How do you think our country will be in 10 years?

Answer 1

I think our armed services will be dispatched all over the world and our troops will be doing tiny nation building projects in various 3rd world nations to promote good will toward America. This will be the case irrespective of which political party is in power. At least this is what Ted Koppel predicted on his Discovery Channel special last night.

Some economic trends from the days of the Bush administration will have continued. The number of poor people will have continued to increase, and the middle class will be having more trouble making ends meet. The rich will be richer. Fewer people will have health insurance and Medicare benefits will be discontinued because the prescription drug program will have bankrupted it.

Answer 2

I think in 10 years Britain would have mastered zero-point energy thus new propulsion technologies would emerge. (Not that they have not already emerged :) ). Just imagine 10 years ago... there was no New media, Biotechnology, Organic agriculture, Homeland security, E-business/e-marketing, Computer game design, Forensic accounting, Human computer interaction, Society and the environment and Nanotechnology . Don't get me wrong this is just a tiny fraction of technology that was not around 10 years ago. -Makes you think- I personally would love to see technology such that as used in Minority report and IRobot, you might argue that technology is already here, which it is BUT its not widely integrated into our lives. Let me give an example, tkae a look at these two videos, its new but not a lot or people are aware of these kinds of developents, funding is also another drawback.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9FgLr9oTk
AND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sz8ExZndc

Please take you time and watch these clips, I think you'll be amazed just as I first was :)

Answer 3

Depends - if we make the tax cuts permanent and we cap spending we'll be in fine shape economically. The focus on how the already-rich have fared relative to everyone else detracts attention from how everyone has fared in absolute terms. T. Boone Pickens is 40 times richer than he was 15 years ago - the Krugman/Dobbs crowd thinks that renders the fact that I'm 7 times richer meaningless.

Simply put, the rich are richer but they're also more numerous. Almost all of the "disappearing middle class" disappeared to the affluent class. Those of us who haven't achieved the same results yet might be envious or might be concerned that we'll have to wait for the next business cycle but the broader picture is more people are making it. We talk of "oh that's great for the millionaires" but we don't talk of the fact that that's now 1 in 11 households - not including home equity - and we don't talk of the fact that 1 in 4 have between $100K and $500K liquid net worth. 1 in 4. That's a minority but it's a much larger minority than it was 10 years ago or 30 years ago. And CPI is 2.5% which is high relative to the last 10 years - so even after you adjust for inflation, in real terms there are more rich people both in number and in proportion to the whole.

That's a result of free trade, lower taxes, deregulation of key industries like transportation and financial services, and changes in the financial services industry - - - half the country now has investments and trades cost $7 each no matter how large or small.

70% of us own are own homes - which means including home equity it's closer to 1 in 6 that are millionaires.

Are we in the garden of eden? Is life easy? Of course not. And a lot of people are working longer hours to make those gains - the change being that they have the choice to do so. But more people have more money. Yes, only 25% of us have significant liquid worth but if the policy changes made in the last 25 years are kept, in another generation it'll be 40%.

You can look this up but it also makes intuitive sense - how have Whole Foods, Polo, Starbucks, Lexus, Toll Brothers, been GROWTH brands? Because their market has grown. The rich probably eat better than they used to but do they eat MORE? They might have more houses but in resort areas, not in commuter neighborhoods. Now most of these new rich probably refer to themselves as "upper middle class" but whatever you call them they used to be "lower middle class."

Now for a lot of you, that's not you - yet. What's the answer - keep the policies that have allowed others to do it, maybe even expand on them, so that someday you can do it? Or pull everyone else back down?

Think of the countless things we take for granted that were new 10 years ago and didn't exist 20 years ago? This internet we're using. Cellphones - they existed but not many had them. You can unlock your car with a button and it tells you where you're going.

Answer 4

One of the two extremes of good or bad. Looking at the rising crime rate and the "generational" Iraq war we are fighting, I don't think that America is going to be an ideal place. We can't place everything in our communities (except the war and some other things) squarely on the government's shoulders, we have to start taking responsibility for our actions/non-actions.

Answer 5

10 years older

Answer 6

Darker.

Answer 7

much different than today. No gasoline, less overall rainfall, higher temperatures. Increase in cancer patients and rampant crime. Did I mention legalized in-breeding?

Answer 8

Either struggling for success under conservative leadership....

or completely destroyed by the terrorists under liberal leadership.

Answer 9

see Mexico.

Answer 10

I'll answer this question after the next election. :)