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5 Things That Will Happen To You When America Goes Bankrupt
Townhall.com ^ | April 12, 2011 | John Hawkins

Posted on 04/12/2011 9:10:41 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: hosepipe
Cloward-Piven explained in a nutshell..

Exactly. Too bad more Americans are not familiar with these '60s Marxist bastards' strategy.

121 posted on 04/12/2011 4:57:46 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: EBH

“I believe most of those resources are already owned by China should we default.”

If you have proof that the criminal politicians used our resources as collateral for bonds, let’s see it.

That is prima facie treason. If that’s the case, the second American Civil War starts now.


122 posted on 04/12/2011 5:30:44 PM PDT by sergeantdave (The democrat party is a seditious organization and must be outlawed)
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To: sergeantdave

A little complicated to follow....but...it will make you think about what I said and its meaning.

here ya’ go: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2009/02/Chinese-Foreign-Investment-Insist-on-Transparency


123 posted on 04/12/2011 6:07:52 PM PDT by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Your mortgage shouldn’t be a problem. Let’s say you have a fixed rate mortgage and pay $1500 a month on it. Well, with hyperinflation and a few paltry cost of living adjustments, you might find yourself earning $1000/hr. Now, given the skyrocketing price of bread, you may have trouble buying food for your family (at a mere $1000/hr, you may not earn enough to buy food) — but that $1500 monthly mortgage payment? Pfffttthh! Not a problem.

Yes, but you or anyone else try to get another mortgage. No can do. There will be no mortgage industry henceforth.

124 posted on 04/12/2011 6:11:58 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: Beelzebubba

we have a HELOC...should we dip into our retirement and pay it off now?..the rate is low...prime rate like 3.25%....we’d take a 10% penalty...


125 posted on 04/12/2011 6:28:13 PM PDT by cherry
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To: All

Best start living frugally now because the future looks painful.

bttt


126 posted on 04/12/2011 6:33:04 PM PDT by betsyross60
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To: Reddy

It would demand that they actually do what needs to be done and what they refuse to do.

LLS


127 posted on 04/12/2011 6:53:06 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: cherry

The HELOC is undoubtedly variable, and what you pay down, you can pull out (like if gold drops to $1200 per ounce).

So treat your HELOC like a savings account. Put cash there unless you have a better place to put it.


128 posted on 04/12/2011 8:16:49 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: cherry

Oh, and DON’T pay OFF your HELOC and close it down. You’re better off having that borrowing power available for a catastrophe (like medical or job loss) than worrying about qualifying for a new loan in a future economy. Even if you have to pay an annual fee.


129 posted on 04/12/2011 8:18:45 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: ClearCase_guy
The Second Republic of the United States may be better than what we have now. It may be worse. But I think it's coming, and I don't think we can avoid it.

I too believe it is inevitable. There is absolutely no way any politician of any party will willingly give up power in order to bring about more Liberty for the citizens. Terrible times lie ahead; be it within a year, two, or ten. It's a certainty.

130 posted on 04/12/2011 9:06:30 PM PDT by sand88
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To: Let_It_Be_So
You could be right, but do you think it is too late to take over Congress and the WH in 2012, pass the Balanced Budget Ammendment to the Constitution in 2013, rally 2/3 of the states to ratify it, say, in 3-4 years, and save the First Republic? The founders gave us the means to fix this mess, so do you think this remedy is in any way feasible, or just wishful thinking?

The powers that be know Obama is their man, they're going to crash the dollar under his watch with his help, he is their useful idiot. Obama thinks that he is ushering in a Marxist Muslim era but the powers that be hate Islam as much as they hate Christianity, they're just using the Islamic world for their benefit for now.

Before the end of 2012, the dollar is crashed in my opinion.

131 posted on 04/13/2011 1:56:20 AM PDT by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: GVnana
OK. Make that, guns and food.

He's wrong, gold will not lose it's value. There have been worse times than hate we are going to go through and gold did just fine. Gold and silver is one's best material hope for not having to participate in the marxist economy that these people are trying to implement. That's the whole point of crashing the dollar, to control people.

132 posted on 04/13/2011 2:05:52 AM PDT by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: RockinRight

Or the idiots who think Trump will save them.


133 posted on 04/13/2011 2:10:20 AM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: Biggirl

Or cw2.


134 posted on 04/13/2011 2:18:49 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (GO TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Partisan Gunslinger

hate = what


135 posted on 04/13/2011 2:19:33 AM PDT by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: ClearCase_guy; umgud
Your mortgage shouldn’t be a problem.

Really? If you refi'd recently, check your mortgage and see if there's an escalator clause in it -- an "inflation" clause.

Bet you two old bottlecaps it's got one in the fine print.

136 posted on 04/13/2011 3:29:14 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: Hoodat
I saw an article here on FR to the effect that, in one recent year (think it was 2008 or 2007) Zimbabwe's stock market went up 12,000%. Unfortunately, inflation went up 100,000%, so stockholders lost about 85% of their equity's value.

So equities don't work in a hyperinflationary economy, either.

137 posted on 04/13/2011 3:36:19 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: pabianice
China could actually stage a benign invasion of the U.S.

What you would see instead would likely be a move by the Usual Suspects (China, Russia, other enemy states) to foment civil war in the U.S. using the Mexicans as catspaws.

They would then bring in a U.N. resolution to break up the U.S. by restraining the U.S. (or trying to) from reestablishing its authority in the Southwest, under the rubric of opposing "ethnic cleansing". They'd:

Something like that.

138 posted on 04/13/2011 4:05:40 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: ThE_RiPpEr.
The Feds are looking for ways to seize retirement plans, IRAs, and 401Ks to finance their deficit spending.

Argentina collapsed in 2001 and confiscated private savings in 2008.

Obama convened a working group (list of names needed) to look at how to do this in the States. Mechanism would be a public law (or decree), seizing your IRA and replacing existing assets with federal (worthless) promissory notes.

The assets would be commingled with Social Security funds (i.e. instantly liquidated and stolen).

139 posted on 04/13/2011 4:10:37 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: prairiebreeze
Depends on your mortgage I’d say. If you have a 4 or 5% fixed rate, I’d hang on to it.

See the post above, which you apparently missed, which predicted that the Fed would move to "protect the system" by allowing banks to change our mortgages from fixed-rate to variable-rate and pumping up the balances, i.e. "adjusting for inflation". The Fed will do whatever it takes to protect the banks and screw you -- hard. Guaranteed.

I got screwed in gold, and the Fed did it to protect the dollar, and their Eurobanker buddies and the Eurobanker buddies' best depositors. Done deal, zip, zam -- screwed!

s/ A Knowing Screwee

140 posted on 04/13/2011 4:16:03 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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