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Oct. 19th, 2008 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lapsedmodernistWhat do you think will happen if this election is also stolen Obama doesn't win? Seriously, what will happen? Will there be riots in the streets? Will the stock market completely crash? Will the US lose its rapidly shrinking middle class and be a full-fledged "third world" country within 5 years?
Alternately, what if he does win? I assume initially the dollar will bounce...but okay, what else? Can he even do anything with the treasury looted and the infrastructure one nail short of a closed coffin? Yeah, I read his plan, but when I read things like eliminating taxes on unemployment benefits, I think of *STATES* (like Massachussetts and California) that are literally running out of money and can't get more from the gov't--like, where the fuck are they going to get the cash to PAY OUT unemployment benefits in the first place?
Alternately, what if he does win? I assume initially the dollar will bounce...but okay, what else? Can he even do anything with the treasury looted and the infrastructure one nail short of a closed coffin? Yeah, I read his plan, but when I read things like eliminating taxes on unemployment benefits, I think of *STATES* (like Massachussetts and California) that are literally running out of money and can't get more from the gov't--like, where the fuck are they going to get the cash to PAY OUT unemployment benefits in the first place?
