Is our country falling apart due to bad government decisions ? Personally I think things will get worse over the next 5 to 10.......?
Even if your statement was true - With what is happening around the world!
I would not live any where else even if it did get worse to live here over the next 5 to 10 years...
Pretty much the entire world has gone downhill since 2001.
Terrorism. Empire building. State building. Suspicion. Paranoia. We don't trust each other like we used to.
Wars against adverbs. Wars of words. Wars of ideals. Wars on war.
The rise of scientific ignorance. Short-sighted political goals. Bi-partisanship.
Overcrowding. Pollution. Earthquakes. Tsunamis. Virus outbreaks both physical and virtual.
Thanks kitesurfing.
Select to expand quoteevlPanda said..
Pretty much the entire world has gone downhill since 2001.
Terrorism. Empire building. State building. Suspicion. Paranoia. We don't trust each other like we used to.
Wars against adverbs. Wars of words. Wars of ideals. Wars on war.
The rise of scientific ignorance. Short-sighted political goals. Bi-partisanship.
Overcrowding. Pollution. Earthquakes. Tsunamis. Virus outbreaks both physical and virtual.
Thanks kitesurfing.
You forgot conspiracies. They are definitely of a much lower quality than they used to be.
They used to be almost believable, but look at all this 9/11 rubbish that some poeple believe now. 
And chem trails! pffft.
I mean,.. really! How could they expect sane people to fall for that trash. ! 
No, it isn't just you.
Socrates and Plato thought the same thing 2,500 years ago, and they were right - look where Greece is now.
Select to expand quotepweedas said..evlPanda said..
Pretty much the entire world has gone downhill since 2001.
Terrorism. Empire building. State building. Suspicion. Paranoia. We don't trust each other like we used to.
Wars against adverbs. Wars of words. Wars of ideals. Wars on war.
The rise of scientific ignorance. Short-sighted political goals. Bi-partisanship.
Overcrowding. Pollution. Earthquakes. Tsunamis. Virus outbreaks both physical and virtual.
Thanks kitesurfing.
You forgot conspiracies. They are definitely of a much lower quality than they used to be.
They used to be almost believable, but look at all this 9/11 rubbish that some poeple believe now.
And chem trails! pffft.
I mean,.. really! How could they expect sane people to fall for that trash. !
There's one, a proper adverb. Defend it well.
I've been living in Melbourne for 3 years and i'm looking to get out and go back to the UK as my standard of living is so much better, I do worry as i saw what happened back home and feel that Australia is a little to exposed.
Political correctness, unions and labour make it to easy to break what's decent and right. there are to many folks paying for lazy dole collectors and wealthy tax dodgers. I know its the same the world over but at least i'm not being ripped off for every thing i buy in Europe.
I do love Australia but it seems the lucky country is for the select few.
Cue the red flags and go home anti aussie crap.
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I've been living in Melbourne for 3 years and i'm looking to get out and go back to the UK as my standard of living is so much better, I do worry as i saw what happened back home and feel that Australia is a little to exposed.
Political correctness, unions and labour make it to easy to break what's decent and right. there are to many folks paying for lazy dole collectors and wealthy tax dodgers. I know its the same the world over but at least i'm not being ripped off for every thing i buy in Europe.
I do love Australia but it seems the lucky country is for the select few.
Cue the red flags and go home anti aussie crap.
TOO
It's just you. I've doubled my wealth in the last 7 years. And it's still windy almost all of summer. I've got a great new son and am loving life. Maybe I'm just a glass half fu kind of guy and yours is half empty?
Onward and upward Australia.
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It's just you. I've doubled my wealth in the last 7 years. And it's still windy almost all of summer. I've got a great new son and am loving life. Maybe I'm just a glass half fu kind of guy and yours is half empty?
Onward and upward Australia.
Dreams dream see ya next year 2014..
I don't have to travel the world to know how hard it is else where, but we seem to be making life hard for ourselves here! But at the end of the day the bottom line is good and as long as you are above that line then all is well.
Lived and travelled in some remote parts of the Phillipines for two years, had children beg for my food scraps and rubbish, saw people unable to walk without any access to wheelchairs or adequate health care negotiating broken footpaths. Hardly a day goes by when I'm not thankful that I was born in Australia where we have a political system we get to elect, although we may not always individually agree with the outcome, and the welfare provisions and infrastructure we have, flawed though it may be. I feel there's a lot to be said for being thankful for what we have and what is good and right in life when so many suffer and have so little.
Select to expand quoteevlPanda said..
Pretty much the entire world has gone downhill since 2001.
Terrorism. Empire building. State building. Suspicion. Paranoia. We don't trust each other like we used to.
Wars against adverbs. Wars of words. Wars of ideals. Wars on war.
The rise of scientific ignorance. Short-sighted political goals. Bi-partisanship.
Overcrowding. Pollution. Earthquakes. Tsunamis. Virus outbreaks both physical and virtual.
Thanks kitesurfing.
I blame Bush.Select to expand quoteCarantoc said..
No, it isn't just you.
Socrates and Plato thought the same thing 2,500 years ago, and they were right - look where Greece is now.
The Greeks say the same as Gypsy.
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilisations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
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I don't have to travel the world to know how hard it is else where, but we seem to be making life hard for ourselves here! But at the end of the day the bottom line is good and as long as you are above that line then all is well.
Travel the world... some people never had it better.
I go to bed at night and if I wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and see it is me, not somebody else, then look out the window and it looks like Australia, I think, "Shizz, I can build a great day on top of this."
Is the government doing it right?? Who knows??
The only influence thee and me can have on it is our vote every three or four years in the local, state and federal elections.
I think Labor is controlled by the left hand and Liberal by the right hand of one puppeteer.
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Pretty much the entire world has gone downhill since 2001.
Terrorism. Empire building. State building. Suspicion. Paranoia. We don't trust each other like we used to.
Wars against adverbs. Wars of words. Wars of ideals. Wars on war.
The rise of scientific ignorance. Short-sighted political goals. Bi-partisanship.
Overcrowding. Pollution. Earthquakes. Tsunamis. Virus outbreaks both physical and virtual.
Thanks kitesurfing.
Panda, I laughed my arrrse off, in that it's so funny because it's true kind of a way. BTW is Sarah Palin a kitesurfer?
US Secretary of State John Kerry is a kitesurfer, it can all be traced right back to him.
