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Dec 7, 2018 20:24:26   #
Seth
 
Hogback wrote:
First problem is not a problem at all. Climate is a natural occurrence. When I was a kid in school back in the 60's we were taught of a pending "ice age". Since they were wrong on that they started teaching global warning they were wrong again so now it's just c*****e c****e that covers everything so now they can't be wrong.

The second problem is a real problem indeed but since America is actually in better shape than any other country in the world I guess the entire world will go broke at the sme time. Even if every man woman and child had the $70.000 to pay the debt who would we pay it to? Every country in the world owes every other country in the world with the banks holding the I O U's. It will be very intresting indeed. But I'm not so sure it will be a big problem. Just erase the books and start all over. In the Bible it speaks of a one world economy and a one world currency maybe we are one our way.

The third problem is under control if everybody would just leave Trump alone and let him do his thing!

Actually, the biggest problem is that there are too many democrats in our way who want to give this country away to people who want to bring us down. Political correctness is also a probem we don't know any more if a baby is a boy are a girl. We don't even know which restroom to use. We spend hundreds of 1000's of dollars on a college education for a degree that is worthless on the job market. Like African American studies or female studies etc . . . We can start by solving those easily seen and obvious problems and stop spending money on something like g****l w*****g err.. . . oh. . . I. . . I mean c*****e c****e or wh**ever it's being called.
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Dec 7, 2018 20:26:18   #
nwtk2007 Loc: Texas
 
whitnebrat wrote:
Looking ahead, I see three distinct problems that are facing the country within the next five to ten years. If they are not solved by then, then we as a country are in jeopardy.
First is c*****e c****e. It doesn't matter who or what is causing it, it only matters that it's happening. The answer to it from most reputable climate scientists is to cut down the carbon footprint (carbon dioxide emissions, etc.) and go to a 100% renewable energy platform. This means a massive change in the way we do things. If it doesn't happen, then the weather will become more severe; disastrous storms will get more disastrous; and what we now consider to be the 'breadbasket' of corn, wheat and soybeans in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska (plus a few more) will move north to Alberta and Saskatchewan, This will leave the Corn Belt to become the modern equivalent of the Dust Bowl, and displace hundreds of thousands of Americans who depended on those crops for a living.
The second problem that is imminent is that of the national debt. We currently have a national debt of over $21,000,000,000,000 (twenty-one-trillion). That equates to approximately $70,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. It is financed by Treasury notes (national IOU's), which are primarily bought by other countries as an investment. China and Saudi Arabia are currently some of the foremost purchasers of our national debt and could disrupt our entire economy if they were to stop purchasing our debt or dump the T-bills that they have onto the world trading floors. This would crash the bond market and will cause at least a major recession or probably a depression (ala the 1930's only worse.) We have to get to a balanced budget and begin paying down this debt … it's that simple. Tax cuts and runaway spending don't help. The disruption of higher taxes and huge spending cuts at the federal level mean that the average American will not have the standard of living that they have become used to, and adjusting to that will become extremely difficult. The alternative to this is to 'print more money', which is effectively devaluing the dollar, causing runaway inflation and economic disaster … look at Venezuela or Brazil (or Germany in the 1930's) for the effects of this.
Debt of a different stripe is also looming in the loss of or inability to get jobs … mainly in the area of personal loans (auto & student) that won't be repaid if the jobs aren't there.
Third, and most problematic is the loss of the manufacturing sector jobs in this country. They aren't coming back, not for lack of trying, but because of technological change and automation. This means the loss of many (if not most) of the old "shock absorber washer stuffer" or "data entry clerk" type of jobs that we once had. Cashier-less markets, automated fast-food outlets, and retail stores are already being implemented. This will create a permanent underclass of people that cannot become robot maintainers or software coders or their equivalent, no matter how much training you give them … they are just not capable of it. Even many white-collar jobs are beginning to be eliminated by automation and artificial intelligence. Former managers are working at Walmart as greeters. What do you do with these people whose employment prospects are almost zero? If they don't have any way of making a living, and can't feed their families, you have the potential of mass r**ting that will make the Watts r**ts look like minor scuffles. Historically, the French revolution was caused by just this problem. Here, it eventually will become (if it isn't already here) necessary to pay these people to not r**t, which means a welfare state on a major scale. One answer is to 'de-technologize' many industries just to give people work and keep them from civil strife. Once you go this route, at least you have tax-paying citizens instead of the non-tax-paying underclass that is non-productive and a drain on the federal treasury.
There are other factors that are possibilities that could massively disrupt our way of life, but these three are the major disasters looming in the near future. To ignore them is to create a country that is vastly different and vastly worse off then the one we have now. Ignore them at your (and your children's children's) peril.
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Wrong on c*****e c****e but essentially correct on the others.

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