Posted on 09/20/2011 10:32:40 AM PDT by Kartographer
The mood in the room was definitely that this country is heading towards some kind of collapse, some kind of significant disaster. That everything kind of is lined up and nobody, really, in the political realm, out there in the culture seems to have solutions
If we look long-term. If we look at the structural problems of the United States, at over $100 Trillion in unfunded liabilities, of ongoing deficits, of no political solutions, of nobody talking about real cuts, where does this all lead?
Unless we have real structural change I think it will [lead to disaster] Unless you change the approach to government, unless youre willing to challenge the very notion of what government needs to do, youre not going to change it in a fundamental way.
Unless you make a fundamental change in our approach to entitlement, in our approach to government, we can buy time, but were not going to change the outcome.
Unless theres alternatives, unless people come up with real solutions, the crisis could be anywhere from a major economic depression and we learn our lesson and we climb out of it, to what happened to Rome, which really is the dark ages
I think we have to remember that
civilizations in human history have declined, theyve disappeared
Sometimes in human history mankind has gone through long periods of time of just struggling, of it being very hard to survive.
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I don’t see why
There's the zinger. Most under 50 wouldn't have a clue much past trying to figure out how to get a can of corn opened without electricity. Hate to say it but some over 50 would be scratching their heads as well.
Wouldn't *you* be upset if you were sitting on trillions of someone else's currency that they were busy devaluing?
yes, but I couldn’t do anything about it unless I had a military comparable to that which is owned by the ones who are busy devaluing their currency.
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