My oldest son is visiting us for the weekend to pick up his cat. The conversation he's having with my wife revolves...

[NNadir]

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...around about how one might finance escaping from the United States and what to do when the US currency collapses because China calls in it's US treasury bonds.

Charming, I guess.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. A lot easier to escape before the collapse than when the collapse happens. . . nt

[walkingman]

2. I think it is refreshing to hear that your children are aware of what is happening

politically. It would make me proud, it means you did a good job raising them and they will have a voice in the direction of our country going forward.

[NNadir]

3. My youngest son has the best prospects for escaping the United States because of his scientific training.

He's nearing completion of his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering. He can probably work in any civilized country in the world, and be welcomed there. (He's mentioned France; he speaks French and is tutoring his girlfriend, also a nuclear engineering student, in that language.)

My oldest son is an artist/gallery administrator. His only option for getting out of here would involve going to graduate school overseas.

My wife and I are stuck here. No one would accept us.

[WhiteTara]

4. those are the topics of conversation

at our home as well.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. I am trying very hard to persuade My Son The Astronomer to

find work overseas. Like NNadir's son, mine is also completing his PhD. Alas, he is extremely poor at learning languages, but because English is the language of science everywhere, he can pretty much work anywhere.

[GP6971]

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