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Fiscal Armageddon looms and no one in power wants to talk about it. Here’s why you should be afraid
The Hamilton Spectator ^ | May 28, 2024 | Frank Gulustra

Posted on 05/30/2024 6:37:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

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Diana, here: I'll bookmark his column for next week to see if he has any NEW ideas on how to protect ourselves...other than to buy PMs. ;)

"Next week: How to protect yourself for the crisis that’s coming."

1 posted on 05/30/2024 6:37:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

What are PMs?


2 posted on 05/30/2024 6:43:12 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: All

“Seventy six per cent of the U.S. annual budget is made up of nondiscretionary spending and interest costs on the ballooning debt.”

A recipe for success, Right? Ugh!


3 posted on 05/30/2024 6:43:21 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Fido969

Precious Metals. Gold, Silver, Copper, etc.


4 posted on 05/30/2024 6:43:53 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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Likewise for raising taxes on the middle class and God forbid anyone suggests that big corporations should pay their fair share.

Big Corporations hire and employ millions of people. They pay incredible amounts of payroll taxes. Please stop with this BS. The middle class is keeping the country running even though it is shrinking.

The reason why we cannot come up with fiscally responsible solutions is 50+ years of terrible government education.

5 posted on 05/30/2024 6:49:14 AM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Life is great for a junkie while he’s getting his fix.


6 posted on 05/30/2024 6:49:15 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: fwdude

“Eff our grandchildren, Let’s Party!”


7 posted on 05/30/2024 6:50:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

So this is just another add to buy ‘precious metals’ that people can steal from you after the SHTF the first moment you try to barter with it?


8 posted on 05/30/2024 6:53:02 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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I just stated that up front. The article is linked to a site I visit for PM prices. 321.gold

Just wanted to be up-front about it, and that’s why I’m curious to see what his ‘solutions’ are to the problems he stated. :)

I could use some new ideas, even though I own PMs, other investments, land, no debt, etc. Every little bit will help in the coming shiite-storm that’s on the horizon. ;)


9 posted on 05/30/2024 6:59:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Platinum. It's available all over the place on the street if you're willing to work for it,
Author wrote "God forbid anyone suggests that big corporations should pay their fair share." As everybody knows (except the author, it seems), corporations don't pay taxes. Their customers pay taxes. And the notion of "fair share" is ridiculous. It's a rabid leftist term.
10 posted on 05/30/2024 7:03:10 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

If you buy PMs, the government will confiscate them.


11 posted on 05/30/2024 7:03:20 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

But while the larger system may be beyond salvation, there might still be time to safeguard yourself.


There are NO SAFE HARBORS in the coming storm. Though I admit safety is relative, some harbors might be relatively safer, but which ones?

Study the USSR to see what happens when a major world power goes bankrupt.

One thing is sure, you will need family and friends when the storm hits. better yet, a Bible.


12 posted on 05/30/2024 7:04:20 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Hollywood gets all kinds of tax breaks, yet you’ll never see a Democrat say that Hollywood needs to pay “their fair share”.


13 posted on 05/30/2024 7:04:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: z3n

No, it’s for storing the value of your assets (whatever they may be)for the future, if there is one. Gold and silver are valueless if you lack food, water and shelter! Oh, and guns and ammo!


14 posted on 05/30/2024 7:06:59 AM PDT by old school
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Much like the Soviet Union of the 1980s, our Government and elites are trying to maintain a massively bloated government, a global empire, a huge political bureaucracy, and their justifying ideology, with propaganda, surveillance and repression, control - and above all - massive debt and spending of printed, fiat money.

Unlike the Soviet Union of the 1980s, I do not think Americans are so sick-and-tired of the system that everyone will just “let it go.”


15 posted on 05/30/2024 7:09:12 AM PDT by PGR88
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Nothing can be done.

It’s the most difficult conclusion, but it is real.

GDP is pretty much entirely dependent on the government spending more money than tax revenue — and nothing can be done about that other than population reduction.

The way to understand what GOP candidates are the most worthless are those who declare themselves to be fiscal conservatives and who vote for, and then celebrate, some measure that saves $7 billion. They get to point at that and declare themselves fiscal conservatives, when what they really are is Swamp filth.

It is a substance created from nothingness by central banks effortlessly and entirely by whimsy. They will enshroud the process with talk of yield curves and reserve ratios, but the truth is Bernanke exposed reality for all to see, and that’s forever.

Money is a substance created from nothing by decree. It doesn’t HAVE to make any sense. There are no economic laws. Nothing associated with money has to have any logical meaning. Society uses it to ease transfer of food from farm to mouth. That’s more or less it.

So what is the answer? Total upheaval. Total drainage of the Swamp. Destruction of nearly everything.

No politician can run on that policy.

Oh and buying precious metals is failure. It is failure to accept all of the above. You measure things in dollars, you are failing to understand it came from nothingness.

What has value? Calories. Buy farmland, just to get rid of the dollars.


16 posted on 05/30/2024 7:09:30 AM PDT by Owen (.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
LOL thanks for being open about that. I didn't even see the actual ads so I said it in jest.

I'm not saying the article is wrong. Our debt is absurd. I've just been listening to the end of the world is coming so buy our gold commercials since the 1990s and it's hard not to instantly roll my eyes at this point.

I tend to think that we are in the accelerating phases of printing money to use inflation to reduce the relative face value of the debt, but how far that will go and whether it could lead to a collapse is another question. Even during the great depression, and extremely hard as that was on the little people, we still had continuity of government and will still recognized ourselves as who we were.

I'm not raining on the idea of diversifying assets and not putting all your eggs in one basket. I'm just cynical about the sky-is-falling scare tactics. If it gets as bad as all that, we will be in the midst of might-makes-right chaos, and you're going to need a lot more planning than silver coins in coffee can.
17 posted on 05/30/2024 7:10:32 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"Next week: How to protect yourself for the crisis that’s coming."

Buy weapons.

18 posted on 05/30/2024 7:11:20 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

They can’t do it remotely with a keystroke, so that’s a barrier. It would have to be physically taken.


19 posted on 05/30/2024 7:13:07 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Owen

Good advice. I agree. I don’t see a way out of this mess other than the one you stated.

Turn dollars into physical assets. (Land, homes, guns, ammo, reliable vehicles, your own gas pump (j/k), etc.)


20 posted on 05/30/2024 7:14:11 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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