[mylife]

What we are seeing is a social tend caused by market pressures.

People WILL survive, and they will try to live as best they can while doing it.

[Outlaw Woman]

I'm single (divorced) and have never relied on anyone but me. During this period I've sold guns and other items and as I mentioned family has been a great support. I interviewed for a job a few months back and I saw where I stood...'older' woman...not jumping for joy etc etc. But as you said, we will survive. No TV here...electric/water has gone up 75%...I live like a bat now. But I will survive. If everything collapses it makes no difference, we'll all be in the same boat. Then we can cull the herd.

[kearnyirish2]

“People WILL survive, and they will try to live as best they can while doing it.”

In the meantime, breeding has come to a standstill among those that think about tomorrow (at least in a financial sense); the biggest unpublicized change is that we now have a birthrate that rivals Western Europe’s (at least among American citizens). That is how cultures die; the election of Obama signaled that we are close to the edge. Not a massive bloodletting or anything like that; we have simply morphed into something unrecognizable to someone who lived through WWII.