I like to think that I have a kind of 'sixth sense' about the way things will happen in the future; when things turn out the way I said, or thought, it's kind of like a deja vu. For example, I remember telling my young boys waaay back about how people [in future] would be watching [thin] big-screen TVs mounted to their walls, and that someday, somehow, the technology would enable everyday folks to actually pick out what they wanted to watch on the internet; movies, programs, documentaries and the like. Well, it just dawned on me the other day that that reality had already 'crept' into existence. Yeah, and a lot of the content is actually free! (Look for great gains in this trend with the modern 'Cloud' computing concept becoming more advanced, BTW...Ya! Apple Inc!)
[Cheap-ass-Bastard addon:] I have been debating the pros and cons of purchasing cable for some time now. However, the 'bargain' packages I might be able to afford seem to be loaded with a bunch of 'junk' channels only the most hard-up viewers could stomach. Further, their stuff is mostly available for free via Hulu or marginally cheap on Netflix, streamed for under ten bucks/mo. Yeah, if you wanna pay 50-75.00/mo, you can get a few decent channels, but for TV??? C'mon, mon. That shit is financed by frackin' commercials already, and then they wanna SELL you access to it, and not even COMMERCIAL FREE?? Again, C'mon, mon. I will pass. I don't even have a 'TV' left in the house, and frankly, I have more 'TV' than I could watch [available] in my lifetime. No, it's not necessarily the most up-to-date, or cutting-edge stuff, but WTF--good enuff--and, I can get most movies, in time, on DVD, sent right to my house...[/CAB]
Anyways, I digress; Collapse, I recall, and something about predictions--yeah, now I remember! I'm going to go ahead and predict that, yeah, the Dollar, the US economy, and the world's fiat system will fail, and (yes, you can quote me on this) 'fairly soon'. Now, "fairly soon" may be rather ambiguous, even nebulous, but...WTF?
It seems that endless, foolish, debt-financed gub'ment spending is catching up with the US and world realities--wake UP! There is no spoon, and there is no backing for all our fiat currencies--they're all just printing TP. We is all po, and we is all bankrupt. Not just the EU, but US and even China are debt-ridden corpses walking slooooowly to the grave.
In the US, if one factors in the obligations to SS, Mediscare, and Mediscam--uh, I mean, Medicaid--we are fully in debt 60-70 Trillion--with a capital "T"--making our future generations literally slaves to the debt (figures I recall seeing were to the tune of about $700,000 per family) [revised-9/2/11: Read full article...] Of course, they are not going to put up with paying off our boatload of debt, and so revolt and/or collapse is inevitable. The rest of the West is likewise indebted.
I give it five, maybe ten years, tops, till SHTF (shit-hits-the-fan) . Only collapse can lead to a rebirth of sane [or different] monetary policy, however painful it will be. I suspect--no, I predict--that what will emerge from the upcoming global financial/monetary collapse will be an ushering-in of a 'new', world-wide accepted form of fiat currency, likely backed by some kind of commodities index. [say, like stuff that everyone really needs and uses--Eg., FOOD?] Will we really be trading 'foodstamps' for everything? Likely. You can't eat TP, and gold/silver will be beyond the masses.
Hmmm--what an insidious plot to usher in a new, unitary [one-] world gub'ment--Shit can only go downhill from there. Our favorite 'Banksters' will somehow be in charge of this "money" system, however, and we will all still be slaves to their system. Exchange a slap in the face for a kick in the groin, anyone?
Now I want to be a third-world farmer--one of the truly 'rich' men of tomorrow (first be the last, anyone?). Aquaculturist, maybe?? Yeah. That's the ticket. Grab a shovel...
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