BUSH - The domestic Front

The only thing bush and its trickle down economic elitist have in their favor is an economy that is HUGE. This economy has been able to absorb numsculls in the past. With slight dips and side steps its has kept going up. The imperial economy of US is far bigger than neocons or Clinton cigar boys. This large machine almost has its own internal life and driver. The politicians do influence the parts but they just oil and lube this monster. The military portion of the economy is so dominant that I wouldn't pass them to create conflicts so they can stay in "command and control".

They are boys with big guns and you'll have to take it from their cold hands.

I see however this trend is not going too well. The old American dream keeps getting further and further from reach. There is no frontier to exploit and concur, no Indians to kill, no Mexicans to push back, no clear evil to kill. As if the American experience is now reached the usual mundane everyday stage. Now we must learn to deal with our messes and have to dwell in this confined island. The manifest of destiny has now been converted to manifest of You Are Here.

The next twenty years are very exciting for this experiment. I suspect much of what we see today will remain in play but we should witness beginnings of some profound changes like:

1) Identity crisis - who are we now that we have tamed this beast
2) Established cultural Divide - Whites, blacks, Hispanics.....Etc.
3) Regionalized ethnic centers - Whites up north, Blacks down south, Hispanics southcenteral,.....
4) Economic model not adjusting to rapid pace of changed conditions - Market economy succeeds when you don't have deep cultural divide and elitist class.

Of course these are based on past dictating the future, and that can also change ====