Maybe someone can explain to me why people pay so much attention to the paper price (of gold) being traded by computers, programmed by whoever?
How can anyone have faith in our constantly devalued currency, desperately being propped up by the Plunge Protection Team, or from the constantly twisted & massaged numbers on inflation, employment, and productivity?
As a senior living only on Social Security, I resent the EBT cardholders getting a 4% increase in payments, while we seniors get zilch. We did pay in, and those of us who were self employed paid double that of those getting a paycheck.
Doesn’t anyone see that we are living in a giant bank/FedReserve ponzi scheme ruining the shreds of our once vibrant economy?
How long will our fiat currency last? What will happen when China, and all those other countries stop buying our electronic $? What will happen when they stop buying our paper?
If news reports are correct, they are buying all the gold and silver they can get their hands on, while we clueless frogs, slowly being boiled, fail to notice that most of the world is in an economic mess that hasn’t been seen since early last century. We are lulled by the ever increasing value of the Dow/Jones, failing to realize that it is just the latest tulip mania bubble, dressed up by “Wizard of Oz” cable channel (but corporate approved) news readers.
Most of our production here is the USA is gone to “over there”, and we are now pretending our economy is flourishing because of McDonald’s and Walmart greeters, and taking in each other’s laundry.
Our grandchildren are working at minimum wage jobs, with college debts that they may not ever be able to pay off. They can’t afford to buy houses, appliances, or start families - no wonder, all they can do is line up to buy iPhones and Pads.
And, don’t get me started on health care costs!
I think it is just a matter of time until the increasing complexity of trying to keep our civilization afloat reaches a breaking point, and I share the mood of those elderly relatives you all have mentioned - I weep for my grandchildren, who do not have any skills, knowledge, or mindset - to grow, hunt, can, sew, knit, make soap, knit, repair, carpentry, and so forth and so on.
My only wonder is which sector will devolve the faster - the urban areas or the suburban McMansions. My prediction is that the former will be shooting their neighbors, and the latter their families.
Disgusting that so few can see the oncoming storm of societal collapse, and boy, do I hope I am totally wrong. Please, someone, paint me a believable picture of a way put of this mess.
Having a bad time tonight - the latest disgusting news about how our government is failing at every level only deepens the gloom. I am afraid we only have another 9 months before the SRHTF, and I don’t like the feeling.
Jacquej .. you have expressed yourself so eloquently on this thread that I would be delighted to offer you a complimentary copy of my book “When There is No FEMA”. It provides the type of detailed survival knowledge that you described, so you might find it good to have and/or share with other family members. Just send me a private message if interested, and thank you for taking the time to say that which needs to be said.
And when 9 months comes and the shit hasn’t hit the fan, what then? Do you reconsider your doom and gloomism, or do you just push back the date of inevitable collapse?