That, to me, is the quintessential experience of living in the United States: constantly worrying whether or not the country is about to fall apart.

Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation

One of Obama’s greatest failures will be his legacy of making millions completely dependent on government handouts, not work....So sad.

Without some redistribution of wealth and power, downward mobility and debilitating poverty will continue to drive people into desperate channels. And without principled opposition to xenophobias from above <i>and</i> below, these desperate channels will produce a cold-hearted and mean-spirited America no longer worth fighting for or living in.

Those who will not work deserve to starve.

An emerging emergency is merging with a sense of apathy in this country, and out of this will come total destruction.

When will my country die for me?

They despite and hate the government more and more, but they don't know how to set about changing it. The country is dying for some sort of lead, and so far all it is getting is a crowd of fresh professional leaders. Who never get anywhere. Who do not seem to be aiming anywhere. We are living in a world of jaded politics. Poverty increases, prices rise, unemployment spreads, mines, factories stagnate, and nothing is done.

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear — fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

The future without jobs will come to resemble either the cultivated benevolence of Star Trek or the desperate scramble for resources of Mad Max.

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

When politics degrades itself to political adventurism the nation would be on the calamitous road to inevitable disaster and ruination.

The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.