America On Life Support

I'm 54 and

Its been a heck of a ride being the world’s only super power.

The big dog leading the pack of international systems with the ability to influence world events,
further our own interests and project a mighty force on a worldwide scale to protect those interests.

The irony of the GWB/DC administration time in office, is the ferocious power of unintended consequences.
Launching wars with a stunning lack political strategy, lack of insight as to the diverse cultures of the invaded,
and delusional about the ease of installing an American-style government in lands of tribal feuding as old as the written word.

All the while bubbling just beneath the surface of the free market, "ownership society," an unfettered capitalism run amok explodes in our faces. To stave off total collapse, and financial armegeddon, the behemoth financial conglomerates that “are too big to fail,” and need all the capital the country can print.

Wounded by overreach, rigid failed ideology, and plain idiocy, the US has been led to the crossroads of the path forged by the ancient giants like Egypt, Greece, the Roman empire, the Persian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the kingdom, republic, and empires of France, the Dutch, and the British Empire.

In poker parlance, Obama inherited the “dead man’s hand.” Only time will tell if he escapes that same fate.