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I am of the opinion that the Fed will have to continue QE. China has recently become a net seller of U.S. Treasuries and the government is hard pressed to find other nations that will continue to buy our debt - especially with Japan currently destroyed and irradiated. The Fed HAS to continue monetizing the debt in order for the government to continue spending to the magnitude that it is. A dose of reality, a real correction would involve raising interest rates significantly, not just cutting but slashing government spending across the board - eliminating whole wasteful departments, reducing our military presence abroad and allowing people the choice of paying for things with real money. This doesn't even address the issue of Medicare/caid and Social Security, but good places to start. I don't predict we will see any of this done. The masses are too compliant, fewer than 5% of Americans own physical precious metals, public education has truly left it's mark, socialism is being viewed as acceptable these days and public hand outs as a gravy train by most. If I were anybody on this forum I'd be buying the following in this order: 1. Silver and Gold 2. Firearms 3. Any books about economics, gold as money, the Fed, works by the Founders, farming 4. Food that will keep for a few years time (dried beans, pasta, rice, tomato sauce, etc.) And just do your best to tell as many people as you can about what is happening. Will you find a large audience? Likely not, people don't want to hear that the world is on the brink of disaster and that the 500 dollars they just spend on their new Ipad could have been spent in a better fashion. But your close friends, family - do what you can with what you have. I think that Americans have taken a lot of shit from this present and previous administrations, but I do not believe that we will allow our freedoms to be stripped from us - the Tree of Liberty has been looking ever more shriveled and dried up. I know plenty of tyrants, now how about patriots?

Can you post the reference?

You call that weak 2D skills? Wonder how your 3D drawings look like then... Great job!

Carl Sagan's gonna smack a cripple

It puzzles me how people can be so rational in some areas of life, in this case aesthetics, and completely evade being rational when they consider ethics and how it ties into reality.