Posted on 06/30/2012 8:17:06 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
“Total collapse can’t happen in America because I don’t want it to. Plus, it has never happened before so it can’t happen. I feel warm and fuzzy about our future.” That is called, the “normalcy bias” and will end up killing many Americans when financial depression and inflation take control.
When hyperinflation smacked Germany in the 1920s, Germans carried a bag full of German marks to purchase a loaf of bread. One family took a wheel barrow full of money to the grocery store for their weekly supplies but could not get the wheel barrow through the door. Leaving the wheel barrow full of money at the door, they went into the store to get bags and discovered upon their return, that their wheel barrow had been stolen and the money dumped on the sidewalk! Prices doubled every two days!
By 1923, the highest German banknote denomination was one hundred trillion marks! The German mark was so worthless, they were literally used for wallpaper, and housewives fed banknotes into their stoves because the banknotes burned longer and were less expensive than firewood!
When inflation was at its peak, it took 4 trillion German marks to purchase one U.S. dollar! One of the printing companies submitted a bill of 33 quintillion marks to the German Reich bank for their printing of the German marks!
In 1946, the Hungarian National Bank issued a bank note for 100 quintillion and in July, prices doubled every 15 hours! In 2008, Zimbabwe prices doubled every five days.
Are Americans and Canadians ready for recession, rationing, rebellion, rage, riots, and rampage? We will experience a time of reckoning and reaping what we have sown. Deflation, stagnation, and inflation will probably ravage the world.
This never-before-seen disaster will bring America to her knees which might be exactly what God has planned for us. When the television is turned off, God will get our attention.
No one wants to believe America and the world are on a toboggan slide to destruction where lives will be irrevocably changed forever but I believe it is coming. I do not believe “America’s best days are ahead of us.” The chaos taking place in Greece (bank runs, anarchy, and joblessness), Cyprus, Italy, and Spain will be replayed in America. It’s a fact that “The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain” and it is equally true that “The gain in Spain goes mainly down the drain.” That is obviously happening in the US today.
Few Americans will agree with me since a total financial collapse in America has never happened before. After all, this is America! We always come out on top. We are a special nation in God’s eyes. No worry. Be happy. Turn the television on and hand me a drink.
That attitude is called; “the normalcy bias” and it can kill.
The normalcy bias refers to a mental attitude people have when facing a disaster. It causes people to refuse to admit the evident facts they are facing. Because it has never happened here, it is not going to happen. It makes people close their eyes to approaching disaster and the tragic results. They always take hope in any small possible idea of making it less dangerous and less likely for a disaster to happen. They deceive themselves into an almost euphoric state. Their eyes and minds are closed to any possible danger. Like the ostrich with its head in the sand (not in real life), it becomes more exposed to danger. The progressive steps are deceit, defiance, disaster, and destruction.
This kind of thinking (or non-thinking) has been seen in many disasters when people were ordered to evacuate their homes but refused to do so knowing they were in the path of a storm or fire. In fact, studies reveal that 70% of people call others before deciding to leave the place of danger!
The normalcy bias was obvious in Nazi Germany where the Jews knew that their Jewish friends and neighbors were taken away during the night and never heard from again. They had heard about the concentration camps, but the most civilized, even “Christian” nation in Europe, could not stoop to commit such atrocities on innocent people. About 100,000 Jews left Germany by 1935 but about half a million remained. The atrocities continued to accelerate until it was too late. It was impossible, but it happened.
I am convinced chaos is ahead: riots, race wars, no gas deliveries, no food in the grocery stores (as someone said, “Americans are 15 meals from killing for food.”), utilities available a few hours each day, martial law and suspension of civil rights, mass arrests, gang control of many cities, neighbor fighting neighbor, closed highways, etc.
When governments fail along with the economy, authority disappears and the void is filled with anger, apathy, and anarchy. Get prepared for disaster ahead as much as possible: pay off your bills, put aside some food and water, medicines, tools, and plant a garden. After all when God finished creating the universe, the world, all animals, and man–He planted a garden (Gen.:8)! If God planted a garden, don’t you think we should follow His example?
I can almost hear the run-away “train” coming down the track. Get out of the way!
