The good news and the bad news

Guessing about our USA future is tough and mostly a waste of mental effort, I think. Most guesses still depend on where one lives and what they do, and of course, their experience in their lifetime. Now age seems to add to the seasoning in all this idea.

Yet we are still interdependent, and so what one does one place may affect me where I live, for example.

Here’s some guesses.

First the good news. We Americans in the USA are not too shabby. Like all other humans in the world, we will work, and use a goal of benefiting our family’s futures. And I suspect while most don’t think about the ideology, most will vote and even fight if need be to keep this good system going. Even our government and private support of our dead beat elements should benefit in the long run. Even our retiree’s in the present laws get a good quality of life. What a country.

Second the bad news. This wonderful country and underlying system may collapse for lack of funding. All these wonderful benefits, at all levels, like school boards, county, state, and federal, may exceed the ability to pay. If this happens, then the adjustments and friction is going to be painful. Anyway, if the money isn’t there, then it isn’t there. Now the borrowing option, which has been a last resort to so many politicians now for many decades, may probably come to an end.

So here’s a guess to our next 100 years future.

We USA Americans will in the end be ourselves, to include those we vote for. And we will be still America as a United States vice some “federal government” . Tribes and other such local ideas (like state and county) will still count. And I predict, compared to the rest of the human world, the so called “new world” will still attract a lot of humanity. The alternatives are worse it seems.

The family future idea counts a lot, too.

So much for the good news and bad news.