The point that I am trying to make is that there won't be an uprising. Who are we going to 'uprise' against? Are you going to shoot the local Sheriff? He will be in the same boat as us, no paycheck and no savings. The country will simply be bankrupt.
Secondly, a foreign source of income is likely to be less than useless in a serious meltdown. Doesn’t it make more sense to have a piece of land on which you can find, grow and hunt what you need to eat? They are available all over the country for practically nothing. I have one. Beats the heck out of a foreign source of income! LOL!
Are you going to become a farmer? Having access to a real currency could make you comparatively wealthy. I am just trying to apply lessons that people from those other collapsed countries learned the hard way.
I see what you’re saying, but in my opinion, having everything you need for food, clothing and shelter makes you “relatively wealthy” no matter what. You don’t have to become a farmer to raise enough to eat — it doesn’t take that much time. I guess I’m just not that into being plugged into a system — I would rather just fend for myself. But I realize not everyone thinks that way.
Oh, and since you mention it, there are plenty of good ol’ boys in this area who would just LOVE an excuse to shoot the law, but I live in a fairly lawless part of the country. Again, LOL!