Late Thursday night, the Tea Party basically told the American people and the world to go jump in a lake (Oh, I could really say my thoughts if this wasn't a G-Rated column) when they rebuked Speaker Boehner and refused to vote for a tax increase for families making more than 1 million dollars. Yes, the GOP refused to raise the taxes on just 41,000 families. Wasn't that enough for the GOP? No, they wanted taxes to go up on zero families, not one. So what has that got to do with the Mayan prophecy?
As it is generally known, the Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012. Well, if the GOP takes the country over the cliff, then the stock market will drop sharply. Cuts in the budget for next year is expected to raise unemployment rates by 1 to 3% for the year or two in the United States. But that's not where it stops. The credit rating for America would go down, causing another downgrade in the country's credit rating. This would make it more expensive for us to borrow money, but as the world is tied to our ability to borrow money, we would also be making it harder on other countries to borrow money. Which would increase the austerity push in all countries, especially in southern Europe. So this would also increase their unemployment rate. And with unemployment running in some counties at 20 to 30 %, how do you think they will react to this? Yes, with protests and possible riots. Do I need to keep going on and tell you what would happen after that?
Many years ago, the Mayan calendar ended with the year and date December 21, 2012. On their calendar, there is no date after this. After this day, nothing is certain. Today, on December 20, 2012, the GOP tried to prove, that basically, the Mayan prophecy is off by just a day.
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