Posted on 10/01/2007 5:00:49 AM PDT by Renfield
So what was the calamitous disaster that caused the great depression?
Food production wouldn't stop for awhile, but shipment would. Electrical grids may come back on line, but what are you going to plug into them when everything with a circut board is fried.
And by the way, paper productions would cease immediately.
A massive emp attack would look exactly like what was feared about Y2K. If you don't understand what that kind of instantaneous reversion to a pre-industrial society would do to our civilization, I don't know what to say to you.
For starters:
1. A huge stock bubble hedged at cents on the dollar, that dried up liquidity when it burst.
2. A post war Europe that was bankrupt.
3. High tariffs.
4. Poor money management by the treasury which led to deflation.
5. Coinciding natural disasters that decimated the economy of entire regions of the country (read dust bowl).
6. A massive influx of cheap labor that left put natural downward pressure on wages, that grew on itself once unemployment hit 10%.
Food production wouldn't stop for awhile, but shipment would.
No. Trucks would run, trains would switch at site for a while and the snail mail would carry bills and payments, just like the old day.
Electrical grids may come back on line, but what are you going to plug into them when everything with a circut board is fried.
First, an EMP from a 10 kiloton class weapon isn't going to do that kind of damage beyond the immediate area, maybe 20 miles. Let's say its over NYC. Everything of vital importance to the economy is backed up off site on a near real time basis. We'd shut down the NYSE for a few days and then continue. Chances are the secondary markets would already be in heavy action on those stocks by the that time.
A massive emp attack would look exactly like what was feared about Y2K. If you don't understand what that kind of instantaneous reversion to a preindustrial society would do to our civilization, I don't know what to say to you.
You could throw all of the computer boards in the ocean tomorrow and we would not revert to a preindustrial society. Sorry, but my hysteria threshold is too high to buy into your doomsday scenario.
Now if they created an EMP over Russia that led to Pooty Poot launching ICBMs our way, we'd suffer grievous damage.
Just for the record, Western Civilization did not cease to exist during the Great Depression, WW I, WW II, etc.
I think they should be made to rebuild it themselves. And pay us a substantial fee to oversee the construction.
ping
Bring it on, stinky.
Would practically all communications stop? Yes
Would all banking stop? Yes
Would practically all commerce stop? Yes ( until our youths could be taught to make change w/o a computer. :^) )
Would practically all transistorized electronics be destroyed? Yes
Apparently the Heritage Foundation and a blue ribbon commission that had the unfortunate luck to publish their finding on the same day as the 911 commission disagree with you.
You aren't thinking this through. None of those things destroyed a majority of America's infrastructure.
Many people don’t realize how much heavy industry is computerized.
Sure, the tools are largely the same, but the way we control them now is totally dependent on electronics.
Ecc 1:9b.....and there is no new thing under the sun.
Bull$hit, America is great in spite of our fearless leaders, and will rise to ANY threat to our home land. You believe too much what you read on the internet.
BigMack
That's the ironic part; without our infrastructure the threat to our homeland is "us."
All of our cars are governed by computer chips now. What will happen if the cars and trucks won’t run?
Things have slowed a bit in the world of suicide bombings so maybe they've restocked enough so as not to have to choose who gets only 60 virgins instead of the promised 72.
Finally, a convenient handle for the guy.
All good wrestling character names, by the way.
About the only piece of modern technology I can think of that will still work reliably is the guns.
Draw your own conclusions.
You cannot take the human factor out of any of this, especially the American human.
I guarantee that if the cars stop because of tec problems their will be a work around very quickly
I'll go as far to say that in the event of a Armageddon that the American people WILL survive, no body on the face of the earth has more resolve than the American people period.
BigMack
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