Last 10 years in America ...

Christian Graus

UBX wrote:

Anyone want to bring up cia mind control ?

ROTFL !!! Yeah, people in American aren't nuts/denied any sort of real health care if they are poor, thus exacerbating any mental health issues/stressed/etc. It's the CIA.

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Lost User

No, it's not getting worse, you just hear about it more often. 24 hour news means everything gets reported nation-wide now. It used to be collected throughout the day and filtered so only the interesting items made it to the 6:00 news and the next day's newspaper in your area. Now you get everything as it happens, from everywhere. They wouldn't be able to fill all that time otherwise. Social media has made that effect even more noticeable: now people can get immediate updates on message feeds pushed directly to your mobile devices. Here[^] are the crime rates for the U.S. for various violent crimes. As you can see it shows a pretty steady decrease since the 1990's. Cheers, Drew.

Steve Mayfield

Just like last winter during the rain, the TV News made it seem like all of Los Angeles county was underwater when the field crew found the one street corner that was flooding :doh:

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Lost User

thks ..

Roger Wright

It's just a normal reaction to the Nanny State mentality that's become the norm here over the past 30 years or so. The concept of a risk free existence supported by a law against anything you might ever want to do, coupled with a government that promises to take care of everything for you. Leads to the perfectly logical conclusion that, if something goes wrong, it's someone else's fault. =he when the violence begins. Welcome home.

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0bx

My theory is that it's because commercials are more refined and we're more exposed to them. I'll try to explain it as funny as possible, but not funnier. An effective commercial speaks to your subconscious and it has to say three things: 1) You're a loser... look at you, you loser. You know you're a pathetic fat loser 2) Look at this guy, he's not a loser like you. His life is great. Wow, look at him. 3) This product, that's his secret. If you buy it you will become just like him. Now you will buy the product and feel satisfied, until you discover you actually bought a piece of shit and now you can't afford all the other stuff you want to buy. Then you have a wife and kids who are also brainwashed to buy other stuff and keep they nagging about how they can't have what they want. Ultimately it leads to frustration, an inferiority complex, anger and suicidal depression with all the dire consequences that go along with it.

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Lutoslaw

Well said. What I hate about last 10-15 years is that people don't meet each other. Business, WoW, chats, Skype, facebook, and (hopefully) parties are what have left from interpersonal communication of adults.

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Brady Kelly

This is a pure observation and doesn't suggest politics or religion. Saying this should be relegated to the soapbox is like saying newspaper reports of rape should be on the back page.

Christian Graus

I'm sorry, but, what a pile of crap. In fact, as someone else pointed out, crime rates have fallen, even as right wing scaremongers try to make people believe otherwise.

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

Lost User

Last 10 years in America <=> debt:GDP ratio has increased and increased.

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wizardzz

I know people that work at hospitals, the poor, even illegal immigrants get healthcare. The ER will treat anyone, and part of the problem is it gets jammed full of poor people going in for the flu, while I'm waiting for an arm x-ray. Meanwhile, they are getting served for free, at a very high cost (ER nurses, staff, doctors, facilities) while they could be treated by a nurse practitioner at Walgreens.

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TRK3

See: http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/2/us-debt-levels-are-fine-debt-to-gdp-chart-is-wrong-and-meaningless[^]

Kyle Sponable

It is just you are seeing it more, school shootings have been going on since 1966. :( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting#United_States[^] And every reporter wants a scoop no one wants to read good news they wanna see what bad stuff has happened. So they post about whatever and get people scared about what was before either local or a mere footnote. Going back to school shootings reporting heavily on them became in vogue after columbine. I think it is going to people trying to blame others for their problems. and a society that tolerates it.

xavier morera

Nothing has changed, in fact it seems like things are more secure now but there is more media coverage and news spread faster!

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