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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More than 90% of the world population and nearly 100% of all the people who lived before us, would be ecstatic to live currently in the USA.

The world has never been a better, safer, and more livable place than now. [b]And the USA is the luckiest place you can be. [/b]Ignore the politics.

-Moderate who voted for Kamala

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It sounds like you have not seen much of the world.[/quote]

What do I know, an immigrant born and raised in another country for half my life. [/quote]

The fact that your country might be even worse than the US does not make the latter “the luckiest place”. [/quote]

80% of the population of Asia, Africa, Middle East and South America would come to USA in a heartbeat if given the opportunity.

Actually there is a 94 year old guy in Omaha who is calls being born in USA winning the "Ovarian Lottery" and "The babies being born in America today are the luckiest crop in history."

But people living in million dollar homes, driving nice sedans, sipping lattes and listening to Spotify playlists, think they have it pretty bad. [/quote]

Yes those people just got fired. Why do you hate Americans so much?[/quote]
I think the old fashion American values and grace is disappearing. The greedy businesses and Free Trade politicians sold out and sent jobs overseas, devastating communities. Lack of opportunities and lower level of education is driving this hate and jealousy. [/quote]

I don't like to see people lose their jobs, and I'm about it worried myself, but the poster has a point. [b]The DC area will see a little of what Detroit, Pittsburgh, Youngstown and the Rust Belt experienced since Clinton and Bush, but nothing like the economic and social devastation those places saw. [/b]And the businesses and people there used to actually make things. Our children's future is dim because Democrats and Republicans can't stop spending money, and we've kicked the can down the road for decades. At some point (and I don't think we've seen the worst of our financial woes), we're going to run out of other people's money. Sad but true.

I'd like to see the reviews of grants, contracts and loans widened to DOJ and LEO, at least. I know of multiple police departments in relatively wealthy places that dipped into the Federal cookie jar to get new equipment and IT they didn't really need, or exaggerate crime statistics to get a grant. That money should have been requisitioned and provided locally - if local tax payers are on the hook, there tends to be a lot better resource allocation.  [/quote]

Those areas were affected by global economic trends--they boomed when the rest of the world had not yet industrialized or was recovering from WWII, and then suffered when  US costs were no longer competitive in a global trade system post 1970. (Not saying its nice, just describing what happened.)

What's happening in DC right now is chaotic, vengeance-driven, and detrimental not just to the people who are losing their jobs but to the safety and security of the country. The government could be downsized--both employees and contracts--in a thoughtful and strategic way that would reduce government spending and contract the economy of DC, even in a relative short time. That is not what is happening in 2025, at all. [/quote]

DC was kind of a he11hole in the 70s, booked a bit under Reagan, was a crimescape and depressed in the 90s, and then pivoted to tech and modernizing govt in the 2000s with a big boost from 9/11.

DC has definitely suffered many times. This one is the first that was purposely inflicted.  Pittsburgh is doing quite well, I think Detroit is also on an upswing. [/quote]

Most American cities were he11holes in the 1970's due to white flight and disinvestment. Most American cities were hit with the AIDS and Crack epidemic in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

These things were not just a DC thing. [/quote]

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