Are We Headed For Collapse?
Every one of you should go to Whiskey and Gunpowder and read the article posted by Don Stott entitled “What Could Happen: The Collapse of Big Cities, Big Governments and Subsidies”. It is a sobering account of where the author believes we could be heading. Are things really as dour as they seem? I know I don’t feel like there is much to be hopeful for. Our government has truly run amuck and I’m not certain enough people get it. American Idol is on. Gasoline is under $2. What me worry?
Some highlights (or lowlights) from Stott’s work:
Obama told America and the world that he was going to cut the deficit in half, all the while proposing more and more spending and bureaucracy. In his campaign speeches, he said that he was going to not allow earmarks, but the spending bill before him has 8600 earmarks in it. His speech was an incredible exposition of pure BS.
Stocks and gold will probably cross at about 3,000. (ed. Meaning the Dow at 3,000 while the price of gold is $3,000 an ounce.)
The big cities, with their large numbers of out of work minorities, will become extremely dangerous places to live, and there will be an exodus to safer, small towns, by those who are able, even if it means selling a big city home at a sacrifice price, just to be safe.
Government size will grow, and grow, and grow. More and more departments will be formed and bureaucrats hired, in a feeble attempt to ‘fix’ the depression. It’s doubtful that most will realize that it was government that got us here, and the majority will wrongly think that more government will fix things, rather than make them worse.
Governmental subsidies and handouts, are indeed like a cancer, eating and spreading out of control, and most especially at the federal level. Once a citizen gets a check from D.C., they are 100% going to depend on their continuance. Public housing residents are several generations old now, and each subsequent generation is more worthless than the previous. Public housing occupants believe it is their actual right to have free housing. All recipients of subsidies and handouts actually come not only to depend on them, but begin to believe they have an unconditional right to them.
Donald Trump, this morning on Fox News said, “It’s 1929 all over again.”
The jobless, hungry, and homeless, will multiply in big cities, and riots will be the logical result.
This is thinking the unthinkable. If we continue to allow a handful of socialists in Washington grab more power and spend more of our money then I can see it happen. If we do nothing but watch it happen then we deserve what we get.
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