Quote from achilles28:
I think we're teetering on the precipice of a total dollar collapse. Think Greece. The parasite class from the bottom and fascist corporatist's from the top have merged to suck the productive middle class - the true wealth creators - dry for their own enrichment. This is by design. It doesn't help that most of our manufacturing - and now engineering and R&D jobs - were outsourced. If the Government tries to forcefully confiscate semi-autos, then I'd say the civil war will start then. If not, foreign holders of US treasury bonds will dump sometime in the next 3-4 years, Bernacke monetizes, the dollar collapses, and then it'll be a hyper inflationary depression, that quickly degenerates into civil war.