Thus Mark Steyn at http://bit.ly/ctLNfA via @SteynFeed:
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"Declinism" is in the air these days, but for us full-time apocalyptics we're already well past that stage. In the space of one generation, a nation of savers became the world's largest debtors, and a nation of makers and doers became a cheap service economy. Everything that can be outsourced has been – manufacturing to by no means friendly nations overseas; and much of what's left in agriculture and construction to the armies of the "undocumented".
At the lower end, Americans are educated at a higher cost per capita than any nation except Luxembourg in order to do minimal-skill checkout-line jobs about to be rendered obsolete by technology. At the upper end, America's elite goes to school till early middle age in order to be credentialed for pseudo-employment as $300 grand-a-year diversity consultants (Michelle Obama) or one of the many other phony-baloney makework schemes deriving from government micro-regulation of virtually every aspect of endeavor.
So we're not facing "decline". We're already in it. What comes next is the "fall" – fast, sudden, off the cliff.
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