Postmortem (Venezuela)

PJ Media ^ | 2-13-2014 | Richard Fernandez

[Kartographer]

That’s a BIG Question. I can tell you what they will do they will run it right up to the edge and then over and never admit anything is wrong, just like they do when anything the government is invovled in fails. You at most will have a couple of days after before everyone realizes what happening and even with ‘tanks’ in the back ground and rolling down the street the spokes people will continue to spew garbage and many is not most won’t even realize its happening.

[MrB]

I’d say it might very well coincide with the event referred to in the verse “no one knows the day or the hour”.

What would cause a total collapse faster than the sudden disappearance of a good portion of those folks that actually work in this economy?

[MrB]

Why is this called a “postmortem”?

The collapse and chaos are not “over” by any means.

[Axenolith]

Historians are puzzeled? It takes 0 time to figure out the problem, for 3000+ years politicians have learned you can ride the power wave promising some the fruits of others labor.

Couple that with a governmental or bank ability to free float the money unit and POOF! No more country...

[Lakeshark]

If you read the article you'll find out......it's a good read, worthwhile.

[caver]

Good article, thanks for posting.

[Kartographer]

Not sure ask the poster or the author, but my guess is the coroner in a hurry to get to his BOL.

[caver]

I live in a town of 40,000 and no one is opening any new stores. At least 10 or 15 have went out in the last 2 years plus Sears and K-Mart are closing in a couple of months.

[SVTCobra03]

I’d say it might very well coincide with the event referred to in the verse “no one knows the day or the hour”.

What would cause a total collapse faster than the sudden disappearance of a good portion of those folks that actually work in this economy?

If the Rapture happens before the SHTF I hope that some Tribulation Saint finds all my preps and puts them to good use.

[dfwgator]

Didn't happen in North Korea when Kim il-Jung assumed room temperature. And Castro has been out of power for a few years,

That's because those are Family Dynasties.

[NTHockey]

>>The question that always puzzles historians about the fall of great and rich countries is: ‘why didn’t they say it coming?’ How did they let disaster sneak up on them?<<

Because man is egotistically stupid.

[blueunicorn6]

Just my personal observation, but it takes four times as long to build something up as it takes to tear it down.

[MrB]

Have to do that later - only so much time waiting on the compiler... :)

[Buckeye McFrog]

in 1960 Detroit was the richest city in the world in per capita income.

My in-laws have home movies they shot in 1960, shortly after they moved to Detroit. It surely was a hoppin' happenin' place.

Could not be a starker contrast from today.

[marron]

Detroit was untouched by the war. Not a bomb fell on it. But years of public education worked their magic. It dismantled the culture and social institutions which once built its factories.

Long article but well worth the read.

[dadfly]

well done. mr fernandez aptly describes the real “hockey stick,” both figurative and literal. ours, of course, is already well nigh poised to strike.

[Trod Upon]

Astute fellow, wasn’t he? Sadly prescient as well.

[Texas Fossil]

Yes.

“That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen.”

—

“The others unfold in succession—they are not seen: it is well for us if they are foreseen.”