Revi wrote:Here's another article on it. They need 216 Republicans and about 8 democrats to pass it. We aren't hearing much about this, but there might be tea party Repubs and some Dems who won't go for it, and then we are in trouble.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/conse ... le/2619039
baha wrote:Ghung, when you put it that way it should pass with no problem. There are plenty of can-kickers in DC. What are the odds it is done by midnight tonight?
Tanada wrote:onlooker wrote:Okay is the weak point in our Economies the Electrical grid? As per the "olduvai cliff". The financial markets? International commerce and trade? What will be the initial straw that will break the Economies back? Perhaps something exogenous to the Economy ?
Say the 'economic collapse' takes place Monday.
What do you think your town, your state, the USA and the World will look like in October 2021?
AdamB wrote:all debt is borrowed against future supplies of affordable hydrocarbons
The number of babies the average woman in the U.S. is expected to deliver has dropped from nearly four in the 1950s to less than two today.
The drop could present an entirely different risk to society than one that was first warned about decades ago — when an apocalyptic fear gripped America in the 1960s and 1970s. ...Biologist Paul Ehrlich once explained the threat as "The Population Bomb," the title of a book he authored in 1968. "Sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come — and by the end, I mean an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity," he said in a 1970 broadcast.
... The U.S. is already below the so-called "replacement level" by some measures, meaning fewer young people to support the country's otherwise aging population.
Myers said of the decline, "That's a crisis."
"We need to have enough working-age people to carry the load of these seniors, who deserve their retirement, they deserve all their entitlements, and they're gonna live out another 30 years," he said. "Nobody in the history of the globe has had so many older people to deal with."
CHS wrote:"Money" without access to affordable energy is worthless.
Comparison of a drug versus money and drug versus drug self-administration choice procedure with oxycodone and morphine in opioid addicts
Sandra D Comer, PhD,1 Verena E Metz, PhD,1 Ziva D Cooper, PhD,1 William J Kowalczyk, PhD,2 Jermaine D Jones, PhD,1 Maria A Sullivan, MD, PhD,1 Jeanne M Manubay, MD,1 Suzanne K Vosburg, PhD,1 Mary E Smith, Deena Peyser, and Phillip A Saccone3
Two self-administration laboratory procedures, i.e. a drug vs. money and a drug vs. drug procedure, were assessed. Study participants (N=12) lived in the hospital and were maintained on 4 mg/day sublingual buprenorphine. When participants chose between drug and money, money was preferred over all drug doses; ...
National Institutes of Health
Pops wrote: Pretty sure none of us know how bad that could be.
Ibon wrote:I don't judge, I observe and I am well aware I may be only observing a slice of their generation that might not be representative of the whole.
Ibon wrote:I despair often of how social media herds the young generation but sometimes if I take a positive view of this herding I recognize it might be a force toward a more collectivist approach towards dealing in a serious way with limits of growth and sustainability.
Pops wrote:
Ibon, do you do that kind of thing? Video channel etc?
Pops wrote:Either that debt will be inflated away, a scarier possibility every day, or it will be defaulted on, there is no chance the smaller population will be able to pay it off. A default would be the Real Reset. Pretty sure none of us know how bad that could be.
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