Were screwed. I think were about to hit a depression as bad if not worse than the great depression. Collapse of the welfare state. Collapse of the warfare state. I mean, with everything the government is doing, its hard to believe theyre not collapsing us on purpose.

Also, this whole census thing is the most blatant corruption I've ever seen. Did they really think that was going to work? Politicians are idiots.

I am with Sand on this one. We are headed for a hole. This will be slower to hit here than it could be, solely because Europe will go first, and the comparative safety of our currency will make us hold our international credit rating a little longer.

Of course. if the spending does not slow down at all, which will only happen if either no one wises up in the next two election cycles (the one coming soon and the next presidential one) or no one gets the real deal and more big spenders are put into office because the powers that be have all the right people in all the right places, and people are too scared of stepping too far outside the status quo.

China will purchase Europe and America. Hopefully their trend towards economic libertarianism will bleed towards political freedom.

Land of Freedom wrote on Jun 8^th, 2010 at 1:57pm:



Russia and China are not exactly free at this point.

Well, on the plus side of all this. Pretty soon we'll know how right conspiracy theorists are. Once we hit the bottom, itll go one of two ways. One, a truly free market. Im pretty sure most people are realizing that this has nothing to do with capitalism. But everything to do with the government. The second option is we head towards new world order and the Wocu (world currency unit).

Interesting time to be alive isnt it.

I guess theres more options too. World war. Apocalypse. A splintering of the whole world into many different economic systems(fairly likely). We all melt due to global warming. etc. etc.