US given >50% Chance of Breaking Up by mid-Century

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From Wired Mag:

 

Paul Saffo Predicts End Of U.S. Economic Model

 

By Adario Strange September 11, 2007 | 8:59:15 AM

 

Categories: Hype, Media, People

 

"In a recent lecture noted futurist and World Economic Forum advisor Paul Saffo offered a rather bleak picture of America's future for the more patriotic citizens among us. Saffo said, "There's less than 50 percent chance that the United States will exist as a nation by the middle of this century. And that that is actually a good news." Saffo then goes on to use Silicon Valley as an example of the future of city-states that will rise to replace existing infrastructures. Check out the full video below…

 

If the US breaks up, will the backwoods remnants like Spokane, northern Idaho and Montana be the fat kids picked last for the new teams?

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Think of all the new people you'll have living in your basement trying to escape the chaos.

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My basement will be full of seawater by then