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Americans Are Angrier & More Frustrated Than Ever: 19 Furious Facts
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The American Dream blog,
Have you noticed that people are becoming angrier? You can see it everywhere – in our homes, in our schools, in our workplaces, in our television shows, in our movies, and certainly in Washington. In fact, many have said that there is an “epidemic” of anger in America today. And it is undeniably true. As you will see below, a whole host of surveys and opinion polls show that America has become a seething cauldron of anger and frustration unlike anything that we have ever seen before.
As a nation, we are more divided than we have been in decades, and economic conditions continue to deteriorate. People are working harder than ever and Americans get less vacation days than anyone else in the world, but median household income keeps going down every year. Americans are dissatisfied with their relationships, their jobs, their communities and their political leaders. There is this growing sense that our country is steamrolling toward disaster, and yet there is very little agreement on what the solutions to our problems are. Instead, blaming others for our problems has become a new American pastime. The very fabric of our society is coming apart at the seams and the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is beginning to disappear. What is America going to look like if we continue to go even farther down this road?
The following statistics come from various surveys and opinion polls that have been conducted recently. Without a doubt, these numbers show that Americans are angrier and more frustrated than ever…
#1 65 percent of Americans are dissatisfied “with the U.S. system of government and its effectiveness”. That is the highest level of dissatisfaction that Gallup has ever recorded.
#2 66 percent of Americans are dissatisfied “with the size and power of federal government”.
#3 70 percent of Americans do not have confidence that the government will “make progress on the important problems and issues facing the country in 2014.”
#4 Only 8 percent of Americans believe that Congress is doing a “good” or “excellent” job.
#5 Only 4 percent of Americans believe that it would “change Congress for the worse” if every member was voted out during the next election.
#6 60 percent of Americans report feeling “angry or irritable”. Two years ago that number was at 50 percent.
#7 53 percent of Americans believe that the Obama administration is “not competent in running the government”.
#8 An all-time low 31 percent of Americans identify themselves as Democrats.
#9 An all-time low 25 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans.
#10 An all-time high 42 percent of Americans identify themselves as Independents.
#11 Barack Obama’s daily job approval numbers have dipped down into the high thirties several times lately.
#12 Only 38 percent of Americans approve of the way that Obama is handling the economy.
#13 60 percent of Americans believe that the “economic system in this country unfairly favors the wealthy”.
#14 70 percent of Americans do not “feel engaged or inspired at their jobs”.
#15 Two-thirds of U.S. teens “admit to having anger attacks involving the destruction of property, threats of violence, or engaging in violence”.
#16 36 percent of Americans admit that they have yelled at customer service agents during the past year.
#17 73 percent of Americans believe that Obama’s efforts to “reform” the NSA “won’t make much difference in protecting people’s privacy”.
#18 77 percent of Americans believe that the state of the economy is either “not so good” or “poor”.
#19 65 percent of Americans are either “somewhat dissatisfied” or “very dissatisfied” with the direction of the country.
Are you starting to get the picture?
We have never seen anything like this in the United States during the post-World War II era. People are fundamentally unhappy, and that has tremendous implications for the future of our society.
So what is causing all of this anger and frustration?
Well, of course the economic struggles that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing on a daily basis play a huge role. The following is an excerpt from a recent local Fox News report…
Some are describing this as “America’s anger epidemic.” And there are a few reasons: uncertainty in the job market and the economy, working long hours — on average about one month more now than they did in the 1970s and with less vacation.
So if it seems like Americans are angrier these days it’s because we are.
And it is easy to understand why people are becoming increasingly frustrated with the incompetence and rampant corruption in Washington D.C.…
Grim findings have been coming thick and fast. Most Americans no longer see President Barack Obama as honest. Half think that he “knowingly lied” to pass his Obamacare health law. Fewer than one in five trust the government in Washington to do what is right all or most of the time. Confidence in Congress has fallen to record lows: in America, as in Italy and Greece, just one in ten voters expresses trust or confidence in the national parliament. Frankly straining credulity, a mammoth, 107-country poll by Transparency International, a corruption monitor, this summer found Americans more likely than Italians to say that they feel that the police, business and the media are all “corrupt or extremely corrupt”.
Americans are also turning on one another. Since 1972 the Chicago-based General Social Survey (GSS) has been asking whether most people can be trusted, or whether “you can’t be too careful” in daily life. Four decades ago Americans were evenly split. Now almost two-thirds say others cannot be trusted, a record high.
