Game Changer: It Will Be Shocking for the Average American: “Your Cost of Living Will Quadruple”

SHTF Plan ^ | 3/9/14 | Mac Slavo

[Kartographer]

It’s no secret that the U.S. government is in serious fiscal trouble. So much so that our Treasury Secretary recently noted that should the debt ceiling fail to be increased, the fall-out would be “catastrophic” and last for generations.

Given that sobering report, consider that everything in America, from food to fuel, is subsidized in one way or another. Those subsidies are being paid with ever-increasing debt. It is inevitable that at some point the world’s reserve currency, the US dollar, will be wiped out. The trigger for such an event is irrelevant. What is relevant, is how average Americans will be affected when that day comes.

[Kartographer]

I'll just put it on my credit card.

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[TADSLOS]

EBT All The Way, Baby!

[Farmer Dean]

Time to stock up on Ramen soup and vienna sausages.

[Kartographer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wPi7FE3vFE

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

$17 trillion is only $1.3 trillion in 1929 dollars.

(The national debt was $17 Billion in 1929 or 75 times less in same dollars.)

[JRandomFreeper]

I don't have over 400 seedlings waiting for the last freeze date so that I can eat ramen noodles.

I don't care if the SHTF. I'm going to eat good food, not canned shlock.

/johnny

[Jonty30]

No, you won’t.

I’ll be using your credit card at that point.

[LostInBayport]

Well, at 40-something I am thankful that I had the chance to live in and enjoy a period of history that will be known as “America before the democrats/liberals/progressive/****les Detroited it”.

[DuncanWaring]

So much so that our Treasury Secretary recently noted that should the debt ceiling fail to be increased, the fall-out would be “catastrophic” and last for generations.

And if the debt ceiling is increased, eventually the fallout will be "catastrophic" and last for generations.

No matter what any person or persons do or don't do, there is "much unpleasantness" that lies ahead.

[Kartographer]

"No, you won’t.

I’ll be using your credit card at that point."

Raise you too: 'I'll be using the proceeds from your kidneys."

[familyop]

"Time to stock up on Ramen soup and vienna sausages."

That comment along with your username got a good laugh here. ;-) With so much salt in it, that junk would probably put some weight on post-TEOTWAWKI, suburban livestock posthaste (suburban livestock: pets).

[Bluebeard16]

Hey don’t be getting down on Detroit!
At least the sheriff there is now telling the citizens to arm themselves.

[mistfree]

Not that I want to be contrarian, however, we have just discovered thru fracking, huge reserves of oil and natural gas. We are not about to go broke. That said this continued spending is irresponsible at best. The interest on our debt could easily consume all the oil reserves and then some if we were to cease being the reserve currency.

[Marcella]

If a man had a gold coin and had no water and I had a glass of water - which is more valuable?

If a man had a house and had no water and I had a glass of water - which is more valuable?

You can say that about a bowl of oatmeal or a Ramen noodle cup - if someone needs food, either of those lowly items are worth more than gold or houses.

[driftdiver]

Its already gone up quite a bit. Even my 21 yr old son has noticed the price of milk. $4.59 a gallon yesterday

[Kartographer]

"Not that I want to be contrarian"

Are you sure that you are a FReeper??

[driftdiver]

Most ramien noodles are crap. We buy ours at a korean store and they are pretty good. We have several boxes of them but tend to go through them fairly quickly.

[dr_lew]

... consider that everything in America, from food to fuel, is subsidized in one way or another.

These "subsidies" consist largely of "tax breaks". So if the federal and state governments were to collapse, it's not as though these enterprises would lose their subsidy!

[Kartographer]

Amen!