The one word that defines the decade (from 2000-2010)

If you had to define the decade (from 2000-2010) in one word (i.e., the ____ Decade or the Decade of _____), which of the following best describes what that word would be?

For me it was Greed. Greed drove so much of the last decade from the wars bu$h started to the financial meltdown, it all was driven by greed.

What do you think defines the last decade?

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Debt, the ugliest 4 letter word in the English language. - My Grandfather who lived through the 1st Great Depression.

The collapse of Empire and the end of colonization (see fall of Rome redux-for reference)

Happy New Decade.

Hail Mary attempts to buttress the declining Empire

miserable failure

We need more than one word because it's a whole concept. The Bush Era of the Decline and Fall of the US of A

about everything else.

9/11, eight years of Lt AWOL, the rise of Fux Noizze, the destruction of the Constitution, the apparent lobotomy of 40%+ of the US population, I could go on but I don't want to get even more depressed...

I'm surprised that it's not on the list.

The thieving mo fos know who they are too. :grr:

As in, for example, "I'm shocked! shocked! to find there's ponzi schemes going on on Wall Street"

or "Awe, shit, this time they stole Ohio!"

If so, and even if not, I am going with



The Decade Of Backasswardness

We started this decade with a surplus, a safe Social Security, peace, hope for the middle class, and hope to have the great next Democratic president who is still a statesman to this day(and really did win in 2000 even though Bush stole it).

Now, we are left with the Great Recession and no hope for recovery any time soon. Maybe in a few years, things will get better, but for now, nada.

The past decade was THE definition of waste.

We saved all that money up and the Republicans just came in and wasted every last penny and then some killing Muslims and for what? We have NOTHING to show for it. Not one of the bombs dropped has changed anyone's mind to love America who didn't already. If anything, it has made them hate us even more than they did before.

Greed would define this decade very well too, but I cannot overlook the extreme amount of waste; wasted savings, wasted money, wasted opportunities for diplomacy, wasted opportunities for more peace and prosperity, wasted opportunities to fight global warming, wasted opportunities to save our forests, wasted opportunities to clean up our planet, wasted opportunities to clean up our water (I still remember when they upped the ppm of arsenic in our tap water as still being a "safe level" lead too, and as predicted people are dumber than ever), wasted everything. So much time, energy, effort, opportunities, and money wasted...wasted wasted wasted.

It's on everyone's lips now.

That's what the root of it all is. From the stolen election, to the Biggest Fucking Lie In The History Of This Country which happened 9 months into the Chimpministration - and everything they used that lie to justify since then. Right up to this crime being passed off as "health care reform" even as we speak. Corporatism is to blame for all of it. And until we face that reality, nothing will change. :evilfrown:

lol

Wonder what I meant to put in there

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with due respect to Keith:

CLUSTERFOX

:nuke:

I screwed up creating it, and probably dropped off something, Can't recall what though.

All of those choices led us to where we are today. The word I would choose is "Obama".

My second choice would be FUBAR but it seems to me, everything grew from the poisonous grounds of "Selected."

Thanks for the thread, liberal N proud.

Way too much propaganda and manipulation and deceit and not nearly enough uplift.

Earth did better by its artists than by its politicians.

It was the decade of chickens coming home to roost.

HOLYFUCKINGSHIT!

The Onion coined the word that best describes the decade.

...political and economic, waged by the Republicans on the American people.

On every level..

Ignorance touted as better than awareness and intelligence, ignorance pushed on us by the Bush administration, ignorance perpetuated by a corporate media that fed us only celebrity stories....

Ignorance, ignorance, ignorance.

the SHIT DECADE!