In addition, there are certainly other reasons why people are so angry these days as well…
The “Knockout Game” grows more popular. Athletes throw tantrums that would embarrass most 3-year-olds. Race relations simmer at a constant near-boil, while our leaders engage in enough posturing and name-calling to look more like a modern version of “West Side Story” than the servant-citizens who should inspire peace and mutual respect.
So what do you believe?
Why do you think that Americans are so angry and so frustrated these days?
Is there anything we can do about it?
And how bad will the anger and frustration in this country get when the economy completely collapses?
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Meh.... 90% of Americans don't give a rats ass as long as the have some domestic piss water they call beer, some monosodium glutamate loaded Cheetos, and a teevee.
99% of Amerikans are poor and stupid
90% of ZeroHeads are american's.... are you following me with this?
No, I don't get it. Can you type it slower? :)
Fred your a voice of reason, do YOU agree? I mean fuck I'm an american, and I have lived all over the USA, and I have never seen 'Leave it to Beaver' in the USA.
It was never beautiful, or nice, ... or good.
It was always angry, hostile, selfish, greedy,
The only real differnce today is the fucking 'political correctness', that didn't exist 30 years ago.
But make no mistake 30 years ago on LA freeways there was road rage and folks were shooting each other,
Back in the 1960's there were real riots on the streets, I was in WATTS during the 1960's riots.
AmeriKKKA has always been a nasty place full of angry nasty people.
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Solution? I prefer to live in the buddha-belt, and live like a BUDDHIST.
I spence a lot of anger and hostility in your post.
where is the budha belt in the US?
other than that, listing what pisses me off would just take to much space
so i'll keep it to one item
nonsense pisses me off....motherfucking nonsense
like the global warming hoax and every bit of nonsense that goes with that nonsense
child anger? my money's on the circumcisions, vaccinations, brainwashing public schools, the psychotic drugs, the disfunctional video games and music...
may i also blame the jews???
If you must place blame on the PUSSYIFICATION of the american male, you must only look in the mirror.
Yeah... we are all dis-satisfied... and yet we all keep voting for the dem/rep franchise, each trying to prevent the other from winning
Not all.
this is a world wide problem.!!!!
Knowledge of the curent systems of control needs to be understood by everyone that wants real change.
this knowledge needs understanding that current systems of control are changeable ie FED, r vs d, media, religion, education systyem, ect.
this knowledge then is put into action. this could become violent as current psycopaths will be reluctant to change. (really:))
for me i can honestly say, my left hemisphere of my brain is saying get the fuck out. a super majority of america are too dumbed to grasp the basics of natural laws, the understanding of language and the responsibility that goes with liberty and freedom..
average american is too fucking lazy to learn how he/she is being fucked by the very people lying and promissing bullshit, whilst these very same people robb them every second of the day..
folks, it is hopeless. fly the white flag. plan your new game...
edit; it must be in the water! lowered iq to the point of not enough reasoning to even comprehend above writing. i thank my wife dearly for that reverse osmosis system she insisted on. weew am i lucky :)
"yet we all keep voting for the dem/rep franchise"
You must be new here.
may i also blame the jews???
Where is good ole Francis Sawyer when we need him?!!
There is NO buddha belt in the USA, the USA is a nation of homocidal killers aka christians.
No religion on earth has murdered so many for no purpose other than bloodlust.
Well they have a run for their money from the atheist - Stalin (20 million direct and 20 million in WW2) and Mao (40 to 70 million).
All religions contain the power for irrational murderous destruction, even the one disguised as political ideologies.
you are a clueless idiot.
take your muslim like propaganda elsewhere
The US does what it does in spite of Christianity, not because of it. And there is always purpose, generally capitalist purpose.
Seriously? THIS again? When are you anti-christians going to acknowledge ATHEISM has killed several orders of magnitude MORE people than 'christianity' ever did? And why is Christianity the only religion ever held to task when it comes to 'killing in the name of....'? Why don't such accusers ever have the integral fortitude to call out islam or satanism?
Gosh, I have read this kind of absolute stupid comment too many times. Listen, people like Stalin murdered millions and just happened to atheists at the same time. Some of them were also vegetarians (Hitler, supposedly) or lovers of classical music, or maybe haters of classical music. Correlation is not causation you fucktard.
Hitler or Stalin or Mao or whatnot did not kill a single person in the name of atheism and there is no atheist "agenda" or any such bullshit.
However, there were certainly millions killed in the name of one religion or another. So yes, us atheists would like religion to go where it belongs: the shit pile of history.
