A good post, seek.
I am trying to figure out what to do.
When you figure out what to do, please let me know!
Start stockpiling food until you have about 1 years supply.
Make sure you have a weapon or two or three with a good supply of ammo.
Get a water purifier
Stockpile medicines
purchase some silver and fractional gold and keep cash in the mattress.
If you can afford it install an alternative electrical system.
If you can afford it do all of the above at a retreat outside the city.
Shed the debt, acquire basic necessities, assume there will be a period of up to a year or more wherein you’d rather not rely upon currency.
If your jurisdiction permits it, prepay your property taxes, here you can lock in the current rate and prepay up to five years. That would secure your residence from more grabby governmental excess when they’re really sucking wind on tax receipts.
Befriend your local police authority, become well known in a positive way. If things fall apart for a while, you may end up having la mordita like Mexico for police protection, la mordita is a bribe.
Befriend as many neighbors as you can, create a mutual support and protection network around yourselves.
Take a skills inventory of all in your household and identify those skills that are not just barterable but likely to have some demand in an economic breakdown. Acquire new skills with this thought in mind.
Then, just prepare to ride it out as much as possible, if worse comes to worst. It may not, but things really are pretty bad and have been since late 2007. If we’re lucky we’ll emerge from a depression with our currency and nation intact, but much poorer imho.