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http://albertpeia.com/10signsamericadecomposing.htm
The
decay of society is so much harder to quantify than economic decline is.
The government keeps lots of statistics on things like unemployment and
inflation, but it really does not keep track of how sick and twisted people are
becoming. Most of us recognize that the character of the American people
has changed dramatically over the decades, but unlike the national debt, you
can't easily point to a chart or a graph to show exactly how bad things are
getting. In this article, my approach will be to point you to various
"signs" of social decay. Signs tell us where we are at now and
where we are headed. Some of the signs that I will use will be statistics
while others will simply consist of anecdotal evidence. Yes, anecdotal
evidence is not perfect, but when you put enough of it together it starts to
paint a pretty clear picture of what is going on out there. America is
becoming a truly frightening place. Our cities our decaying, thieves are
becoming bolder, you never know who you can trust and everyone seems
depressed. America is decomposing right in front of our eyes, and it is time that we all admitted it.
In the old days, if you met a
stranger out on the streets you knew that you could almost certainly trust that
person. But these days if you let your child wander one aisle over while
you are shopping at Wal-Mart there is a chance that someone will try to abduct her.
Something has changed.
In our major cities, if you walk up
to someone at random there is a decent chance that person will be a pervert or
a sicko, and most Americans know that this is true at
a gut level. Almost everyone is very leery of "strangers" these
days. It has gotten to the point where we are all afraid of one another.
Just try this some time....
In a major U.S. city, walk right up to people
on the street, look them in the eyes and try to introduce yourself.
What will happen when you do that?
In many instances, people will
literally run away from you.
We are scared to death to interact with
people that we do not know, and the reality is that those fears are way too
often justified.
The character of the American people
is decaying at a rapid pace, and the evidence of this is all around us.
The following are 10 signs that America is
decomposing right in front of our eyes....
#1 As the economy
crumbles, in many U.S.
cities desperate people are increasingly resorting to violent acts in an
attempt to survive. So far this year, violent crime in Washington D.C.
has risen by 40 percent. Robberies at
gunpoint have more than doubled compared to the same time period last year.
And as I wrote about recently, justifiable homicide in Detroit rose by a
staggering 79 percent during 2011, and the rate of
self-defense killings in Detroit is now 2200% above the national average.
#2 But it is not
just in the cities where you will find crazies. A recent Daily Mail article described a
very disturbing incident which took place recently in North Dakota. Two crack-fueled
perverts abducted and murdered a 43-year-old math teacher named Sherry
Arnold....
Spell
and Waters had left Colorado days before the
crime claiming they wanted work in eastern Montana
and western North Dakota's
oil fields.
After
smoking crack cocaine over the entire trip, Waters allegedly told Spell the drug 'brought the devil out in him' and began
talking about kidnapping and killing a female, AP reports.
After
they spotted Arnold,
Spell claims that Waters told him to 'grab the lady' and pull her into their
Ford Explorer as she jogged by.
After they got Arnold
into the car, they choked her to death and then buried her body in a shallow
grave in North Dakota.
Why would anyone do something like
that?
#3 Unfortunately, sickos will even be found working for the government.
Just as so many of us feared, TSA workers are actually purposely selecting
attractive women to go through the body scanners so that they can admire their
naked bodies. The following are actual quotations from official
TSA complaints....
-“I feel I was targeted by the TSA
employee to go through the see-you-naked machine because I am a semi-attractive
female.”
-“The screener appeared to enjoy the
process of picking someone rather than doing true random screening. I felt this
was inappropriate. A woman behind me was also “randomly selected.”
-“TSA staff ‘trolling’ the lines
looking for people to pull out was unprofessional.”
-“I know he went to that room to see
my naked body through the machine with the other guy.”
-“When I looked around, I saw that
there were only women that were “told” to go through this machine. There were
no men.”
One woman was recently forced to go
through the body scanner three times because the TSA workers wanted to get a
really good look at her "cute figure".
Isn't about time that we admitted
that the TSA is a massive failure?
#4 The American people seem more depressed
than ever. So are we the most depressed nation in the entire world?
The U.S. has the highest percentage of women
taking antidepressants of any country in the world, and kids in the U.S. are three times more likely to be
prescribed antidepressants than kids in Europe are.
#5 The gang problem
in the United States
has never been worse. According to the FBI, the number of gang members in
the United States has risen by 40 percent since 2009 and there are now
a total of 1.4 million gang members living inside
this country.
#6 Millions of other young people are not
able to find jobs once they finish school and end up financially dependent on their
parents. Today, record numbers of young adults are living at home. Many of these
young people end up very disillusioned and very frustrated. Right now, more than 30 percent of all
Americans in the 18 to 34 age bracket are currently living at home with their
parents. That is not good news for the future of this country.
#7 All over America, criminals are becoming bolder and more desperate. The following
is a report about one serial home invader from the Washington Post....
A
housekeeper was tied up and sexually assaulted and a mother and teenage son
were tied up during a home invasion in Bethesda
early Wednesday morning that Montgomery
County police say involves the same
suspect as in a home invasion Tuesday in Wheaton.
As the economy gets even worse, home invasions will become even more
common. You might want to learn how to defend yourself.
#8 These days
thieves will steal literally anything. Each night in cities all over the
nation more street lights are going out as thieves strip the copper wiring right out of them.
In the San Francisco
area, one very ambitious group of thieves actually swiped a copper bell that
weighs 2.7 tons.
#9 One of the
clearest signs that America
is decomposing is the stunning decline of major cities such as Detroit. In response to my recent article about the death of Detroit,
a reader identified as Bill posted the following....
