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Blogger “Macro Man” has a great post that’s both funny and scary. It’s a blog post from the future, three years out, when the dollar is worth nothing, the economy has lost steam, gasoline is at $5 a gallon and Hillary is in the White House. A small excerpt of his brilliance:

So yeah, I kind of wish that it was still 2007. Hell, I wish it could be 2007 forever. Instead, I’m stuck here in 2010. Crappy job, crappy paycheck, crappy TV. I mean, it’s a four year old 42” plasma! I can’t remember the last time I had a TV that old in my family room, and I certainly can’t remember the last time all my stuff was this far behind the latest technology. I guess my only consolation is that none of my buddies have gotten a new TV, either. No one can really afford it. For the first time in our lives, we really have to worry about saving.

Still, it’s not all doom and gloom. A couple of months ago I treated the wife to a nice weekend away while her folks looked after the kids. Who’d have ever thought that Clemson would win the NCAA tourney last year? But hey, with 75 bucks on them at 50-1, I’m not complaining. Yeah, I know $3750 is chump change these days, but at least we could afford two nights at a pretty good Holiday Inn and a nice dinner at Applebee’s.

It’s all kind of weird, though, when you think about it. Most of us have never been outside America, never seen how the rest of the world lives. I suppose we all just assumed that a weaker dollar could bring nothing but more jobs and more money. But I guess when you buy a lot of stuff from the rest of the world, a weaker currency makes it more difficult to afford things.

So, too, when Hillary threatened China with those tariffs. Who’d have thought that some guy ten thousand miles away could make a decision that would make it more difficult to borrow money here in the Heartland of America. Not me, that’s for sure. I have to say one thing, though. I felt a little burst of nostalgia when Hillary started the Whip Inflation Now program…it really took me back to my childhood.

Well, I suppose that’s enough of my yakking. I’d better get back to work. It’s more than my job’s worth if this report doesn’t make it to Abu Dhabi by tomorrow morning.

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