Poll: 79% fear U.S. economy could collapse

but eventually they’ll either raise taxes and anger that 65 percent or not raise taxes and anger them by driving up the deficit. Although, given the sheer magnitude by which this thing could overshoot cost estimates, I suppose higher taxes and higher deficits are possible. — Allah

It depends on who’s in power. If the GOP retakes control at this point – it’s doubtful they have the balls to make the radical course corrections needed – an immediate phase out of Medicare, privatization of Social Security, and repeal of ObamaCare. I don’t see them doing it. Which means if the economy goes bust with them in charge – the Socialists will have the upper hand.

Americans will blame whoever’s in charge. If it happens soon – the Socialists get the blame and we have a chance to rebuild a capitalist nation.

This is why I don’t worry anymore – as long as it looks like the balloon goes up on O’s watch – I think we’re good. My main concern are my son and daughter – who are draft age because I also sense something big coming from Europe / Mid-East / Asia.

I like my geo-location right now here in the South – I feel good about the direction we Rednecks will take if we have to head out on our own.

It’s still sad though.

HondaV65 on March 23, 2010 at 8:58 PM

Gee Allah, how much higher deficits than 1.4 TRILLION dollars and taxes above 40% do you really think most of us need to be crushed under the weight of taxes and a shrinking dollar value? My folks lived through the Great Depression. Since there wasn’t an external threat to the country then, they could concentrate on getting themselves a job and surviving off the land. I’m with Honda V65 about the likely external threats now: China (200 million young men without a mate, Russians who love to make mischief while America is busy elsewhere, and 1.4 Billion Muslims who hate America and would love nothing better than to bomb us and take over every business we own, like the Gazans took over the abandoned Israeli settlements when they pulled out).

You can avoid going to war with them while you concentrate on the home front and let them swallow the rest of the world, but once you come out of the Depression, who is left to ally with? Europe will be gone and Japan will survive only because it is an island. Our military will be defenestrated because Obamacare will have bankrupted the defense account and our ships and planes will be wrecks who can barely get to sea or up in the air to meet any mild threat. There won’t be submarines or strategic bombers to handle distant threats, and the ballistic missiles will be treatied away as he is doing right now. All our bases overseas will be gone due to budget cuts. And the successors to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia (China and the Muslim World) will be stronger than we can recover from. At that point, barring the return of Christ or nuclear war, it is game over, son.

And you and Ed are naive in the extreme to feel the situation isn’t this dire. Chaos and Entropy always expand in the universe, and it is with the barest of intelligent edge that Mankind keeps from spinning off into all out natural collapse anyway. You constantly downplay any possibility of things getting to the worst case and won’t tolerate discussions early of what happens if it does. For some PC reason.

It takes money and organization to keep the peace and advance civilization. Our “leadership” just voted to spend every dime we make on keeping Grandma alive and keeping a bureaucracy paid and leeching off the children who were going to take care of Grandma in a better fashion than the bureaucrats who never met her and could give two sh*ts if she is breathing tomorrow as long as they get my money and spend every defense dollar on something besides protecting us.

I think you totally underestimate the threat and are stifling any possible thinking outside the box to stop the Chaos before we are left with only the worst case solutions. You don’t take strident speech off the table and expect to win against charlatans who don’t care what we say, and never will as long as they achieve greater power to protect themselves at our expense, and demonize the crap out of anyone who disagrees with them (and the press is complicit with their agenda because they have been brainwashed by glamour and celebrity to agree Dhimmicrats are so smart we shouldn’t cross them).

I think your comment policies have gotten pretty PC and restrictive in the face of ever increasing evidence of World War II history repeating itself.

Subsunk

Subsunk on March 23, 2010 at 9:24 PM

WoW! Using the word s*cede gets you caught in the dirty word filter around here. There’s free speech for ya!

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Subsunk on March 24, 2010 at 9:10 AM