Mexikin and black gangs already shoot them from vehicles! There outa be a law!

As for for economic problems, the majority of which are created by a fiscally irresponsible government, what has cause the greatest decline in prosperity is a cultural divide that began in the early 1960's. Tea Partiers complain about big government and the loss of God in schools while OWSers b*tch about inequality in wealth. Both b*tch about the related things but neirther is aware of the source or cause.

Our problems don't come from inequality of wealth or the loss of religion in the public forum. Both have been greatly effected by something more sinister and dangerous to our nation. It is an ever widening cultural divide.

This divide is illustrated by cultural differences between groups of people of every ethnenticity. It is true of whites, blacks, Asians and Hispanics. Even though the exact percentages and statistics differ somewhat, he same divide exists within each of these "subcultures".

Regardless of the above, in the 50's and 60's most children lived their entire childhoods with both parents. Divorced parents and blended families were the exception, not the norm. Children at every cultural level, rich and poor alike, watched the same TV shows and went to the same schools together. Rich and poor, priviledged and underpriviledged, kids played sports together on the same teams and rubbedd elbows in the cafeteria. Childhood friends weren't greatly separated by "class" or "priviledge". Ideas were exchanged and friends were made without nearly as much regard to class, status, wealth, and postion as they are today.

After WWII everyone enjoyed better access to the opportunities available in a free society. The GI Bill sent millions of otherwise unlikely people to colleges and universities. Opportunities abounded. Government treated pretty much everyone the same and was much, much less intrusive on the lives of individual Americans.

The roots of the fracturing of American society began in the early 60's with progressive ideas about a "Great Society". Federalism of things states previously provided for themselves were mandated by the federal (central) government. People were categoroized so they could be helped. Meidcare, medicaid, and other "human serivices" programs were started. To make sure everyone was treated fairly the federal government exercised more and more control over the states and the lives of people everywhere. This categorizing of people into separate groups to address inequalities based on injustices due to "needs", "discriminations", and "exploitations" real or imagined planted the seeds of division in America.

Within the multicultural "melting pot" of America there are really only two significant cultures. They exist regardless of race or ethnenticity. One group is nearly entirely dependent on government, and the other pays for it. Every cultural or ethnic group in America has it's own "rich" and "poor".

What is not unusual is that statistically those in the "less priviledged" group are orders of magnitude more likely to be be single parents, have children in homes without both parents, suffer less economic opportunity, and have fewer prospects for success. The chldren of the "More priviledged" group are much more likely to have both parents at home, stay out of trouble, get better educations, and be more successful in nearly every way that is important to success, happiness, and stability in life.

The troubles OWS, Tea Partiers, and independents are concerned about are not the causes of the philosophical and idealogical divisions they are so concerned about. What they are concerned about are the result. They are the result of abandoning a uniquely American culture that started with the Declaration of Independence, the Constituion, and Bill of rights in favor of the progressive do-gooder policies of liberal progressive democrats and fundamentalist repulicans alike. The problem rests with the scoundrels that have occupied Washington for nearly 50 years. It's not rich people, or big business, or wall street because anybody that really, really wants to do any of those things still can. It is Washington that continues to work to divided us.

And as a side note this may piss off queen.....but this shit really started happening when we took prayer out of school........I could be wrong about everything. These are just observations

Congress tried to say that as long as one congressman shows up for one hour that congress is in session. The president does have the right to have executive orders when they are not in session according to the constitution. The republican pulled this crap for 2 weeks in January so they could take two more weeks vacation, getting donations, rather than to show up for work after Holiday's. He did nothing unconstitutional as all presidents do this and Bush did it dozens of times.

Little does wasa wants to understand that every rule obama and the dems makes up, change, override, skips, ignores, and simply does not give a damn simply opens the door for the GOP to do the same when they get in power. This is exactly why when Obama bypasses the constitution and or congress, the gop in DC does nothing to stop him.

Except 1 thing... Should a republican beat Obama and start ignoring the consitution and doing whatever he wants.. dems and the media will scream impeachment nonstop and it'll be a daily news story

I never misunderstood him. I'm still looking for vowels. Hope what? Change what? Well now we see what he was about....community organizing and bullshit. Transfer of wealth from productive people to useless people. Sacrificing paid into programs for unfunded ones. What an anti-American! Maybe he is not really an American regardless of the controversies over his citizenship. His ideals certainly have nothing to do with what made America great, only undoing it. A scourge, a traitor, a fool.

Look I'm not an Obama supporter. However, he isnt a socialist either.. He's really more moderate than most of the right says he is. And really all this idiotic b.s. coming out of the right these days is doing nothing but energizing the left. By distorting reality, level headed fair minded people are less likely to support our side. Its simple we can't win the election without women, and we can win the election without a fair amount of independent support. If we don't start doing something different we're gonna lose by Barry Goldwater proportions in November.

President Obama is right of me and I am middle left.

President Obama is right of me and I am middle left.

Congrats. Don't let wasa hear you say that. However Volts never made anything of themselves and are laying people off. GM has YET to pay off its debt to the People. Hard not to have a turn around when the fed is your money backer. I bought in with Ford and Tata Motors(India) when all this bail out was going on. I too have made a fair bit of change. Good for us.

Hey JB... sorry it took so long, just been in every direction. I shall begin.

First of all, I do agree with you that at a point in time this could have been very normal and even safe to do. I would think that this would still be an acceptable practice of civil liberties with adult direction, of course. However... I pose this to you; What has changed since the 50's 60's that has altered society so greatly that this is no longer of the norm and in many cases can be considered criminal? I have 3 solid reasons, 2 plausible theories with history as evidence, and the sad truth. WE are usually on the same page with things like this, so before I answer I wanted to see if you know what I'm thinking!

I knew you would. As the free enterprise of this country has taken off it has tended to need more when people expand and seek larger profit margins. A company growing will need more workers to meet the demand of that certain product/service. When everything was going good banks extending credit, people hiking prices and cutting labor costs to achieve their quarterly numbers has put people in a situation to where they have to work. Usually both parents and whoever is of age. Morals have crumbled underneath people's trying to keep up and survive. Again, we have come to a point where people are trying to make it, but it always came with a cost... Guidance. I could go into single parenthood, 2 working adults, and such, but you know already. Division of the household produces the results we see. We can try our hardest as people and parents in society to guide our youth but it is hard for a lot of people to make time anymore. Read a book about the dynamics of division of households and have to say it was insightful.