Pass it on if you agree!
Copyright 2012, Don Boys, Ph.D.
(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives, author of 14 books, frequent guest on television and radio talk shows, and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Three years ago, the second edition of ISLAM: America's Trojan Horse! was published, and his new eBook, The God Haters is available for $9.99 from www.thegodhaters.com. These columns go to newspapers, magazines, television, and radio stations. His other web sites are www.cstnews.com and www.Muslimfact.com. Contact Don for an interview or talk show.)
That's on a good day.
Watch for the stoppage of trucking, especialy trucking to food outlets like Wally world and the major grocery chains. The czars and regulators can halt truck traqffic overnight even with gas and diesel at $2.25 a gallon. When you see the trucks stop rolling for food deliveries, fill your emergency water contianers, because when the coal is halted too, even the water pumps and purification plants will cease to function. Power companies cannot and will not operate as welfare utilities.
$1-1.6 trillion deficit now. Wait til OBamacare fully kicks in and and baby boomers start retiring. Its going to go up to $2 trillion per year. Then bring in universal health care, because the obamacare is going to cause private industry to collapse (too many demand, not enough supply, price set below market value). America can not survive on $3 trillion deficit a year
For your edification, fellas...
I'm betting a cook can do numerical solutions of partial differentials faster than this guy.
Granted, I'm weak on my Greek, and my grandfather berated mom for it. But I've got the Latin and Hebrew.
And the math.
And the engineering.
I despise preachermen that hide behind fake PhDs. On the other hand, the best one I ever knew was a former spooky kind of guy that had a crypto background and a BA.
/johnny
If we keep electing Obozos, collapse can certainly happen.
Is there an non-bozo, O or otherwise on the ballot?
It’s not only trucking. The feds have put a stranglhold on energy production and distribution. They would have to use the military to bring energy distribution completely under their control, and as of late, I wouldn’t put it past them. I’m talking south american style nationalization. if you control energy, you control the country.
well instead of making money yelling the sky is falling the man should do something to prevent it
It always cracks me up that these doom and gloom prophets end 0th advising you to pay off your bills. Lol. Why? borrow as much as you can, invest in hard assets, and pay them off with hyphenated dollars.
Or buy bullets and beans ...
And ignore your debt. In ther world prophesized you ares going to give a damn about your credit rating or bill collectors!
Talk about normalcy bias.
It always cracks me up that these doom and gloom prophets end 0th advising you to pay off your bills. Lol. Why? borrow as much as you can, invest in hard assets, and pay them off with hyphenated dollars.
Or buy bullets and beans ...
And ignore your debt. In ther world prophesized you ares going to give a damn about your credit rating or bill collectors!
Talk about normalcy bias.
well do something
I, however, see the US as toast and the toast gets darker and darker, week by week. I am prepared for whatever happens and I pray to God for deliverance through these times.
This site has a ton of the “cant happen here crowd.” They always show up when something big is happening or when someone is outlining future scenarios where it doesn’t end with America sitting under a rainbow with flower petals falling from the sky. They love to ignore the truth and ridicule those who speak it.
The first major step to federal controls on energy is the failure of the free market (read private industry) to provide the basic necssities. That is the primary job of gevernment regulators run amok as are being positioned by the current fascist in power. Fedzilla moves in whe ‘the sheeple beg for order, beg for controls, beg for re-establishment of ‘essential services’. To get We The People to that point is what we will witness over the next several months. And if little barry bastard commie boy is re-elected through the Soros cheating schemes and stupid voters who want to prevent/withhold a ‘mandate’ landslide from Rominy —thus creating the exact ‘close vote atmosphere in which democrat cheating ALWAYS happens— I am merely suggesting there are signposts which alert the warry to do what they must to survive under extreme conditions. I am prepared to fill my reserve water containers when I see the threat to the electric grid. It will be slower than the trucking stoppage. The trucks will be halted under the guise of terrorist attacks or ‘nukes in trucks criss-crossing Amerika’. We amy even be alerted early by a few emolations of tanker trucks, as terrorists’ acts don’tchaknow.
It's different this time.
How many new IRS agents will Obama hire to enforce ObamaCare taxes?
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