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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
Quick hit here.
We will not be fighting any wars unless we are attacked by another nation-state. Terrorism will be treated as it should be, a law enforcement problem, but using the tools at the military's disposal to help law enforcement do it's job.
Our standing in the world will be much improved.
There are and still will be alot of bad actors in the world and it's not like I think we'll be holding hands with the Iranians singing kumbaya.....but we'll find a way to get along and keep our citizens safe.
Economically we'll come full circle, and the business cycle should be a in a boom. Unfortunately we'll have quite a massive debt to pay off by then, and hopefully we will make the right choices in the good times to pay off the debt we ran up in the bad times....instead of doing what Dubya did and squander a massive surplus on some reckless ideas.
Health care will be better. Maybe not 100% universal like Canada, but anyone who wants insurance will be able to buy it. That will be a great start.
Adult online business I can't say....if you go back 8 years you'd have never gotten it right about where we are today. Changes in technology will determine where we end up I think.
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I agree very much with what you said. Except for the part I highlighted. The West needs to realise that service industries, banking, insurance and shops will never put right the economic policies of the last 30 years. We all buy in too much from the Third, Second World and Arab nations to get back to a good economic situation. They will realise that lending us the money so we can buy their goods will only work if they use the loans to buy our countries. Yes they will slowly but surely buy us up if we carry on down this road.
Trade needs to be a two way street, we buy $1 worth from you and you buy $1 worth from us. We can't rely on the service type industries I mentioned or technology to keep the balance of payments level. We need to be making goods China, India, Russia, Saudi and a few other places need to buy to get the economy right again.
For 30 years we have been fooled into thinking all was good because we could go to the mall and fill our basket with cheap imported goods while our houses and stocks sky rocketed in value. Welcome to the time to pay the bill.
Can Obama change it?
Not until we realise it's us that needs to change things and he can't without our help.
If you think I'm wrong look at what the West's money has done to these countries that are now lending it back to us.