I love that in the article about Greece, the press is begging international banks to bail out the Greek government just to stop the violence.
That's just so amazingly dumb... "Lets throw good money after bad just so everyone gets along"... Ugh!

God help us!
I can see everything your saying Tom. And it's a scenario alright. Not a good one, but certainly a possible one!
Thinking out loud here, but.... Here in the US there's SOOOO much money at stake for the
whole world market... We ARE the worlds consumers. Bama is really giving it his best shot. But I just can't see the world powers letting things here really collapse beyond where Greece is at right at this very moment. For their own sake they'll bail us out. As one book I know predicts

, we would be under a single world government. Being the lazy sheep we've become, as quick as the riots start. And our government says "We're to broke to do anything about it." The UN, CHINA, or whoever, will move in and say. "It's all right. We'll take care of you." And we'll follow them like a lost puppy. I wonder how far along this path Greece is going to be allowed to go... I think it will be an excellent indicator of where "whoever" is going to allow us to collapse before stepping in and taking over.
I certainly may be wrong, but I'd say given a choice of starting over, fixing things, and taking care of ourselves the way we did when we founded this country. Or, welcoming in a new government of china (or UN) control, when they promise (as I'm sure they will). "We're going to make everything all better for you! Just sit back, relax, and let us drive the bus." We're going to make the wrong choice!
We've just been conditioned to be to lazy to choose the right thing. And if we somehow did. I think we'd be taken over by military force.
Regardless, I foresee either Chinese or UN APC's patrolling our streets in the near future. Certainly something to think about!
OTHER THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS WELCOME!!!!