Down, down, down.

Editor,

In another front-page article in today's online NYT Obama's plan to stimulate the economy is reported to be his getting reelected a year and a half from now!

Yes, Michelle Bachmann and her ilk are the new American Fascists. But what is Obama thinking? We have a president who watches as the U.S.A. drains down the tubes and a Republican cadre with a plumber's helper in hand to plunge us down.

India's new middle class is 300 million people strong. That is almost the entire population of the U.S.A.

Friends, the multinationals do not need us anymore, and we are being dumped. Now the slow-motion depression we have been watching unfold is reaching the stage where federal, state, and local governments are so revenue-challenged -- due to unemployment and rich people's refusal to pay taxes -- that basic services we have taken for granted our whole lives are being curtailed altogether: not least, public education and health care for old, young, and poor people.

The U.S. is like a mining town where the vein has played out. The extracting companies load their gear on trucks and pull out of town. The economy packs up and leaves. Beware the Republicans! Totalitarians have a nasty habit of seizing power in conditions such as are rapidly developing here.

I spend a lot of time looking at the map trying to decide where I am going to go to hunker down. But American money is worth less as every day goes by. My choices are increasingly limited to 3rd World countries, another of which the U.S.A. is rapidly becoming.

Re: "Bachmann Faces Tough Questioning on Sunday Shows" (8/14/2011)