The Coming Economic Collapse, Part 2

Seeking Alpha ^ | 6/8/09

[woollyone]

my thoughts

[Bon mots]

America's cities which once housed industry and legions of factory workers now house legions of violent black welfare households - the Democrats great welfare plantation.

Now instead of the city dwellers being paid to work in factories and produce goods, they are simply handed money to produce illegitimate children, which grow up to fill the prisons.

America's cities are now virtually devoid of factories and overflowing with welfare scum. This cannot be fixed in a mere ten years.

Nobody is even identifying the problem, let alone addressing it. Nobody dares mention it. But there it is.

[appleseed]

Thanks for the ping. Every day it seems more and more folks are warning about the free ride coming to an end. Despite all the warnings, Govt. wants to take over healthcare, to hasten our downfall. It gets worse every freakin day.

Self Reliant/Survivalist ping list

[hiredhand]

...the URL points to this FALL... Imagine that!

[ChocChipCookie]

More good news. Every day it just rolls in, along with the shockingly bad decisions made by our President. It’s a train wreck that never ends.

[hiredhand]

This brings up something I was talking about the other day. Yahoo Finance reported (via AP) that during the month of May, the U.S. only lost 345,000 jobs. I went to the U.S. Bureau of Statistics web site which was the SOURCE of the AP article and it reported that the U.S. lost 787,000 jobs during the month of May! They did however mention that during the month of May that the U.S. lost 345,000 fewer jobs than six months ago! The Yahoo/AP article was misleading at best. They tried to say that this was a sign that things might be improving. But to read the source of their article one would never come to this conclusion! In fact, one would come to the opposite conclusion that things were STILL digressing...albeit at a slightly slower rate.

My point isn't to highlight the deceit by the MSM and government. The deceit on the part of both parties should be obvious to everybody except for the most hardened cool aid drinkers by now. My point is that everybody who reads and believes this crap will be terribly disappointed and unprepared when things finally appear to digress rapidly and then fail. To them, it will appear sudden. To those of us who dig into the details of things such as the unemployment statistics mentioned above, we will have seen it coming from afar. People ask me what the value is in knowing. I'm always taken back by this question. The value is that we can offset or obviate completely the effects of less than desirable conditions over which we otherwise have NO control. Even if we can't do anything, we can psychologically prepare, and while this isn't much, it can often mean the difference between living and dying.

The psychological impact will be terrible on the unprepared. People who lack the insight to see through problems are their own worst enemies. They have no hope because they have no insight. They trust entities which let them down, but cover it up until it's simply not possible to cover up any more. Then when the big lie must be revealed, those who were deceived simply can't handle it. They jump off the tops of buildings, shoot themselves, O.D. on drugs, and take themselves out of the gene pool in too many ways to describe here.... while we continue along eating from what we stored, pumping water from wells, shooting rabbits and such...sticking together, and trusting in The Lord.

[autumnraine]

“What are we supposed to do?”

Hang on and stockpile is the only thing I know to do. It may be paranoid, it may sound wacky, but at least I feel like I’m DOING something.

[autumnraine]

“Yahoo Finance reported (via AP) that during the month of May, the U.S. only lost 345,000 jobs”

Actually, the whole report was questionable. According to the actual Labor Report (a Freeper sent me the link, I’ll try to find it), the 345,000 was “non-farm” jobs, but WHOLE LOSS was 787,000.

You mean to tell me the country lost 400,000 plus FARM jobs?

Something isn’t right and the Propaganda Machine is doing it’s job of yelling ‘right’ information to make the Zero look good.

[metmom]

Just start a collection of names of people who want to be pinged whenever you find a thread that deals with this topic and ping them when you see one, or when you post the next in this series.

[metmom]

Which is why I pity anyone living in a city when TSHTF.

That factored in to out decision to purchase a house in a small town in the country years ago.

[metmom]

Are they pushing us towards a totalitarian system because they want to be able to crush public opposition when it becomes completely obvious what they have been doing?

Probably. But they may have more trouble than they expect.

[servantboy777]

ping

[Bon mots]

Which is why I pity anyone living in a city when TSHTF.

I have a sneaking suspicion that in the USA, the "TSHTF" day is coming before this current mess is over.
Record ammunition and firearm sales reveal that others feel the same.

[hiredhand]

You’re correct about the non-farm jobs. I had forgotten about that. Oh it’s questionable all right! It’s the classic problem of trying to make a big lie believable until it simply isn’t possible anymore.

[darth]

I would use fish traps for survival. More fish for less effort. You can sell your excess to the imprudent and improvident.

[FromLori]

Ok thanks!

[tbw2]

We also need real jobs for low skill workers. What else but restless anger if all the high school graduates and drop outs and immigrants with less education have NO work?
Then you have an employed caste and an unemployed caste. Bad idea.

[woollyone]

...and if you begin a ping list, kindly add me to it!

ty!

[metmom]

I was talking to a doctor recently who made some comment about the way things were going these days and he said something about needing to exercise our Second Amendment rights.

I about fell over.

But it’s good to know that there are doctors out there like that. I’ll bet he’s no fan of socialized medicine either.

[Squantos]

No worries I will have the winning lotto numbers by then .....