Planning for the future

       Around five years ago I could confidently predict the process our USA nation is undergoing. So could many others.

            The next step, unfortunately, is when people quit loaning us money to finance our federal government, and we have to live within our means, which are considerable. This will probably happen in 2013.

            The usual story probably applies...kicking the can down the road will make the eventual collapse more painful and more full of suffering and death than it had to be. Here's one example, rolling blackouts of public electric power and the life style and economic impacts. Here's another example, my grandchildren when married can't afford a house payment because they have to work just to pay the national debt this present generation is incurring. Here's another example, some national calamity occurs and we have lightweights in charge, and don't expect much from them in the area of national defense that benefits us. Here's a last example, the dollar devalues enough to erode the economic power of the USA, and some regional war breaks out that we can do nothing about, and even have to suffer things like millions of deaths and downrange nuclear fallout.

            I really don't like being cold, wet, and hungry, and have been.

            And traditionally for we humans, A often leads to B.

            So I've shopped some things just to add to my own and my Family's defense. In the end, a good defense plan is best that depends on your own situation, and a well placed foxhole is part of that solution for me.  Can you believe I am even thinking this way in the new world USA. Yet I am.

            Now there is one obvious solution, which will take time (like until 2020 or later). It's called a third national political party. And it will probably be made up of today's democrats, republicans, independents, Americans all.