[jwparkerjr]

I am not a financial person and make no claim to expertise in the area. I do however have a lifetime of trying to get by and raise a family, etc. I know that if I ran my family finances the way governments at every level or being run I would be bankrupt in short order. It's like I'm in debt up to my eyeballs, paying most of what I make to handle the debt I already have and in great financial trouble. Then, I borrow a year's plus worth of income and because things appear to get better I make no changes in finances to address the reason I'm was in trouble to start with.

At some point there will no longer be money to borrow and they won't be able to print it fast enough to keep up with the inflation brought on by the printing of money with nothing to back it.

Sadly, public education has so dumbed-down two or three generations of Americans now that all of this is lost on the average Joe trying to make it in today's world.

This can't end well. It's like one of those slow motion nightmares where you know what's happening and how it will turn out, but you are unable to stop it.

[RipSawyer]

“Sadly, public education has so dumbed-down two or three generations of Americans now that all of this is lost on the average Joe trying to make it in today’s world.”
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I went to public school but when I started in 1950 it was a different world. We started studying history as soon as our reading skills would allow. Young people now know nothing of history, they say, “That can’t happen here”, not knowing that it has already happened here or in a dozen other places in the past. The first step needed is to make most Americans aware of our own ignorance.