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 keep hoping that we can hang in there until 2013 and then after Obama is voted out, a new administration can restore confidence and fiscal sanity.
I hadn't eaten in three days. That bad?
never happen....and unfortunately they realize it. Over 30 years the rulers turned it up one degree at a time. Now the pot is at full boil and the frog has been dead for a long time and the rulers are free to do whatever they want with impunity. They don’t even make much effort to conceal the corruption or largess any more.
I have worked until my hands bled. I have gone a week without food. I have hunted and fished just to eat. I have heated my abode with wood in a brutal winter, and had to thaw the water jug to have water. The outhouse...that puts all else in perspective.
I had hoped for more for my grandchildren (still do), but if need be, I can teach them what they need to know if they weren't paying attention.
Let’s hope so...
The day several years ago when Nancy Pelosi sashayed in with her giant gavel and took over as Speaker of the House; and Harry Reid assumed control of the Senate - downhill every day after that. Then, to put the cherry on top of the sundae, Barack Hussein Obama was elected (with the endorsement of John McCain what more could he ask), and then it was disaster. - I recall the years of Republican control as “The Good Old Days”.
Oh well, as Coulter once wrote; the drunken uncle has to be brought out of the closet every few years and allowed to act up so people will be reminded that Uncle Donkey will ALWAYS behave in the same drunken disorderly manner.
Which one?
John Ritter was a much better actor than Obama.
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