An educated guess about America's near future. Take it, if you wish, with a grain of salt.
Sometime before the 2016 election, the stock market will crash and we'll go into Great Depression Two. Republicans will get most voters to blame Obama and Democrats. The GOP will win the White House and both houses of Congress. Then they'll shred the social safety net to almost nothing, at the time the nation needs it most.
There'll be a big increase in petty crime, mainly people shoplifting to feed their loved ones. The prison population will explode and we'll all find ourselves in a full-bore police state.
Have a nice day.
Richard Miller
Thermopolis, Wyo.
Note from KBJ: Things can get worse than they are? Six and a half years of "hope and change" are killing us!
