I resolved years ago to live as though I made minimum wage or social security..it simplifies things...

I think there are bright points in the future. I think energy costs will go way down, that health costs will go way down once doctors in US figure out what is written in best-selling books about what causes insulin resistance which is tied to almost all major diseases (hint, it is starches). Housing costs will go down as we will not build more than we need. What will and should go up is cost of food. We will get better food, we will put more people to work in agriculture, we will be more economically secure as a country and we will be healthier. We need to keep some manufacturing for the skills alone, but what we need to be is again an agricultural country, kissed by the sun, shrouded in mist and fog, etc. mg