Is this the beginning of the end of the US?

[LeftyFingerPop]

Worse case, my opinion only:

1) Actual death toll will be 50,000, but we will never be told.

2) Energy prices so high that low wage earners will not be able to afford the gas to get to work.

3) Racial tensions rise due to treatment of our taxpaying "refugees". Urban unrest, looting on a national scale, civil war.

4) Unemployment rate skyrockets. Stocks plummet. We are plunged into a depression.

5) Terrorist attack on major city. With our resources strained it is everyman for himself. Our health care system collapses in tandem with the economy.

6) America becomes the wild west.

Sorry to be so negative, but all of the shit that has happened so far I never believed could. this does not seem so far fetched to me.

[Erika]

1. America, a third world country

offered by G W Bush

[iamjoy]

2. I'm Inclined To Agree

I am more afraid now then I was after 9-11.

[gennifer6]

3. You're not the first person who's suggested that

If the unrest and anger in New Orleans spreads across the country we are in BIG trouble. Unfortunately all of your scenarios are very real possibilities that deserve some thought about.

[NYC Liberal]

4. I don't know...we did manage to make it thru the Civil War.

But I just don't know nowadays. Sometimes I think we'll be OK and others I think we're fucked.

[porphyrian]

5. Nope.

It's just another alarm sounding. See who's awake now.

[nonconformist]

6. I never could wrap my brain around 3rd world conditions here

People would stay stuff about it being possible, especially with peak oil issues, and while I agreed with them I never could picture it really happening.

I FULLY can now.

[ThomWV]

7. Wanna See What Can Happen To A Superpower? Look At The USSR

If you don't think a megapower can go swirling down the tubes in a heartbeat.

[renaissanceguy]

8. We desperately NEED an FDR

NOT another DLC-er who will sit on the fence and talk about political strategy and economic theory. We need someone who will bring us RESULTS, and FAST.

We are quickly heading into something MUCH WORSE than the Great Depression, folks. I hope someone steps forward and raises hell soon!

[CountDmoney]

9. I've been thinking the same thing..

this is what the future could look like. Peak oil, rising sea levels etc...God help us.

[sue_66]

10. not sure

what will happen, but we are standing at the threshold of a new America right now. Much depends on majority of people finally waking up to the fact, we can be left to die in the streets in America. If this hits them hard, as it should, perhaps we the people will come together. If not I fear we are doomed. I can not predict how bad it will be. But after the past few days I know it will be bad. Who would have ever believed we would see America stoop to this.

[shadowknows69]

11. you know

I almost hope so. this country obviously needs to be taken back to formula (IE The Constitution) and a whole bunch of people who actually care and believe in it put in office. If we have to reach our lowest point to rise again then lets get it over with.

[kerryin2004]

13. I have talked with people that lived through the Great Depression.

You really don't want to see the lowest point. Trust me.

[wli]

12. Point by point...

1. Probably over 100K
2. middle class too
3. race probably won't be civil war motive, but racial violence prevalent
4. right on target
5. probably more like nonstop widespread police brutality and Auschwitz/Dachau/etc. type slave labor / death camps
6. Probably more like Nazi Germany.

[darkworkz]

14. funny thing is...

The majority population in the US hasn't been in control for a VERY long time.

The situation in NOLA has awoken more people than anyone could have every imagined.

Now that they're awake, they're NOT going back to sleep. And now the work begins.

The country is not going 3rd world. In fact 180degrees opposite.

[VPStoltz]

15. We will survive!

I just hope, as my 84 year old mother said, "someone hangs that bastard by his balls!"

[countmyvote4real]

16. The end began in 2000 when the SCOTUS nullified the people.

Ever since, the Neo-Cons and GOP fat cat thugs have been dismantling our democracy for their personal gain and world agenda.

Don’t kid yourself. Our democracy is dead and these thugs and harlots don’t give a hoot about human life unless it concerns their prosperity. And that includes the spineless, centrist Democrats that pretend to represent the people.

If only a flood could banish them all and yet save the people. It would save the people and spark a blow to the corporations that currently dictate the * policy based on campaign contributions. For instance, why was Capital One (a major sponsor of the bankruptcy bill) also a co-sponsor of the GE Katrina charade?

The bankruptcy bill takes effect next month and these people have lost everything. Homes. Jobs. Credit. FEMA. They have nothing now or going forward unless they were lucky enough to be insured.