Well since there is this wonderful thread devoted to complaints, I'll save everyone from the creation of a thread just to talk about the national debt crisis. I'm still technically an American citizen even though I have a view of the CN Tower out of my window. I'm really interested in these kind of topics and would like to share it with everyone. I realize not everyone thinks the way I do and I don't post often but I love reading everyone's posts and I promise to post more often in the future (about the Sabres of course). So....here it goes.....
The US has officially reached its debt limit, although that probably doesn't mean much since they will just continue to raise the ceiling until it is no longer possible. It is just a postponement of the inevitable. The American dollar is in a controlled decline from which there is probably no return. The whole process of devaluing the dollar and shifting the world's reserve currency away from the dollar is speeding up. The wars are helping to delay it a bit but Tim Geithner is warning the government of what needs to be done in order to delay the government defaulting on its debt. Cuts upward of a trillion dollars would have to be made in order to reverse such a decline....but we know that will probably not happen. Seizing $60 billion in assets from Lybia may help as well, but even that won't be enough. They'll probably have to take control of there oil as well and add it to its oil portfolio. I would just like to add a video of what Geithner had to say if anyone is at all interested.
This is not a political post AT ALL. This is about what is really going on right now. I majored in International Business and eventually wanted to work for the IMF but my research and conscience made me hate the idea by the time I graduated. At the moment, this kind of talk about devaluing the currency and crashing the economy lives in the realm of conspiracy talk, but it deserves to be put out in the open as just a very real likelihood.
In conclusion, my question/complaint would have to be, "what's it going to take for us to realize this and how can we protect ourselves?"