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  engineer6 months ago

  This is one of the scariest scenarios I have read. Take heed of it. You must read it to fully understand the dire situation we are in.

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  not2needy6 months ago

  And a meezly stimulus check is supposed to bail the country, oh and the stimulus check is provided via more loans.

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  walden36 months ago

  I believe that we are in a very precarious situation. People don't realize how fragile our "petroleum" way of life is. What I fear now, the tipping point sort to speak, will be some unexpected event, something like storms in the Gulf of Mexico that shut down refineries, action with Iran, the closure of the Persian Gulf, unrest in West Africa. Boom we wake up to $250 a barrel oil and $8 a gallon gas. The market crashes and trading is halted. People want money from banks and the government closes them to prevent a run. Store shelves empty. Main Street Columbus starts to look like Miami after Bob.

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  quackpot6 months ago

  Mr Buckler forgets to mention that the he huge "funding liabilities" on which he focuses are spread over a worker's productive life span of 40-50 years.

  This is a MAJOR error.

  While the Social Security and Medicare INSURANCE programs certainly do need prompt attention in order to remain solvent, it is incorrect to call them immediate disasters as Mr. Buckler is doing in the editorial.

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  Wolfie20076 months ago

  Watch out guys or you're going to scare yourselves to death before glow bull warming sets in and gets you. Btw, have you heard the world is going to end next Thursday, June 12, 2008 so why worry anyway? lol

  Engineer, is this your hobby, looking for articles of dire devastation of our economy from obscure web sites? lol

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