I think Satoshi is closer to the truth than the "Christian" vs. "Atheist" meme. Most ancient spiritual traditions (based on verifiable / experiencial spiritual truths) were hijacked long ago by power hungry religious zeolots. The Buddhist tradition is probably one of the least corrupted but still has its flaws. But all of the Muslim vs. Christianity / Atheism vs. Monotheism / Buddhism vs. Hinduism / New Age vs. Satanism / Etc. vs. Etc. misses the point:
We are intellectual animals (not Humans) playing at God rather than working to become a God. The spiritual soul returns over and over again. Unfortunately for us so do all of the polluted egos that we create. They attach to us when we reenter the flesh and cause us to repeat most of the crap we did in previous lives. The only way to escape is to analyze (meditate) these defects, comprehend them and then dissolve them. We currently live in the black age (the Kali Yuga as the Tibetan Buddhists call it). It is the most materialist age of the four ages. We are actually very fortunate because we have been given a free membership to the biggest and most well equiped gym in the galaxy in order to perfect ourselves. We are confronted with our own egos with every action and encounter including this ZH forum. We can mechanically repeat the same pattern or do the hard work to comprehend our egos as they manifest. Most people don't want to go to the gym. They want a pill to cure them or a wafer or a water baptism. No pill or outsider (priest, doctor, guru, etc.) can purify us and make us evolve. Only lots of hard work over many lifetimes will do this. I am just glad I have a gym pass and that most days I have some motivation to do the work. Everything else is Maya (illusion).
Sorry for the rant but the Christion vs. Muslim etc. meme is meant to keep us all in the dark and fighting one another so that TPTB can profit and enslave us further. I prefer to let their machine assist me with the Work.
Cheers - Cro Maat
I enjoyed your post. Reminds me of the Eckhart Tolle I've been studying. Most of humanity remains unconscious as he puts it. We haven’t yet evolved enough to dis-identify from our minds and thus continue to mistake our opinions and view points for the truth. This article and the majority of the responses seem to underline this fact.
Religions don't kill people, people kill people
Well thank you for informing us of the religious zeal you Muslims have for killing Christians cause it makes killing you all the easier too.
No kidding, reminds me of a line from American Psycho, "Hey, I'm a child of divorce, gimme a break."
I don't see the anger and hostility that some are describing with the majority of Americans, except maybe in large socialist metro areas. But I do see gluttony, lethargy and ignorance and all the side effects resulting, all over.
If anything, Americans need to get more angry and take action. The controls gubmint has over the people would have caused an instant revolution 100 years ago, when gubmint didn't have nearly as much power.
From "The Network" ( 1976 )
Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
Good movie. Funny how some things never change.
@manofthenorth
Yep, and when you post on Zerhohedge like you have a plan, you don't.
In fact, if you actually got the fuck up and did something you could put your name to, THAT would be something.
But right now?
Its bullshit rotting on a server.
Do not presume to know anything about me stain. Et comedetis, et mortuus est quasi vermiculus mauris.
Also funny how you can't seem to find that movie anywhere. At least, I can't.
He learned that in public scrools!
Humans are not born angry...
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A baby receives nothing but love.
after they scream bloody murder for it
"A baby receives nothing but love."
Bullshit! 90% of Americans spank (ie. assault) their babies. That's a criminal offence in some Scandinavian countries.
Child abuse spawns acceptance of abuse by the government (the adult replacement for a father).
Is that nother Michael Snyder statistic pulled out of thin air?
Do your own research (you could even start here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bi6x-4aNmM). Your snide remarks add nothing to the actual argument.
Neither do your blanket assertions. You pulled a number out of thin air with no real basis in fact.
Trust him, he's a doctor.
Actually as a baby in the womb, "OR SO I'VE HEARD" is when humans experience total bliss. It's that whole wrenching them outta the bread box that does all the damage.
i-dog, you deserve a good spanking.
"Spare the rod, spoil the child"
Yeah, I'd like to know where the 90% statistic comes from...as I see it, the problems with America's youth rest largely with the LACK of discipline, not an excess of it.
Everybody's a victim these days...
Women are victimized by Men.
Children are victimized by their parents.
Blacks are victimized by Whites.
Gays are victimized by "bigots".
Yep, all these pussified, fat, weak, out-of-shape, pathetic motherfuckers are the way they are, because they are victims.
Baby spanking...the debate rages.
Over here in ASIA I never see anybody HIT the kids, and in all cases where I have seen kids hit, they were always dysfunctional familys, and when the kids got older they hit others and end up being sociopaths.
