[Kartographer]

Get prepared now!

I just released Rev.G of my Preparedness Manual is available at:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ars5bsi2p6foery

[dalebert]

The death of a nation

[Biggirl]

Question, what makes Gerald Celente so SPOT ON? Thanks for all responses.

[Pessimist]

I agree with his basic assessment of fascism.

But as for the civil unrest.... People have been predicting that for years.

The bootm line is that as long as the media does its propaganda job, and most Americans still have a roof over their heads and food in their bellies, it’s not gonna happen.

While the Tea Party turnouts have been good, let’s face it we make up a small percentage of the population.

And how many even at Tea Parties would be willing to take it to the next level (including violence)?

[The Duke]

I just got in 50 3- and 5- gallon food buckets here, along with mylar bag. Will start filling them next week.

Salt and soap will be good items for bartering if the worst comes to pass (hopefully not).

[Le Chien Rouge]

Enter the fourth turning....exit, stage left, baby boomers.

The next 20 years will be maddening.

Many will survive while many more will fold up like a chair.

Those who are mentally,emotionally,spiritually and physically strong will weather this economic hurricane in one piece.

[Southack]

Debt is deflationary. Accumulate more debt, get more deflation.

Pretty simple.

[Christian_Capitalist]

America is the largest exporter of food in the world. Even in a "Greatest Depression", I don't think anybody's gonna starve (excepting perhaps under extreme natural-disaster conditions which are isolated from relief efforts, or something like that). Other parts of the world might starve, but probably not the one country which grows more food than anywhere else, by far.

Yes, it's not pleasant to imagine being reduced to bread and water, either; but it's better than actual famine, which I don't foresee as very likely without significant Global Cooling. (So shut up about the CO2 level, Algore, we may actually need MORE of the stuff to keep our croplands warm!)

[kabar]

The crux of the problem, Celente argues, is that the middle class has been wiped out. America used to be a land of opportunity for all, where hard-working people could build their own small businesses in their own communities and live prosperous and fulfilling lives. But now a collusion of state and corporate interests that Celente describes as "fascism" have conspired to help only the biggest companies and the richest Americans. This has put a shocking amount of the country's wealth in the hands of a privileged few and left the rest of the country to subsist on chicken-feed wages and low job satisfaction as Wal-Mart "associates" -- or worse.

The answer, Celente says, is to bring back the laws that prevented huge companies from getting so big and powerful, and put some opportunity back in the hands of ordinary people. But doing that is going to take a while. And in the meantime, we're headed for trouble.

One cause of this inequality is that we are importing thru our immigration policies 1.2 million poor people a year. And they help depress wages and add to our welfare burden.

The U.S. adds one international migrant (net) every 36 seconds. Immigrants account for one in 8 U.S. residents, the highest level in more than 80 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history. And by 2050, one in 5 residents of the U.S. will be foreign-born.

[Marty62]

WELL, seems like no one is interested in DOWNSIZING Government.

END EPA,EDU.NEA, INTERIOR.etc etc

[Biggirl]

REMEMBER in November!

[Oldpuppymax]

The fun of the fake recovery is over? Fun? Recovery? Apparently I BLINKED and missed it!

[perchprism]

ping for later

[I am Richard Brandon]

Who hasn't played 'Monopoly' - a game born in the Depression. The way it works - the bigger you get, the bigger you will get. Initially, luck plays a part (cf Microsoft), but later on, Size Matters until you have crushed your opposition; skill - yes, a bit, but above all, Size Matters (c.f Walmart).

You can argue all you want about all those Walmart employees lining up for jobs, but would some of them be either running their own little store or working for a little store if Walmart was not there? Yes, of course. Then the argument changes - look at the low everyday prices! Was that Walmart or was it 'slave labor' in China?

'Soft Fascism', 'Corporate Statism' - yes probably, but so much better than The Left's Communist/Marxist/Leninist (pick your own name) view of perfection. We need a independent, non-aligned Fourth Estate to keep the government under control - that's where the real problem lies.