Good God in Butter .... I feel like shit.

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37. Right on all 3 points, I'm afraid

Although I would quibble with your item #2. Thing is, for some parts of the country and some demographics, the US is STILL in a recession. (Recent example: the story about the KU student who got a 4.0 and posted a picture in from of the university sign saying that college is a ripoff.) The recent MSNBC town hall in Wisconsin with Bernie Sanders offered some telling examples of people who have been left behind in this economy, and chose to follow Twitler out of what I can only assume was desperation.

But you are right about items 1 and 3. My guess is that the greedy idiots who can't wait to privatize Social Security will not allow the market to collapse until they've made metric tons of money first. (It is no accident that all of the economic and treasury appointees are from Goldman Sachs.)

And it does appear that we'll be heading to war but your guess is as good as mine as to who the US will consider an ally and who will be the enemy. I do think that they'll need to reinstate the draft, however.😬