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Re:Death of the American Empire... by josefresco on Friday September 25, 2009 @01:51PM (#843937)
Just a general comment; I see a lot of people really pissed that this latest financial crisis didn't cause a complete worldwide system meltdown and restructuring. They almost seem mad that things are starting to return to normal for a lot of Americans and no real mega-change happened.

I agree that we are far from 'out of the woods' and peoples attitudes about money need to change but aren't incremental, evolving changes better than a complete meltdown?

Re:Death of the American Empire... by SamAtt on Friday September 25, 2009 @02:35PM (#844031)
But are we evolving? I look around and I see a lot of people saying "whew, we dodged a bullet" and then going right back to how they were living before. I'm one of the ones who is upset but it's not because we're returning to normal it's because we used massive deficit spending to push the fall we were headed for on to our Children.