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The Asia way to raise kids is un-conditional love.
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In the USA every cop was beat as a child.
Your entirely valid point about violence not withstanding, no human love is unconditional. The "Asia way to raise kids" is, at best, merely less violent.
EDIT: @ Dr Engalis' comment:*
"Is that nother Michael Snyder statistic pulled out of thin air?"
No shit.
Having had the dubious pleasure of reading several of Mr. Snyders' mindless diatribes on a wide variety of websites over the past few weeks, I've come to the conclusion that this man has an incredibly irrational fear of coming in contact with anything even remotely resembling a fact.
*As often as not, the mechanics of the ZH forum threads lead me to pull out a few head hairs that I can ill afford to lose.
i-dog says, '90% of Americans spank (ie. assault) their babies.'
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? Please reference
I'm sensing some defensiveness (and hostiliy) in the replies here ... which just goes to show how prevalent (and guilty) the offenders are.
So, I gather you thought it was only 85%? Thanks for playing.
I-dog, you speak the truth, but the majority of commenters here are BOT's in Indian Call Centers on GS nickels, they don't give a fuck about ameriKKKa, and everything is a big fucking joke, and the more inane the comments the more clicks on google ads, and more nickels.
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All my life I have traveled the world, and no where on earth have I seen children mistreated as much as the USA.
In ASIA for instance a child is NEVER alone, NEVER, he goes to work with his parents as an infant, many mothers carry their child 24/7, until he/she can walk. A child is always held, there are always dozens if not 100's of family within a 100 meter radius during the childs 0-12 years of age, they never know lonliness or anything,
Strangers are NEVER trusted, and no child is given a drug, ... if someone were to sexually molest a child that person would be DEAD the same day.
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The proper question here is WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO AMERIKKKA?
Me thinks that the chase for the FED-FIAT aka FRN is what destroyed the ameriKKKan family. Human development works best in an extended family, where a child is entertained 24/7 by dozens of people who love them.
Why did AIPAC do this to AMERIKKKA? Destroy the family? I think the plan was always to turn the USA into an army of mercenary killers who rob and plunder the world.
In Asia... huh???
Spent some time in Cambodia?
How about the "orphanages" hidden in rural Thailand? Many of the kids are dumped or traded by living parents.... not pleasant to observe; but to be clear no nationality has a monopoly on loving their kids nor a monopoly on mistreating their kids....there are plenty of good people and cultures worn down by poverty/drug warfare/economic warfare, etc.... same desperate shit on every continent I've travelled to.
Then get thee hence, and relieve some suffering: http://www.worldvision.org
Bitching don't help much!
yeeeeeeeeeeeah,
in Thailand parents DONT sell their children for the sexual satisfaction of tourists. /sarc
Fuck Scandinavia and the EU
Victoria Nuland is that you?
WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT? Who's the twinkle toed communist cock suscker that signed his own death warrant!?
TSA fingers infants and hits little girls and old ladys.
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Yes, in MOST cultures children are adored, and quiet, and loved,
In the USA children are sent to day-care, where they are drugged.
In 90% of the WORLD you would NEVER trust a stranger with your child, only FAMILY cares for child 24/7.
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Probably the biggest reason why the USA is a fucking NATION of SOCIOPATHS' is that "FAMILY" was destroyed long ago to chase the FIAT FRN, ... thank you AIPAC for destroying ameriKKKa.
Its happening everywhere.... bit by bit every nation starts looking the same debt/dislocation/distortion of society, wealth, business opportunity for the small guy etc etc.... welcome to globalisation of soverignty and culture to reinforce and amass more wealth and control for a hidden few who are in an elite pissing contest to assume top dog status - they never viewed Americans, Canadians, Australians, or any 'ians as humans just uselesseaters.
Its a good time to recognise its one big leaky boat we're sitting in and though the average sleeping Aussie/American/Canadian/etc frustrates the hell out of me - it was so unpleasant for me to 'awaken' to the real deal that I hope I can occasionally rememeber its not the sheeple at fault its the cretins who see themselves as more-human-more-equal than the other other animals in the farm who as you say are destroying not just America but every other nation step by step.... its only now we're seeing that it is every nation, no exceptions. Not even for Americans.
think Tragedy & Hope
Gov't is always to blame. Think French Revolution.
Efforts to create equal opportunity, and to provide for equitable treatment under the law, have utterly failed. Justice no longer wears a blindfold.
