What Will America Be Like In 100 Years?

[austin]

I saw that but the article on the 2013 Shelby Mustang made me drool all over the mag and I had to get rid of it.

Yeah, I can understand that...

 

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[truckinbutch]

Don't cuss a farmer with your mouth full ........ I have transitioned from horsedrawn agriculture with coal oil lamps and outhouses to modern 'Agribusiness' with my children in tow . We/they can continue to provide for themselves . We are going to eat as long as we live and have no obligation to feed the masses that have become slaves to the norm .

> We don't want to go back a hundred years to survive , but we can . Can you say the same ?

 

[ticm]

In 100 years I'll be 154. I'll let you all know how it turns out.

With the advancement of medicine it may just be possible that people will live that long a hundred years from now.

 

[worldtalker]

With all the advancements in the last hundred years,what the human race was like back then,let's say,more virtuous than the sick society we have today,where do you see DECENT HUMAN CONDUCT! I'm glad I won't be here in a hundred years! God Bless Chris

 

[Bum Luck]

More healthy? Really? Without modern conveniences? Find me a point in history where people lived longer or more comfortable than right now! I cannot believe I read that.

Not much sensible stuff on this post, but this is right on.

One of the big flaws in the New Feudalism is the ruling class's belief that their medical care (as opposed to YOUR medical non-care) will continue to improve and that they will live longer (or even forever). I put that up to a deficiency in brain architecture. In fact, the medical research machine needs to be driven by lots of things, all of which will be in short supply in their future plans. A shortage of broad based educational opportunities and the shrinking medical economy due to huge ineligible populations will mean that medical advances will grind to a halt, and will even reverse. No one that doesn't work in that world can imagine how complex it is, and taking out huge percentages of it will cripple medical care as we know it - for the rich. There will be none for most of us.

 

[jeff of pa]

how many are going to sign up for 16 years of College to be a surgeon
4 years undergrad
4 years medical school
4 years general medical internship
4 years surgical internship/specialization (2 years general surgery, 2+ years specialization)

once they realize the Government is going to tell them how much they can charge to remove an appendix ?

or should I say, How little the Government is going to allow insurance to pay to remove
john doe's appendix.

People become surgeons & Doctors to set their own wages,
not to work 9 to 5 for a salery

Expect the price of 16 years of college to double
& the money they can make to be cut in half.

 

[AC1955]

Hate to be a pessimist, but what future? Our kids, grandkids and great grands will be so busy paying off the trillions of dollars in debt, they won't have a chance to better their lives! JMHO

 

[Bum Luck]

how many are going to sign up for 16 years of College to be a surgeon
4 years undergrad
4 years medical school
4 years general medical internship
4 years surgical internship/specialization (2 years general surgery, 2+ years specialization)

once they realize the Government is going to tell them how much they can charge to remove an appendix ?

or should I say, How little the Government is going to allow insurance to pay to remove
john doe's appendix.

People become surgeons & Doctors to set their own wages,
not to work 9 to 5 for a salery

Expect the price of 16 years of college to double
& the money they can make to be cut in half.

Doctors in Germany have a comfortable living, but they're not paid like over here. The point is, they still go to school and become doctors. And good ones.

The argument that that making millionaires out of doctors, or worse yet, gouge artists, makes them better doctors doesn't hold water, nor does it get us value for our health care dollars. Hedge fund managers are greedy, but they wouldn't necessarily make good doctors. Dr. Trump, do you care about me?

You are right about educational expenses. They are crippling, and that's a huge part of the problem, but would be better if that were addressed some other way.

 

[Chadeaux]

Hi Jeff. Do you now believe that "Obamacare" is actually something akin to the "Trojan Horse"?

 

[packerbacker]

Actually, it's more "akin" to the Trojan if you get my drift.

 

[packerbacker]

In reality, I think that the world will be ruled by an organization similar to what the UN is today. They will control all of the money, food, social services of all types and weapons. It will be a relatively small corps of "leaders" from many nations. The term "nation" will cease being used and different places in the world will be referred to as "areas". In doing that, the leaders will eliminate flags of countries and all need for patriotism. All productivity will be controlled and distributed in a percieved "equal" manner rendering over-productivity as a waste of time. Being less productive and more dependent will be the norm. The masses will follow blindly as long as someone feeds them and dishes out "free", substandard medical care. It will look simlar to Russia's sharecropping in the 50s or California today.

