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There will always be:
War
Disease
Alcoholics
Drug addicts
Bad economies(also good, it's a cycle)
Terrorists
Rape
Murder
Child abuse
Homeless people
Starvation
Gangs
Illegals
Pollution
Endangered animals
and the list goes on and on.
No one is gonna save the world. For sure not a new president. Anyone who thinks that the president is anymore than a puppet is just a fool. People need to stop panicking and pointing fingers and just step back and take control of their lives.
Anyone who thinks the USD is going to collapse is also a fool (it's been a lot worse before). Vote Obama, vote McCain it doesn't matter one bit. Everything will continue the same as it always has. Until oil is depleted and non existant nothing will change. Oil companies will not allow the advancement of technology when it comes to products that don't need oil anymore. It's a very fine line between perfect world and total disaster and it takes a bit of both to balance out.
A large problem in this day and age is people are too well informed (no, I don't believe the American public should be kept in the dark either, but we don't need all the hype). Believe it or not this isn't always a good thing.
I remember a couple of lines from the movie "Men in Black."
Agent J: Man, we ain't got time for this cover-up bullshit! In case you've forgotten, there's an alien battle cruiser--
Agent K: There's always an alien battle cruiser, or a Corellian death ray, or an intergalactic plague intended to wipe out life on this miserable little planet. The only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT!
That pretty much sums it up.
My 2 cents.
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