Word: failings
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Yemen is the U.S.'s "most fragile ally." But our country does a good job on its own of keeping terrorists busy there and all around the world. We invade countries to spread our form of government, then we fail to comprehend their ancient tribal systems, their religious systems and their views about marriage and family structure. The rise of terrorist activity over the past decade should at last lead us to look more carefully at ourselves, not the people chewing khat in Yemen...
...rest of the public is breached. When houses are foreclosed after irresponsible decisions, when community banks collapse, when hedge funds don’t recognize what they’ve bought and sold, and when credit freezes, the social structure upon which American capitalism relies begins to fail...
This is comparable to what is happening in America’s inner-city school system, and is a reality for many of the children who attend such schools. The teachers, and many students, realize that the educational system is failing them, and that they are ill prepared to face the real world beyond graduation. As one principal remarked, “Where the schools fail, the streets will take over,” and all involved parties can only look on with a sense of helplessness, caught in a diabolical waiting game as the schools and the streets...
...apples to apples. Republicans remain cash-strapped, plagued by retirements and struggling to unite a base still somewhat inclined to fratricidal bouts of rage. Look no farther than the November special election in New York's 23rd congressional district for evidence of how a divided GOP will fail. Before they get to next November almost all of their candidates, and some incumbents, will have to win primaries in a landscape transformed by the tea-party movement. And there's a fine line with swing voters between being perceived as saving America from Obama's supposedly socialist agenda and blocking...
...Administration was reluctant to crack down on Wall Street, Volcker became the proof that wasn't in the pudding - the monetary version of the "most trusted name in news" who suddenly sounded like a Daily Kos blogger. If Obama really wanted to stop banks from getting too big to fail, why didn't he take Volcker's advice about how to stop them from getting too big? If Obama really wanted to stop Wall Street's excessive risk-taking, why didn't he take Volcker's advice to stop federally insured banks from gambling on their own accounts? And where...