 

[jeff of pa]

Hi Jeff. Do you now believe that "Obamacare" is actually something akin to the "Trojan Horse"?

I believe it is Political, so No comment

 

[Chadeaux]

I believe it is Political, so No comment

As it is now LAW, it isn't politikz, but LEGAL.

However, I do believe you have a right to decline comment. Thanks.

 

[Bum Luck]

In reality, I think that the world will be ruled by an organization similar to what the UN is today. They will control all of the money, food, social services of all types and weapons. It will be a relatively small corps of "leaders" from many nations. The term "nation" will cease being used and different places in the world will be referred to as "areas". In doing that, the leaders will eliminate flags of countries and all need for patriotism. All productivity will be controlled and distributed in a percieved "equal" manner rendering over-productivity as a waste of time. Being less productive and more dependent will be the norm. The masses will follow blindly as long as someone feeds them and dishes out "free", substandard medical care. It will look simlar to Russia's sharecropping in the 50s or California today.

It's all in 1984. Coming soon to your neighborhood.

 

[Sir Gala Clad]

Unless there are significant change(s) for the better, we will not last that long

I predict that America will not last 100 years.

Any government which fails to protect the welfare of its elders (the senior citizens) who have made it great and denies benefits promised to its veterans for their sacrifices neither deserves to exist nor can be defended as it will soon lose the support of those who they rule.

If the present is an indication of the future, America is in serious serious trouble and may not be able to recover. Look around you and tell me what you see?
I see houses, which were once a man's castle, everywhere I look in disrepair or foreclosure. I see a broken middle class, who have given up as not only can they no longer get ahead - they are not even able to keep what they have worked their entire life for. All wiped out by the greed and hubberis of our leaders - if you wish to kindly call them that. It is far easier to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, than the carnage caused by Hurricane Man.

Look deeper and you will see the pain in the eyes of those who have had their life savings stolen as a result of our government changing rules for the benefit of the banks, big business and the stock market, for the benefit of those in power.

Look further and you will see entrepreneurs and small business targeted and taken down by out of control representatives from agencies and services of our government who not only abuse their trust and power - they take such great pleasure in doing it, that they want everyone to know about it !

What I fail to see, are meaningful incentive(s) or reason(s) to strive to get ahead! Sadly, pride has been replaced with apathy.

Like ancient Rome had its' coliseums we still have our football, basket ball, or whatever ball, and lots and lots of beer after. There are always the movies (hint - stay away from the midnight show) to escape from reality, or drugs to turn to when the pain gets to great. Until recent, We have been fortunate, that there has always been some one, some thing or some country to look down on - so that we can continue to feel superior and have nothing to worry about.

As Rome had its legions, we now live in a police state which does what it wants because it now can, including depriving us of inalienable rights: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, which are common to all mankind.

Like Benedict Arnold, I soon will be a man without a country. Unlike him it is not I who has betrayed my country, but my country which has betrayed me.

Since evil prospers when good men do nothing, I am posting this as a warning of the danger currently facing our way of life. This is not rhetoric, it is a projection based on the irreparable damage that has been done to me and those who have depended upon me. Most of what I have worked my entire life for has been wrongly taken , my health destroyed, and my family deprived of their heritage as a result of broken promises, with holding of information, and deliberate misinformation, with the recent blatant and unresolved abuse of power being the break point. All of this pain and suffering is needless as it could of easily been avoided with a modicum of cooperation and the slightest bit of compassion.

The infamous words of Walt Kelly in his comic strip POGO (an amiable, humble, philosophical, personable, everyman opossum in an Okefenokee Swamp setting), a childhood favorite of mine, has come back to haunt: " WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US".

I cannot stress strongly enough, that I am writing to inform you of these grave dangers as they will destroy our way of life if unchecked. . It is not written to incite, inflame, nor show any disrespect for the police men and women and civil servants who have dedicated their lives in our behalf - they share the same perils.