I grew up in the Midwest in the 70's and believed in the stars and stripes, brainwashed through and through by Hollywood. Watched just about every war movie made. Got married young. I put my faith in the system and have been a corporate slave for the past 25 years raising a family. The veil was lifted and I have glimpsed the horror. I can't stop looking at it, like happening upon a car accident. Just staring at the horror. It is embarrassing that I can be a grown ass man and have gone through so much of life with practically no understanding.I have been very sheltered.
I appreciate your view. Many here just want to talk secondary and tertiary effects of the real action that is taking place. I have always wanted to understand the world. I did not fully grasp what that would entail.
I know just what you mean.
Fred, try this (similar feel):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2em1x2j9-o
Man jumping out of window in first scene...I will watch it soon. If I disappear, you will know the pain was too much :)
It takes about 20 years of stuyding this stuff to even begin to understand. Shit if it were easy, everyone would have a clue.
Carrol Quigley an insider historian for the CIA, .. it took his entire life to figure out the truth about the USA.
Yep, on the lowest order of understanding is to take tertiary actions in the masses and make a joke about them. That is adolescent.
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On the one hand the BOT's here talk about their guns and taking ameriKKKA back, but I think its impossible to fix ameriKKKa without a FIRST-ORDER (PRIMARY) understanding of 'what went wrong'.
My mission here is to discuss this first order understanding, then and only then can we talk war strategy.
@ Satoshi411:
I'm not sure how old you are, but at 36, I'm old enough to remember "when times were different":
- Everyone in the neighborhood knew everyone else in the neighborhood.
- Nobody locked their doors at night.
- A schoolyard fight usually resulted in a new friendship afterwards.
- In-school detention was the 'treatment' option for a schoolyard fight, not criminal charges + medications.
- Schools taughts kids HOW to think, not WHAT to think.
- You could pull over and help someone with car trouble, without wondering if you were being set-up for a robbery.
- Most people didn't go through life, jealous of others, or obsessed with material bullshit that they really didn't need anyway.
- Jobs (even entry-level) paid a basic living wage.
This isn't even a complete list. So yeah, times were different. People were different.
Now? ?
Millions of 2-income households struggle to keep a roof over their heads, struggle to cope with the in-fighting that goes on in their households (usually over money), deal with unneccessary social pressure, and perpetually feel trapped on a hamster wheel.
Millions of Americans are drugged-up, under the influence of something, and frustrated that they work harder now, than they ever did, while the quality of their life diminishes.
Yeah, I'd say people have a LOT to be pissed about.
I grew up in LA, by the time I was 16 1/2 my friends were dead.
We all carried screwdrivers and pliers in our pockets, after a fight the loser always lost his teeth, the screwdriver was for eyes, I would say 1/2 the guys at my school wore eye patches.
When I lived in Pasadena even younger they used pencils to take out eyes.
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Good for all of you that grew up in RURAL area,...
I still own rural land in the USA all over the place, and every place is full of METH HEADS, and you keep a dog, and a gun near you at all times.
The best thing in the world is a DOG ( not a pit-bull that was a joke ), the dog alerts you, and you grab your gun and take care of business. Most meth-heads are like fucking zombies, and they're too fucking dumb to care for a dog, well a good dog.
I work with a guy who grew up in Pittsburgh during the 60's. He said it was rough. He indicated that his dad thought it was even rougher in that city growing up in the 40's. There is a lot of heroin use in the small midwest towns now. People in their 20's with infections due to needles. If you have not made it to the suburbs or the wealthy enclaves in cities, it is most likely bleak.
You know meth-heads and dogs...
Nothing wrong with a Pitbull, though I don't have one (I've got one that's a bit bigger and more suited as an LGD).
Military men, pitbulls and jealous wives. Did you miss Satoshi's post on this subject yesterday?
"...by the time I was 16 half my friends was dead, an' the rest wore eyepatches!!"
Yeah, cuz you see that shit alla time inna hood. Right after the pigs get done doing aerial acrobatics. Satoshi, me old son, you just blew your cover. What are you really? A 12-year-old in rural Bakersfield pretending to be an inner-city badass? An unemployable 30-year-old living in Mom's basement in Scranton? Or just a little bitch wannabe?
LOL you're very funny
Man, you are fucking full of shit! quit posting
sorry dup
- Everyone in the neighborhood knew everyone else in the neighborhood.
[ UTAH? MORMON? ]
- Nobody locked their doors at night.
[ NOT my ameriKKA ]
- A schoolyard fight usually resulted in a new friendship afterwards.
[ In the 1950's a school-yard fight meant a pencil in the eye, nobody walked away from a fight without being crippled when I was kid. ]
- In-school detention was the 'treatment' option for a schoolyard fight, not criminal charges + medications.
