Shoot, I think the FR community alone could pull us out.
Not without a lot of pain.
A lot of the “economy” could crash. Offhand I think of the whole Dow Jones system, insurance, banking. . .
and people would suffer and die. But I can’t quite believe we’d be all in. We have too much real wealth as individuals in land, food, gold, equipment, and work ethic.
I suppose when weak we could be invaded. A land war we might win. We are personally heavily armed, and have a willingness to fight. Witness flights that terrorists attempt to take over. Not much luck these days.
A nuclear war perhaps we could not win, if we were all messed up with economic disaster and our military fell apart.
I suppose when weak we could be invaded. A land war we might win. We are personally heavily armed, and have a willingness to fight. Witness flights that terrorists attempt to take over. Not much luck these days.
A nuclear war perhaps we could not win, if we were all messed up with economic disaster and our military fell apart.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree. We have too large a percentage of the population that is too removed from our food supplies. What I mean is, consider the results of gas prices jumping up to $10 per gallon...all of a sudden trucking companies can't afford to transport goods...the most important being food.
It wouldn't take more than a week or two at most of disruption to the food supply to bring cities to their knees and rioting to ensue.
And there are lots of ways for that sort of event to transpire other than just gas prices to rise. You already have a huge number of farmers in CA who can't farm because the state has cut off their water supply in favor of some sort of minnow on the endangered species list.
I don't know that I've ever seen the statistic, but I would bet that an unreasonably high number of Americans are living not much off from paycheck to paycheck.