Seriously, WTF has happened to our country? [View all]

[al_liberal]

Nixon passed the clean water act in 1972, the clean air act was passed in 1963, the voting rights act was passed in 1965, not to mention so many other decided laws that have existed for decades.

Now we have to entertain a political party that has as its goals undoing all of these laws and returning our country to a place where anything goes? Pollute the air, water, ground and that's great because you're the job providers? I actually work with a guy that thinks clean air and water had nothing to do with Gov't regulations, and he's older than my 45 yo ass.

Now there are many groups of people that actually believe science and logic are wrong and having an education is bad. Seriously?

I can't tell you how many times I've heard from my co-workers, all of whom work for the federal gov't, say that now that the majority of voters can vote themselves "free stuff" our country has ended. What about the very few billionaires that have paid for all of their "free stuff" what about all of the corporate welfare that our country spends in the name of defense?

This used to be the country of great men and great ideas. Henry Ford, love him or hate him, more than doubled the prevailing wage of the day. We built the Hoover Dam, created the world standard for traffic lights and signs, same for airports and air travel, put Neil on the moon, built the Sears Tower, flew the space shuttle, the list goes on and on.

But now we can't do anything big, we go to war without paying for it or asking the country to sacrifice. Our infrastructure is a joke, and getting worse. We can't do anything that might benefit "we the people" less it be called socialism. Health care? Education? Promote the general welfare? Anything that might allow us to "form a more perfect union"?

It's all BS and only getting worse by the day.

When did it stop being E pluribus Unum and become Bellum omnium contra omnes?