Posted on 03/08/2013 7:10:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
We have passed the Event Horizon.
On a side note, if the pink pony people turn out to be right, we still made a great move. We LOVE it here. Wish we had done it 30 years ago.
Turning into Greece?
Looks to me like we’re there.
Our productive class has definitely fallen below 50% of the population; that seems to me to have tipped us to the negative slope.
(hmmm, isn't "monopoly" a "Greek" word for counterfeiting or something? /s)
Whereabouts in Kentucky? I’m looking for someplace to move away from the Zombie Ground Zero that is the Washington DC area, in a few years.
Another of history’s Fatuous Platitudes. OF COURSE America will slide into the tar pit that has trapped Greece, it will be Greece raised to an exponential degree. Before long, the world is just going to agree that the US currency is just so much worthless paper, and stop trading in terms of “dollars”.
There will be some arcane “basket of commodities” on which the weighted values of foodstuffs, energy sources, precious metals and technological engineering products will be the standard of trade, and the dollar will be cut loose, to seek whatever level it can.
Then, if the US Treasury attempts to borrow, they shall be subject to the same strictures on the market that everybody else is - how you gonna pay it back? That mafioso that runs the world financial markets will use this leverage to go out breaking kneecaps and selecting assassinations to force compliance.
I do not see any prospect for a fair and free world any time soon.
Gosh, the US will never be Greece. The level of writing has certainly improved at the Atlantic.
The Atlantic - full of old wrecks, crabs and fish s**t.
Don’t forget the classic...”I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.
“central” is as specific as I’ll get.
I’ll throw out two hints:
1. If you search “kentucky” in google maps, the “dot” is within ten miles of my home.
2. I live in cornbread mafia land. (google it)
Apparently this guy is unable to grasp the concept of “artificially low interest rates”.
You should take steps to live a better life
whether things get bad
or not.
I am reminded of all those “Greece will never be Zimbabwe” articles.
There was a time when Greece could borrow and repay in its own currency too. Same with every other country with a crappy economy.
There will come a day when the U.S. cannot repay debts in U.S. dollars.
We are Greece.
No we won’ be Greece,
We will be Zimbabwe
A half-hour span double post?
Turing into the Soviet Union is a lot more likely than turning onto Greece.
I’m sure it’s a sight better than where I am. I’m looking for someplace where I can get enough arable land to make a stab at being self-sufficient for when/if/when the grid goes down.
More likely that we’ll turn into Mexico. Many places in this country already have. Have you seen some of the Colonias near the Mexican border???
Yeah. We’re there. U.S. is the “eagle’s wings” that are plucked from the back of the “lion” (U.K.) in the book of Daniel. (Irvin Baxter, End of the Age)
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