Re: "Castigo Cay" by Matthew Bracken

On 7/21/2025 11:35 PM, John Savard wrote:

On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 17:55:16 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:
 

In the not so distant future, the USA Dollar has lost most of its value
and annual inflation is running 20% per year.  Gasoline is $60 per
gallon and rationed at 10 gallons per week, so is electricity.  Food and
housing are comparatively expensive.  The taxes have gone up including
new personal healthcare taxes and such.  Many people have left the USA
looking for cheaper places to live.

 Financial collapse is perhaps the last disaster I would imagine to
hit the United States first and harder than anywhere else.
 But precisely because the United States seems to be the world's
wealthiest nation, I suppose that overconfidence can lead it to
make mistakes.
 John Savard

I think that financial collapse of the USA is the most prevalent future.   The USA is deficit spending at 30% to 40% and the deficit is increasing.  Keeping old people alive is very expensive as Medicare and Social Security costs are rising rapidly (My wife and I are the beneficiary of both).
However, I do not know of any other country on Earth that is in very good financial shape with even 1/10th of the population of the USA.
The coming Codominion may shake things up though.
Lynn