A depression is when you loose your job.
Yes. My company, a health-care related firm, laid off eight people yesterday. The parent company made an unprecedented 15% increase in profits the previous quarter. No one knows what's going on. We are contracted to Medicaid... maybe the states (New Jersey is one, Arizona is another) aren't paying their bills on time.
I guess there's unemployment, but who knows how long California can hang on without a bailout? The state has spent itself into bankruptcy, and its bonds are junk status. The voters here passed a proposition for high-speed rail at a $10 billion price tag, but I don't know how the bonds will sell. So I bet it will never even get started -- how dumb to pass a bill for a high tech toy we can't afford!
I have a feeling that the tough times to come will test us all beyond anything we've ever seen. I wonder if we have the intelligence and fortitude to survive. It's not gonna be pretty.
I have a feeling that the tough times to come will test us all beyond anything we’ve ever seen. I wonder if we have the intelligence and fortitude to survive. It’s not gonna be pretty.<<<
What is lacking is knowledge, I know my mid 50’s kids don’t have what it takes to turn off the electric and survive.
If you know there is nothing to eat but beans, you eat them and say a prayer of thanks.
We grew up on beans and cornbread and survived, none of this 8 veges a day charted diets.
Actually they say beans, rice and corn, is a balanced diet, I of course cannot name the building blocks, they are the basics.
The ever present chili pepper in the Mexican diet is the vitamin C that we need.
The shock will be when there are no credit cards and you go to the store with $5.00 for a week.......that is beans or rice, not both.