Okay, I can't help but hope, and this is a cynical hope, that those who are actually in charge of things are realizing that the continued trillions of dollars being spent on the wars are destroying the dollar and thus the country and (mainly) thus their position in the world.
I hope that maybe they're thinking "wow, this whole eternal war thing is starting to fall into the "diminishing returns" area, and we're gonna have to cut it WAY WAY back in order to consolidate our positions and not have a complete collapse of the dollar and everything that will bring."
I'm hoping that a collapse of the dollar for these evil motherfuckers would be a bad thing for them.
Because economically things were definitely getting between a rock and a hard place. It's at the point where they can either destroy the dollar, or destroy the stock market. Pick one. I'm hoping they're trying to backpedal out of this situation by finding reasons to cut WAY back on military spending, which is, of course, what's really fucking up the budget (that and the fact that their rich oil baron buddies don't pay ANY taxes).
And now? Suddenly, the price of oil falls, the price of silver plummets, the price of gold falls, it's like somebody pulled the plug on the tension that was ratcheting things up to the point where something was about to blow.
That's what I'm hoping anyway. I'm always an optimist, even in the most depressive ways.
The other option is that they're gonna use this as some people fear, and really ratchet things up. But I don't think they can afford that, I really don't. It's always been vastly important for them, in America, to perpetuate the BELIEF that we're in a Democracy. Its a whole lot less expensive than having an intense military state, soldiers on every street corners, tanks in every street, and angry millions hurling rocks and molotov cocktails at you 24/7.
Propaganda is relatively cheap, and they do now have complete control of the television sets in our country.
So as long as people can pay their cable bills, they might as well sit back and relax. Even the PTB's may have realized they've maxed out their credit cards.
Let's face it, the United States is bankrupt. But like Wiley E. Coyote running off the cliff, they REALLY don't want everyone to start looking down.
People were starting to look down and that's why the prices of gold and silver were going through the roof. My last trip to the coin shop, all the guys in there are like clucking and shaking their heads about how it was just about the end of the world. And it was busier than I've ever seen it.