8 Reasons Why The Great Depression Is The Best Case Scenario

Let us look a 8 reasons why the Great Depression is the best case scenario and also look at how difficult the Depression was for people who were far more prepared to deal with a harsh world.

Back during the Depression most of America could feed themselves with farming, now we only know corporate frankenfood. Back then people only knew of real wealth, now we think the digits in our brokerage account in wealth. Back then people had a strong family on community support systems, now we live little lives of narcissism. Back then people had a strong spiritual strength, now we have chemically induced denial. Back then people were of fit body and strong mind, now we are obese and willfully ignorant. Back then people had a classical education to help them figure things out, now we wait for answers. Back then people had a real economy, now we have a consumer/debt economy. Back then people did physical activity for fun, now we have entertainment that turns us in to mental and physical mush.

I suggested inport tariffs on crude oil back in 1986, to do two things: Continue development of our own resources to improve the balance (we produced roughly 40% of our oil then, when the late 70s boom due to the Arab Oil Embargo went bust) and to put some of the severely depressed domestic oil patch back to work (along with myriad associated industries).

My Congress critters (D) would have nothing to do with it.

I sent something similar to the White House and got back a form letter thanking me for my concern about agricultural issues. I guess they looked at the state on the return address and pulled out a likely form letter.

Not only would our government have had the revenue from those tariffs, imposed on imported oil only, and declining with increase in price (when the price is high enough, domestic drilling will occur anyway), but instead of our domestic oil production declining as a percentage of what we use, it might have at least maintained. In addition, we would not have sent enormous sums overseas for energy we could have produced here.

We are in worse shape than ever, having exported billions annually and closed off some of the richest prospects in America to oil drilling, mining, and the timber industry.

Every mine, mill, and well that isn't operating here translates into sending jobs and money elsewhere, along with building infrastructure to support those industries elsewhere.

The losses have been enormous, and we continue to bleed.

FRiend, I have great grandchildren. I'd rather they ask me why I have food stacked in the cellar twenty years from now (and look at me funny when I explain) than have a collapse.

I think this can yet be fixed, but it's going to take some changes, a lot of people getting off their federalized largesses, and some real shifts in attitudes. Without that, we're in trouble.

We're facing watermellon-indoctrinated generations who think the least crumb of dirt will kill them, yet who pick their noses and eat finger food. We're facing millions of able-bodied people who have never worked a day in their life and who threaten us when we balk at supporting them.

We're facing obligations to the generations who built the country we're trying to save, and not all of them voted for the idiots who have led us down the wrong path, many worked hard to keep things on a better course, or this discussion would have been had through handwritten letters to the editor--if at all, a couple of decades ago.

And we're facing a large proportion of a population who think sitting on their arses and wiggling their fingers (like I'm doing now) is work, who have never done 'stoop labor'.

Some things are going to change, and the change isn't going to be pretty--and that's the best case.

I don't look forward to that adjustment, but it's like taking bitter medicine. You don't want to, but things aren't going to get better until you do. So I prepare for the worst, and pray for the best, and pray that God guides us all.

In some ways people who make statements like yours remind me of the liberals who claim people want guns in their homes so that they can kill people.

I see the bit I’ve put aside as being no different than keeping a couple fire extinguisher around the house, a first aide kit in the car or flashlight and a gun next to the bed. I hope to God that I never have to use my gun to kill someone, but at least I have the option and the means to protect myself and my household.

A man has to live with his thoughts and his actions as Smokin’ Joe put it I rather explain to my grandchildren about what I have put up in the pantry than to see them cold and hungry.

But then someone has to stand on the bridge waiting for FEMA to bring them a warm blanket, a MRE and a bottle of water so that the network anchors can have their money shot. Just make sure give a shout out to us FReepers.

“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.

Underestimation can be fatal.”

We watch and measure...plot the trajectory of the collapse, but few people want to hear what we have to say, much less react in a positive way to it. They're so far in debt and have no hope of getting out in a reasonable time frame, that they trudge on... fighting to keep the house they can't afford.... fighting to keep the car they can't afford. The whole time they lie to themselves saying that they worked hard for it and that they deserve it. Working hard is only part of the equation. It doesn't bring good things on it's own. I've known some hard working thieves in my time. But the people I'm talking about never owned anything to start with. A person who doesn't own what they have is relatively easy to take from. They know in their heart that they don't own what they have. They know they're a debtor and they have a debtors disposition. Contrast this with a person who OWNS what they have. Everybody is much less willing to try to take from that person! It's a risky proposition! Debtors are slaves, and they act like it. They're driven by their circumstances and have NO control whatsoever over the outcome. But they got this way because they trusted things in this world instead of God, and we are guaranteed disappointment when we do that...and if we have anything in America right now, it's a lot of disappointment! The truth is that they should downsize radically and change the way they budget and spend. Getting out of debt should be their number one priority! But they won't do it. They have some vain hope that things are going to stay the way they WERE even though things haven't been that way for a couple of years now. These people live in a world that simply doesn't exist any longer. Moreover this, the same mentality that brought the current batch of tyrants into power is still driving politics. They're completely reactive. They react to their own desires instead of a stable, underlying principle. They'll vote for the one who promises what they want... whatever that is.... and they'll resist and fight those who oppose them. We're seeing a good illustration of this now with resistance against the TEA Party.

I actually know people who look me in the eye and tell me that things are getting better. It's like watching water rise into a dwelling. Somehow, they don't perceive it. They think we're quaint because we garden, can food, and keep livestock. I feel bad for people like them because when the situation is simply too terrible to ignore any longer, it will appear to have come on them suddenly, and they won't react well, much less be prepared in any way, shape, or form. Several of these have indicated that they'll come to my place if the doo-doo hits the fan. I just smile to myself when they say this because they're all at least 50 miles away and myself and the others can keep them and many, MANY others away at a distance many times over. Not that this would happen, but I'm reasonably certain that they won't be showing up at my place. They'll go to a FEMA shelter, or some other similar place. That's their mentality. It's why they perceive things the way they do, and we perceive things the way we do. They'll no more show up with us and our types than we will stop doing what we're doing in the face of what's coming. In fact, I have a theory that they'll forget all about our types when FEMA tells them all where to assemble. They won't think about coming to our place, because they'll believe that we will have done the same thing. Yeah... let's see how that works out. :-)

I hate the phrase, because it's considered profane in our language, but it rings true and sums it all up fairly well....

There is some bad shit coming.

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