I urge you to read carefully, what I have written as theese are not the words of a radical, a loose cannon, or a nut job. Theese are the words of a patriot who has spent his entire life in service of country. I am a first generation American, third generation military who's parents left Europe to escape from political oppression and seek a better way of life.

Thanks to the sacrifices of our veterans and those of our allies the world, with the exception of the USA - which I have serious doubts about, for the most part is a better and safer place to be. It is a sad and a bitter irony, that our own citizens have not similarly benefited.

Hopefully, you can answer this question which continues to baffle me: I would like to know why a country with the natural resources of the US with its technical superiority and superb work ethics cannot economically keep up with a Nation whose most effective earth moving capability three or more decades ago was two pickle barrels balanced on a yoke across a worker's shoulders?

In return, you might ask what this has to do with metal detecting? This answer is easy "EVERY THING". It is far easier to restrict metal detecting since it not a right and can easily be denied.

I have taken up shallow water metal detecting to regain my health and to have something to look forward to. Health permitting, I will return to Europe, as there are more antiquities to find and the laws are fairer. I definitely prefer splitting 50 50 with the land owner and selling artifacts to the museum who will either buy them (at a lower price -if they have the funds) or release them to the finders for sale if they do not . Verses risk having have my findings seized, equipment confiscated, and thrown in jail in the Not So Good for metal detecting Old USA.

In the mean time, if you notice a tall oldster humming the tune "Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose" by Janice Joplin - you will know who I am. Oops! Almost forgot, I will be limping along using my long handled scoop as a staff, while metal detecting with my trusted Excalibur on a big long stick in search of the Holy Grail. If you look carefully you may see that I carry a Vibratech waterproof pin pointer and a bayonet slung across my chest for retrieving rings in crevices and to warn ( in a not so magical way) those who covet the little which I have left.

Hopefully my vision of the future is wrong, and that I am merely chemically unbalanced as I have prostate problems . I don't know as I cannot afford to go to the hospital, even though I have full medical insurance, as social security has taken away my Medicare benefits for failure to pay a bill which I have never received!

 

[worldtalker]

I predict that America will not last 100 years.

Any government which fails to protect the welfare of its elders (the senior citizens) who have made it great and denies benefits promised to its veterans for their sacrifices neither deserves to exist nor can be defended as it will soon lose the support of those who they rule.

If the present is an indication of the future, America is in serious serious trouble and may not be able to recover. Look around you and tell me what you see?
I see houses, which were once a man's castle, everywhere I look in disrepair or foreclosure. I see a broken middle class, who have given up as not only can they no longer get ahead - they are not even able to keep what they have worked their entire life for. All wiped out by the greed and hubberis of our leaders - if you wish to kindly call them that. It is far easier to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, than the carnage caused by Hurricane Man.

Look deeper and you will see the pain in the eyes of those who have had their life savings stolen as a result of our government changing rules for the benefit of the banks, big business and the stock market, for the benefit of those in power.

Look further and you will see entrepreneurs and small business targeted and taken down by out of control representatives from agencies and services of our government who not only abuse their trust and power - they take such great pleasure in doing it, that they want everyone to know about it !

What I fail to see, are meaningful incentive(s) or reason(s) to strive to get ahead! Sadly, pride has been replaced with apathy.

Like ancient Rome had its' coliseums we still have our football, basket ball, or whatever ball, and lots and lots of beer after. There are always the movies (hint - stay away from the midnight show) to escape from reality, or drugs to turn to when the pain gets to great. Until recent, We have been fortunate, that there has always been some one, some thing or some country to look down on - so that we can continue to feel superior and have nothing to worry about.

As Rome had its legions, we now live in a police state which does what it wants because it now can, including depriving us of inalienable rights: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, which are common to all mankind.

Like Benedict Arnold, I soon will be a man without a country. Unlike him it is not I who has betrayed my country, but my country which has betrayed me.

