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Worktodo

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8. Difficult not to be upset

Reply to SecularMotion (Reply #7)

Wed Sep 7, 2016, 01:40 AM

Sep 2016

Congress likes to fund wars but not veterans. Money for cleanup but not for first responders. People stranded for days at the Superdome. A bridge collapse here and there. Corruption in Iraq. The Great Recession. The F-35. The hottest 15 months on record.

Did we as a nation learn anything? Are we better prepared today? It seems that, more than ever, our national politics are just a game where, win or lose, everybody's in it for the money.

Where's "rock bottom" where we collectively do some soul searching? It apparently wasn't 9/11 or Katrina. It wasn't the 2008 economic collapse...

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Just re-lived 9/11. There was a program about the attack on the Pentagon [View all] question everything Sep 2016 OP

I can't watch the videos from that day, I saw too much, the people holding hands as they jumped Demonaut Sep 2016 #1

True. These descriptions were horrible, hard to imagine question everything Sep 2016 #9

I still remember it like it was yesterday. KMOD Sep 2016 #2

I Was At The Airport ProfessorGAC Sep 2016 #11

it doesn't seem like it was 15 years ago. Feels more recent. Liberal_in_LA Sep 2016 #3

What does anger me. Archae Sep 2016 #4

What angers me is how batshit crazy our country went Egnever Sep 2016 #6

Try an anger management course SecularMotion Sep 2016 #7

Difficult not to be upset Worktodo Sep 2016 #8

Even without moving to other areas, we've squandered the sympathy of the whole world question everything Sep 2016 #10

You get angry about everything, so no surprising revelation, this. closeupready Sep 2016 #14

I've often stayed at the hotel across the street from the Pentagon. nolabear Sep 2016 #5

Even today, that tragedy continues to shock so many BYJ439 Sep 2016 #12

I worked in financial services at the time, at a company in Pittsburgh Orrex Sep 2016 #13

For years after, I also couldn't watch videos about the attack. closeupready Sep 2016 #15