Comments on: Name that Decade!

By: mlanoue

mlanoue — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:50:43 +0000

Here is the logo for TwentiOs page. Wasn’t sure if it would post. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Name-the-Decade-TwentiOs/224160393019

By: mlanoue

mlanoue — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:50:08 +0000

This past decade could properly be called the TwentiOs. There is a facebook fan page for the name, and a logo. (a cheerio) The naming convention will also work in previous and future centuries if you read the info on the page. Search on Facebook for TwentiOs.

By: teabag

teabag — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:34:28 +0000

I hereby name it “Bush’s folly!”

By: JeninCT

JeninCT — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:10:55 +0000

“Eric Naevdal // Nov 9, 2009 at 10:54 am Personally I like “The naughties.”

Oooh that’s good!

By: andrewe

andrewe — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:52:50 +0000

Isn’t it a fact that the decade ends 12/31/2010? So we have a lot more time to decide.

I’d also side with BoolaBoola’s assessment. It seems like a decade that saw the GOP weaken America at home and abroad.

By: sinz54

sinz54 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:24:45 +0000

How will the 00s be remembered?

The 2000s: When America fell off the pinnacle.

By: ericna

ericna — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:54:28 +0000

Personally I like “The naughties.”

By: Raider1

Raider1 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:08:57 +0000

Hate to say it but I agree with DFL. The triumph of modern liberalism as realized in the election of left-wing Obama is the death knell of the US as a great power in all its forms.

By: DFL

DFL — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:50:30 +0000

The beginning of America’s long decline.

By: sinz54

sinz54 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:33:40 +0000

So here’s my nomination for the name to give the 2000s: the great leap backwards!
Yep.

By 1992, with the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the worldwide adoption of market economies, and the triumph of U.S. forces in the Gulf War, America stood at the absolute pinnacle.

That lasted 9 years.

And it ended with a bang on 9-11.

The economic difficulties actually had their roots in 9-11. To stave off a recession caused by Americans afraid to travel, the Fed lowered interest rates nearly to zero, and Bush and the Congress undertook stimulus packages and so on. This led to the housing bubble–and we all know how that turned out.

“America at the pinnacle” became “America the vulnerable,” in about 16 years.