20 Signs That The Global Economic Crisis Is Starting To Catch Fire

Freedom Outpost ^ | February 14, 2014 | Michael Snyder

[bgill]

just open up your eyes and look around. I know that most Americans tend to ignore what happens in the rest of the world because they consider it to be "irrelevant" to their daily lives

It's also interesting that none of this is being shown on the evening news. Even if eyes are open, many Americans are clueless when they leave their news in the hands of the biased msm. Yes, war is coming, that's another thing many Americans are in the dark about.

[Koracan]

People need to understand, Level of Industrial Automation - Unemployment - Recession _ Immigration _ Job Export, are all direct related.
Some informed in the Automation systems business estimate in in a few decades, only 20% of an able human being is needed to work due to Xfer of Tasks to the ""Machine"".
In the Press they call it chronic unemployment, better is perhaps, machine displaced, so go play tennis or drink a beer in the local bar, you will never have a Job again.
The old saying, that they have to get re-educated or get a College degree, and then they will find higher jobs to build or maintain or supervise the machine is obsolete. It takes only a hand full of people to do that Job.

There are a lot of Jobs left that automation can not do, but you don't need special qualification for that, Labor only, so now we understand cheap labor {import immigrants or export tasks to Countries with cheap Labor - same thing, different location)
The only resolution will be a drastic re-thinking of the Monetary distribution system.(Society as we know it}
Of course this sounds all Soci/Commi like, but this is not the intend here. As much as we like to hear it , History Does Not repeat itself.

[rw4site]

Hydroponics/aqua-phonics are two methods that will over come rocks. Bales of hay will also serve as a growing medium for many plants, especially potatoes.

[Starstruck]

Don’t worry about it. SHTF will give you more free time to write poetry and work on your music.

[Foundahardheadedwoman]

Without some basic idea of history a lot of people will never see it coming, sad thing is they don’t want to know. Might interfere with their football game.

I was in sales for to many years, had a customer who when asked a closing question, did not respond. I was baffled, this had gone on for an hour until I noticed he had broke into a sweat, veins on his head stood out, and he asked for an aspirin. While I went to get the aspirin it occurred to me that he could not answer, he could not make a decision. I gave him the aspirin and some water and gave him a minute and turned the papers and said, Sign here, here, and here. He did and was again the man I had started talking to.

I had never assumed a close before, it had never occurred to me that it could or would work. This was over twenty years ago and I have often wondered how many people are out there who are incapable of making any kind of decision and how did they become that way. This guy was otherwise sane, at least it appeared that way to me.

Maybe there a millions like him that cannot think for themselves, frozen when they even try to make a decision. Maybe the zombies are already here and I just didn’t know it. Maybe I am one of them cause I didn’t realize they were among us, I was waiting for somebody to tell me.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Yes, I know, that’s what the Democrats told me.

[SisterK]

Did you hear that one of the bankers did “suicide” by nail gun? Shot himself about 8 times in the chest and 7 times in the head. With a nail gun.

[Ellendra]

My dad is among those who can’t make a decision to save their lives. He truly believes that decisiveness is unthinkably rude. I have to work very hard sometimes not to fall back into that.

Once he told me about the restaurant he often stops at for lunch. They had a new person working at the counter. He ordered the number meal he wanted, and she started asking about which bread he wanted, which cheese he wanted, sauce or no sauce? Lettuce? Tomato? What flavor chips? . . . . He froze solid. Then the manager came out, dragged the new girl to the back, and he could hear the manager telling her “That’s (name)! You don’t ask what he wants, you just pick what you think he should eat and sell it to him!”

[DuncanWaring]

A murder in Sarajevo in the summer of 1914 might have seemed a minor event, too.

[VerySadAmerican]

I’ve got a small garden. But it’s not enough to feed my wife and I.

This guy mentions the 2008 dump and says nothing has been fixed. I’ve watched home prices go through the roof in Houston and the surrounding area. A neighborhood down the street that had new homes starting in the $180s are now in the $220s. The prices have gone up this much in the past two years. Another neighborhood that had homes starting at $220,000 has sold out in three years. The prices in the end were in the $340s.

New homes in my neighborhood have gone up about 15%. No builder seems to want to build anything under $150,000 and KB is not building many specs. They’re marketing a “build to order” campaign. Zillow shows the value of my home going up 8% since December. There is definitely a bubble being inflated that will burst.