Posted on 07/11/2011 2:54:07 PM PDT by blam
Future of America: Harder Than Anything You’ve Experienced In Your Lifetime
Mac Slavo
July 11th, 2011
SHTFplan.com
In February 0f 2009, while on the Glenn Beck show, trend forecaster Gerald Celente was asked to comment on global events and extraordinary times in which we live. His response should have been a wake up call.
[It will be] Like nothing we’ve ever seen in our lifetime or I would say anyone’s life time.
Since then we’ve seen not billions, but trillions upon trillions of dollars committed to bank bailouts, toxic asset purchases, stock market liquidity infusion, so-called job creation programs, tax breaks and mortgage modifications. The Obama administration has taken every opportunity to tout these programs as evidence of success.
On the one hand, we’re told that the recovery, albeit slower than expected, is in full swing. We were also told in late 2008 that this was a recession. Any discussion about the possibility of another Great Depression was taken off the table by government, media and mainstream economists. The idea that America could enter another depression was simply not possible, and anyone who spoke of such thing was a fear mongering pessimist.
Yet, it seems that we were on the very brink of complete melt-down in 2008. So close, in fact, that administration officials now claim the President’s policies are responsible for avoiding the very scenario that was completely denied as a possibility three years ago:
The American economy was falling off the cliff in the fall of ’08 and the first months of this administratio. And he put in place the most creative, the most forceful set of economy measure we have ever done as a country. And because of that, we’ve preented a second Great Depression and the economy has now been growing for more than a year and a half.
-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Meet the Press, July 10, 2011
At the same time Mr. Geithner explains to us how saddling us with trillions more in debt and expanding government intervention into every aspect of our lives has avoided depression, he warns that things are going to remain tough for the average American. His words are eerily reminiscent of Gerald Celente’s 2009 forecast:
I think it’s going to take a long time still. This is a very tough economy. And I think for a lot of people it’s going to be – it’s going to feel very hard, harder than anything they’ve experienced in their lifetime now, for some time to come.
(Click to the site to see a video by Geitner)
The consensus among the experts who didn’t see the 2008 recession until six months after it was official and then told us the economy would be back to normal by 2011 are the same people who are telling us that a Great Depression has been avoided.
As in 2008, the Great Depression debate is off the table.
For those paying attention, however, it should be clear that the next Great Depression was signaled by the 2008 economic and equities market crash, and the last three years of policy initiatives have done nothing to fix the fundamental problems that caused the crisis in the first place.
An argument could be made that things are actually much worse now – on a number of fronts including the economy, jobs, real estate, deficit spending, national debt, and cost of living – than they were three years ago.
If you’ve haven’t guessed, it is very likely that the reason Americans are going to experience times tougher than anything they have experienced in their lifetimes is because our nation is fully engrossed in the next Great Depression. There is no better example of this than then our 21st century version of soup lines:
It’s real. It’s happening right now. Prepare yourself financially, mentally, spiritually, and physically – because it’s only going to get worse.
I can guarantee it's not going to be too difficult for our rulers that have created this mess. They hardly even attempt to conceal the corruption and self enrichment these days.
Are you kidding me? This is ridiculous... I am afraid issue’s like this is going to start ending very violent. I hope not BUT....
Are you kidding me? This is ridiculous... I am afraid issue’s like this is going to start ending very violent. I hope not BUT....
Liberal cattle will be the ones who hurt most of all. If you listen to them you realize just how depressed and hopeless they all feel. Its because they’re told that there is no hope without government.
I always pick my liberal relatives brains and find some interesting insights and occasionally teach a lesson.
They think almost exclusively in terms of rich vs poor and can’t understand how both rich and poor people can live harmoniously in my little town with virtually no crime.
The answer is simple conservative values. I’m happy with what I have and I don’t feel that my wealthier neighbors owe me anything. My wealthier neighbors are happy with what they have and know I’m not taking anything from them.
Its kind of funny that we conservatives achieve the harmony that liberals believe can only come with the help of government equally distributing wealth. All it would take for them to be happy, is to realize that they don’t need equal wealth.
Years ago, I remember some people who purchased a bar & grill down by the river front. There was absolutely nothing else on either side of the property lines (in fact, the east side was formerly the site of the city wastewater plant).
They wanted to tear the building down and build new. For some reason, the city wouldn't give them the permits to do it. So they “remodeled”. They literally built new walls all around the original structure. They then went inside and gutted the place!
The future of the USA; one word for ya......
Americathon.
An otherwise mediocre, forgettable film, however, I checked it out to refresh my memory on wikipedia. Frighteningly enough, it wasn’t so off. On the prescience scale, not as good as “Network”, but not too shabby for a crap film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americathon
Oh, and it’s late here in Germany, so if I don’t respond, it’s because I’m calling it a day.
If anyone finds Americathon as downloadable, let everyone know. It’s not as good as “Idiocracy”, which is a scathing satire of pop culture, but I’d like to see Americathon again. Might as well have a laugh as it all goes to hell.
Agreed. There’s quite a mix of poor and moderately wealthy in my very sparsely populated and remote area, too. Can’t say that most of them are very friendly, but some of us are working on that. Coveting is a waste of time and government resources.
I actually saw it at the drive-in in 1979. I never dreamed we would be living it 32 years later.
Your place is beautiful. Mine is somewhat like Mars, at over 9,000 feet, just east of some peaks, on the CO Rockies. The power grid’s about 3 miles away, there are usually high winds (gusts over 100 during winter), extreme cold most of the year (maybe high 30s at night now), and it’s a very dry place (precip. mostly snow, which can get very deep once in a great while). Building here is a little slow and rough, but it’s an adventure. ;-)
We’re only trying very short season vegetables in the new garden now. The sterile, hard-packed soil will take another year or two to fix up. Some of the vegetables will most likely need to be covered next year (mid-summer hailstorms, winds, freezes, etc.), but we’re going to find out as to which ones first.
We’re prepping and we’re ready. We got food, water and bullets. What more do we need?
Get Ready. The train is rolling into the station. Foreigners who analyze US movements from abroad see this very clearly. It comes up in many of my discussions overseas with foreigners looking objectively at America and its future days.
Don't be unprepared when the human fecal material hits the rapidly-rotating air cooling device.
If you call molten tar with feathers not difficult, then I agree.
“You’d have NO idea of the jerks that sat behind me in the school bus when I was a kid!”
^^^^^^^^^
I was tortured — and I do mean tortured — in public school, so I’ve met the jerks you’re talking about. Hate to tell you, but those kids are now running the country.
Bullies don’t really outgrow being bullies. They just choose certain professions.
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