If the US economy collapses, will that lead to which?

[Deja Q]

Global economic failure? How will the current riches of the elite few save themselves if money is worthless?

Thermonuclear armageddon?

Or will it go as supposedly planned by repukes: Rich class of a few and everybody else in poverty? :eyes: (Normally I'd find this one preposterous except states and counties seem to want to build more and more prisons and then whine because there's few people in them...)

[Inland]

1. The US would be like Bush's america today, only more so.

Only more divided between rich and poor, only more of a fight for the bottom rung of the ladder, only more of a country divided along the lines of who gets their hands on what, only more of a country that uses political power to determine the economic winners, only more of a country that uses social issues to screw the lower classes, even more of a country where problems are swept under the rug by infotainment and distraction.

In the end, will the US only be a failed promise?

[Deja Q]

2. Life is what we make of it.

In other words, short term chaos leading to what you are suggesting.

And as time goes by, using the scenario you've described, the rest of the world will see * as being utterly dangerous and respond accordingly.

Ultimately? Nukes will have to be used. The world knows US military might and will want to keep any confrontation as short as possible.


It's a good thing I'm not good at forecasting.

[NYC]

3. I'm sure the American elite hold some of their wealth in foreign

currencies. Not everyone everywhere will hit the skids. The rich will just close themselves off from the rest of us.

They probably have homes with farms set up in distant places. So even if all currency became worthless, they would have what they needed to survive in luxury. The reward for the "farmworkers" in these remote abodes would be food.

[leveymg]

4. The Film "Zardoz" explains the agricultural policies of a BushCo future

Circa 1974. Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling. One of the most entertaining of the post-apocalyse movies of that era.

The rich live in apathetic luxury in walled "vortexs" while in the outside world, the population toil as slaves in the ruins of post-industrial England. The slaves are terrorized by Zed (Connery) and his army of genetically engineered overseers who worship a giant flying stone head. The overseers' religion consists of sadism, murder and forcing the population to feed the head with grain when it lands. Zed stows away aboard the head. The vortex dwellers are fascinated by the "primative" and very physical Zed, who proves to actually be their intellectual superior.

Zed discovers that his God was only a trick, and that he was made to be a servant. He slays his creators, and runs off to a cave with Rampling to restart the human race. Better than it sounds. Wonderful classical soundtrack.

The inspiration for many things, including the band named "Stone Temple Pilots"

[CityZen-X]

5. Soy lent Green

Seems more suited to the direction our country is heading.

[leveymg]

6. Soylent Green? That's BushCo Urban and FDA Policy for the future

Posted this last night on a similar topic:

Or, The Rich Will East Us - See "Soylent Green"

Edward G. Robertson's last film, alas. Not Charleton Heston's. Damn.

Another scenario is global nuclear, chemical and biological war. Charleton Heston also stars in that 1970s end of the world classic - See, "The Omega Man"

Third scenario is the end of human civilization and enslavement by apes. Well, you've probably seen that one.

Heston was in a bunch of these apocalyse films. He always ends up surviving a lot of chaos, gunfire and mutants. On the job training for a job with the NRA, I suppose.

Mark

[NYC]

7. That sounds like the Bush plan to me:

The rich live in apathetic luxury in walled "vortexs" while in the outside world, the population toil as slaves in the ruins...

That is exactly what I would expect, and why they are not bothered by the destruction they are causing. They will not have to live in it.