Dusty

A Quick Review of I.O.U.S.A.

I am old and gray, body and spirit. I did what I could for myself; motivated by personal observations and stories of the depressions- not just the 1930's, all the others back to the 1890's. Nothing changes. My house is paid for, I keep a little money in the bank, a little more in the market (with my fingers permanently crossed), a pantry that just seems to stay stuffed with canned goods, toiletries piled high in the bath area storage, on the dark side a gun safe filled with NATO caliber guns and ammunition (and regular practice. It's really a lot like golf or tennis?).

At work, just before I retired, the hatred that I had no credit card debt, no rent or mortgage, money in the bank, came oozing out of everyone's pores; dripping down the walls; washing up out of the floor like swamp water. America lives in Denial and exults in misery relating to money problems. Almost everyone works hard to stay in economic trouble; it has become the standard culture.

A quick look at the Standard Statistical Curve will refresh memory that about 85% of any population is the 'mainstream.' The next 14% is guiding or supervising; 1% or 2% is the leaders. I.O.U.S.A. did mention that our leadership is totally lacking. As a reader of this, you are a part of the 14%. You might be able to cause change in the greed of the actual leadership that would cause them to want America to become savers and achievers like the Chinese and most other Asians because the leadership will gain the most if our culture changes to that standard. If we do not change, then very soon, maybe much sooner than anyone can imagine, we will be unable to obtain the materials, goods, medicines, food-- that come from the rest of the world. Our money will be useless, no one will feed our debt. Then it will not be O.K. until 70% of Americans have died of starvation and disease. A very small surviving population might have enough internal resource to begin to build a new 'dream.'

Even Warren, with all his money, might find that he is not permitted to relocate or even visit outside our borders because all Americans will be pariahs; and note that that money by itself is not nutritious nor does it have any medicinal qualities.