St Alphonso

The Worst Case Scenario (Someone Has to Say It)

Sorry permabulls...we've been listening to your rhetoric for all these years and we're having a hard time maintaining our suspension of disbelief. It's not the end of the world, but it may be the winding down of the American Scheme. It's not that we don't want to believe, but how many times can you be completely wrong and still considered to be a reliable source of information? I'm sure the Aztecs thought they would recover from their downturn. Each crisis has been averted by going into greater debt to weather the storm. We might hobble through this too, but this is supposed to be a civilization--not just a generation.

I'm sure the golden vampires will do just fine, but for the millions of the rest of us, the golden age may be over.