Intact families: intermolecular cohesion of a sustainable economy and stable republic

The following is adapted from a letter that Peter Lomtevas wrote Sean Harrington on Nov. 14, 2008:

Sean,

I wish I could fully brief the state of the economy and family law. Our economy is based on the family and humans reproduce without stop.

In my view, America's economy rides on the backs of non-custodial parents supporting two households teetering on the brink of incarceration for non payment of child support.

When one noncustodial parent fails, he brings down two homes. Since child support can never be downwardly modified because of federal matching funding, the two households will never stand again. If the custodial parent is shacked up with another non-custodial parent, he'll fail along with the custodial and again two households will fail. Similar to a nuclear fission reaction, the failures propagate geometrically.

One failure leads to two, two to four, four to eight and now we are up to many millions of people out of their homes, out of work or facing the loss of their jobs. This too will disturb the tapestry of broad economic relationships as huge sectors of the economy will be immobile.

I suspect this chain reaction commenced initially in August 2007 when the first adjustable rate mortgages switched upward. This placed an immediate strain on the first round of child support obligors who all caused local collapses. Many went to jail and custodial parents were displaced with no hope for welfare back up. California was hardest hit because federal money was so badly needed to run their courts system that courts went out of control ruining people just to earn enough to pay themselves.

As the outward expansion of this wave is reaching its outer limits, people are beginning to second guess what happened to them. The revolution of the 21st century will occur when these groups of people realize the government put them in the position they were in. Neither Obama nor a democratic Congress will escape total removal and replacement. New leaders will emerge who will eliminate federal government intervention in the home and we will have to rewrite the history books for the new order that will befall us.

Our web writings have little impact because the reaction has begun long ago and there is no stopping it. Like the sinking of the Titanic, there is no way to reverse the flood.

I am afraid we voted in the means of our own destruction these past decades and it will suck to have to reestablish ourselves. In the meantime, we can soften the blow to the children we are using to finance our new social order established by a pissed off wife and her cheating husband (Bill Clinton).

Peter Lomtevas