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As Obama pointed out in his inauguration speech, our founding fathers were braver than us by several orders of magnitude. All of the leaders faced death for treason and our entire fledgling country faced dissolution and in that environment they created the ideals that Republicans and right-wingers seem willing to throw out because of fear of a terrorist attack. Come on conservatives, now is the time to show us lefties how brave you are and put your lives on the line to uphold the values and principals that made this country what it is. And statistically speaking the risk you run is actually almost negligible compared to those of our founding fathers.

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Too bad we have a public who wouldn't sacrifice a week's paycheck for their freedom ....... let alone risk jail or death (even though the approval rating for Congress last year was less than that of King George when the revolution occured).

The public sitting back and allowing their tax money to be used to bail out rich criminals was the last straw.

The State of the Nation is a reflection of its populace rather than the corporate owned govt who runs it.

I bet there's a McDonald's or Burger King or Taco Bell open right now near you ...... who needs real food when you can eat that crap.

The greedy criminals that brought this mess upon us should be tried in public and then hanged.

Instead, we rewarded them for their greed and stupidity.

As said in the articles, the same scum are running Wall Street and the Banks ...... the September Criminals ....... the Congress that approved the bailout is still sitting ...... why would you expect change ???

The only real change must come from a change in the consciousness of the public itself ....

I agree with your analysis.

After the loss of manufacturing, our economy moved to the level of "producing" credit rather than goods .....

My disgust is simply in the way the money is being spent ...