re: Starting to sink in that the country is lost

Their low standards of living will bring down ours (it already has). If you think that social security is enough to live on, then you haven't started receiving payments yet. I worked beyond the retirement age in order to receive a larger share of the pie and put money into an IRA acct. The policies of the last two years have forced me to take a p/t job just to be able to afford the basics . . Hopefully, enough people will see the writing on the wall and realize that as things currently exist, change is needed and needed BADLY.