribe taking VP, to prison, followed by the 3 years leadership of an unelected POTUS, and VP, from the same political party as the disgrace president's....in a time which featured the collapse of the South Vietnamese government that the US had expended the lives of 58,000 young Americans....many drafted against their will.....to maintain as a non-communist US puppet dictatorship, until 1975.

Fast forward to now.....read my last post, if you dare, and tell me what kind of country, in what kind of shape, are we handing over to our sons, now, compared to the "state of the union", we inherited, in 1980. It is almost amusing to look back on the backdrop of what President Carter considered to be government's inattention to <b>"our nation's hopes, our dreams, and our vision of the future".</b>

If you were plagued by a sense that is similar to mine, of where the US was, half my lifetime ago, compared to today, and where we will be, unless we change the US leadership and it's current policies....... when my grandson turns 24, you might post more similarly to the way that I do, and perceive nothing unusual about the lenght or the content of some of my posts. If you disagree with what I'm saying, or you don't or won't understand what I'm talking about, or the context that I post in, even this post will probably seem way too long....