What The Hell Has Happened To This Once-Great Nation?

[Rastus]

No, I'm talking about the Warren Buffett's and Bill Gates of the world who are supporting and funding the back rooms and turning out people like Boehner, McCain, McConnell, Cockran, etc. 

Everyone forgets in the late 90's it was Barney Frank and henchman that pushed the loosening of loans leading to the big problems a decade later.  You didn't hear me because you were too far away...after the collapse of banking in the 80's lessons were ignored for political gain in the 90's that led to the collapse we was 20 years after the 80's hit. 

Anyone thinking that some guy on top of the heap can change it all is drinking kool-aide.  It has to be fixed from the bottom up and I don't believe that's happening.

[tombogan03884]

No, I'm talking about the Warren Buffett's and Bill Gates of the world who are supporting and funding the back rooms and turning out people like Boehner, McCain, McConnell, Cockran, etc. 

Everyone forgets in the late 90's it was Barney Frank and henchman that pushed the loosening of loans leading to the big problems a decade later. You didn't hear me because you were too far away...after the collapse of banking in the 80's lessons were ignored for political gain in the 90's that led to the collapse we was 20 years after the 80's hit. 

Anyone thinking that some guy on top of the heap can change it all is drinking kool-aide.  It has to be fixed from the bottom up and I don't believe that's happening.

Yeah, Fat Albert hadn't invented the internet yet.
Kind of surprised you couldn't hear me though !  I've never been what you would call reticent with my opinions. 
Your last paragraph hits the nail squarely on the head.
Obama is not the problem, only a symptom.
The real problem is a population that starting with the so called "Greatest generation, may have been willing to be drafted to fight Hitler and Tojo overseas, but did not have the guts to confront communism here at home. Each succeeding generation has been equally guilty, giving up just a little more until now we either fight or disappear.
The Soviet Union was never anything but a distraction to take attention away from the fact that the REAL Cold War was fought right here against traitors, 5th columnists, subversives, Quisling's, who worked to destroy America from within under the guise of "liberalism" just like Khrushchev predicted.
The only effective action America took during the entire fight for its continued existence was Kent State.
If we had shot more of them when, like John Kerry, they were waving VC flags and wearing "Che" Tshirts, they would not be running the Govt now.

[santahog]

The ones focused on God were the ones flying the planes.

Different "god/God".
I think that regardless of the god or God worshiped, essentially, the responsible party is the one shaving in the bathroom mirror every morning. The one who got tired of giving the benefit of the doubt to those who could personally comprehend neither benefit nor doubt..
"Us", at one point in time, or another.
I still wish we could go somewhere and start again.. Rafael Cruz talks about it nowadays. He left Cuba for here. Now, where is there to go?

[tombogan03884]

Some of us were trying to warn you about THAT since the 1930's.
The so called "free country" we live in , that regulates what banners you can fly and what type of light bulbs you can use, is more regulated and regimented than the Soviet Union ever was.