Best Prediction I’ve Seen for 2011

From Zero Hedge:

Contact will be made with an alien civilization in the Alpha Centauri system. The U.N. security Council will issue a proclamation in support of galactic peace, with Russia and China abstaining rather than support the U.S. initiative. President Obama will request a loan of 100 trillion quatloos from the aliens as a “gesture of friendship to Earth,” which his financial advisors estimate will fund the status quo to the 2012 elections.

Republicans will issue a stern warning to the aliens that “illegal immigration” to the U.S. was, well, illegal (at least in states which don’t depend on said illegals to mow their lawns, staff their slaughterhouses and tend the Elites’ offspring and elderly parents), while the Democrats will offer the aliens instant citizenship and Medicaid as long as they have “anchor babies” “within the U.S. or its airspace.”

NASA’s budget shortfall will preclude the intepretation of the aliens’ message, but it will be believed by some cryptographers to be a combination of laughter and fear.

My predictions for 2011?

Heck, I don’t know – I hope that some things happen, hope that others don’t.  I’m worried that we are on the knife’s edge and can tumble in to war and/or Depression at any moment.  Our government is led by a man who is not wicked, but simply not up to the job – Obama simply does not know how the world works or how the United States fits in to it.  There are some great new leaders in the GOP, but still plenty of RINOs around to cut them off at the knees…I hope for a bit of rationality in legislation, but I’m not expecting miracles, either.

Meanwhile, in social matters we stagger from bad to worse – an increasingly coarse, cruel and debauched society is spinning out of control.  We need a moral revival, but I can’t even see my Catholic Church leading the charge in this; everyone who does know what is wrong seems paralyzed and unable to act in favor of decency.  No shame to everyone else – I’ve been afraid to take a stand, too…only recently have I started to become willing to really call depravity for what it is.  We need a St. Dominic – where shall we find him?

Our economy is moribund – hollowed out with our real wealth-creation capacity atrophied by a generation of tax and regulatory policies which have sent our farms, factories and mines over seas.  I despise my job, but also worry that I won’t be able to keep it – my allegedly healthy employer is highly at risk, from what I can see, and if there is a renewed crash, I can easily see the bosses figuring me expendable.  People are out of work – but we’ve also got a situation where we’re subsidizing duff-sitting.  And the people running the show – in government and business – seem pretty clueless about what to do.

All in all, I’m expecting a pretty bad 2011 – but I hope that I’m disappointed in this hope.

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