How to prepare for the end of America (maximum gloom and doom)

e-mail | Sept 20, 2009 | Porter Stansberry

[tiredofreeloaders]

What good is it going to do going to the Bahama’s. Everything they have come’s from here. Going there only makes sense as a jumping off point to go somewhere else.

[B-Chan]

You know, people think that $4 gasoline is a big problem. Well, try $40 or $80 gasoline.

Try gasoline unavailable to ordinary people at any price. "WARNING: This station is closed to the public. Fuel stocks for OFFICIAL USE ONLY. Unauthorized attempts to enter these premises will be met by deadly force. Gen. X.W. Femason, Commanding, Dallas-Fort Worth Emergency Management Region, NORTHCOM."

[MattinNJ]

Thanks-bflr

[The Comedian]

What we should prepare for is the revolution and the thought of MANY traitors swinging from lamp posts

Invest in bulk rope.

[B-Chan]

Even if gold remains legal, it’s likely to be useless for barter. “Got any batteries for trade?”

“Yeah, I got batteries. Got any sterile gauze? Our little girl got hurt during the riots.”

“No gauze, friend, but I’ll swap you this gold Krugerrand for all the batteries you have.”

“Gold? What do I need with gold? I need gauze for my little girl’s bandages. No, thanks.”

[Freddd]

We have both. Too much spending and too much taxes. Ask the companies fleeing overseas why they leave and they will tell you TAXES and too many regulations set by our corrupt congress to make it feasible to stay in the U.S.

Congress is purposefully running America’s business away. You can blame which ever president is in office, but it’s Congress who is doing it. And why? Mostly special interest group lobbyists like the E.P.A., & T. Boone Pickens and his partner Nancy Pelosi and her wall streeter husband...

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Freezing spending at current levels for 2-3 years while actively cutting out old spending that is no longer useful linked with a serious overhaul of US Tax and regulatory policies to focus on consumption taxes in place of income taxes would accomplish the same thing without raising taxes.

Factually correct. If you had a president in the WH who wasn't interested in destroying this nation called America and transforming it into his own Socialist/Fascist Utopia.

0bama and his ilk must be expurgated and a conservative administration installed before the steps you outline will even be considered.

[2111USMC]

for less than a quarter-million dollars, you can still buy a 100-acre working farm in lots of places,

Interesting read until he blows his credibility here. The above statement is absolute B.S. Farmland in Iowa is currently around $5000 per acre.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The government will make it illegal to buy or sell gold.

Furthermore, they will force you to sell yours at a fixed price to the government, as did FDR. Much lower than what you bought it for. Then at an appropriate time, when the price is of gold is higher, they will sell the gold again at a higher price in order to pay for all the crap coming down the pipe today.
It worked once before.

[2banana]

Owning gold to build wealth is a very small window to make worth.

You want society to break down a little so that gold shoots up in value so you can cash it in to buy stuff.

If society breaks down more than a little, gold may still be worth alot but you will not be able to buy anything (nothing in the stores) and more than likely you will have other major issues to deal with (like surviving).

It is a very small window.

[clamper1797]

Though I would not condone the mass execution of “enemies of the revolution” I do believe there are a select group who need to be tried as traitors to America

[Kirkwood]

I lived through Katrina. For about 3 months there was virtually no frozen food and very limited fresh food and meat. Limited types of canned and dry food. You went to stores every day to see what food had come in for that day. Then you stood in line for 1 to 2 hours to pay for it. We didn’t go hungry, but sometimes we ate some weird food.

[STONEWALLS]

“I’d like about 40 acres... 40 acres and a mule, right? But in the meantime, it’s cheap. It doesn’t cost a lot of money. And that way I can get lots of good, fresh, organic produce for my family in the interim.”

.....this is a solution of many who think they’ll prepare for the “end of America”....but if things get that bad there will be little law and order...armed bands of criminal militia(think:bikers)will forage the countryside doing as they please...for protection, people will be forced to band together.....fortified villages will arise just like they did in the dark ages.

