A majoor,
+1 buddy! The most intelligent post in this thread.
The prophets of doom are always out there, and if one prediction does not come to pass, then they simply pretend they did not make the prediction and pull out another cause of doom.
Maybe because we're older? We see things in a more balanced way.
Actually, things are pretty fabulous. Our standard of living is high.
There are global challenges but most are either spun by media to look
a lot larger than they are, or are less immediate than we are being told.
GW Bush CANNOT be blamed for all of what's wrong with the planet.
That much is just plain goofy. Wild Bill Clinton did play saxophone though.
Maybe that's what you miss.
The Clinton years were marked by inaction
and a lack of political resolve. - which had at least one disastrous result.
GW Bush came into office with a very different idea of how things would be done.
9-11 changed all of that. Policy was changed and his administrations' focus was
seized by a very different agenda from what was initially intended.
The rest, as they say, is history.
feeble rant over..........