re: #333 Hecuba’s daughter

But at least Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid will not be under attack by the House any longer. Of course, we may be totally ungovernable then. The legislature will not be able to accomplish anything. I believe this happened in 19th Century Poland where a single objection in the legislature was sufficient to render any legislation null and void. This does not bode well for the country.

I think things are going to change in the smaller states in the near future. A lot of those states have older populations - the median age, nationally, is about 37. As more of those older people get closer to retirement, there will either have to be an influx of younger people to fill jobs (and if unemployment remains in the 3-8% range, those people may end up having to be from other countries - and the story about Devin Nunes’ family the other day suggests that’s going to complicate shit for a lot of them) or there is a real chance of economic collapse.