Has the sleeping giant become a slouching sloth?

Submitted by Jonathan Sanders (United States), Dec 11, 2008 at 08:11

I remember hearing all the folks commenting after the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01 that, "This is a wake-up call for America!" At the time I thought, "Yeah, but I'm afraid that we'll just hit the snooze button and go back to sleep." -That darned alarm always comes back on a few minutes later.

It seems we have grown to tolerate about anything so long as we have cable TV, broadband internet, and unlimited texting....

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