[ You must be a child of the 90's ]
- Schools taughts kids HOW to think, not WHAT to think.
[ BULLSHIT public education was always to make soldiers ]
- You could pull over and help someone with car trouble, without wondering if you were being set-up for a robbery.
[ where the fuck did you live? ]
- Most people didn't go through life, jealous of others, or obsessed with material bullshit that they really didn't need anyway.
[ FUCK, ...never heard of the JONESE, jealousy is the oldest ameriKKKan story ]
- Jobs (even entry-level) paid a basic living wage.
[ yep, $1.50/hr and you could have it all ... ]
So you want to fight?
So you need to feel superior to everyone here?
So your suffering has been worse?
What on earth is your point? What exactly are you so self righteous about?
Fear manifests itself in strange ways.
Amen, sister.
Yer avatar looks like a horse's rear end, how appropriate!
buddha with internet and a cell phone? I sure the hell hope you don't have an anti virus program killing them computer bugs and all.
Buddah=Satoshi? NOT.
When the fuck are you gonna get banned from here? What the fuck is taking so long for that yo happen?
I think it has happened a few times. There was Satoshi101, then 911.
What is wrong with beavers? is yours in need of some taxidermy?
....and please, FFS, use all caps. We love it when you use all caps. we love it more than Mayonaise.
Poor and stupid don't always correlate.
Krugman is testiment to that.
Krugman isn't rich, but he's clearly a caring person.
Too bad that adolescents twits in granny's basement on a PC, have no respect for real education.
Krugman cares about people.
Funny, everyone here disses the FSA but you know full well that the majority here belong to the FSA, how else could the squander so much time?
KRUGMAN at least tells the fucking truth, so long as their CORPORATE-WELFARE, share some with the POOR. The AIPAC will continue to PRINT FRN FIAT to the moon, until the USD is worthless, given this scenario why shouldn't everybody have a bag of cheetoh's, ... until its game-over?
Why should ONLY the 'elitists' have Cheetohs?
Worked for HITLER, keep everybody on the payroll, I don't dislike KRUGMAN I just see him as an apologist, a guy at the NYTIMES whose job is to remind the rich to share, to throw crumbs to the beggars.
which marijuana dispensary do you frequent most?
they do sell pot openly in the markets where I live, mostly old women 90+, and it would be what I call 'mexican dirt weed', if and when I ever seed some KGB ( killer green bud ), I might smoke,
I have to return to the USA sometime next year to care for my Pitbull farm in Tacoma, Wash, now that smoke is legal there I look forward to taking the bus to Vancouver and spending a long weekend with KGB. :)
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I can tell you that exactly 5pm everyday I hit the BAI-JIU ( rice whiskey ), but now is morning, time for most excellent java :)
I drink with the locals', everybody get's a buzz 5-6pm, then goes home to the family.
I would make beer here, but malted-barley, and hops is not attainable. Probably for the best, my wife doesn't want me to be fat,
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My wife is Tibetian, and funny two days ago I made a double batch of bagels, and my wife is like what the fuck is wrong with these donuts? I said them dear are NY bagels, chewy on the outside, and soft on the inside, ... today she left the house with 1/2 my bagels, I said where you taking my bagels she said "to my firends house, where they have a toaster",... smart woman ( but she had never seen or heard of a bagel before, and now she likes them, ... I suspect tomorrow, I'll have to make another batch, and buy a fucking toaster :(
Get some serious professional help.
It's too late for that.
This is just MDB 0.5. MDB was classic. This individual is just a trolling shell of the poster formerly known as MDB
A team of psychiatrists would have to commit themselves after a session with satoshi.
The German Shepherd is the noblest of the dog breeds. Everything in life flows from that..... That is like F=ma
Actually a LAB Shepherd mix with more shep in it is pretty choice. The spend a lot of time looking at the ceiling and rubbing their nuts on stuff.
you must be very courageous to have a tibetan wife.
hella ugly woman in tibet
Less than 50% agree with you.
FSA is alive and well in the USA for a reason.
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It's almost been 90+ years now that the US public have been promised a GUBMINT tit to suck from FOREVER, all at no cost thanks to unlimited FIAT.
Trouble is the WORLD is waking up to the game, and now the USA don't make anything, and the WORLD wants something for their FOOD/PRODUCT.
The FSA will go full retards when the CHEETO bag goes empty.
You don't want to be living there.
