Is it just me or is there a sense of pending doom in this country

[liberal N proud]

I can't help but think that we are headed for a huge disaster in this country. One that will make the depression of the 20/30 seem like a recession.
I just have this feeling that between the political climate in this country and the economy, with all the housing foreclosures and the credit crunch. Employment even though it isn't reported is at an all time high.
Crime just keeps skyrocketing.
Inflation skyrocketing regardless of what the economist say, they are lying.

Then throw our foreign relations into the mix with this incompetent regime running our nation and with no one who has the balls to stand up to them and stop them.

Am I just being Mr Doom and Gloom here or does anyone else feel like we are approaching a brick wall.

And NO, I don't think Armageddon is around the corner.

[sazemisery]

1. I have felt this way since 2000. n/t

[Megahurtz]

2. I Feel It. n/t

[shrdlu]

3. What does Hag say?

"I've lived at the very end of what must have been a wonderful country."

Merle Haggard, in Esquire...

We are of an age, Merle and I, and I know what he means.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. I feel that way when my prescription for Prozac

runs out!

Definitely not a good feeling..........

[KansDem]

5. I think there's been a malaise that has descended over our country and its citizenry

In spite of what the Bushistas or their cheerleaders in CorpMedia say:

1) There are still the 500,000 voters who voted for Gore over Bush in 2000 who have not had closure;

2) There are the rest of the Dems who saw their 2000 win taken from them by the BushBozos on the Supreme Court;

3) Independents and moderate Repubs are suffering from buyer's remorse;

4) Conservative Repubs are on the ropes;

5) And the neo-con Repubs are fatigued from constantly having to defend their boy in the White House.

Mix this all together with your observations and yes, pending doom is "on the table."

[SutaUvaca]

6. You're not the only one.

My business failed a couple months ago, so maybe I'm predisposed to the gloom, but the wider spread doom does seem to permeate the air, and I thought so since a few years back, and feel it stronger every day.

You know how little real and accurate info our media, in general, provides us, even if we're trying hard to find it. I figure the hints about tipping points, whether for climate or economic disaster, are hints that someone, somewhere, knows that we're all on the precipice.

I think, in spite of the real outrages ChumpCo and his minions perpetrate, or the betrayals of those we hoped in, the saddest thing for me is still the observations of folks, my siblings included, who just don't get it, who even actively support things they haven't bothered to understand or question, but just accept from some sewer source and spew back out with some misguided passion to others.

I'm sad. And I do indeed worry toward what we will tip soon.

[shadowknows69]

7. Read my journal

You'll find all kinds of predictions of woe and doom there.

[Warpy]

8. No, you're not alone and it's been going on for a very long time

In fact, even the paid to be upbeat financial guy was doom and glooming it a bit right now, mentioned a couple more very vulnerable financial groups than I knew about, none of which I'm into, pointed to a couple that I do have that will be tax losses over the next couple of years, which might be a good thing.

Out there in the real world, people are terrified of losing their jobs. Even if they can't articulate it, they know the slowdown in construction plus the continued offshoring of office and manufacturing jobs will mean fewer and poorer customers all the way through the economy, and that means no one has a safe job, and it seems everyone who isn't a Koolaid drinker knows it.

Even the Koolaid drinkers are seeing gas and home heating prices shoot up, along with food, health care, and the cost of just about everything but those plasma TV sets and equivalent items that jam the CPI market basket and provide fake inflation numbers. The cult isn't strong enough to help them deny inflation colliding with stagnant wages.

I hope we can stop with recession, but this economy has been founded on debt for far too long. Something has to give, and that something will be us.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. No, you are not the only one

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. except our representatives have done nothing to stop the doom coming

in November 2006 we were all excited and then....nothing