I see an economic diasater coming...

[the_big_m_in_ok]

Egypt does appear to be tearing itself apart.I hope soon that things there will settle down a bit.

@triffid
       Not much time on this computer.   You're right, the Middle East is a powderkeg with a shortening, burning fuse.   That's not all:   1) The housing market appears to me to be in another price bubble.   2) The stock market is rebounding and may be priming itself for a big, BIG corrective downturn.   3) Banks and other institutions are underfunded---or were in the past.   4) Syria is a DEADLY POWDERKEG!!!!   Worsening civil war.   Both sides being supplied with big numbers of weapons?!?!   Hope not.

Bottom line:   This is taking longer than I ever imagined.   Human free will and devious world leaders are keeping this farce going.     NOT.     FOREVER,     THOUGH.

--Lee

[triffid]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-were-working-less-parents-102800144.html    Not only more part time work is the norm today but other factors seem to be in play?

[triffid]

Men in their 50s, for example, have been retiring or entering semi-retirement earlier and in greater numbers than those in previous generations, according to John Robinson, a sociology professor at the University of Maryland, and are partly responsible for driving down overall work hours per week.[/size]
And we're working a lot less than our grandparents, great grandparents and earlier generations. The average work week for a manufacturing employee in the 1860s was 62 hours, according to a paper from Robert Whaples, an economist at Wake Forest University.[/size]

[triffid]

I have been reading more of my book"the long boom".It is a book about the future possibly all the way out to 2125.Though published in 1999.It have given me some interesting reading.It said the race to the moon was based on the cold war.Once we landed everyone would could have kept it going lost the will to fund it any further.So once again I will say that we will go back to space when we need the money that is out there.Most likely we will spend some time and money building places where people can live in them to begin with.Then study the stars from the dark side of the moon.
Lots of progress ahead.I may not live to see it?triffid

[the_big_m_in_ok]

triffid & whoever else...
       I'll probably be posting on this site a little more often in the future, time permitting.


@onthecuttingedge2005
       I've always thought history repeats itself because one one wants to look at the past mistakes others have made and honestly realize the mistakes were indeed made.   Too many people want what they don't need or can't have, anyway.   Fear, greed and hate add to the misery.


I realize things haven't gone as I thought they might when I started this thread, but the world changed before my eyes in subtle ways that I can't easily explain, either.
       I haven't said everything about this thread I could because I didn't have the references anymore to upload or I....absolutely!....couldn't prove what I asserted because of the nature of what I could have said (easiest way I can put it).

What will happen is that the same thing that happen to the ancient Roman Empire will happen again to us.   Nothing.....lasts....forever.   It's over for the status quo.

Okay, guys, I do actually have something to say and it's something I didn't realize when I started this thing "way back when..."

     Here, take a look at this:
This is mostly positive for the older cop...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/cops-speak-out-on-police-_n_3688999.html

This is really negative...
http://www.infowars.com/militarized-police-gone-wild-across-america-terrorizing-citizens-shooting-pet-dogs-behaving-like-occupying-military-force-2/

Okay, now, about 30-35yrs ago, I read a New Age pundit claim that the second, negative article was going to happen sooner or later.   In my opinion, only recently did I come into contact of "individuals" who indicated the the second article was beginning to gain momentum in being implemented.   That was their opinion.
       I myself intuited the same thing as a shamanistic-oriented Native American.  The economy doesn't need to collapse if this is going to happen.   This will be just as severe as a collapse and I say it's happening RIGHT NOW.
       Okay, by my experience, site Members here usually read these kinds of posts uploaded by me and say nothing in the way of posts, themselves.
       But.       They.       Do.       Read.      Them.

My question now is, "Does this concern them?   Scare them?"   They can decide.

--Lee

BTW, what I said about myself and my sexuality was absolutely true.   I've been treated for skin cancer, and at my age, it's nearly a death sentence.