Quote: "the American industrial economy is dead."

You said it. And we are seeing the effects of it now. An "industrial economy" is the only economy that would ever work here in the US. The one we had was left unprotected and it was stolen. If you're having some fantasy about some "service based" economy, forget it. That get's outsourced too.

Raising taxes and cutting services are coming, no way around it. It doesn't have to be this way. So many are brainwashed via the local community college it's sad. They have drank the Kool-aid. When they wake up it will be too late.