Don’t be so quick to jump to conclusions about what will be, or how fast it will happen.
I remember some wit who proposed that he was secure from any disaster, because he had purchased a whole pallet of ripe tomatoes.
The truth is that even a severe depression doesn’t happen overnight. The stock market crash of 1929 was followed by a year that looked like three separate times there was going to be a recovery. 1930 was tame indeed.
Even during the worst part of the Dust Bowl, when hundreds of thousands of farmers were displaced and hunger was widespread, one of the biggest agricultural problems in the US was overproduction. Wheat was 50 cents a bushel and corn was being burned for fuel. FDR ordered the slaughter of six million pigs, just to stabilize the pork market. Things got a lot better when they figured out how to get the food to the hungry people.
So what does the US have going for it right now? Three things. We have a powerful military. We have an amazing agricultural system. And we have lots of extra housing.
So if you have a place to live, and food to eat, and crime is kept down to a dull roar like usual, this is the bottom line for a “severe depression”.
Not a bad place to start an economic recovery from.
Most of what we will be short of could be called “luxuries”. Health care will no longer be “what we can do”, but “what we can afford to do”, which is still a lot.
There will be a lot less government as well. It will have to get back to just doing what it has to do, not what it wants to do.
“So if you have a place to live”
This is good only if your mortgage is paid off.
So if you have a place to live, and food to eat, and crime is kept down to a dull roar like usual, this is the bottom line for a “severe depression”.
And what does it have against it?
A population conditioned to expect government help
MASSIVE entitlement mentality from the majority of the population
Lack of moral fortitude that used to be present in America
A full blown communist as a president
A full up gun grabbing AG. Civil Unrest ... turn in your "assault weapons" ... POOF
That's the spark on the powderkeg.
This isn't your great grandpa's Depression. This will be MUCH worse.
One good thing would be to get several books on herbal remedies.
Herbal remedies won't cure everything but they will do more than you might think.
Don't have aspirin? Get some willow bark and make a tea.