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I won’t be around again until their new year’s eve at the earliest – that does not mean shtika ke-hodaah. It means that as a believer in the free enterprise system I have to work hard to get where I want to go. While this is fun, it is of course a time waster as not one of us can make much of a difference as far as policy goes.
Either the US goes back to the way it was, or it will become not a magnet for the best and the brightest – but rather a dumping ground for the mediocre who cannot make it at home and therefore choose a place with a safety net – kind of like the UK or Canada or in some cases EY. Already, the best and the brightest in India and China, as well as in this part of the world, can do everything from home. And because Americans no longer demand or produce quality, drecque merchandise from China is flooding US shelves – part and parcel of the easy does it, disposable culture of the US. Add to that drecque ideas like New Age spirituality and vapid multiculturalism that lead to the opposite of self-reliance, and you have Rome at the time of Nero.
2010 and 2012 will be interesting. Will the US go back to being American? Sadly, I doubt it. The problem is not Obama; it is the dumbing down of the nation and the lack of proper moral standards. If Obama turns out to be an aberration like Carter, then so be it. If, as I fear, he represents the new Britney and Oprah America, then Moshiach better come or you better learn Mandarin.