Posted on 02/28/2012 9:22:53 PM PST by Kartographer
Society as we know it will break down and collapse in a five stage process outlined here. While it can be accelerated by certain events like war, a natural disaster, pandemic, terrorist attack, or even an impending asteroid impact, history has shown that economic collapse will essentially happen in this five stage process. To survive the collapse, it is important to read and interpret the signs and understand what assets are important to the current situation so you can be prepared for the worst thereby allowing you to survive intact and with as little damage as possible.
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Preppers’ PING!
We’re at Stage 5.
BTTT
Guess I am just a bit more optimistic, because I see us as only being deep in to stage 3.
I think we hit there by the time someone like Obama could actually win either major party’s presidential nomination, let alone the actual office.
Stage 3, not 5.
If a nuclear exchange breaks out, most of the survivalist skills and equipment may be in vain, in my humble opinion, unless you are willing to live underground for a year or more. How you will survive with the onset of nuclear winter effectively stopping all agriculture and the fact rainfall and snowfall will contain dangerous amounts of radioactive material for at least five to seven years?
I agree. I hit 5 when I should have hit 3.
I'm not so sure about optimism but I think we're in the later part of stage 2. Maybe a few aspects of stage 3.
IMO, when stage 3 arrives, stage 4 & 5 will come pretty rapidly afterward.
The biggest redistribution of wealth I've seen has been from the poor and middle classes to the rich.
Likewise, the biggest government entitlement I've seen lately has been government bailout of the banksters--who believe they are entitled to it (they do the work of God, don't you know).
STAGE 2. The Slippery Slope The economy goes into a slow but steadily increasing decline. Unemployment is on the rise. Ever increasing numbers of people receive government assistance in one form or another. People are paid not to work. Government spending has increased dramatically. The price of gold, silver, and other precious metals rise to prices unheard of just a few years earlier. Inflation reaches the double digit levels.
Worse than being paid by the government not to work, are the Banksters--who are rewarded by the government for working us into this mess.
If things go completely to heck, I am opening a fortified flea market with a little black market behind the scenes, so common folks can barter what they have for what they need. A woman with a baby can trade something for some milk, another person some bullets for some tools. There would be nothing that would spit in the eye of the socialists then people having a way of getting what they need without the government. I will hire some former police and military for security.
I just stashed away 14 more dozen canning lids for my use or barter.
STAGE 4. The Grab for Power
We’re now in a Marxist dominated Oligarchy. The American “Nomenclatura” is in place.
{George Bush could have exposed 0bama and prevented him from being elected. Bush had all the inteligence on the evil bastard but did nothing and now we have an avowed enemy of the United States in our White House.}
Yes, we’re living under an Oligarchy.
and then after work, I stopped for milk and just had this overwhelming sinking feeling...like everything could just disappear instantly...
I've got preps but they're all over the place...some pasta...some rice...soups...etc....
I just became overwhelmed with all of this....am becoming more and more scared of everything...
so I bought some extra pasta..put it in the freezer for now....and today I bought more soups....and a fold up wooden clothes rack from Goodwill...
I don't know folks....I am just spooked...
You have every reason to be spooked. But keep your head and associate with and surround yourself with as many like minded people as you can.
Keep your preparation to yourself and don’t share what you’re doing with anyone but the most trusted.
Be safe and God bless us all.
You are not alone. I guess you know that, but maybe it helps that so many of us feel the same.
Perhaps that will be our eventual salvation, that we all know we have to survive, somehow, and we are all in this together, at least all of us formerly middle-class folks.
Passports aren’t enough. You need money to emigrate. Expats don’t get jobs in other countries. We will not be welcomed most places, if there are any places left. We can’t depend on our American dollar or American pensions in this sort of climate. If the productive folks leave, it guarantees that the USD and pensions will become devalued even more quickly.
I know I feel our preps amount to so little in the face of what could be overwhelming.
Do any of the Barry voters admit they made a mistake or show their disdain for him? Usually they won’t admit they made a mistake.
You know somethings are cheap but nutritious in small amounts, so you may want to stock up on them....sauerkraut and cans of sardines
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