[mamelukesabre]

Someday we’ll be at a point where the US economy will no longer be able to support the US military and all will come to an end.

We arent’ there. But every day we get a little closer.

[mel]

That is part of the plan

[JasonC]

In 500 years that might happen. Nothing happening now has anything to do with it, and it is typical doom mongering hyperbole.

It was one recession, we've had dozens. It was one election lost to the left, we've had dozens. It doesn't matter a tinker's darn in the grand scheme of things. The ship of state sails on, crushing such trivial obstacles beneath it.

[JasonC]

The reality is, none of this economic sound and fury is more than a tempest in the proverbial teapot. 10 years from now, the only thing anybody will remember about the Obama presidency was that he didn't do anything about Iran getting nuclear weapons, and in particular didn't exploit a chance to support a popular uprising against the regime there when the people were in the streets against it.

That one will have real historical repurcussions. All this economic stuff that everyone is hot about every minute on the idiot box, it will be a footnote in some economist's thesis, discussing how Lehman was a screw up but the Fed fixed it pretty well afterward. And nobody else will care one way or another. Healthcare and such boondoggles, nobody will have the slightest idea they even happened.