The Amazing Dissolving Nation... James Kuntsler

[lib2DaBone]

Going broke fast is a very compelling problem. For ordinary people it tends to induce chicken-with-no-head syndrome - a mad burst of pointless locomotion ending in sudden collapse. If the US debt ceiling is raised - which I think is a 90 percent bet - there will be a sigh of relief that resounds from the lobster pounds of Penobscot Bay to the parking lots of Silicon Valley... and poor dissolving America will still be stuck in its essential predicament of being broke. So a lot of pointless locomotion will continue in the form of positioning among a troop of clown candidates for the dumbshow of the 2012 election. I wonder lately whether that election will actually happen.

It's conceivable to me that Barack Obama may be the last president - for a while. He was a decent fellow but, in the end, ineffectual, and of course he got no help from the legislative branch, including especially colleagues in his own party, a most remarkable class of maundering chickenshits and grifters. Our money problems will not go away and after a while this land will not be governable by familiar means. In case you haven't noticed, the rule of law is already AWOL in many sectors of our national life, most particularly money matters, but before long on every street-corner, every highway strip, plus every GMO cornfield, and brownfield.


http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/07/the-amazing-dissolving-nation.html

[Kaleko]

1. Kunstler.

K&R for the OP.

[Octafish]

2. A kick away from toward the untoward.

Important observations from JH Kunstler: It started getting obvious when the traitors weren't going to jail during Iran-Contra. Now I see why: They're getting away with the cash, too.

[oldhippydude]

3. funny thing

i was just thinking the same thing.. when did it start... Ollie North should have been convicted of treason instead he was a hero.. during the Antichrist administration

[Octafish]

4. 30 years. No one tries to stop them, because no one who tries lasts very long.

Cynthia McKinney, Eliot Spitzer, Anthony Wiener and Alan Grayson jump to mind.

Paul Wellstone also comes to mind, as does John F. Kennedy, Jr.