Seeing
what is happening to Detroit
makes me want to cry AND scream.
I’m
a native Detroiter myself – born in Harper
Hospital on the east side
& was one of those 2 million plus counted in the 1950 Census. I left Detroit in the early 70s
for work reasons and had not gone back there since 1984.
When
I drove through there on my way to Port Huron last September I “made a lap”
around the city – got off I-75 downtown, made a loop around the downtown area
(the 2 new stadiums look nice as does the RenCen)
then went out Michigan Avenue to 12th and up through the 1967 Riot area to
Grand River and out to the northwestern part of town where I grew up and went
to school.
What
a depressing trip. All my old haunts are gone, boarded up or burnt to the
ground. The car dealer where I bought my first car (the old “Redford Rambler”
on Grand River just west of Evergreen) is
nothing but a slab. All the car dealers along the Grand River strip from
Evergreen to McNicoles (6 Mile Rd.) are gone, the
16th Precinct Police Station at GR & Mc Nicholes
is abandoned and the high school where my cousin graduated is all boarded up
(Redford High School, across Grand River from the old police station). My old
house on Lasher just north of Grand River is
there but the stores in the area are all gone. One would think space aliens had
come and taken all the life out of the area.
On that same article, another reader identified as
"Disappointed" shared his thoughts on the decline of that once great
city....
I
worked in Detroit
for a few years a while back. I was fascinated by the crumbling ruins, drove
around to see a lot of them after work (a couple of times I drove through
neighborhoods that I can tell you now I would not go near, even in the
daytime). It was sad and fascinating at the same time. I would not even THINK
of doing that now, it would be highly dangerous. I would not even work in Detroit now.
#10 But it isn't just
Detroit that is
falling apart. This kind of thing is happening all over the
country. A reader identified as Golden Child recently left the following
comment on my
website....
Much
of America is like Detroit. America is rotting from California
to West Virginia to Baltimore. It’s the same song across the United States.
High unemployment, falling rent and or house prices, massive police lay-offs,
giant spikes in crime accompanied by a rising cost of living and fewer job
opportunities. Vallejo and Oakland,
California are very much like Detroit. Vallejo
ranked as the ninth most miserable city in America according to Forbes. Oakland and Vallejo
have laid off nearly half of their police forces. You
can get an apartment in Vallejo or Oakland for $200-600 a month although the median monthly
rent in California
is well over a thousand dollars with Bay Area rent being generally higher.
There is a reason why rent is so comparably dirt cheap in those cities. San
Francisco-Oakland-Vallejo collectively make up the
car-theft capital of the United
States. Northern CA cities like Oakland, Richmond and Stockton are regulars on the top ten most dangerous cities
in America
list. Baltimore, MD is also very much like Detroit with its
thousands of abandoned rowhomes, high concentration
of Black poverty, drugs and violence. Camden, NJ, East St. Louis, Gary
Indiana are all no different from the D. Even large
sections of wealthy world class cities like DC, NYC and San Francisco are impoverished quasi-third
world hellholes. Southeast DC has the highest unemployment rate of anywhere in America despite the fact that DC is the richest
city and metro in America.
NYC has the widest income inequality gap of any metro area. Massive swaths of
NYC are dangerous towering project buildings packed with working poor
minorities. SF is home to some of the most sub-standard
public housing in America in neighborhoods like Hunter’s Point, Sunnydale and Potrero Hill. America has been rotting from the
core since at least the 70′s.
Sadly, this is just the beginning.
As the economic decline of this nation
accelerates, people are going to become much more desperate.
And desperate people do desperate
things.
So where do all of you think America is
headed? Please feel free to post a comment with your opinion below....
***EPILOGUE***
I wanted to post a couple of new
comments from the readers. These are more firsthand examples of what life
is like on the streets of America
today....
---Comment By "Bean"---
This evening I had to pick my
daughter up from work,a fast
food restaurant in the heart of downtown Fort
Wayne, Indiana. My
daughter came out later than expected so I had to sit in the car for about
forty minutes waiting. While waiting a man walked up to my car and reached for
the door handle, thankfully I had the doors locked, he started tapping on the
window, I drove off went around the block and parked again to wait for my
daughter. A little while later an elderly man with a cane, who appeared to be
homeless, shuffled along the sidewalk, he saw me sitting in the car and he came
up and tapped on the window, fortunately at that moment my daughter came out of
work so I pulled up and picked her up and we got out of town. It was creepy,
this was downtown Fort Wayne,
Indiana, a city with a population
of around 300,000, I was shocked! I do not want my daughter coming out of work
at night into this kind of environment, I will be contacting the owner of the
business to let them know that it is not a safe environment for young people to
have to walk to their cars after dark.
---Comment By
Madsr---
My wife and I were discussing this
exact thing. A young girl in our quiet Arkansas
town met a local guy off the internet she ended up dead on his family farm in a
55 gal drum…..Who does this? We live in a town of 4000 where we all know each other, a man walked into a little shop 3 weeks ago and raped
the woman behind the counter. My wife and I consider where we live very safe
compared to most of America.
Yet we never go anywhere that we are not both carrying a pistol. That is what
is so different between todays
depression and the great depression. Most people would not hurt or kill you for
food or goods. They were more apt to suffer quietly or sneak and get a chicken.
It is just the opposite today they are being told everyday they are owed food
and goods. The only reason they don’t have them is because the rich have it
all, so you should take it from them. I guess that makes most of us that have
worked 60 hours a week for the last 25 or 30 years the rich evil people. This
is not going to get better regardless of the President both sides have
supported the moral decay. God help us!
*****
