Growing Anger At Collapse Of U.S.A. Standard Of Living

The Market Oracle ^ | 4-25-2010 | Global Research

[unkus]

Thanks blam. Wow, that’s not good. We’d be in a “Mad Max” situation.

[matthew fuller]

" No more electricity, cars, planes, trains, etc."

I'm not positive, but I think that some very old vehicles, including planes, just might survive, if they are pre-integrated circuit/transistor. (Cars with contact point ignition for example).

[dalereed]

I have 2 pluses, prop. #13 so I am protected against property taxes and Camp Pendelton marines are a constant supply of renters.

[bIlluminati]

Lot of people in upper middle class neighborhoods are school teachers and other government employees. Go see all the upper neighborhoods near Washington. D.C.

[blam]

This book makes Mad Max look like easy stuff:

New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP).

A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies. Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second.

It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future...and our end.

[esquirette]

Please tell me she was kidding. . .

[blam]

"I'm not positive, but I think that some very old vehicles, including planes, just might survive, if they are pre-integrated circuit/transistor. (Cars with contact point ignition for example). "

Yes...you are correct. My 1979 hurricane generator falls into that category and should survive.

I'm looking at grounded 55 gallon drums to store electronic goods.

[bIlluminati]

My guess is that people with money/land will hire out sharecroppers to convert their lawns into gardens. We can feed a lot of people on 30% of our national lawn acreage.

Of course, the government was talking about razing 30,000 houses in Detroit. This is exactly where the idea won’t work. Too expensive to hire armed guards over the hen house.

[unkus]

Not pretty. I suppose some who are prepared for long term survival would make it. for the rest, it would be very bad.

[goodnesswins]

AAAGGGHHH....I read it a few months ago....I’m trying to FORGET about it (not really...just trying to not make it the focus of my life...LOL)

[esquirette]

AWESOME

[blam]

"Please tell me she was kidding. . ."

I read somewhere that she is...apparently there are other videos by her too.

[happygrl]

He gets cold because he’s skinny and does drugs and probably has some medical issues.

Yup.

He's skinny because he smokes and drinks too much and therefore can't regulate his body temperature.

His lips are blue because of poor circulation also.

He has a lot of gay men's problems.

[bIlluminati]

What is a faraday cage?

The internet is your friend. A faraday cage is a metal wiring (the outside of old cars is an example, but it doesn't have to be solid steel, wire mesh like chicken wire is as good) that prevents a nuclear blast from frying the electronics. The old Amiga computer had all of its electronics encased in metal (except the monitor).

But since an EMP would fry most newer cars (plastic does not a faraday cage make), and much electrical equipment (imagine a national power outage that goes on for three years, minimum), any place that did not have a local supply of food and water (Los Angeles, as an easy example) would, in less than three weeks, would be home to a lot of ex-people.

LA has 1-2 weeks of food, but with no electricity, some of it would spoil quickly, and maybe 1-2 weeks of water. Week three is when it hits the fan. Can't evacuate, as cars would block the highways, plus no electricity to power the gas pumps. Would possibly hit the fan from day one, as looting leads to fires that can't be fought. I figure 70% to 98% casualties (dead) by 60 day mark.

Small towns with farms and local water fare much better than this, until winter hits. Then you have thousands sleeping in high school gyms, as the body heat keeps people alive until spring. If our power grid were faraday caged, might recover in time to extract a very painful revenge on the perps, if identified.

Of course, it is possible that other countries would send aid. But wouldn't bet my life on it happening.

[matthew fuller]

"I'm looking at grounded 55 gallon drums to store electronic goods. "

You know, it seems like that should work, but keep in mind that true Faraday Cages use conductive mesh. I would be willing to bet that the mesh is much more expensive than sheet metal. Maybe an Electrical or Electronic Engineer can tell you for sure.

[Doomonyou]

BFL

[mojitojoe]

Pot makes your lips dark, according to a black woman on You Tube. I downloaded the video, will have to find the link.

[M. Espinola]

Carter and his cohorts began the dismemberment of the American way of life, and the Obamaites are determined to total destroy what remains of America.

Remember in November!

[Del Rapier]

Look that poison has been festering for a long time,whatever you see however you feel.

Don’t try to let it get you down...........if you have faith in god or whatever path you walk-you will make it through this.

At the end of the day,all these people did was overreach too soon and too fast.Even President Obama can understand this at least better then the idiots raving they’re going to pass Amnesty.

But yeah those liberal yahoos who pretend they are in total control,they’re going to be completely screwed.

[riri]

This Euro style sustainable living. You take a crowded bus or train to work, if you work. You walk to the grocery store and pay as much as you do now for a weeks worth of groceries for what you can carry home. It's the world they want for us. Many Europeans have already accepted it.