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br> -- David Shoup br> Dublin, Georgia /p>

It is not without reason that Americans have always been a quite hopeful people. There is something in our constitution that doesn't want to look at the sun as setting on our Republic, but rising, always rising. That's no small part of where Obama's Hope Express Train to Nowhere gets its steam. We keep hoping that politicians and leaders will fix everything. There is always a game plan, right?

May I lob a mudball onto the table of plenty?

There is no 100% guarantee that we will be around in 50 or 100 years. Many books have been written about demographics, moral decline, and other threats to our nation's existence. Not many that I'm aware of suggest that economics will be the primary source of our undoing, but it could very well be that such will be the case.

I ran across a de Tocqueville quote today: "The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money." I think we've been in the "until" portion of that quote for quite some time. How much longer before we go to the next phase of our "unenduring"?

p>The American people (and their leaders) will some day have to face up to the idea that occasionally there is no solution. Sometimes the house burns down, or the car runs off the road into a ditch. Another very American idea is this: Try to save the house...but when you can't, let the house burn, and we will rebuild it. br> -- Mark Pettifor br> Goshen, Indiana /p>

Thanks to Peter Ferrara for a short and easily understood explanation of the current financial mess. Should be required reading.

p>Newt Gingrich's economic plan might work. But, it will never happen with the current and upcoming Congress. As your reader Jay Molyneaux wrote, "Time to start digging: bury your money, guns, and bibles."

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