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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
Probably. Then Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Then?
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Then back to your regular scheduled programming....
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Originally Posted by roachboy
baraka--well, if things move in a straight line, it looks like the end of the american empire, engineered through idiocy and incompetence by the very people most committed to the idea of american empire.
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It's one aspect of the kind of environment that adds to my suspicion that a Puritan reformation is on its way in America. It's not as extreme as it sounds, so it's not far-fetched; what it means is that some crisis (or crises) will empower someone who will guide American interests inward in a mode of self-preservation. It might not go as far as isolationism, but it will certainly be a great shift in what we've come to know as American culture and society.
America is going for broke; someone will have to fix it.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 09-17-2008 at 10:08 AM..
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