Local Governments Out of Money

The NYT reports on extreme measures US municipalities are taking to keep afloat, while tax revenues collapse.

Western civilization millennial fears, come to mind. Xenophobia in Arizona, and elsewhere in the world also seem related.   I write in this blog about social distress signs. Civilized societies are complex, at least as much as the weather. We only get around two weeks to know what temperature we will have. I cannot say when a major catastrophe, for lack of city revenue, will occur, anywhere in the US.

Nonetheless, seven billion people seem to be Earth's carrying capacity. Fires in Greece and Russia; floods in Pakistan, and Mexican and American politicians have me worried. Here in Mexico, the criminal elements of society seem to be out of control in some parts of the country.

The State of Guerrero, in Mexico, where I am now,  is underdeveloped. Sometimes I wonder if they have more of a chance of survival in those Indian areas, where they have managed to stay for 400 years out of Mexican economic influences. A man can plant corn to feed his family, have enough children, and wait for the new children to have children, like they have done for nine thousand years already. That could have been a blessing in disguise, when the rest of civilized society collapses, because nobody pays taxes to keep  communities on welfare alive.

:-(