We are teetering on the edge. Perhaps a major event could be the trigger such as another large scale muzzie attack on our soil...who knows. The markets melted after 911.
Here we are, trillions further in debt, almost a hundred million working age folks unemployed or under employed. Stock market rubber band stretched so tight, even an imbecile would duck for fear of it snapping.
Don't know bout y’alls neck of the woods, but Houston was named bank/armored car robbery Capitol of the nation. Crime is getting pretty bad down round these parts...no kidding.
I'm with some of y'all....something feels off. Feels like the whole economy is a facade.
What is a facade is the strength of the US dollar and all of the financial institutions.
There are those who are reaping huge profits from all of this QE and deficit spending.
While their profits may be legal, they are not moral or ethical because they are profiting from the borrowing of counterfeit money, and they certainly have nothing to do with free enterprise or Capitalism (big C capitalism, with its rules and risks, though all of those scumbags are small “c” capitalists, like hyenas capitalizing on the lions’ kill). Our monetary and financial industries are closer to economic fascism than any other system.
What remains to be seen is how long the central bankers and socialist government can float this country through a painful stagnation before it completely unravels.
Many pundits compare us to Japan and how they have been floating their economy on QE and BS for 20 years.
What those pundits fail to realize is that Japan had the growing economies (and strong monetary units) of China and the US to float them.
China is beginning to unravel (I predicted this over 10 years ago when it was evident that they were lying about their macro measurements).
The US has run over the cliff and is momentarily suspended above the canyon like Wile E Coyote before he drops.
My tagline here used to be “Prepare for survival.”
I still hold that belief, but the most important aspect of that prepping is to have a location far away from the masses (especially the animals in the cities) and to have a small group of people all working together, prepping, stockpiling, and committed to one another’s survival. You simply won’t survive on your own.
If you look at a map (or Joel Skousen’s “Strategic Relocation”), there aren’t many places that are far enough away from the masses.
If there is a total collapse, tens of millions will starve and be murdered in a very short time.
Truly a bleak scenario.
And it seems that evil is running around like a lunatic causing as much insanity in this country as possible.
Who can doubt that this is the plan that is the culmination of 100 years of Marxist/Communist planning and indoctrination and agitating and suing to so completely rot our heart from within that the body dies?
I’m in the far NW part of Harris County. And crime is increasing here.
As for a meltdown, I’ve been expecting one for years and it hasn’t happened. I’m about to the point of calling some people Chicken Little. I hope I’m right.
Weren’t a lot of people from New Orleans moved to Houston after Katrina?
I think I remember that.