Posted on 04/12/2011 9:10:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
LLS
OR the future of the world.
LLS
LLS
We are well on the way.
Well that might be true...but I doubt very many people think any of this is roses or will be...unless of course they are stuck in their normalcy bias.
I believe that a gov’t shutdown would have been far more devastating to the Democrats then the GOP (like it was during Clinton). It would have given laser focus to the real issues.
But what do we get...a government that continues on its current path...literally unscathed. Nothing has changed...they wasted all the time to save 38 billion in the 8 days up to the agreement they spent another 56 billion and everything Obama agreed to was slight of hand.
So are we better off letting the government continue?
two words “Karl Marx”
“.....is for the republicans to refuse to raise the debt ceiling and force the Fed and everyone else into living within their means...”
That would be a good first step!!
The first gallery rep I had was a very nice german woman
who told me her experiences of growing up during the Weimar
period.
She said during the time of hyper inflation she pawned her
fathers gold watch and paid off the family house note.
Great gal, she went to school near Peenemund and the
government used the students to do math problems for
the rocket program.
Very interesting lady.
In 1965 I was getting silver quarters in change...Now they are worth over 7 bucks for their melt value alone.
I don't know about that. In Hitler's case, the German economic collapse was largely due to the outside influence of the WWI reparations payments demanded by the French and the British.
[Side Note: There are those that claim that the US would have moderated this under Wilson, but he was affected by the 1918 Influenza outbreak and was largely incapacitated and ineffective during the critical parts of the reparations discussions. A bit difficult to believe, given the "progressive" tendencies of Wilson, but since the U.S. hadn't been subject to as much pain as our European "partners", there may be some merit to this.]
In the current scenario, any collapse here will be almost entirely our own (read: O-bambi, Senator Undertaker (D-NV) and the Wicked Witch of the West (MB-SF)).
If y’all are expecting any amount of game to survive more than a few weeks, you’re dreaming. Still, if you have gotten that mythical deer, you’ll probably be most likely to share a few meals before it spoils with the guy who’s offering you gold.
I guess it could depend on what you mean by "being held to account".
You never heard of the "Night of the Long Knives"? Kurt von Schleicher? Weimar politicians in exile, some later sent to concentration camps, having their property expropriated? All political parties but the NSDAP banned and their assets confiscated.
You never heard of any of that?
OK. Make that, guns and food.
BTTT.
When you see the dollar replaced as the world’s reserve currency, we’re done.
My fortune cookie the day of the Japanese tsunami reads, "Pleasures await you at the seashore."
We got the media we deserve. By not being concerned with the facts of reality and being ridiculously gullible, we allowed the growth of a corrupt media just like we allowed the growth of a corrupt government. TANSTAAFL.
1) Your life savings could be reduced to nothing almost overnight.
It doesn't have that far to go.
2) Your taxes will skyrocket.
Blood from a turnip.
3) Your life could be in danger.
Of course. Time to hit up Wally World for some more 9mm, and cheap Russian 7.62x39.
When Argentina had its crisis, violence went up 142% and "young men began looting supermarkets."
Surviving in Argentina" (http://ferfal.blogspot.com/). I have Ferfal's book Surviving the Economic Collapse, advice based on experience living through Argentina's crisis. "Cat, the other white meat."
4) Your payments from the government will dramatically decrease or stop altogether.
I expect so. Such as they are.
5) You will have a dramatically reduced standard of living.
"Will" have?
Severe, in this case, would mean no animals left to hunt.
BTTT
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