Note sure how you're seeing it, but much of the world's Ag stuff is pumped by big corporations, EVERYWHERE.
In ALL countries, however, you will find the "rebels" that are the more independent food producers.
Everything in waves/phases. It'll be a short duration thing in which most of the violence burns itself out due to a lack of resources. Those who didn't burn themselves up will start marching to somewhere: and lots die during the journey. Pretty standard throughout history's recordings.
The USA don't (doesn't) make anything? I know we're down from where we once were, but I'm pretty sure we still make a few things. Headed in the wrong direction? Yes, but you make it sound as though we are being outproduced by Portugal or something. The truth is that the U.S. still leads the world in manufacturing. I'm sure you could find some stats that show we are not #1, but even if we are only #5, that still means we make something. Don't count us out just yet.
Furthermore, you have made a complete ass out of yourself on this thread. Your parents should have spanked you.
"Meh.... 90% of Americans don't give a rats ass as long as the have some domestic piss water they call beer, some monosodium glutamate loaded Cheetos, and a teevee."
And that's one of the things that makes me really angry.
This article misses the point. Doc you are right, most of the time people are perfectly happy minding their own business, drinking some cheap brew and eating junk food. You can totally count me in!
But we aren't being left alone to enjoy our frivolous, self-absorbed, superficial lives. No! We are being assulted 24/7/365 from all sides... relentlessly prodded, attacked, slandered, provoked, blamed, chastised, lied to, robbed, and punished. Unpalatable political propaganda has now seeped into every sports franchise, movie studio, and media outlet.
We are told we are sexist, racist, homophobic, evil, hateful, ignorant, fear mongering, greedy, sick, nasty, neaderthal animals in need of constant oppressive government oversight for our own good (and for the good of the children!). It is maddening! And it has made us mad.
Are you gay friendly?
I feel like Michael Snyder bought Zerohedge as a marketing platform for all 651 blogs he writes "(Insert Number) Reasons (America/GLobal Economy/Europe) is on the verge of (Collapse/Implosion/Revolution)" stories for.
please note Zh reads Implode-Explode, and as they're more of a dry well than our own uber-aggregator/dicer Snyder...
Martin Andleman is associated with that Implode-Explode crap.
He poses as a foreclosure helper/advocate, but he is a without a fucking doubt a banker shill.
I could prove it if I felt it were worth the effort.
I liked Mandelman Matters, especially Martin's "Mandelman U" series on derivatives. How disappointing that he's turned to the dark side. The one I couldn't stand was that POS from Housing Wire. Don't hear too much about him (and his steaming pantloads of lies) anymore.
For a brief moment, I almost managed to wonder who Michael Snyder is. It passed.
That's probably closer to truth than anyone realizes.
I find it Ironic that Tyler puts this up just 5 miutes after i told some POS called Satoshi to get a clue about what REALLY is flowing through te veins of millions of Americans!
Ironic? Coincidental? Deliberate? Not the first time Tyler puts up a parallel. One has to wonder.
Speak of the devil. I was just wondering how many facts from Snyder we were getting today.
Facts? You're awfully generous with that term.
I'm not angry...i'm mad (and paranoid too)
If you are mad, then go mad.
- Old Japanese Proverb
Don't go away mad. Just go away?
My mistake Doc. Surely I meant to say statistics.
#20 Recent statistics show that 87% of all statistics have been made up on the spot.
#21 People are getting pissed off as fuck that #20 is either a fact or a statistic.
+1 Lol...
Whoops, I forgot a key detail. It was 70% of the people that were getting pissed off as fuck. =P
+1
Skateboard dude almost always makes me laugh. ;-)
As long as their are available drugs booze and sports with an ebt card......no one will be angry enough
If the EBT cards and cable TV stop working then you will see (fat) people in the streets.
Or in your living room, so prepare accordingly.
Might I suggest something in a nice 7.62x51?
http://ptr91.com/
pods
The Maine prepper dude who seems to be ex-Mil was getting rid of his AR for PTR G3. Can you reach out and touch someone about say 300 yards?
Their prices are pretty damn fair. DSA's FALs are not that cheap anymore. Any idea if a G3 is more accurate?
Not too familiar with them to be honest. The one I was shooting was nice, it was an older PTR91F. It was post JLD enterprises and was smooth.
300 yards is not a problem. They also make the MSG, which will take you out to the end of the cartridge range (20 inch barrel).
I like them due to they are made here, and they said a big FU to Connecticut and moved to SC.
They also now make a 7.62x39, but I have no experience with them.