......at present I own 27 acres in the country with a spring, a stocked pond and wood fired furnace...I’m isolated at the end of the road...there’s no way I could defend it from an outlaw gang.

[onedoug]

Pray and ammo-up.

[Kirkwood]

“A benevolent government would find a way to make sure that food and fuel — if nothing else — were still available to the general population at something like reasonable prices. “

That’s just wishful thinking.

[volunbeer]

I am sure that was not a fun experience. I asked people to remember what happened after Katrina for a reason. I also ask people to remember that the majority of the population had evacuated.

There will be not be evacuations from our cities so you will have a concentrated population that relies on the government for subsistence.

If any food shortages occur and government services are disrupted there will be riots and looting. Once that happens, most store owners and retail outlets will simply close up shop.

God forbid any of our large cities go “feral” but it certainly could happen based on past history. It will be a good time to live far from metro areas.

[dog breath]

No matter how bad people fear things might get, they have the ability to get worse then expected. In a severe economic crisis governments often require or strongly request private citizens to turn in their privately owned gold. It has happened at least once in this country and recently Thailand comes to mind. The total restriction of movement is another possibility even if they have to blame it on some sort of contagion, civil unrest, terrorism or any excuse for martial law.

[Mr. Jazzy]

1. Buying and OWNING gold could be made illegal, AGAIN.

2. Overseas governments, though attractive now, can change with the blink of an eye.

3. Owning land here in the US (such as a farm) is a great idea, but keep in mind that the TAXES could be changed to astronomical rates as what happened to the south during reconstruction and property was stolen and given to those who were in political favor.

The only REALISTIC goal we as Americans should have is to take the government back and restore the free enterprise system, PERIOD.

[katlynne11]

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[southernnorthcarolina]

The most important sentence in the article, in my opinion:

But we do know that it's almost impossible for democracies to withdraw benefits once they have been offered to the public.

That's a fact. And that's what's going to cause a rapacious desire (which will be characterized as a "need") for ever-increasing tax revenues, even in the face of a shrinking tax base. Taxes on earnings won't be enough. Taxes on spending won't be enough. Taxes on wealth transfers (such as death taxes) won't be enough. We'll soon see more taxes on having: more and bigger property taxes, not only at the state and local levels, but at the federal level -- on your home, on your possessions, on your investment portfolio.

Articles like this seem a little less nutty each year. I'm not at the point of having a pre-arranged quick exit plan from the country in place, but I'm right there with the author in some areas. I firmly believe some gold or other precious metals belong in every portfolio. For me, so far, that's been limited to gold mining shares and gold ETFs, but I'm considering physical gold, too.

And, I'm getting the hell out of town. I'm building 20+ miles from the nearest city -- Charlotte, in my case (click on my name for a construction pic). I'm moving out into the sticks mostly because I prefer hawks, herons and deer to the asphalt jungle, but I can't say it hasn't crossed my mind that I'll be better off there if the §‡∞£ hits the fan.

I think there's at least a 10% chance of a major social upheaval within the next decade -- maybe an economic collapse; urban riots; a major earthquake or other natural disaster; a major, even nuclear, war in the Mideast; a major crop failure; or some combination thereof, possibly rising to the level of interruption of basic services and utilities. I want to be prepared to the extent possible; if that puts me in the kook category, so be it.

I'll have a well and septic field instead of municipal water and sewer; propane delivered by truck rather than by a gas utility; a propane-fired emergency generator in case of an interruption in electric services, so I'll be able to keep my well pumping, my house heated, and my beer cold. Ultimately, I'll be dependent only on my propane supplier, and I plan to keep him on my good side with generous Christmas tips. I'll have a reasonable supply of non-perishable foods, plenty of wine and liquor, a big dog, and maybe a gun or two (I ain't tellin').

I'm hoping for the best, but I'm preparing for the worst.