—As long as Socialism remains protected, God’s providence is ignored (and subsequently, withdrawn).—
I think you may have a valid point there. I look at revelation 18 with more and more interest lately.
“I look at revelation 18 with more and more interest lately.”
Agreed. I often muse whether the term Babylon in that particular chapter is figurative, literal, or both. I suppose both. I don’t know that 2012 will be THE big year, but I certainly believe that it will be A big year. sneakers/athletic shoes are supposed to jump something like 50% in the first 2 quarters of next year. All of these price increases have a lag effect, add to that the theory that virtually everything trends exponentially.
Another FReeper had a post about a book that discussed the idea that most changes throughout history go on a near exponential curve, which are very slight at first and very rapid at the end. I have come to watch for that more, and more, since that post, and I agree. The amount of debt that we “have” is impossible. We have to look at things differently. I always look at financial things in terms of man hours (the only thing that matters). When we have something like a 150 Trillion dollar future deficit, you have to think, that’s going to take trillions of labor hours to produce whatever is needed. You can afix whatever number you want to it, but it boils down to say 75 million retired people means 75 million slaves to pay for it. So far we have been using third world labor imbalances to make up for that, but what happens when no one labors to buy our debt. The simple answer, war. Hyperinflation changes the nominal amount of dollars, but not the fact that one hour of sowing=one hour of reaping (figuratively). And socialism tries to keep reaping, while the sowing diminishes on that same exponential curve. Eventually no one will want to work as a slave (through taxation), to pay for someone else to live luxuriously. Foreign, or domestic.