Well, there is endless debate and finger pointing here about the economic crisis and who’s to blame etc. etc. etc. yada yada.
I say that is all water under the bridge and won’t truly fix anything.
I have asked this question on other threads, and no one ever answered it.
What would happen if:
Everybody gets up this morning to go to work. It’s not a national or state holiday.
None of the banks open their doors and no ATM’s work, or electronic money transfers.
Think about it. What would happen? How quick?
What would happen if:
Everybody gets up this morning to go to work. It’s not a national or state holiday.
None of the banks open their doors and no ATM’s work, or electronic money transfers.
Think about it. What would happen? How quick?<<<
24 hours, when they sober up.
You and I will do what my friend Mary did, “carry on”.
In the 1930’s, Jay went to open the banks door, they needed money to pay the cotton pickers on their small farm.
The door was locked and and a hand hung a sign in the window that said “This Bank is Closed”.
It was rough on them, one baby died, there was not a choice of foods or medicines available to feed it.
Jay finally had to ask for gov food and was told “NO, not until you eat the cow”......which they needed to keep the other baby alive, as Mary’s diet did allow her to produce milk.
This was Yuma County, in Wellton, Arizona.
Times were difficult, they couldn’t afford to work the fields and would go the mile to the river bottom, cut branches off the Cottonwood trees and feed them to the cow.
On the morning that Jay killed his last chicken and Mary used the last flour, a rancher came and got Jay for a day’s work, paid him one dollar.
And they managed to survive.
My parents were sharecroppers in Texas, the dustbowl hit and there were not crops, they lived on wild gourds and cooked them with dried cow manure.
Then we went to California as fruit tramps.
That is real life.
If it is sudden, it will be as they said it would be in San Diego during the cold war, that there was enough food in the stores and warehouses, that the gov would take instant controll of all food and in time dole it out.
Will it be like Jay and Mary, eat the dog and cat, then talk to us about beans and flour?
It would take an honest gov a month or more, to get/dole out food, if they really tried.
Well, that is the time to remember what Sully (pilot of Flt. 1459)said this morning:
For 42 years of flying I had been making small deposits of knowledge and on that one day I had enough saved up to make a large withdrawal when needed.
Earlier you had questioned what to do when faced with 100 hungry, cold souls. Well, I for one would take them in... Feed them and get them warm and then tell them if that if they were willing to help, there was the opportunity for more food and shelter, but we all had to work for it. (Notice I fed and warmed them first so they wouldn’t be so irrational)
BUT keep in mind, I have 3 very good friends who are my enforcers - Mr. Colt, and Msrs. Smith & Wesson. And they are very persuasive. When needed, they have the ability to reach out and touch someone.
For now, we need to cultivate in others the knowledge accounts and the stockpiles so that they can do the same and then I will only have to take in 98, then 96 and so on till we approach equilibrium - we have a lot of work to do. (grin)