Have things gotten really worse, or have I just become an Old Fart?

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34. I think its worse on the economic level

The first world could care less we have the most powerful military in the world, the reason they put up with our crap is because we have 300 million consumers, its the true bargaining chip in our 1st world power. Now lets look at china with 1.6 billion people and imagine multinational corporation's drooling at the prospect of more than 300 million middle class consumers in the future in that country.

China is a investment to company's that will jump the US ship the second things get decent over there, and the very people we give everything up for in hopes they may give us a job will abandon us for the younger woman and America will be left in unregulated capitalistic ruins, although Faux will still blame fast food workers, black people and taxes because there will be a few consumers left here its just we will be irrelevant to business and the rest of the world and it will be our own gullibility to capitol marketing that does us in.

Hopefully some progressive nation in the future will learn from our mistakes when our empire crumbles, investors are too disconnected from the pain their productivity demands cause and CEO's and business leaders don't care what happens when they are dead, they want to steal from the future and we let them.