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We don't know. We must hope and could easily assume some stability. The strong undertones exist of a decidedly temporary quality to the measure, as expensive as it is. And there is a looming sense that this is indeed, not the last check we will mail to this address.
Some assert we could MAKE money. Umm...I guess so, but then why didn't we do this a LONG time ago, hell - every 2 years, lets bail out some crap gramblers and make some money. Wouldn't that be sort of like "selling-short", that wall street device that rewards the champions of failure? The practice they're claiming we need to curb?
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bad mortgages fail
bad banks fold
Bad government fails and is probably and hopefully driven out in a process just short of tarring and feathering
Profound financial distress necessitates immediate repeal and declining of corporate taxes and personal income taxes
Foreign money pulls out, and as such ceases to become the backbone of the US financial health.
Our massive debt forces proposals and smooth sales pitches for earmarks and governmental spending waste to fall suddenly on leaden ears in Congress and in the populace.
US involvement in external disputes and unrest will necessarily trail off for lack of funding. The world will have to begin to turn to the other emerging leaders around the world for subsidies, the purchasing of friendships, human rights leadership, international welfare programs, and the like. The globe (secretly delighted to see the U.S. fall ?) will turn for nuturing to nations like... China? Russia? India? Venezuela? In
any case, the US will be dethroned from the mantle of global babysitter.
Extremist environmental movements will cease to have any significant power to block and inhibit industrial energy growth because of single owl concerns, or specific tadpoles. The population will cease to lose sleep about such matters, and will grow quickly to wholisticly resent people who suggest these are primary concerns for the nation.
Social Security will get immediate intelligent reform, or dissolve at a time earlier than it otherwise would.
A systemic cancer of feuding and failing leadership in government and an infrastructure distinctly perverted from the spirit of its design will be necessarily aggressively dismantled and disassembled, sooner rather than later, as the angry citizenship is pushed to the point where they no longer have any patience for the ridiculous patterns repeated terminally during their life by their government.
$700 billion theoretical dollars remains "available" to apply to very specific applications where the results of the spending are more certain and predictable.
Credit begins to dry up, and credit cards will necessarily cease to be the primary source of "income" for the average American household.
Likewise, auto loan credit will dry up and the large silver Lexus SUVs will cease to be an optional display to your neighbor of enviable superiority.
As the population in government face financial distress, a government practically structured on a "help yourself to the cash pile" mentality will end.
Wall Street will suffer dramatically, and the US as a nation will be forced to cease to be reliant on Wall Street as their "Vegas craps table" used to finance a night in the Bellagio suite which we cannot actually afford.
Hard times will silence the whiners and the lazy, as few will have patience for those who are undeserving and trying to scam the system.
The get-rich-quick mentality associated with riding Wall Street and playing the markets will cease to be the most attractive path to personal advantage and gain.
College tuition will become more than arguably unreasonable and will become technically unreasonable, resulting in a drop in the cost of tuition and a subsequent dismisal of teaching staff who are radical or rediculous or self-important.
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