The US will fail, it is inevitable. In the history of the world not nation as large as this one, with land that is basically all livable (the contiguous 48 at least) has ever existed for so long under any type of government control with the kinds of freedom we enjoy. Rome held vast amounts of land for a long time but if you study history you will see that Rome let most cities run themselves as long as they continued to pay tribute. No nation that spent so much time supporting people who contributed nothing to growing the wealth of the nation (i.e. our welfare state) has ever lasted long. What you all should be doing is figuring out how you can get a piece of land where you can grow your own food and raise meat to provide protein, and have enough water. If you are lucky, you will have enough space to set up solar panel or windmills so you can have a little electricity. The only place that this is possible is the Midwest. States like Kansas, Nevada and Mississippi, the Great Plains, will be fine because they can support small, separate communities. We won’t be worrying about green pieces of paper to trade back and forth because the only good they will be is to help start your cooking fire. I predict we have 20 years at the most before we will be worrying about putting enough food away for the winter and not what the next best game system will be and if our TV will have a high enough resolution. We won’t belong to any country, maybe a loose community with a hired sheriff, but no government we can just stop paying if we don’t like what they are doing.
What you all should be doing is figuring out how you can get a piece of land where you can grow your own food and raise meat to provide protein, and have enough water. If you are lucky, you will have enough space to set up solar panel or windmills so you can have a little electricity.
The only place that this is possible is the Midwest. States like Kansas, Nevada and Mississippi, the Great Plains, will be fine because they can support small, separate communities. We won’t be worrying about green pieces of paper to trade back and forth because the only good they will be is to help start your cooking fire.
I predict we have 20 years at the most before we will be worrying about putting enough food away for the winter and not what the next best game system will be and if our TV will have a high enough resolution.
We won’t belong to any country, maybe a loose community with a hired sheriff, but no government we can just stop paying if we don’t like what they are doing.