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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JCB1983, post: 1401050, member: 23885&quot;]Here is my thinking Chris.&nbsp; Call it simple heuristics because I simply cannot explain any reasoning in a rational fashion.&nbsp; First of all I would like to say that I do not believe in Keynesian economics.&nbsp; Had WWII never occurred I believe the New Deal to be a colossal failure.&nbsp; The New Deal was given far too much credit towards liberal economics.&nbsp; Regardless if Wartime was a form of centralization, conservationism was actually which helped propel the war effort.&nbsp; People scrapped everything from rubber to metal, and there were even butter rations to support the war effort.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Fast forward to the present and we find ourselves in a predicament.&nbsp; Facts: We have a deficit that is increasing at an increasing rate.&nbsp; We have a population that is increasing.&nbsp; We as in Americans are consuming more than we are producing at an alarming right.&nbsp; The Nationalism that was present in the 40’s-50’s is no longer present (In a global economy the stakeholder only cares about himself/herself.. This equates to the overall goals of the corporation).&nbsp; Once again a firm’s goal is profit maximization for the stakeholder (there is no nationalism or national effort).&nbsp; One top of the stated above you have manipulation of monetary policy on a monumental scale.&nbsp; Quantitative easing has become the 911 to get the economy through one quarter, not a decade.&nbsp; Moving on you have 4 trillion dollars of war debt.&nbsp; Non of this compares in my opinion to the following.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMHO the biggest threat to the economy (besides our over consumption) is rising health care costs and the aging baby boomer.&nbsp; I do not believe that we have seen 1/100[SUP]th[/SUP] of the cost of the aging baby boomer.&nbsp; The baby boomers are just now reaching the age where they are in dire need of medical insurance and many cannot afford it post recession.&nbsp; Our infrastructure is not setup to sustain cheap medical costs, and prices are going up with oncoming inflation.&nbsp; This in itself is a serious undertaking, but the real disaster is the fact that we have turned to a centralized form of providing healthcare.&nbsp; Medicare/Medicaid is essential for the survival of many, but we simply cannot afford as a nation to sustain long term healthcare provisions.&nbsp; With this being said as the demand for healthcare increases the policies will not change.&nbsp; “take the benefits, just not mine.”&nbsp; As a recipient of free VA health Insurance I can the first one to say I wouldn’t want my benefits to be taken away, but from an economic standpoint it is not sustainable.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>These are some of my feelings on the issue, I know they can be viewed as extreme.&nbsp; I surmise that the economic collapse will happen.&nbsp; Who knows maybe in 25 years, but in my opinion the sooner, the better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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