...You are making dire predictions about America. The simplest way to back them up is for you to make a specific prediction that can be proven true of false within a set period of time. I do not insist you should bet money - although I recommend it, because it puts a wonderful edge on one's reasoning when money is on the line.
Well, like longeyes I am not sanguine about America's future. We are currently 14.3
TRILLION dollars in debt and are facing a spending curve that has transitioned upward in, basically, the shape of a hyperbola, since roughly the early to mid 1960s. This is unsustainable. The curve obviously cannot continue upward in reality, even though in theory it can. There is an actual limit to our wealth. I wish I could find some real indication that Obama, Harry Reid, Pelosi, Babs Boxer, Diane Feinstein, and other demos would comprehend that .... but I can't seem to.
I mean actions, not words. Anyone can "say" anything in politics.
As of now our GDP growth is down to 1.8%, the last month or so has been
HELL on the Dow Jones indicator, and even consumer optimism is waning.
Quantum Easement 2 ends at the end of this month and I don't really know what that portends.
A number of economists have pointed out the real possibility of a "double-dip" recession. This is similar to what happened in the 1930s and probably for much the same reasons. Obama is FDR redux and none of his policies have really helped, only hindered.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt used to complain about the industrialists conspiring against him as the reason his policies didn't work. In 1940 he almost didn't run again because he well knew his administration had utterly failed. It was only the beiginning of WW2 and his switch to an "isolationist" campaign that alllowed him a third term.
Thankfully third terms are not permitted under the Constitution these days, but we still face a possibility Obama, who complains about bankers and other big businesses hoarding $$$$$ and not spending it (an echo of the FDR rantings) getting a second term.
Sparta fell. Greece fell. Rome fell. Even the British Empire, upon which the sun did not set, collapsed.
America will not continue as is. I am not saying we will collapse, but we cannot continue on the path we are now on, or we WILL collapse --just like Rome.
I don't know when. I don't gamble or do sideshows or crystal ball predictions, or tell people how long their "lifeline" is. I am merely looking at our financial situation, as well as our social and cultural condition, and saying, we cannot go on as we have been.
I wish you well if you desire to come here and make a life for yourself. I think we will be all the better for having you here too. Best of luck to you.
