“probably can’t be turned around”
That’s pretty grim.
So, what are we facing? Starvation? Invasion? Default on the national debt?
All of the above.
Plus incarceration for us Tea party patriots.
Life unlike any of us have known.
Need to start job hunting in Canada.
Look at another possibility, personified by Zimbabwe. Keep printing money with its attendant inflation to the point that a loaf of bread costs a trillion dollars.
I've been afraid all along that some idiot politician would come along and monetize the debt. Looks like the United States has achieved that end, and is wearing out its printing presses printing those megabucks.
Monetization also screws everyone, particularly those who have worked and saved for retirement.
“So, what are we facing? Starvation? Invasion? Default on the national debt?”
Can you speak Chinese yet? (I already like the food)
You wish.
Actually, by the time it happens, the reality will be worse than war & famine
The government is not going away. It will morph into something that will be capable of surviving despite its destructive ways. Government has self preservation in mind, and it will find a way to preserve itself.
I am talking about totalitarianism.
We are on the technological precipice of absolute and total control of the likes the world has never before seen. I would say never before imagined but that would be a false statement. George orwell imagined it very clearly...as has the book of revelation.
We will see the end of “money” as we now know it.
Government will become hyper suspicious of any and all competing thought(sedition, anyone?)...including religion. Government will become so sadistically jealous of any words of praise not directed towards government that the individual will cease to exist.
Why will this happen? Because when things deteriorate to such extent that the only way our government can continue to exist is at the expense of all else...GOVERNMENT WILL EXIST AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL ELSE.
These things are so perfectly crystal clear to me that it makes me laugh whenever I think about it.