Prediction Eleven: Within the next fifty or one hundred years, physical books will be declared to be a significant health hazard, and owning them will be strongly discouraged. TSIAH! TSIAH! (Probably there will also be an effort to do away with most physical paperwork as well; a virtual memory hole is [...]
I haven’t been keeping a close eye on Congressional antics lately, but I’m sure the Democrats are up to something that will further bankrupt the country, while they remain comfortably insulated from reality. Pelosi’s Dumpster will be the last place that the recession will strike, so I think of it almost as a poor [...]
…I would like to point out that the per diem allowance for legislators in Minnesota is $96 per day for senators; $77 per day for representatives. This is for miscellaneous living expenses; salary, housing costs, and travel are compensated for by other funds.
Compare that to the child care reimbursement for stay-at-home moms called in [...]
Prediction Eight: There will be wide-scale bulldozing of “excess housing inventory”, to keep the price of housing from falling to affordable levels for my family.
(I wouldn’t live in Detroit if you paid me a million dollars, so those pocket-money-priced houses there are still much too expensive.)
Since I had problems sending my comment to Mommylife’s recent post, and the comment relates to another one of my predictions for the future, I’ll post it here:
Articles like this [about only half of American households owing income tax] drive me crazy, because hard-working families with children and a lower income get lumped in with [...]
Prediction Six: Within my lifetime, Google will turn evil.
I already gave my reasons in a comment a while back. Basically, Google’s stated goal is to have all the world’s information streams pass through it. Add that to the tendency of governments to seek total power, and the future doesn’t look too cheery. [...]
MFH and I read a fair number of self-help books. We are both very fast readers, so we can skim through them quickly without wasting much time. Most self-help books have at least one or two good ideas, and even the bad ideas are fun to pick apart.
Anyway, I picked up a book [...]
Prediction Five: The use of silly numbers to make our lives miserable will only increase.
We already have credit scores and BMIs. Many people check their credit scores constantly, and try to improve them. With health care coming under increased government control, more harassment of those with high BMI is inevitable. Both [...]
MaxedOutMama has a very good analysis of the eventual consequences of the health care bill. She thinks it’s likely to actually pass. This is the best bad news I’ve heard in a while: life expectancies are bound to fall under such rotten public policy. Retirement age will be up near 80 [...]
(Here I am thinking mostly of the next five to ten years; a lot depends on what happens with health care reform.)
Prediction Three-A: The childbirth scene will become increasingly polarized; the c-section rate will continue to rise (at least until government takes over health care and starts slashing costs), but so will the natural [...]