The Realities of 2012

By Anagarika Eddie

As with most serious problems in our country, only a crisis of major proportions generates action. By the time action is taken, however, it is always a day late and a dollar short. This results in bad judgment and further serious consequences. But this time it's going to be 2012, the end of our world as we know it.

All of the following will not happen by 2012. By 2012, however, the handwriting will be on the wall, and it will say that the only way we could ever get our power back is through a world war.

Both parties of congress point fingers at each other regarding the deficit, but neither acts when they are in power. That would be political suicide. Better to kick the can down the road and let the next group in power worry about it.

This arrangement of can kicking has worked for a long time, but it's obvious that we are about to get OUR can kicked.

The realities of 2012 involve a laundry list of eventual cuts that will affect every level of society from our adored military to our beloved entitlements and everything in between. Things will look nothing as they look today. Our military will be a shell of its former grandeur and old folks will be either roaming or rooming; roaming the streets or rooming with their kids, and getting medical care from the local pharmacist or medicine man.