Since evil prospers when good men do nothing, I am posting this as a warning of the danger currently facing our way of life. This is not rhetoric, it is a projection based on the irreparable damage that has been done to me and those who have depended upon me. Most of what I have worked my entire life for has been wrongly taken , my health destroyed, and my family deprived of their heritage as a result of broken promises, with holding of information, and deliberate misinformation, with the recent blatant and unresolved abuse of power being the break point. All of this pain and suffering is needless as it could of easily been avoided with a modicum of cooperation and the slightest bit of compassion.

The infamous words of Walt Kelly in his comic strip POGO (an amiable, humble, philosophical, personable, everyman opossum in an Okefenokee Swamp setting), a childhood favorite of mine, has come back to haunt: " WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US".

I cannot stress strongly enough, that I am writing to inform you of these grave dangers as they will destroy our way of life if unchecked. . It is not written to incite, inflame, nor show any disrespect for the police men and women and civil servants who have dedicated their lives in our behalf - they share the same perils.

I urge you to read carefully, what I have written as theese are not the words of a radical, a loose cannon, or a nut job. Theese are the words of a patriot who has spent his entire life in service of country. I am a first generation American, third generation military who's parents left Europe to escape from political oppression and seek a better way of life.

Thanks to the sacrifices of our veterans and those of our allies the world, with the exception of the USA - which I have serious doubts about, for the most part is a better and safer place to be. It is a sad and a bitter irony, that our own citizens have not similarly benefited.

Hopefully, you can answer this question which continues to baffle me: I would like to know why a country with the natural resources of the US with its technical superiority and superb work ethics cannot economically keep up with a Nation whose most effective earth moving capability three or more decades ago was two pickle barrels balanced on a yoke across a worker's shoulders?

In return, you might ask what this has to do with metal detecting? This answer is easy "EVERY THING". It is far easier to restrict metal detecting since it not a right and can easily be denied.

I have taken up shallow water metal detecting to regain my health and to have something to look forward to. Health permitting, I will return to Europe, as there are more antiquities to find and the laws are fairer. I definitely prefer splitting 50 50 with the land owner and selling artifacts to the museum who will either buy them (at a lower price -if they have the funds) or release them to the finders for sale if they do not . Verses risk having have my findings seized, equipment confiscated, and thrown in jail in the Not So Good for metal detecting Old USA.

In the mean time, if you notice a tall oldster humming the tune "Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose" by Janice Joplin - you will know who I am. Oops! Almost forgot, I will be limping along using my long handled scoop as a staff, while metal detecting with my trusted Excalibur on a big long stick in search of the Holy Grail. If you look carefully you may see that I carry a Vibratech waterproof pin pointer and a bayonet slung across my chest for retrieving rings in crevices and to warn ( in a not so magical way) those who covet the little which I have left.

Hopefully my vision of the future is wrong, and that I am merely chemically unbalanced as I have prostate problems . I don't know as I cannot afford to go to the hospital, even though I have full medical insurance, as social security has taken away my Medicare benefits for failure to pay a bill which I have never received!

Man,You got a lot to say.

 

[Red James Cash]

Man,You got a lot to say.

That he does but,he's right.

 

[Sir Gala Clad]

Agreed and not much time to say it, as I am a dead man walking!

 

[worldtalker]

Agreed and not much time to say it, as I am a dead man walking!

The Green Mile,good movie.

 

[Sir Gala Clad]

I agree the Green Mile is a great film, but I neither have magical powers nor am I black.

I looked it up and found that "Dead Man Walking" is the title of a 1995 film about a nun, who while comforting a convicted killer on death row emphasizes with the killer and his victims' families, which is not pertinent to this thread.

If I was going to quote from something, I would of been quoted from Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities which deals with the major themes of duality, revolution and resurrections E.G. "It was the best of times" (100 years from now) and "The worst of times" (Current ) or vice versa based on the point one is trying to make.

Beta - I should of introduced my warning with "It is a far far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before" .

Mo Beta - Quotes from Les Miserable's, by Victor Hugo would of been spot on as it is about the Miserable, the Wretched, the Poor ( I now qualify as all three ) and the politics and moral philosphys by reason of custom and law.