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As for a total crack down on the rich, the rich reacted by sabotaging Obama’s policies of limited efforts to control them, until Obama backed down. Attempts at total crack down would lead most of the 44 millionaires who joined Warren Buffet, in supporting the end to the tax cuts, for the well off, to join in the sabotage.
    
Some want the US to leave the war without bothering at any peace agreement. I say leave the war not end the war because there is definitely not a united people on one side and the US on the other. If one googles “France declares war on al Qaeda”, one will see, that Ron Paul’s claim that if we leave them alone, they will leave us alone isn’t true, but at least France can deal with al Qaeda without aiding al Qaeda’s efforts to bankrupt the west.

One thing that hasn’t been happening is concrete proposes in a lot of different directions instead of just from one ideological perspective. I have several suggestions which I will make later on in this article.

Some claim that Obama’s skillful bailouts and negotiations with other nations, stopped financial collapse. Some of the same people claim that Obama’s latest tax compromise extended unemployment for 13 months saved us from depression like conditions, but that his compromises with those who want pork, especially tax cut pork, limited Obama’s accomplishment. The problem is, even if it’s true, all people see is things slowly getting worse, and Obama claiming that they are going to get better, and Obama getting in the way of people discovering that tax cuts for those who tend to save, not spend, might lead to a depression like meltdown.

Manufacturing jobs are all gone, the Internet hires prominently from the lowest paid parts of the world, greatly accelerating the race for the bottom, where nations used to cut wages and working conditions to compete better. With the Internet the race for the bottom is on automatic pilot, without revolution and worker’s organizations to get in the way. So no matter how much Obama succeeds at slowing the decline down he will be blamed for not returning the US to the world we once were.
The euro and dollar are tied together to the extent that there is no way for either the dollar or euro to collapse into junk currency and have the other survive.

A bit of good news concerning the possible total collapse of the West is that the economies of Norway and New Zealand are soaring.    
               
This might be a good place to try to create other bits of good news:

Iceland is being bailed out by Europe, but it has the lowest business taxes in the world, so many companies make their corporate headquarters there. Raising the business tax could be a condition for more aid. Then the US and Europe together raise the business tax to stop capital flight to where the tax was lowest. Then the US and Europe could get together to end the loophole of offshore banking.

There were efforts with some state governments to get prescriptions filled in Canada and elsewhere. This can save a lot of money on medical costs, perhaps even individuals can get 5% kick back from say medicare, medicaid, and Obama care if they get their prescriptions cheaper on the Internet, providing there is a way of making sure what the get is quality medicine. Of course that is a big if.

The US embargo on Cuba is hurting the US economically and the more it succeeds the more Cubans in this country send foreign aid back to their relatives in Cuba. Some Americans took their Social Security check to Mexico where everything is cheaper and the US saved money on medicare and medicaid, but crime is getting in the way of new arrivals. Crime free Cuba would be a perfect place to retire and no more medicare costs, and if red tape is cut, close enough for easy visits back to the US.

If the US would grant 10% of Medicare, Medicaid, SSI and welfare benefits to those going overseas, Americans in Cuba would make money from the US whenever they got sick until Cuba changed its laws to charge that amount to foreigners seeking medical care in otherwise free health care Cuba. Then the 10% adjusted up and down to the lowest point Americans would seek and get medical care overseas. Some hospitals in the US, on an experimental effort, are trying to get robots to give bedridden patients baths and to feed them, with alarms temporarily to call a human nurse if the patent starts to resist. It would be far more humane for sick persons to seek medical nursing care where it’s cheap rather than a future in the US where machines, not people, treat the convalescent. One way or another a lot of money is being saved by having medical procedures done in other countries of the world, see medical tourism also online pharmacies Wikipedia, and
www.medicaldiscounts.com/employers_insurance.htm

Perhaps others could join me in suggestions to improve things that are not ideologically pure, and post them here or post my suggestions to their suggestions.

Now the US is back in the pirate fighting business. In one incident, while in telephone contact with the crew, US swooped down on the ship, grabbing the pirates, without anyone getting hurt. More such victories and the US bankrupting itself is getting ever closer. Vietnam swooped down on the Khmer Rouge, and the Pol Pot in Cambodia, the world cheered. This was probably an unreported reason that the US expected the same results in Iraq. However, Vietnam didn’t engage in “shock and awe” or nation building. But all or nothing is part of the US character whether right, left or center. Somehow other articles need to deal with the US’s all or nothing syndrome.

Googgle to discover that the US is not the only one fighting al Qaeda “France declares war”, and ‘Dr. Fadl’ ‘Sayyid Imam al-Sharif’

Please others, add sites and links that deal with the subject of an economic meltdown in a non-ideological way. Or post this suggestions on other such sites.
           
I thank others for their off line editing criticism of the original posting. Posted comments and criticism appreciated.  Also Google the Title (Can Armageddon be Stopped)

Richard Kane