Ending and Beginning

So Wisconsin’s new Governor Walker is attempting to bust public employee unions. I know we’re all going to have to make sacrifices, but he’s going about it in a shitty way. I’m betting my paycheck is going to shrink by 5-10% this year.

Anyway, we’re going to have start being more careful about our expenditures than we’ve been in the last couple of years. This is probably just the beginning of a long decline. This is what all the money and financial bloggers have been predicting for years, that the decline will seem relatively slow to those of us experiencing it, but major losses will take place over a twenty-year period. That’s what Sharon Astyk always said, that there probably won’t be dramatic drops in income or standards of living, but that more and more people will enter into what she calls normal human poverty.

This is all part of the financial meltdown, climate change, and peak oil trio of disasters we’re facing.

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