The first shots will occur about 2010.
Fortunately there are many deer, turkeys, squirrels, and rabbits in the woods here in the country. Will not be pretty in the cities when the food can not get in. Time for some more wood in the wood stove.
FWIW-here’s an account of Argetina after their financial crash 2001....all may not be roses rurally.....
http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2079&Itemid=2
But but but.... my Congressman, Andre Carson (Muslim, IN) told me he would make social security “safe for seniors”
Wonder if he will pay my gas and mortgage?
Don’t be so quick to jump to conclusions about what will be, or how fast it will happen.
I remember some wit who proposed that he was secure from any disaster, because he had purchased a whole pallet of ripe tomatoes.
The truth is that even a severe depression doesn’t happen overnight. The stock market crash of 1929 was followed by a year that looked like three separate times there was going to be a recovery. 1930 was tame indeed.
Even during the worst part of the Dust Bowl, when hundreds of thousands of farmers were displaced and hunger was widespread, one of the biggest agricultural problems in the US was overproduction. Wheat was 50 cents a bushel and corn was being burned for fuel. FDR ordered the slaughter of six million pigs, just to stabilize the pork market. Things got a lot better when they figured out how to get the food to the hungry people.
So what does the US have going for it right now? Three things. We have a powerful military. We have an amazing agricultural system. And we have lots of extra housing.
So if you have a place to live, and food to eat, and crime is kept down to a dull roar like usual, this is the bottom line for a “severe depression”.
Not a bad place to start an economic recovery from.
Most of what we will be short of could be called “luxuries”. Health care will no longer be “what we can do”, but “what we can afford to do”, which is still a lot.
There will be a lot less government as well. It will have to get back to just doing what it has to do, not what it wants to do.
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I’m curious about the “out of work minorities” phrase being thrown around regaring mischief.
I’m out of work, but not a minority, at least I don’t really consider a white woman as one. I, myself am not likely to vandalize utilities or private property, however. The only class that should fear me should I become really desperate are elite politicians. They are fair game over this as far as I am concerned.
I think at this point that the pen is mightier than the sword. Perhaps if it comes to this kind of anarchy, archery would be a good fall back in the face of all the liberal banning of guns and ammo. I’d like to see them try to ban trees, stone, metal, leather and birds.
somewhere around 1933 all the gold was confiscated, and it was a crime to have any of it....do you really think that is going to be worthwhile in a depression?
I’m glad I live in an under 30,000 city that is in Appalachia right now.
Ever live by a trailer park in Whiteville?
Kinda where SanFran is headed.
Cool! ... How soon can it happen?
only fools believe this scenario is impossible...
Go ahead, put your head in the sand, hide under the covers.
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This apocalyptic scenario will transpire only if the good people lay down and die — and I, in my inner-city neighborhood, am feeling an air of anger and resolve among my fellow property owners whom are giving signs of having turned the other cheek and fled in fear for the last time. Many, if not most, will stand and fight rather than surrender their homes and businesses to marauding Obamanist scum. They will find out this isn’t Zimbabwe. Live free or die!
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That's funny.
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ping for an interesting read