We're Screwed! (Rioting in the streets and devolution to a bartering system)

Fairfield County Weekly ^ | 12/ | Phil Maymin

[thecabal]

The economy would devolve into something like a barter system until they came up with a replacement global currency.

Now that we all know about Cloward-Piven, does anyone doubt that this is one of the goals of the endgame?

[SamiGirl]

I’m with you. My parents escaped the horrors of communism and brought me here to live in peace and freedom. I am not leaving. This is my country.

[SCalGal]

The house they are building looks like something you would see in a gated community, very high end, but it also has solar panels on the roof. Curious.

smart

[concerned about politics]

The key here is to look at a longer range survival package, battening down the hatches, and preserving your wealth and assets during a very difficult time. Once you're through that, you'll have some extraordinary investment opportunities, and I can't tell you what it's going to be like on the other side of this crisis.

During the great depression, everyone lost everything. They stood in line for government beets, lard, and butter flavoring - day, after day, after day. Those who were without debt got to keep what they had, and became the new rich after the depression was over.
Stop spending and save every penny you can. Avoid any type of tax as much as possible, and use the money saved for your own family.
I keep warning people as much as I can, and my posts may be getting annoying, but my husband works with bankers all the time. They talk, and they warned us as soon as Oboma looked like the winning candidate in 2008. They said to get out of debt - now!! That was one year ago.

[ChildOfThe60s]

But you had better really like red beans and rice - for breakfast, lunch, dinner...

Beats the heck out of nothing. Beside, there are black beans, also.

[ClearCase_guy]

I agree. The 1950s were a key decade. The US was strong. We had principles. Men were men. McCarthy told us that the communists were moving against us, but so many people refused to believe him. Then Sputnik came along, and a whole lot of Leftists got very involved in public schools -- working to "improve math and science". And it's all been downhill ever since. We've now gone through several generations in which many kids can't do math, don't understand science, can't read, can't write, don't understand civics, and have contempt for religion.

And here we are.

[soupbone1]

Can you install a hand pump on a well?

I installed a simple pump for my well a couple of years ago and it works fine. You will need to know your well depth, the waters static level, and pipe diameter. All this info should be available from your well driller.

[highlander_UW]

Liberals have long been working to manufacture the coming economic crisis. I am firmly convinced that they have a plan of what they want on the other side of the mess and plan on being the ones to survive the crisis best so they can end up on top permanently. Their thinking is, as usual, flawed, but they are too arrogant to realize it.

[andy58-in-nh]

In my opinion you don't run anywhere. You stand and fight back

Believe me, I'm not planning on running anywhere. The only reasons I go to Costa Rica is because they have great beaches, warm people, and God help me, I love red beans and rice (with loads of habaňero salsa and fried plantains) for breakfast, along with the world's best coffee. Followed by a nice Cuban cigar...

[alicewonders]

This is my country.

Mine too. I won't go down quietly. I'm also looking into getting a couple of rain barrels for an alternative water source. Will be growing a large garden this spring, got a woodstove and a wooded lot. My house and cars are paid for - they won't make a victim out of me.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

If the power is out and you can’t operate the well pump, the pool filtering system isn’t going to be working either. I wouldn’t bank on pool water for very long. Call your local well service and check on a hand pump addition to your electric pump setup. Is it a 2-inch well?

[woodbutcher1963]

The wells could be for geothermal heating/cooling.

[Thermalseeker]

.... but no army (only a national guard) to protect their relative wealth.

There are a lot of retired ex-military moving to Costa Rica I'm told. I know one guy in particular that is a former Green Beret who moved down there about 10 years ago. That might come in handy, but I just don't trust the stability of those little countries down that way. I'm sure Costa Rica is nice, but their neighbor to the north "elected" Daniel Ortega to be President again.

The fight isn't over here yet, though. Too soon to be talking about escaping.....

[mreerm]

several considerations to select the right hand pump...do some research on the web.

i bought a deep well pump from simplepump.com

works in the same casing, right alongside, my existing electric pump

[Psalm 144]

In my opinion you don’t run anywhere. You stand and fight back. Obama and Reid are cowards at best. Bullies are usually are.

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They are finite in number too, and bleed like anyone else.

[dynachrome]

Weimar? I'm ready:

[Erasmus]

I am talking something like you saw with the Weimar Republic of the 1930s.

Just to pick a nit, the Weimar inflation was ca. 1923.

In 1976 I attended a department meeting in whihc an old fellow in the management reminisced about his childhood in Germany during this inflation.

But I must (regretfully) concur with the thesis of the article.

[GOPsterinMA]

Getting off the grid is a excellent (and prudent) move. Hell, use the grant monies that are out there and do it for a deeply reduced cost.

If questioned, the answer is obvious: “We’re going green!”

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Why do you find it curious? The owner sounds smart and prepared ... water and power without public utilities, if need be. Is the doc from the area, and does he know something that you don’t about the public water supply?

[concerned about politics]

Interesting. The whole world is poised to go black market.

Start now. Money is nothing but a unit of trade. Leave money out of it and trade goods and services with your fellow conservatives instead. Keep your money and trade within the conservative base, but sell to everyone else. That way, money and goods come in, and nothing goes back out.
Save your cash for more important things. There's no need to be voluntary slaves for the government. Have faith in your fellow man instead. The nation will become a better place because of it, and it's all legal. Even The Master Oboma himself advocated "community" and "sharing." He didn't say WHO the community had to be or who we had to share with!