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A Repeat of the Great Depression Is Our Best Case Scenario
SHTF Plan.com ^ | 9/20/11 | Mac Slavo

Posted on 09/20/2011 10:32:40 AM PDT by Kartographer

The mood in the room was definitely that this country is heading towards some kind of collapse, some kind of significant disaster. That everything kind of is lined up and nobody, really, in the political realm, out there in the culture seems to have solutions…

If we look long-term. If we look at the structural problems of the United States, at over $100 Trillion in unfunded liabilities, of ongoing deficits, of no political solutions, of nobody talking about real cuts, where does this all lead?

Unless we have real structural change I think it will [lead to disaster]… Unless you change the approach to government, unless you’re willing to challenge the very notion of what government needs to do, you’re not going to change it in a fundamental way.

…Unless you make a fundamental change in our approach to entitlement, in our approach to government, we can buy time, but we’re not going to change the outcome.

Unless there’s alternatives, unless people come up with real solutions, the crisis could be anywhere from a major economic depression and we learn our lesson and we climb out of it, to what happened to Rome, which really is the dark ages…

…I think we have to remember that…civilizations in human history have declined, they’ve disappeared…Sometimes in human history mankind has gone through long periods of time of just struggling, of it being very hard to survive.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: beprepared; bhoeconomy; depression; getreadyhereitcomes; greatdepression; nobama2012; obama; obamadepression; preparenow; prepperping; shtf; survivalping; tshtf
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To: The Duke

I don’t see why


21 posted on 09/21/2011 7:58:30 AM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: MrB
think about the skills people had then, and the “skills” they have now.

There's the zinger. Most under 50 wouldn't have a clue much past trying to figure out how to get a can of corn opened without electricity. Hate to say it but some over 50 would be scratching their heads as well.

22 posted on 09/21/2011 9:54:50 AM PDT by bgill (There, happy now?)
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To: mamelukesabre
I don’t see why

Wouldn't *you* be upset if you were sitting on trillions of someone else's currency that they were busy devaluing?

23 posted on 09/21/2011 9:54:53 AM PDT by The Duke
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To: The Duke

yes, but I couldn’t do anything about it unless I had a military comparable to that which is owned by the ones who are busy devaluing their currency.


24 posted on 09/21/2011 1:37:54 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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