HA! You say that now. How flippant we all are when we are warm and comfortable and sated and our stomachs are full. When our children our safe. When we aren’t living with 14 other people in one home. When we aren’t massed on buses taking a 2 hour ride to go 20 miles to work because we can’t afford to operate our cars. When we aren’t living on rice and beans day after day and can’t remember the last time we enjoyed a dessert.
Yes, you say that now. Ha ha ha ha. “I’ll take my chances”. Right, like you would honestly take a 50/50 chance on being deprived all of the comforts, conveniences, safeguards and essentials that you take for granted daily. Not me, baby! Oh, not me. My father went through a depression and scared the crap out of me with his stories. No thank you, baby! You go right ahead and take your chances. And then you get back to me when you cross your 50th month without a steady paycheck, just very rare odd jobs here and there because NOBODY is hiring. Come my way and if I am still employed and earning a regular measly check, then when you say “Hey buddy, can you spare $20 for a meal, I haven’t eaten in a couple of days”, then I’ll be happy to treat you to one meal. Hopefully a lot more people will be as generous. Hopefully I won’t be one of those begging from need.
Oh, take your chances you will. In a pigs eye, you will. If you knew what many will be in for in the next depression, you would be on your knees praying to God that would not happen. I kid you not.
If you thought the last depression was bad, how will it go for a nation of 350 MILLION people, mostly packed into crowded cities. Just wait until the violence starts. A whole lot of strong, mean, angry people who have been told they were given the short end of the stick all their lives are going to have a field day putting “might makes right” into practice, gleefully taking the spoils of bitterness from the man, and from every segment of society they have been brainwashed to believe are oppressors.
This is going to be stomach turning.
Anybody who thinks a depression can’t happen is ignorant. Anybody who thinks society can’t devolve is badly misinformed. Re-read “Lord of the Flies”. Might come in handy during the upcoming depression — all but guaranteed now by the ignorant masses who are trying to tie the hands of government from even attempting to avert it.
Again, I am not so stupid as to know the bailout will work. I absolutely do not know if it will work. I do know that there is a VERY NARROW window of opportunity before the entire system collapses from panic and screams of NO BAILOUT from 90% of the electorate will guarantee that panic and resulting worldwide financial collapse.
Oh, you’ll take your chances all right...
So long, and thanks for the Depression.
Let me guess...
You’re up late worrying because you’re long LEH and GS and JPM and AIG &etc. and you’re worried about your portfolio.
You poor dear. Have a glass of milk and try to go back to bed.
I’ll stay up and worry for both of us. I’m worried that after working hard and saving and getting out of debt I’m nothing but a big chump who is about to get *SO* screwed by our benevolent government as they inflate away and devalue my hard-earned nest egg.
You really need to use the word “BOOGIEMAN” more in your posts if you’re trying to instill fear in people.
“This is going to be stomach turning.”
At the very least.