Is Credit Crunch affecting your Second Life?

Which country is that?

Pep (Iceland?)

At least Pep is just mean. His head works just fine otherwise.

Frankly, I think you're a bit of a lunatic.

Damn...........freaking work!!! I missed all this.

NEXT TIME lets do this on a weekend.

And for the record since a few quoted me a few times. I said it makes me WONDER why I'm not at the gun/ammo store myself. I DID NOT say I was on my way there. I also said that it's a little scarey that people (and there is a growing number of them) are seriously comtemplating the NEED for such actions. Any weapon I would buy would be for protection........and, if it became necessary, a revolution.

Some of you seemingly intelligent folks need to understand what you read......obviously, at least a couple of you, aren't that level of intelligence.

And for the record, again............I VOTE. I always vote. I always have voted. And I will continue to always vote. However, I do tend to try to educate myself on the politics of who I am voting for......that means I watch FOX News, I occassionally listen to Rush Limbaugh, I even watch CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC and MSNBC.........I even listen to NPR. I'd say I do much better than most voters about learning which candidate is more (or less) in line with my personal beliefs. If you only listen to Bill Mahar and refuse to listen to Rush Limbaugh, are you really trying to find facts?

Brenda and Briana.........I take back every "pfft" I've ever thought about both of you.

And for the record, again............I VOTE. I always vote. I always have voted. And I will continue to always vote. However, I do tend to try to educate myself on the politics of who I am voting for......that means I watch FOX News, I occassionally listen to Rush Limbaugh, I even watch CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC and MSNBC.........I even listen to NPR. I'd say I do much better than most voters about learning which candidate is more (or less) in line with my personal beliefs. If you only listen to Bill Mahar and refuse to listen to Rush Limbaugh, are you really trying to find facts?

Brenda and Briana.........I take back every "pfft" I've ever thought about both of you.

Actually, I thought Ben Franklin said that, but I may be incorrect.

Churchill, yes! Thanks. I should be embarrassed not have emembered that one.

Yes the bankers are at fault, but they were enabled in large part by the the Government. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac became disasters, bakning deregulation to the point of ridiculousness, and even going back as far as the Community Reinvestment Act in the 70's, banks were encouraged and rewarded for lending money to people who had absolutely no business getting it, with little or no hope of paying it back, in the name og a laudable but misguided idea that EVERY American should own a home. Home ownership became almost an entitlement.

Add NAFTA, the allowing of our manufacturing base to go overseas, and other schemes in the name of "Free trade" as well as opressive tax policies that hurt small businesses and the Politicos have to bear a good part of the burden for this mess. And now they say "Let us fix it". I say "Up yours, you had your chance".

I can't imagine anything more un-American, though, than an armed rebellion against a democratically elected government. What would you replace it with? A down-home moral conservative dictatorship?

in any case, i blame everything on george bush.

As for Bush? Umm... my comments would not be forum friendly.

Alexander Tyler once noted that the average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been about two hundred years. He also said, "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, followed by a dictatorship".

Tyler was right on track. Virtually all of the world's greatest democracies have collapsed once they've suffered from fiscal and moral bankruptcies. America is now on year 232, and is teetering near the edge of complete collapse thanks to its incompetent, lazy, arrogant, greedy, crooked politicians and its incompetent, lazy, arrogant, greedy, crooked citizenry.

Augusta Pinochet once said: "Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood". And george Bernard shaw once noted that, "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few".

There is probably noteworthy argument as to which is the world's oldest democracy (let's face it: there's argument over whether the United States is really a democracy. It's not; it's a republic). But the fact remains that even the good ol' U.S.A. has become bloated, corrupted, overwhelmed and desecrated. We are a nation that has allowed our avarice, egoism, arrogance, ignorance, selfishness, immorality and hubris to overtake our patriotism, humility, passion, selflessness, compassion, duty, worthiness and spiritualism.

Without significant changes in our national culture, we are doomed to repeat the failures and shortcomings of all other democracies that have ever been founded on this Earth. It is a human flaw, and may very well be one that cannot be corrected by mere mortals

Well if this thread must revolve around America (The centre of the Universe!).....i found an interesting commentary from one your folk on another forum, which i will paste right here.

Oh Rene, I thought you meant that we should have one forum for the UK and another for the rest of the world . . .

Pie (Or one for EFL and another for ESL)

Well this thread originally asked the question "Is the Credit Crunch affecting your 2nd Life".....but degenerated into the US political party system, it's leaders, its politics, it's state of the economy, its' Bill of Rights, it's demographics....yadda yadda....that's how 95% of this thread read after the "on track replies" on the 1st page.