You think its painful now? You ain't seen nuthin' yet.

Wait until they start with the cuts. Wait until more jobs are lost. Wait until schools start to crumble. Wait until cops get laid off. Wait until we cut back on air traffic controllers and lock operations on the country's waterways.

Wait until bridges fall into increasing disrepair. Wait until harbors stop being dredged. Wait until the wait to speak to someone at the local social security office is measured in weeks. Wait until the USDA stops funding the farmers markets around the country and more small farms become just so much more agribiz acreage.

Wait until we can't afford meter maids to enforce illegal parking in your neighborhoods. Wait until the hunting license office is closed. Wait until your favorite trout stream is lost to overfishing. Wait until your school cuts both G&T and SpEd.

Wait until people die in the streets because hospitals can't take them and start to lock their doors. Wait until it becomes more or less like garbage collection when they remove the dead frozen bodies from unheated houses in northern cities, even as the extremes of winter go crazy due to climate change.

Wait until despair is so common that gangs roam just outside the high security gated communities where "they" live. Wait until mobs set upon anyone who admits to supporting this shit.

Too crazy?

Maybe.

But not impossible.

and quit wasting our resources fighting each other.

Yeah.
You're a uniter.

against their own government as well as those who capitalize on the consequences.
This was the big con job of the last forty years.

Compare it to an autoimmune disease. We are destroying ourselves from within.

It was our government who was responsible for improving the lives of so many in so many ways.
How insidious that people could be turned against such a successful endeavor.

Intersting times we're in, for sure. I installed a PV solar set-up earlier this year. If all that crap does happen, it'll be nice to suffer with A/C.

Look what happened to a state HWY near my house, because an old culvert was not replaced.
They knew the culvert was going. They knew the road would go.
It did.
No one was hurt, Lucky.
I just hope the detour route holds up.

actually that people think I am wrong. I hope I am wrong.

But I'm worried to death just like you are. I'm scared, depressed, pessimistic. People say, don't worry, everyone sees how crazy the RW's are now. But I don't think so. I think our nation has become insane enough - enough people insane - that we have crossed the threshold and there is no return. We are on the roller coaster now and no stopping until the end.

And it pretty much sets out how this is not the end.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1626947

and further environmental degradation. These will continue to have devastating impact on our lives. And when there
is no federal monies to help the areas directly impacted with disaster assistance, Katrina and the gulf crisis will seem
well-managed.

People in this country have lost touch with the many ways that government makes our lives better.
As their lives start to unravel, maybe they will come to see what has been lost.

Tragically, it has come to this.

Reread the OP.

You covered that too.

Those charitable Sovereign Wealth Funds wil swoop in and buy up all of our highways, parking meters, government buildings, water and sewer systems, and airports.

With capitalist benevolence and efficiency, they'll provide all of those services at a fraction of the cost. Just look at the smack up good job they're doing with prisons and schools. Look at how cheap parking meters are in Czechago now!

It's the IMF, New Dem, Republican dream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BweCXILNe28

The only thing that is more bizzare is the ad for right change dot com that came with that video.

Welcome to the structural adjustment model - Shock Doctrine version!!!

about double the average.x(

Trashing and starving the economy some more, while simultaneously cutting budgets and services that people will desperately need as a result.

Production of basic material such as crude oil, coal, iron ore, copper, rare earth metals is peaking or not growing as fast as before. Furthermore, other economies around the world are suceeding in competing for a larger share of the available supply.

Therefore, the US standard of living is on a downward trend which will accelerate over the next few decades.

In order to pay off the debt to the rich, the country can sell off the national parks and other "public" assets to the rich--sort of an even trade--so none of the things you mention will actually be an inconvenience for anyone who matters.