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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 07:51 PM
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How bad is it going to get?
Our country is being taken over by the thugs--They steal elections and if for some fluke that we do win, they fight till they find a judge who gives them the win.

I listed yesterday all the programs on the chopping block--Social Security, Medicaid, Talent Search, Upward Bound...today, Perkins Loans for low-middle income college students is on the block.
It doesn't seem like this is going to end.

Police are being given more and more powers--sprayed some peacefully protesting students todays with "chemicals", tasering old ladies in nursing homes last week...where is the line going to be drawn?

Today, ads are being accepted on NBC for Bushco's story on tort reform, yet they won't accept rebuttal ads.

The fundamentals of our society are being torn apart at the seams, and although more elected Democrats are beginning to voice their concerns and not "just going along with things" for the sake of unity, I'm worried the camel's head is too far in the tent to stop him.

We have watched a liar become our Secretary of State and a torturer become our Attorney General. We watched people applaud a General that likes to shoot people.

I would have to say that I am really getting frightened. Where does it lead? Where does it end?

Before I joined up, there was a DU'er that said after the election (sorry can't remember who) that perhaps we should all move to a certain part of the country and start our own society. I chuckled at that, still virginly unaware of the dealings of this administration. But now, honestly, the way things are going--I'm starting to think that wasn't a bad idea.
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 07:56 PM
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1. I've been paniced for quite a while. I've been checking on the idea
of moving out of the country. I think it's going to get bad. Between peak oil, Bushco, and their policies which are destroying the country, I think it going to get very very bad.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 07:58 PM
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3. Sometimes I wish I could move
because of all the nonsense going on. My soul is tired and I'm only 22!
I just miss the 90's. *sigh*
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 07:58 PM
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4. I've thought of that but wasn't sure whether to go North or South
Would prefer Canada but after watching "Day After Tomorrow" (snicker snicker) Mexico looks a much better place to be.
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:16 PM
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12. If you have a couple of acres with lots of trees to burn during the
winter, Canada would be OK. Myself, I've had enough of that crap. Give me the tropics.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 07:57 PM
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Democrat Dragon Donating Member (699 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 07:59 PM
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5. If MIHOP 2 happens.....
Expect der fuher to claim president for life and turn Amerika into a Fallujah-like police-atate.
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orpupilofnature57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 07:59 PM
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6. Progressive people can't dog this little shit in to Impeachment
And thats the crux of the biscuit.Dog this bungling idiot the way they dogged the best manager we had in years,for everything but his job as our leader.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:06 PM
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7. Anything that benefits US citizens will be axed.
Anything that benefits corporations will be kept.

The military will be expanded.

Everything else will be gutted.

Depression, here we come!

THAT is how bad it will get.
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:14 PM
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8. I think it will be worse. In 1929 most Americans were poor. They
were farms or crop sharers. They could live off the land and help each other. Can you see our society doing that now? We will have riots in the streets. We didn't have that in 29'. People will be starving. The military will have to restore order and protect our government from us. Will they shoot their own parents and relatives to save those chicken hawks?

I think if you study Germany right before WW2 in their depression, you might get the idea. When the Germans left Moscow, they ate or destroyed the food as they went. The Russians lived on saw dust bread and burnt their furniture for heat. Come spring, they buried their dead in mass graves and started over. What do the citizens in NYC or LA do for food? How about you yourself?
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Quakerfriend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:24 PM
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13. I, too, have been thinking about the what ifs.
Edited on Fri Feb-04-05 08:25 PM by Quakerfriend
True story: Several years ago I asked a psychic about whether or not we would be safe/secure from the earth changes that I believed would eventually come.

I was a bit shocked by her response. She said, "Well you will go back to canning your food."

I was shocked for two reasons. 1) This psychic has been unusually correct in her predictions over the years. (Even told me about 911 2 years before it happened!)

and 2) I used to do some canning when I was 16 yrs old. However, I never imagined that I would HAVE TO go back to it, in order to sustain myself and my family.
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merbex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 07:49 AM
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20. I'm glad I learned how to can
this whole thread is scaring me - but it reflects how I feel
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peacebird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:15 PM
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10. pretty gosh darned bad.... pretty quickly too.
"Depression, here we come!"


hmmm, guess i sprinted here a little faster than you...

been depressed since November.
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 04:57 AM
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14. Every day they whittle away a bit more of life as we know it...
If it weren't for the optimism of many here on DU, I would be an absolute basket case.
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Tigress DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 05:02 AM
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16. Worse - the potential for martial law
GOP introduces bill to suspend ALL laws

I'm way sick over reading it. You're all right, and then some.

God help us
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Quakerfriend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:14 PM
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9. I have received a bit of peace from the astrological
predictions over in the Astro/Spiritual group.

THey see grave things for both * and his cabal. They see a definite fall from power in and around Nov. of '06. They say that * will disappear from public life almost altogether, whether from an _________ or not, is not known.

And, they say that the "press will turn on *".

Interesting, for what it's worth. For whatever reason, it has given me great comfort.

Hope it helps!
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Tigress DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 05:03 AM
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17. Maybe that's when Jesus shows up.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 05:39 AM
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18. LOL wouldn't THAT be nice? nt
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:15 PM
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Tigress DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 05:01 AM
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15. See this thread> GOP introduces bill to suspend ALL laws
kick it up, everyone should know about the shady back door dealings to deprive us of our civil liberties.
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The Zanti Regent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 07:45 AM
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19. Time to secede.
I'm in California and I've had enough of Jesusland. I'm working to secede.
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 08:48 AM
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21. I don't know...
.. but I've been taking defensive measures for 2 years now.

IMHO, as far as the economy is concerned - it is not a matter of "if", it is a matter of "when".

We are selling our country to foreign interests in the name of quick profits. And at some future date those foreign interests are going to start making demands.

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