--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> Yes, you have succeeded to fill up the FFL list with exacting 'almost > anything', as the FFL home page encourages. Why is the topic here? > Out on the street for a while I ask and talk to a lot of people who do > not read FFL anymore because of the reams of unrelated stuff like > this. People would be more inclined to come here as a place if it > stuck to topic (FFL) a little more, but they tend not to look > anymore. > >> Can you bring this thread to Fairfield. ?>>> I think that one of the things that would happen if Akasha's scenario takes place would be that people would be out on the street across the country - can't afford rent, can't afford to buy, can't afford to run a car. Any rentals that work would soon turn to slums since landlords would squeeze as many of the now low paying renters into the houses as possible. Unemployment is high under Akasha's scenario also. So milliopns of people would suddenly not be able to live the life they are accustomed to . There would be not enough money from taxes to pay for the police and army, and the black hole of Iraq would suck up any excess. A break-down in law and order would occur and corruption among police and politicians would be rife. Under Akasha's scenario, not mine, The already millions of dirt poor immigrants in US would now have nothing, but would take the opportunity to re-organize themselves and become a volatile and unpredictable force within the breaking down society. If the US pulls out of Iraq before it is a stable dictatorship again, the middle east will meltdown and oil prices will skyrocket. All the people who have been moving to the East and West coasts of the US, raising the population there, would be in a 1930's depression-like situation. While the now depopulating midwest would suffer loss of income from farming and other business. Oil prices would stifle the midwest to some extent. Next (under Akasha's scenario, not mine), the Chinese would make their move to start to buy or take over parts of the US based on the massive debt the US owes them. The US military would be in dissarray and corrupt due to lack of funding, and a better organised nation will have to take control someohow (directly or indirectly) of the dangerous US armeries. The greatest superpower on earth would have imploded. However (under Akasha's scenario, not mine), the midwest would most likely be the least affected area since it is the least populated and those from the West and East coast, who could do so, would move to the Midwest in droves to escape the chaos elswhere. They would also make life-changing decisions and (under Akasha's scenario, not mine), masses of them would move to Fairfield seeking a better way than before. Thus DIRECTLY impacting Fairfield....in a good way. Fairfielders would welcome them and they would learn the ways of the enlightened and house prices and business across the midwest would take off to be mecca that many east and west coasters would now seek. This is the relevance to Fairfield that Akasha is trying to convey. However, how many people here think that this scenario or a version of it will happen? If you think some of it will happen please pinpoint which aspects you think are feasible. Personally , I am with you, it is not a good place on FFL to discuss in such great swaths of cut and paste articles the hypothetical housing bubble bust, nor the hypothetical bird flu disaster. Off World ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
