Your post is about your own created, speculative future, Westward was describing current reality.
Current reality is that the USA is bankrupt and has exceeded 100% of GDP in debt with no signs of slowing down on the borrwing. Voting Mitt Romney President is not going to change that. You have to live in a dreamworld to think we are in better shape now than at the time of the Depression. We are in a depression now with real unemployment at 15-19%.
The economic collapse that is going to happen here and around the world in the next 2-5 years is going to be horrific. Its not real speculative to look around and realize this is not going to end well.
I’m not creating the future I’m just preparing for it.