Agree OP.....
It's over for this country. Death is upon the land and you will soon see drone strikes killing american citizens. Location will be everything with what's coming down the pike.
A friend of mine tells me to buy only american products. He's trying to put his finger in the dike and zero is spending and giving away trillions of dollars. There is no saving it.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28870983 Over, indeed. I saw it in a few major steps, including the media's obsession with Clinton, Bush's election and 911. The drone issue is pretty terrifying, but that is just the most recent transgression to consider. Bush began the dismantling of the Constitution with the Patriot Act and whoever is in charge (kind of doubting it can ever be a President, again), calls the control shots over our Congress. Sick, greedy bastards, the lot of them.
Of course, that's just my opinion.
I try to encourage local spending, myself. And while I see your 'finger in a dyke' metaphor as corporate reality, in a local farmer's market, flea market or locally owned store, you really are making a difference to the individual lives of those vendors. Please keep (or start) supporting them.
I hope people will realize this and act locally, instead of interpreting your metaphor as permission to flock back to Wal-mart.*
*with no offence intended towards those communities who have few choices left other than the Wal-Mart.
