“I pray you are wrong that we cannot recover the great nation of America. I also pray that electing Romney will stave things off long enough for me to get better prepared.”
I spend a good deal of my time researching the state of our economy and other countries plus the hot spots of the world. I also have an old time friend who was a bank President and his wife was a bank Vice President. Plus, I have researched why other countries in history who were on the top of the heap, crashed. Every one crashed due to overextending - they didn’t have enough money to keep going so revolt against the government happened when they ran out of money and they crashed.
I have had to come to the conclusion that our country can’t keep going much longer.
Benjamin Franklin knew what would happen when he said, “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
I sincerely believe we have reached that end.
The trouble is every country is over-extended to some extent. Take away oil revenue and Russia’s economy dies. Americans stop spending and China’s economy is in the crapper.
So when it goes it will be everything at once and people struggle for the remains, leading to world war III. At least that’s my theory.
Unfortunately, I believe the same. As the "gimmes" grow in our nation and around the world, I believe there is no turning back. Morality, values, principles, and self-accountability is losing ground everyday.
That said, I'm 62 years young and willing to be cannon fodder if the SHTF, since I'm not a trained grunt in ground combat. I truly think I will see a revolution, whether from politics or racism or class warfare. It's coming and going to be really ugly. There is no nation on this rock that has as many patriotic gun owners and many WILL defend their Constitutional heritage to their dying breath. I would be honored to walk point.
I sincerely hope this will never happen, but it will take a miracle to change the mentality of the "gimmes". I just don't see it happening. Good luck, Sir. Maybe we'll both die before it happens, but then I have children who will have to deal with it.