Preparing for the next collapse

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

You think our government can keep borrowing trillions of dollars forever, never intending to pay it back?

Money is an illusion, an "human construct", based on the ability of a specie to purchase goods and services, now just a series of entries in a database that mean nothing unless people continue to believe. Sooner, or later, people will figure that out. But in the meantime, who knows how long it can continue?

[웃 910]

You think our government can keep borrowing trillions of dollars forever, never intending to pay it back?

Well if we don't pay it back then it is a problem for the governments that lent us the money

But now that I think about it, how come you are worried about a collapse but then say it will be great if our government shuts down?

[Danno 1,228]

Call me stupid but I don't think the "next collapse" is gonna be as a lot of you guys make it out. Recessions happen in every healthy economy.

Buying canned goods and making sure you have weapons! This sounds very retarded to me.

Sounds like some people have been watching a little too much Glenn Beck.

In my opinion it's far more retarded to do nothing, especially when the basic "something" cost you essentially nothing extra.

If you went out today and bought long lasting food.... food that you eat every day, what do you have to loose, if things turn around and ahead we see only blue skies, go on and chow down on the items that you stored.

As for me, I just buy an extra $25

in groceries every trip or so, no big deal really.

How much you paying for fire insurance on your house.... what are the odds of your house burning down?

[Ban Hammer 13,460]

Buying canned goods and making sure you have weapons! This sounds very retarded to me.

excellent point - one also needs a can opener. probably wouldn't hurt to have a good sized bottle of hoppes #9 too.

[Danno 1,228]

Well if we don't pay it back then it is a problem for the governments that lent us the money

But now that I think about it, how come you are worried about a collapse but then say it will be great if our government shuts down?

A collapse means the motor is seized, shot, destroyed.

A Shutdown is more like a controlled simulation..... except nothing dramatic even gets shut down.

[^_^ 5,021]

A Shutdown is more like a controlled simulation..... except nothing dramatic even gets shut down.

So what you're really saying is you love the drama llama.

[웃 910]

A collapse means the motor is seized, shot, destroyed.

Well it's a good thing we change our oil every 4 years!

[mawilson 2,133]

But now that I think about it, how come you are worried about a collapse but then say it will be great if our government shuts down?

Because the so-called shutdown is not real. If the government

shuts down for real - and by that I mean no border control, no mail,

no FBI, no defense, no checks to retirees and disabled vets,

no Medicare, no Medicaid, no food stamps, no student loans, no ports,

no food inspectors, no drug inspectors, no contagious disease control,

no VA hospitals, no highway funds, no loans to banks - the result

would be catastrophic.

[^_^ 5,021]

Because the so-called shutdown is not real. If the government shuts down for real - and by that I mean no border control, no mail, no FBI, no defense, no checks to retirees and disabled vets, no Medicare, no Medicaid, no food stamps, no student loans, no ports, no food inspectors, no drug inspectors, no contagious disease control, no VA hospitals, no highway funds, no loans to banks - the result would be catastrophic.

Since when is freedom catastrophic?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Since when is freedom catastrophic?

When you can't get your car out of the garage because the power grid failed.

[^_^ 5,021]

You are free to break open the garage door without worrying about pesky neighbors calling the goddamn cops.

[mawilson 2,133]

Well if we don't pay it back then it is a problem for the governments that lent us the money

A large portion of that money (about 40 percent) was not lent to us by foreign governments.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

You are free to break open the garage door without worrying about pesky neighbors calling the goddamn cops.

Not when you are mawilson, and they need the elevator to bring your car down.

[mawilson 2,133]

Since when is freedom catastrophic?

Anarchy ≠ freedom

Just ask the Somalis.

[^_^ 5,021]

Anarchy ≠ freedom

Just ask the Somalis.

It is freedom.

That you don't actually care much for true freedom is another matter altogether.