Tom Engelhardt | The Future's Not Ours and That's Good News Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

http://www.truth-out.org/one-and-a-half-cheers-american-decline-the-futures-not-ours-and-thats-good-news63458: "Here's a simple reality: the US is an imperial power in decline - and not just the sort of decline which is going to affect your children or grandchildren someday. We're talking about massive unemployment that's going nowhere and an economy which shows no sign of ever returning good jobs to this country on a significant scale, even if 'good times' do come back sooner or later. We're talking about an aging, fraying infrastructure - with its collapsing bridges and exploding gas pipelines - that a little cosmetic surgery isn't going to help."
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