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20 Reasons America Is Becoming An Increasingly Nonfunctional Society

agitator Wrote: Feb 10, 2013 1:40 PM
Democrats have a positive attitude. Republicans have a negative attitude.
mkat68 Wrote: Feb 10, 2013 11:36 PM
The "positive attitude" being that everything will be just fine as long as we ignore reality and keep on smiling.

1) Starting in the sixties there was an explosion of children born out-of-wedlock and kids who don't grow up in two parent families fare more poorly percentage wise on just about any and every scale imaginable including substance abuse, teenage pregnancies, suicide rates, criminality and homelessness.

2) Many people are becoming so childlike in their dependence on the government that they can't save for their own retirement, escape from an oncoming hurricane, or even purchase their own birth control without the government handling it for them.

3) Our legal system encourages frivolous lawsuits, is punitively expensive...

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