We shall soon see how a power structure based on maximum consumption survives in an era of drastically restrained private spending. No more five bedroom, five bathroom 4000 square foot houses with three cars, an RV and three snowmobiles and a boat. Whole families will live in 1000 square feet, carpool or bicycle, eat out once every couple of months instead of every couple of days. Some of us have been living like this for years, not out of choice but from necessity. That’s how the Greenies want you to live, anyway. But do they realize the consequence for public finance and government resources? Downsizing, paradoxically, may be the only way to starve the government monster. You can’t get blood from a turnip. Also, home schooling, church attendance and renewed emphasis on the family as the ultimate social insurance mechanism will arm the people with real weapons against the official attack on traditional culture. I see some hard times, but with bright prospects in the distance.