America, when did you stop caring?

[rustydog]

American exceptional ism, we're number one!, God Bless the USA, Land of the Free, home of the brave...
This is not the America of song. Perhaps she never was.

How is cutting funding for the most vulnerable while giving the richest 400 families in america hundreds of billions in tax breaks Exceptionalism?

Since when is it ok to hijack Jesus Christ while your actions are directly opposite of His teachings?
Since when is it so important to ensure our tax dollars do not go to a welfare recipient who might use drugs, but our tax dollars can go to a representative who will use them to have sex with someone other than their spouse and pay her off when caught. (as they scream about a political rival having sex out of marriage)

A missoula Mt police office finds homeless man frozen to death in his car...towns force homeless camps to pack up and move. (Not in my back yard)
People arrested for feeding the homeless!!! What the FUCK is wrong with you America???

Our roads, electrical grid, schools and social fabric are in tatters and all the Republican party can do is make the rich richer and attack a woman's womb with a vengeance.
School levy measures continually fail, fire and police departments are being cut in the name of lower tax revenues while the super rich keep getting more tax cuts.

People the likes of "The Donald" , Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman run for president, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are widely listened to and quoted more accurately than the Bible...Why in heck did America take this crazy detour from sanity?

Where did we go wrong? How do we get back on track?

[Poll_Blind]

1. There never was an America "on track". It always has and always will be a battle.

Perhaps as a society, for one reason or another, we felt we could relax and rest on our laurels. But those laurels never existed, will never exist, and we must catch up to the ever whirring footrace which we let pull too far ahead. There's a lethargy in us which still has a bit to go. More and more sense if they do not take back their futures from the usurpers soon, they will be unrecoverable.

PB

[phasma ex machina]

2. Re: "richest 400 families" gonna be a guerrilla fight to get one penny out of them

Buffett and Gates are reportedly among the richest people in America. Both did the bogus charity trust BS that allows them to retain total control over their wealth TAX FREE. Unfortunately, both just need a few more pennies to feel good about themselves. Infinitely wealthier people, people too rich to exist, probably live in the shadows.

[givemebackmycountry]

3. Democracy.

It always was an experiment, and it always will be.
The question is... will we ever get it right?

[Bandit]

12. Winston Churchhill once said "America always does the right thing,

After trying everything else first"....I think he was a pretty smart fellow..

[rustydog]

4. Do we remove the Statue of Liberty now?

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

[barbtries]

5. don't forget

the man who drowned as 75 people including the fire department watched.

[madrchsod]

6. around 1980......

[Arugula Latte]

9. Exactly. 1980.

Stupidity and Greed won.

[japple]

10. Yep, stupidity and greed won that year, or at least that was the year

it assumed the presidency, and the GOP is trying their darndest to resurrect the Reagan years.

[Overseas]

15. That's what I was thinking. Decades of transfering wealth back to the top began.

So called Supply Side Economics replaced Demand Side.

[LetTimmySmoke]

7. When the Ayn Rand cult took over the political culture

[AsahinaKimi]

8. This is not the same country I grew up in...

Things were different, people on the right were never ever this bad. It has totally become the "I, Me, Mine FIRST" country. Its very sad... And Republican greed is at the heart of it. I don't know when it all began. I have to think it started with the GWB Administration, or further back with Ronald Regan.

[mikeytherat]

11. Colbert summed it up thusly:

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we've got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that WE JUST DON'T WANT TO DO IT." - Stephen Colbert

mikey_the_rat

[Octafish]

13. November 22, 1963

[kctim]

14. She stopped caring

when her people started expecting others to take care of those who need help.

[Urban Prairie]

16. 1980

At least it seemed like a sea-change began soon after Reagan was elected in my neck of the woods. TV shows like "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" amongst others, and movies like "Wall Street" glorified the greedy, wealthy upper-middle class lifestyle that many would never begin to realize. Educated and skilled white collar workers, looked down their collective noses at blue collar workers who began to lose their jobs to off-shoring, computer technology, and automation. Because the recession hit so hard in my state, many, including my brother moved to TX in search of employment, and were derisively known as "black taggers" to native Texans, due to the color of MI license plates back then. Never mind that so many from the South had themselves moved to MI to find work in the automotive industry, post WWII.