Right now things are bad in disparate sections of the economy.  But for the most part people are not really feeling significant pain, only minor discomforts.  Yeah, gas is high.  But people, on the whole, are adjusting. Yeah, food prices are going through the roof.  But most middle class families are making small modifications to their purchasing and still feel like they can make their budgets work.  Yeah, the stock market is volatile.  But most people are feeling like they can ride the wave once again to it's perceived inevitable stabilization.  They think it's just another business cycle.

But what is not obvious to most, and is being reported by almost no one, is that the U.S. economy right now is nothing more than a house of cards.  Held together by smoke and mirrors, the machinations of the Fed and corporate shell games that are not addressing the fundamental inadequacies that exist, but serve only to line the pockets of the corporations while the gettin' is good.

I think it is going to get worse, a lot worse.  And people are not going to be prepared.  And they will be stunned beyond belief when it happens.  I believe the implosion will be sudden and triggered by something that has not yet even been contemplated publicly.  We have not seen the full ramifications of the catastrophic policies implemented over the last ten years.  Many, many people are truly struggling in this economy right now.  But to be brutally honest, these people are looked on by Washington as being on the fringes of the economy, not in the fat middle.  But when the full effects reach up and begin having significant impacts on those families in the $125K-$250K range of household income, you can be sure that the torches and pitchforks will appear in Washington. By then it will likely be beyond the reach of some kind of "patch" or "stimulus".  I think the worst is yet to come.  I am afraid we will all get to taste very soon the bitter fruit which we have sown over the last decade.

"I think generations pretty soon are going to start to thank this president for what he's done. This generation will."