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This is a very interesting read.

Scrooge-like predictions for the New Year - Reason Magazine

The United States and California in particular are continuing down a dangerous path where more decisions about almost everything in life are made by government officials rather than by individual citizens. That’s a fancy way of saying that we are losing our freedoms, slowly but surely. Maybe it’s not so slowly, but it is surely, and the intrusions are coming at every level of government.
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Economic rebound will delay reform:
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Republicans will chase away small-government voters:
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Freedom won’t make the national agenda.
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War on Terror will drone on
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Civil libertarians will wander in the wilderness
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Parties will major in the minors.
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Expect a full-on California tax push
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Its worth reading the article to see his comments on each prediction. The article isn't very long.
 
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My predictions for the upcoming year:

GOP nominates Romney, then loses to Obama. Why? Romney makes the GOP establishment happy, the media likes him more than any of the others, he won't self-destruct. Then, no one gives a crap about him. The hardcore GOPers show up to vote for him but no one else will and Obama wins in an election with the lowest voter turnout (by percentage) of all time.

The economy will bounce back enough that the unemployment rate falls below 8%. Why? Our economy is too resilient to be held down forever. People are learning to work within the new constraints. Insanely long unemployment bennys will finally start to run out and people will actually go out and get jobs even if they aren't what they really want.

Congress will fail to pass a budget, again. Why? Politics have become so important that they no longer feel the need to maintain the pretense that they are trying to make the system work. The whores in congress will continue to try and make the budget and the tax laws a way to buy votes and favors, while the few with principles refuse to cooperate with the continuing rape of the taxpayers.

Any predictions from the rest of ya?
 
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#5
Predictions -

1) Slow economic rebound - UE may get to 8% or slightly below
2) No budget from Congress
3) No action on Keystone XL
4) Iraq unravels
5) Iran tests or prepares to test nuke
6) Euro-crises continues
 
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#7
1) Unemployment rate goes down to 8 percent by August.
2) Obama defeats Romney because of lack of enthusiasm on the right.
3) Paul does run as independent for awhile, but packs it in around August under pressure from the GOP.
4) Herman Cain ends up in some sort of reality tv show.
5) Bachmann becomes spokesperson for the Tea Party.
6) Palin gives hints that she is going to run in 2016.
7) Trump hints that that he will run in 2016.
8) Gingrich gets divorced.
 
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volinbham said:
Predictions -

1) Slow economic rebound - UE may get to 8% or slightly below
2) No budget from Congress
3) No action on Keystone XL
4) Iraq unravels
5) Iran tests or prepares to test nuke
6) Euro-crises continues
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Agree with this list. The state/local government debt crisis could keep number one from happening. Number two is repulsive; has been for the last couple of cycles.
 
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PKT_VOL said:
Agree with this list. The state/local government debt crisis could keep number one from happening. Number two is repulsive; has been for the last couple of cycles.
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Agree with everything but the last couple of cycles
 
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volinbham said:
Predictions -

1) Slow economic rebound - UE may get to 8% or slightly below
2) No budget from Congress
3) No action on Keystone XL
4) Iraq unravels
5) Iran tests or prepares to test nuke
6) Euro-crises continues
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I'd say all are very likely except 5. It may happen, but I doubt it.
 
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lawgator1 said:
1) Unemployment rate goes down to 8 percent by August.
2) Obama defeats Romney because of lack of enthusiasm on the right.
3) Paul does run as independent for awhile, but packs it in around August under pressure from the GOP.
4) Herman Cain ends up in some sort of reality tv show.
5) Bachmann becomes spokesperson for the Tea Party.
6) Palin gives hints that she is going to run in 2016.
7) Trump hints that that he will run in 2016.
8) Gingrich gets divorced.
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I highly doubt he backs down because of pressure from the GOP. His whole career has been spent not giving a damn about his peers.
 
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1) UE stays above 9%
2) gasoline prices skyrocket during the summer, conservative PACs begin bombarding Obama as being responsible due to his inaction on Keystone XL.
3) Obama's job approval by late fall is below 35%
4) the GOP's nominating convention is disrupted by OWS goons, but OWS fails to garner any support among the public, Marco Rubio is selected as the VP nominee
5) Joe Biden has another brain aneurysm and resigns as VP, Obama, flailing about for anything to improve his poll numbers approaches Hillary, but she refuses and reminds him of what his campaign did to Bill Clinton in 2008.
6) Obama begs and eventually secures Dennis Kucinich as his new VP
7) Obama/Kucinich lose by nearly 100 electoral votes to *****/Rubio
 
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