What about this am I missing? The presidential election is a year away. The Republican candidates comprise a conservative version of John Kerry, a George Bush III, and my friends' longtime supportless champion, Ron Paul. If ever there was a longshot horse to bet on, well, it sits in front of you. So take issue with this if you want, but I'm assuming (there I go again) that Obama's got this one, most likely. And like an old high school teacher of mine, a great thinker (or at the very least, a thinker), said, "We will continue to elect cowardly fools who ignore the Constitution and spend money we don't have. " And I agree with his expecting outcome if that actual does happen, that our country's heading into the toilet. More seriously into the toilet than it has in the past. Somewhere between Romulus Augustulus' Rome, the Weimar Republic, and present day Greece, only with fat people.
So here's where I go with this, ITS TIME TO GET OUT. Ok, maybe not right now this moment, but seriously soon. If you want to play captain and go down with the ship, fine. But if I were you, I'd make like a rat and abandon ship. Find a country that pays its bills with its own money, and appreciates your skill set (assuming, again, that you have one).
Lastly, for clarification purposes, I need to point out the timeline that I would expect. My rough estimate, considering I'm an engineer that knows very little about economy and whatnot, is ten to fifty years. If you're surprised by the vagueness...I don't care.
oh and Rob took the words right out of my mouth. He must've had this on his back burner way longer than I did.
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