[appeal2]

Things are getting extremely serious.

[PGR88]

Indeed - the average, productive American worker and retiree is facing the non-stop water-torture of declining real wages, ever-higher taxes, zero interest on savings, higher costs in Gov’t-controlled education and health-care, and a unionized public sector workforce and Government in a corrupt feed-back loop that serves its interests first.

I say - let it collapse, the sooner the better. We will either wind up with an Argentine-style dictatorship or a return to real limited Gov’t, real money, and more personal freedom.

I’ll take my chances.

[dfwgator]

I believe for the sake of our children’s children we need a collapse, because this crazy spending is not sustainable....the crash will come sooner or later, and the later it happens, the worse it will be.

[Daveinyork]

It’s the sort of thing that led Germany to Hitler, Russia to Stalin, and Latin America and Africa to a series of Peronists and Chavists. I hope America is different, but I’m seeing a lot less evidence of that these days

[KarlInOhio]

Right now we are in the situation of someone who had a heart attack and got a couple stints, some anti-cholesterol medication and started back on the Federal Reserve/Treasury sausage and gravy diet. We had our warning in 2008 and as a nation have chosen to ignore it. We now how to start preparing individually how to survive the big heart attack/stroke combo.

[jeffc]

LOL! Watch for the "media", who have been running around like Chicken Little proclaiming the end of the world if the auto-sequester takes place, to turn 180 degrees if it looks like we really will do it. They'll switch sides and make it seem like the Zero and the Dems have always wanted the sequester to happen - just to try and scare the Repubs into backing down.

I would not be surprised.....

[BobL]

I’ve told my kids the same thing. People, understandably, don’t think about what happens after the collapse, but the bottom line is that the country, usually, will still exist. It will be much poorer, but a lot of stuff will be reset. The country just might pull out of it and do well (like Russia, now), or it might reach a critical mass of “takers” and never pull out (like Argentina, now).

The only thing certain: We are going down...the only question is how we pull out.