Slouching This Way
The world is just turning into a complete madhouse. It's hard for me to even know where to begin. What is "normal" behavior for a person, family, community, company, nation or humanity? The rulebook seems to have been thrown out the door. Lately I've wondered if I have died and gone to purgatory, or even hell. I don't recognize the world I grew up and lived in.
The federal government and media continued the lies that the economy is improving and unemployment is down. Inflation is running 5-7% with oil prices up 18% this year, food prices are up 3-5% and will go higher with oil prices. State governments are in trouble and are desperately looking for cuts to their budgets. U6 Un/underemployment is over 20% and rising while 2 million plus workers have dropped out of the workforce.
The state's fiscal crisis in Wisconsin and Indiana is creating a crisis in the democratic process that threatens to turn a political crisis into class war that in turn could lead to civil war. The democrat/union faction wants to maintain the status quo even though the system is bankrupt. They claim to fight for the middle class when, in fact, they only want to set their members up as an entitled class in a sea of poverty. This will not end well.
World order has collapsed as the US has repudiated it's role as a superpower. The US has no influence on global events so chaos has risen and threatens to overwhelm order everywhere. From Somali piracy to Mexican drug cartels to Islamic conquest, forces are moving into the vacuum created by US withdrawal.
I've lost all confidence in america and it's institutions as have most of the folks that I know. I don't believe that there is anything left to salvage and at this point, total collapse and cleansing is the only hope. Political reconciliation is impossible as all trust has evaporated.
Some black swan is slouching this way; Saudi revolution, end of QE2, a terror event, famine. Something is coming and it will introduce utter chaos.
The federal government and media continued the lies that the economy is improving and unemployment is down. Inflation is running 5-7% with oil prices up 18% this year, food prices are up 3-5% and will go higher with oil prices. State governments are in trouble and are desperately looking for cuts to their budgets. U6 Un/underemployment is over 20% and rising while 2 million plus workers have dropped out of the workforce.
The state's fiscal crisis in Wisconsin and Indiana is creating a crisis in the democratic process that threatens to turn a political crisis into class war that in turn could lead to civil war. The democrat/union faction wants to maintain the status quo even though the system is bankrupt. They claim to fight for the middle class when, in fact, they only want to set their members up as an entitled class in a sea of poverty. This will not end well.
World order has collapsed as the US has repudiated it's role as a superpower. The US has no influence on global events so chaos has risen and threatens to overwhelm order everywhere. From Somali piracy to Mexican drug cartels to Islamic conquest, forces are moving into the vacuum created by US withdrawal.
I've lost all confidence in america and it's institutions as have most of the folks that I know. I don't believe that there is anything left to salvage and at this point, total collapse and cleansing is the only hope. Political reconciliation is impossible as all trust has evaporated.
Some black swan is slouching this way; Saudi revolution, end of QE2, a terror event, famine. Something is coming and it will introduce utter chaos.
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