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I think everybody is going to be very surprised at how we "boil down" in the end. For example, there's been a noted national instance of lower income wage earners pawning belongings for gas and grocery money. They might not be smart enough to realize that this pattern isn't sustainable, but for people to be doing this tells me "something". They're either poor budget managers (like DUH!), or they've simply exhausted their spendable income after paying bills and such. My "guess" is that they're not forfeiting certain "comforts" so that they can buy gas and groceries, but I can't say this for certain.

Anyway...if this cross section of our society is already approaching the "end of their rope", what happens when they actually ARRIVE there? Will they wander around looking for day labor? Will they go to the various state and federal welfare agencies? Will they turn to crime? I don't know.

But let's assume that we "bump it up a notch". Let's assume that the price of gas goes up and over that which can be afforded by the next tier of income earners. This would be "Middle America". According to financial consultants (such as Dave Ramsey), Middle America is on an average $20,000 in consumer debt per household, has two car payments, and a house payment. What are they going to do IF the price of fuel goes over what they can afford? Something has to "give". What will "give" though?

I didn't mean to pick on the prospect of unaffordable fuel. It was just an illustration. Our nation is "fragile". We've become fragile due to decades of leftist panty-waists and their followers who have beaten down the intestinal fortitude which our founders and forefathers had. We've become a nation of cowards...a nation which murders it's unborn...a nation who sends its children off to government schools for training by the NEA...a nation who won't stand up to the homosexual movement... a nation who believes that black, semi-automatic, magazine rifles take on a life of their own and go out at night and hunt down and kill people.

Nah...it won't be the "environment" that kills us. It will be the same thing that's been killing us since that all to familiar story which took place in the Bible back in Genesis 3. That's what will be our undoing...and it will be slow enough for certain of us to watch it in progress, and deceitful enough to convince everybody else that it isn't really happening....sort of like the coming elections! :-)