Honestly, we find it painful to think too much and frankly we no longer recommend it! To think, is to risk understanding and that could be dangerous if you delve into thinking about your future. Just for the heck of it, we decided to live on the edge by contemplating what our future would look like in 2013 if the country went off the now infamous fiscal cliff.
And wouldn't you know it, that got us asking thoughtful questions like; What if the American economy has already gone over the so-called fiscal cliff? What if those in the know already know the economic crisis has no conventional options that'll fix the country's dire circumstance? What if those who know are just stalling for time? Well, what if?
Presumably, we have some of the best minds in the world working day and night looking for solutions to alleviate the burgeoning debt burdening the nation. Think tanks from coast to coast, filled with university trained economic specialist supported with Nobel Prize recipients in the discipline of economics have broken their collective brains pondering the problems without success to date.
Unfortunately, even if the brightest amongst us came up with a viable plan of action, it would have to be filtered through the American political process. And we all know what that means, back to the drawing board. But thats a story for another post.
Admittedly, we're no experts, for experts in the field of economics probably think a lot more than we ever would. But that being said, it don't take a friggin' genious to realize, there ain't a snowball's chance in hell, America can dig its way out of the economic hole its dug for itself. The tool boxes are empty and America's brain trust is bankrupt, corrupt or both.
We hear all the time, 16 trillion plus divided by 320 million plus will determine the total liability of each American man, women and child to pay down the national debt. If we add on the interest and the surcharge to cover the one percent who'll never pay their fair share, thats a hefty heap of debt to shoulder.
To be fair, we can't come down too hard on the rich because there's a lot of others who are gonna be looking for a pass on kicking in their percentage. What about the old people, the stupid, the retards, the criminal element, the slick and the sick? Realistically, there's noway, nohow you can squeeze a dime out of these demographics so you can pretty much add their burdens to the general population. (God damn 47%!)
Just to keep things real, we can't exclude the fact that this overhanging monetary burden will be mounted atop existing personal debt like credit cards, car payments, mortgage and student loans, along with killer medical bills for the truly unlucky.
If one is brave enough to consider the only institution standing between all of us and certain economic disaster, is an ignorant, arrogant, inept, uncompromising obstructionist Congress, we think you'll too realize, America has already gone over the cliff.
$hit, the more we think about it, everybody's future is bleak, uncertain and really scary. Anybody know where the golden parachutes are stored.
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