Posted on 06/01/2011 12:21:06 PM PDT by Kartographer
These are the worst of all possible times. Just ask any cab driver. The US default and inevitable currency collapse is only the tip of the iceberg. Hyperinflation, or deflation, or stagnation, take your pick. There will be no winners this time; we will all be impoverished by the banking system, slaves to the global elite. Government has never been more corrupt. Businessmen and bankers, never more villainous. Our schools are failing. College is a scam. The environment is being polluted, our children's future traded away in a maze of carbon credits and energy derivatives. Or, on the other side of the coin, environmentalism itself is little more than a clever ploy by cynical capitalists to wring out the last dollar from a foolish public only too eager to trade cash for recycled plastic plates and over-priced vinegar-based solutions branded with little green pine trees. And we are obsessed with distraction, pop culture, celebrity, bread and circuses facilitated by technology and rapid-fire communication, if one can even call it that, rewiring our brains to crave the Pavlovian immediacy of the virtual call and response, Twitter, Facebook, a vast ocean of meaninglessness which crowds out the significant, narrative broken by unbound connectivity and emergent complexity. Nothing makes sense anymore. That's one way to look at it.
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For those who haven’t prepared and would like to start or for those that have and are just interested you may download my Preparedness Manual at:
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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
“...things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.”
I would if I could double my income.
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The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit. - Proverbs 14:8
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee. - Proverbs 2:11
Thanks for this.
Homes in my neighborhood are selling again. I go to the mall and EVERYONE is buying. Now, they've been doing this for two or three years. You say, "they're using credit cards." Really? For three years?
My wife goes in Kohls or Macy's and people are lined up, with (it seems) plenty of money. And, until today, the stock market has been going up pretty steadily.
Explanation?
” Explanation? “
Some parts of the Titanic were not impacted by the iceberg - by your (implied) logic, those parts didn’t sink....
My explanation is that America is stronger and more resilient than many folks think.
Make no mistake. I think we're in for hard times ahead. And it always pays to be prepared and have a good backup plan.
But if we can beat both Hitler and Tojo at the same time, we need not let anything scare us.
It just takes the right leader. And America has a history of having the right leader emerge when crisis is upon us. See my tagline for details.
Someone has to stand on the bridge waiting for FEMA to bring them a blanket, a bottle of water and a MRE so the TV news anchor can have his money shot.
This is a function purely of regulation. Corruption necessarily accompanies the necessity to get leave of a government office to do something. The more such necessity, the more corruption.
BUMP!
Do some detective work and see what those houses are selling for. Not near what they originally sold for.
Those people in the stores you see are the ones with EBT cards, EITC cash and other supplementary income that they can use to buy whimsy’s. They use the government money for staples (at least for what’s leftover that they don’t sell to others for cash).
What’s a gallon of milk cost you? Eggs? Have you seen the price of bacon lately?
The right leader? As in a ‘man’? Putting your faith in man will always bring destruction. This country has turned away from God, especially in the last 40 years or so. HE is the leader this country needs.
In a recession, you do not see people lined up at Kohls. The "they are using credit" works as an explanation once or twice, but not for two years. At some point, the credit cards max out . . . or, they don't because they are getting paid off. My next door neighbor lost his job with J. P. Morgan mortgage. He hasn't changed his lifestyle. He did get a job selling cars---but that can't be doing well.
All I'm saying is, I'll believe we're in a recession when I go to the mall and all the high-dollar stores are empty, or go to P. F. Changs on a Friday night and don't have to wait 45 min.
I travel a lot. Yes, the airlines have cut down the number of routes. But almost all flights I take are full. I don't see the Vegas hotels cutting fantastic deals.
” ll I’m saying is, I’ll believe we’re in a recession when I go to the mall and all the high-dollar stores are empty, or go to P. F. Changs on a Friday night and don’t have to wait 45 min.
I travel a lot. Yes, the airlines have cut down the number of routes. But almost all flights I take are full. I don’t see the Vegas hotels cutting fantastic deals. “
Well, you’re going to believe what you want to believe, but for those who go to Walmart (or Target if we’re feeling particularly ‘rich’) instead of the Malls, and have had to give up restaurants (the kind with tables and silverware and no dollar menu, anyway) altogether - and have to buy gasoline to go to work instead of airline tickets to go to Vegas, there’s a recession on....
Of course they are full if fewer flights are available. It's the most efficient load anyway - why would an airline want to fly a half-empty airplane? Modern automation certainly helps the airline to learn about potential passengers (perhaps from other airlines) and offer them a seat.
"Cheesecake Factory" at the Greens, a high-dollar mall area, is always full.
One potential explanation for seeing people merrily shopping during a recession is that the shopper is maxing out his credit lines.
What is happening today is that the U.S. government is spending 1.6 trillion dollars more each year than they are taking in and the government is maxing out its credit lines.
Where do you suppose that 1.6 trillion dollars is going? How much longer can such money be supplied? What must happen to economic activity if a large portion of the 1.6 trillion dollars stops flowing?
Keep in mind that the U.S. government is not an exception in this matter but is merely behaving as most governments are throughout the world.
Mr. Tell, I appreciate the notion that people are “maxing out credit.” But I’ve heard this explanation now for almost three years. You don’t “max out” credit for three years. Trust me. I used to do it. It’s gone in a few months. With home prices falling, people can’t be taking out money from their houses. So I just don’t buy the hypothesis that consumer spending is the result of a boom in credit. Moreover, credit rates are high as heck, while banks won’t lend to ANYONE. (I have stellar credit and couldn’t get a lousy loan for $50k for my business from Chase, which I dealt with for 30 years).
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