On Aug 10, 2007, at 1:48 PM, ravi wrote:
> Without endorsing the glee, I have some thoughts in response:
>
> * [a large part of] the people are already in step with the jackboots,
> especially when it comes to xenophobia.
Come now. It's pretty mild compared to what could be. The U.S. is a lot more welcoming to immigrants than Western Europe or Japan.
> * the poor are mostly asset free and income starved, so the brunt of
> any collapse (I am guessing) would be borne by the fat, pampered,
> wilfully delusional middle and upper-middle classes.
The "fat, pampered" etc. are not all as fat and pampered as this; a lot of them are just ordinary people with mortgages to pay and kids to feed. Why so much contempt for people like yourself?
In any case, the better off have savings and could probably ride out a storm a lot better than the poor and working class.
Doug