The whole worlds economy is a house of cards just waiting for the right zephyr to send it tumbling.
If the present spending continues I don’t see how we can avoid a collapse like that of Argentina ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yerKMQc7-w&feature=grec_index )but on a global scale.
But the market is up you say, yeah it’s up using billions in ‘printed’ money in the hands of corrupted bankers, investors and their cronies. The world is now flooded with fake and faux money. The game is so rigged and now even the ‘house’ is starting to lose.
When the whole thing tanks as it will what do you think the entiled class will do when they can’t get their cell phones, their food stamps and EBT cards, rent vouchers and so forth.
What we will see is a much more violent version of Argentina, something I think much closer to Bosnia. American has become Balkanized and splintered, we no longer share the same basic beliefs we have become pocks of people with little in common with one another.
And many of these pockets are made up of large groups of the entitlement minded and people who believe they are owed much by others and many have already shown that they will use violence to get their due.
I see many many small business wiped out by flash mob looting, and see rape, robbery and murder for murder sake. You will see what I call ‘pocket pogroms’ where ‘yutes’ will think no more about killing those unlike them than most people think about stepping on a roach. That will be the test of many. Most preppers I know are Christian people and they will hesitate to do what they might have to do to stop the ‘yutes’. On the other hand the ‘yutes’ won’t think twice nor lose a minute of sleep, in fact they will smile and laugh about it.
Think of this quote which is one of my favorites:
“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Siege of AR-558 (#7.8)” (1998)
Quark: Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don’t believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.
On top of all who knows how many saboteurs (Islamic, Chinese etc) and sleepers have crossed our borders and are now just waiting to cause havoc.
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For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
Lastly this for the doubters and the scoffers.
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.
Underestimation can be fatal.”
*sigh*. I’m too effing broke to “prep”. I have basic bills I need to pay.
The game is so rigged and now even the ‘house’ is starting to lose.
Exactly!!
People don’t understand or realize that!
All of these promises and contracts are based on interest.
It WAS NOT ENOUGH for the money grubbers to have simple contracts, so they started betting on commodity packages, derivatives, etc.
Now, with hedge funds, they are basically betting on who is gonna go broke first!
It’s gone beyond the ability of a linear or annual percentage increase in the money supply to fix. You can’t feed it fast enough.
It’s truly gotten ridiculous.
If two people walked up to you to buy your house, and one had $150,000 cash, and the other had some equity bond with a face value of $50,000,000,000 which would you take?
Think long and hard. There’s a possibility, maybe even a good chance the bond is in fact worthless.
That amounts to a collapse right there. It just hasn’t trickled down to us peons yet.
If the Crap hits the Fan people are going to worry about Paying their rent? What Lunatic is going to go into a gang infested Neighborhood in Chaos to Collect rent?Food Stamps,who is Going to print them when their homes and families are Being raped and robbed? Do you seriously think there will be anything in the Stores to Purchase with the EBT cards when The SHTF? Listen to your own stupidity.
You Better Board up your doors and windows and Hope you have enought Supplies to last for awhile,not whether you are going to pay the rent or go tho a Store with rampaging armed to the teeth Thugs
I agree in general, but Balkanization had 500 of history behind it. The Balkans is where you've known your 90 year old neighbor your whole life but one day you give her five minutes to pack, then burn down her house. Here the moochers will burn just down the store after they loot it. Then they'll think about burning a neighborhood or two but they'll think twice after a couple of them get shot dead.