Did IQs drop sharply while I was away?

Here is another reason that I feel that Darwin is right. While I was away on active duty in the Navy, things changed drastically. Americans are no longer the forerunner in ambition, initiative, or drive. Most United States citizens ** are constrained by their indolence for "personal time", or too bottled up in their compassion for forlorn (murderous) prison inmates, the forsaken trees rights, and court battles about who alledgedly sodimized who. This is all while sitting in front of the television with a 12 inch subway and a diet soda, while cheering on the guy in the commercial for losing 245 pounds his gluttony and sloth managed him to gain in the first place.

Where else in the world can you live next to a hydroelectric dam and be on water rationing and have power outages, when the people they are shipping the water to are watering the lawn all day long and their power is on more than yours next to the dam?

Where else in the world can you be so stupid that you spill a cup of hot coffee in your lap, burn yourself, and collect several million dollars?

Where else in the world can you shoot an armed intruder who has broken into your home in the middle of the night intent on robbing and killing you, and you go to jail for protecting yourself and your family?

Welcome to the land of the free,

(legally protected anarchists, Rich hollywood felons, Fifth generation welfare recipients, Elected malefactors*^*, and religious terrorists),

and the home of the Brave.

(Dead Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen, Marines, Police, and Firemen,)

Would someone please tell me what ever happened to common sense in the last 20 years?

** Notice I didn't say "Americans" above? Mainly because the only "Americans" I know, are people who place a higher value on what this nation stood for, than the all-mighty dollar. Between shipping our jobs overseas to the unions starving businesses what is the use anymore?

*^* You really should take a look at how many of your elected officials (Senators, Representatives, Councilmen, as well as State and Local officials) have been convicted of felony crimes. And I am not even talking about Chappaquidic here. Do a Google search and see what you come up with. Lets do a few searches to get you brain started......

Congressmen and Murder,

Congressmen and Felony,

Senator and Felony,

Representative and Felony,

"City Official" and Felony,

"County Official" and Felony,

Councilmen and Felony,

"Federal Agent" Charged, and Felony,

It's scary when you get the information right in front of you and see the extent of general corruption of people we entrust to run the country. This is not a scathing overview that everyone in government is evil or anything. Actually, it is the opposite with the majority needing to be on watch for the minor minority of people who are not capable of trust. With the millions of people in government service and in power, we are going to be viglant of who is really doing what now, that accountability is not possible for 99.995% of these officials.

(Yeah, the title is one of Ripley's lines)

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