Not sure how they equate with the DSA or any other FALs, but they shoot nice.
pods
All depends on situation... I don't even have 100 yds open around me. Trees... And getting close means first being exposed to my neighbors, unless, that is, you're dropping from the sky.
Do people really think they're going to be camping out staring off in the distance waiting for snipers on the edge somewhere?
And where I live, 1k yards is not out of the question for line of sight. It's been long enough since I've shot that distance that I'd be leery, but there are some MFers out here who do that shit regularly.
Agreed. Not unless you are out west will you run into long range shooting. In most places, a shotgun will do. I am good to ~75-100 yards with mine.
Tight knit community will go a lot farther than the "tactical" life. I don't care who you are, you have to sleep.
Hiding in plain sight is a very valuable talent.
pods
+1
Yeah they packed up their shit and left really fast. SC rolled out the red carpet and they were gone. Priceless. They started out almost as a G91 kit company and really grew fast and the quality is supposedly very good.
I see Remington is moving a bunch of stuff from NY State to Huntsville, AL. Magpul out of CO too plus others are leaving other states.
Nice to have some arms manufacturers down south. ;)
pods
This article is making me frustrated and angry
Well, it's not ALL the fault of the federal government, despite the apparent thesis of your post.
Yes, there is state and local government, and the banksters, and global warming/cooling/climate change.
On an even worse note, the Lame Stream media is trying not to notice, but Mossad is twisting Barry's nuts, to get a major war going in Syria, which seems to be the only thing Putin really cares about these days. Not cool.
Of course it is! And it can all be traced to a single person- OBAMA! Yes, cause I read it right here on ZH!
I'm a realist. I have little use for govt. But I am not stupid enough to believe that the removal of OBAMA and or the govt in total is going to change the fact that we're heavily in debt (talking personal debt) and rapidly exhuasting our resources. This is a collective FAIL, one whose basis in fact can be traced to the notion of establishing our very existence on perpetual growth on a finite planet.
Our biggest long-term problem is one that Snyder doesn't even realize because he, himself, is a victim. And it's mostly not the responsibility of the federal government.
When #6 is at 90% then wake me up. Until then nothing happens.
Not a problem unless the EBT goes south. Wonder what's on the today show tomorrow?
Unless food prices keep increasing.
Inflation is a bitch.
Bastille Day, bitchez
I remember when I turned 19. Man did I get fucked up. I'm pretty sure I got laid too, but I can't say that with absolute certainty.
Cheer up, Guys. The full force of Obummerdon't Care is about to make it all better.
And what about the people too angry to answer polls?
Not really that remarkable that people are angry, distrustful, and depressed.
It ain't called a depression for nothing.
pods
"Let me have my toaster and my TV , My steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone"
- Howard Beale, Network
I'm mad as hell!
I quit giving a fuck. But is funny as hell to see the panic approaching.
Where in the fact has SYNDER been?
Fuck I grew up in LA in the 1950's, and if you even looked at someone in the car next to you, he got out with a crowbar and went full kill.
AMERICA has always been a nation of HOMOCIAL fuck-twits.
SYNDER want's you to think this is NEW, its NOT.
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This probably biggest reason why I live abroad, I can stare at people all day long and smile, and NEVER a fucking reaction never.
When I go the USA, I neve smile, never stare, ... just act like a fucking zombie.
Always been this way in AMERIKKKA.
You did not leave, you were chased out. And as for the guy in the car next to you going full kill,,,,,he did not. You are still alive to pizz and moan about your 500% loos in bitcoin!
As a REAL American let me say this, stay to faq out. My crowbar has a sharp end!!
Hey, what are you looking at?
In the grand tradition of Heads on Sticks, some fuck gives you the stare, pop the trunk, pull out the 10 gal gas can, unscrew and throw away the top, light your Zippo and start walking quickly towards him.
He will leave, ASAP
Maybe this is what Satoshi had to deal with in LA day in and day out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVvEsy396dA
Now, I don't deny that Washington DC is full of homocidal maniacs, but obviously, souche911 has never really been to LA or anywhere else in amerikka. If I had seen Sushi911 in a car next to me in the 50's in LA, I would have waved at him, and my family would have waved at him. If, on the other hand, Sush had flipped me the bird, I probably would have looked the other way.
Take an honest look in the mirror and see a nonsense muttering drunk. The shades of validity in some of your complaints are drowned out by the pure false ridiculousness of the other half of your statements. Half of the dudes in your school wore eye patches, and within every car is a crowbar-wielding murderer? You're fucking drunk, dude; shut up.