this is a very probable future for the country that we live in. the signs have been around for a long time. companies like walmart are booming, not IMO from a good ecomony, but from selling cheaper(low quality) goods to a people who no longer have the incomes to buy better items.

it's almost cheaper now to buy a value meal, than to grocery shop.

it's better to buy a cheap ass car and maintain it, than to get a new one and a car note, especially a GM vehicle and keep afloat.

companies have balled out and enjoyed outsourcing production of goods and services only to turn around and resell them here to those that may have been employees in the past.

the military is operating in so many different places around the world, i personally am unsure that should another large force attack this nation, we'd be able to effectively combat it, short of using our plethora of nukes.

i know that when america beat russia in the cold war, russia quickly went to hell.
china is now a waking dragon( no thanks to the masses of companies that saved billions outsourcing to increase profits) and my feeling is that there can't be 2 world superpowers at a time, meaning one of them has to fall back. maybe i'm wrong, but i think with all that's happened in the last 20 years and with the USA knowing it has been "the shit" for recent decades, we might be in for a kick in the ass.

then again nothing could happen, and we will return to better times.....