Meet Martin Shapiro, Huffington Post contributor and author of 2039; After Trump. In his novel, set 22 years in the future, the US is achieving almost a trillion dollar surplus! We have the finest military and industrial complex, that is available for hire. The country enjoys full employment at all times. Everyone has health insurance, but medical care is rationed. Follow a senior couple trying to escape to Canada for medical treatment denied by Medicare. Shapiro forecast the future of Social Security, the Affordable Care Act, the national debt and other issues of the day.
2039; After TRUMP!
Plan to retire? Retiring or retired? -Relying on Social Security, Medicare? -In the military or the Defense Industry? -
WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE IN 2039?
Will the US become energy independent? -How will that change our foreign policy? -Will alliances be altered?
WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE IN 2039?
Energy self-sufficient or dependent? -Environmentally aware or careless? -Believe global warming or not?
WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE IN 2039?
Democrat or Republican? Libertarian? -Assimilated American or Ethnic; Racial Resident? -Does political intrigue ever stop?
WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE IN 2039?
Christian, Jewish? Supporter of Israel? -Have Jewish friends, family? -Can Israel survive without US help?
WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE IN 2039?
Will Iran rejoin the world as a rational nation?- Will the disintegration of the Mid East continue? -Will Israel survive or be annihilated?
READ ABOUT IT IN 2039.
We all need to think about the future. -We, our children and grandchildren all have a stake. -Don't speculate about the future...
READ ABOUT IT IN 2039; After TRUMP
By 2039; After TRUMP
Between 2011 and today,
* With the political gridlock in America, with no end in sight,
* the high rate of unemployment and underemployment,
* the growing number of Americans on public assistance,
* the millions of illegal aliens working here, and the political football it is causing,
* the wind-down, then another wind-up--of the wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan,
* the sequestration and proposed downsizing of the US Defense Department,
* the energy boom from fracking, followed by volatile fluctuations in energy prices,
* the continuing CO2 pollution of the atmosphere,
* the fear of global warming,
* the Affordable Care Act repeal and replacement,
* the government deficits and rising, massive total debt,
* the independent Federal Reserve conducting monetary policy,
* Iran going nuclear, threatening Israel, Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf with extinction,
* the unrest in one after another of the Arab nations,
* the declaration of ISIS, a caliphate, in portions of Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and others,
* the never-ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
* gold and silver prices rising to new highs, then falling into stagnation,
* marijuana and drones going mainstream,
* China ascending, and
* Russian resurging,
-Now twenty-two years after Donald Trump's initial term, Shapiro applied his study of trade, of energy issues, emerging technology and the domestic/world issues that have to play out in some fashion by 2039. They are not just going to disappear!