I’m not sure what I should be most worried about: (1) Arnold having a love child; (2) That the world is supposed to end on May 21st; or, (3) That the U.S. will hit its debt limit of $14.23 trillion perhaps on Osama’s death day – but somehow we’ve managed to parlay an additional 11 weeks…
I think I’ll choose Point #3 since it coincides with the title of this here essay; I’ve already complained about Arnold (way before I knew about his love child: ‘You bastard!’); and, the world has been ending for a long time now…
So, what does it all mean? What does hitting the debt limit mean? Does it mean that the dollar will lose its value and that we will be converting to the Amero Dollar? Does it mean that Khadafi will be able to buy and sell oil with gold (like Saddam wanted to do with the Euro?)? Does it mean that the Chinese will begin buying up bigger chunks of the U.S. than they already have? Or, does it mean that no one will be able to afford to put on soccer tournaments?
I was just informed that the second soccer tournament of this young season has been cancelled – because people are struggling to scrape up the cash to outfit teams to compete. Heck! My loan man says that everyone he deals with in the Santa Clarita Valley is upside down in their homes – and the restaurants are definitely looking emptier! Austen and I had no wait at prime time lunch time this weekend past – though Mother’s Day still saw plenty of places hopping. I’m curious to see what Mother’s Day will look like next year.
Don’t get me wrong! I’ve always gone on record suggesting that I believe California will survive whatever comes our way – we just have too much going for us! And the fact that we just found $6.6 billion to cut our deficit to $10 billion – is the harbinger of golden times (or so I fondly wish). It doesn’t matter that our unemployment is probably closer to 20% than the 12% reported – we got lotsa quiet money over here (just like those White S. Africans who didn’t flee) – and we are very friendly with the Pacific Rim (Go Trojans!) who will need Canada’s resources when we open the damned Canucks up to the Asian folk. My military strategy against Canada would be to “pinch” down from Alaska and up from Washington — and put the entire West Coast under the Amero Dollar.
I still don’t see US digging out of this problem on our own – I just don’t see us killing our way out of this one (folks who know me know I love these lines from ‘Thunderheart’: ‘You can’t kill us all.’) As a nation we are simply too covered by greed.
The Osama thang was definitely meant as a diversion – but I’m not far enough up the asshole of the plan makers to know exactly what the diversion was meant to create…
Will Obama pull out the Osama card when things get ugly for the U.S. in early August? Or, was the Osama assassination meant to keep Americans tunnel-visioned to all that’s important for Americana to continue its existence, albeit in a more bastardized State (yes Arnold, that was a weak pun)? I passed around an article last week that suggested that the name of the hospital on Obama’s birth certificate of 1961 – only received that name circa 1978, and Obama’s father was labeled a Kenyan on this same birth certificate – 2 years before the country was named Kenya. I find this information fascinating – but my intelligent American friends howled.
I sure hope enough of US are ready for the tsunami, the yellow tide, the big health plan – will we all be vaccinated with micro chips?