Economic doomsday: salesmanship or approaching harsh reality?

[zanshin]

Back in my Construction Mgmt schooling days in college (post-Army '86 or so) we watched a video of a group excavating a landfill, to review how wasteful Americans are in what they throw away rather than recycle. (25 years later, I set out one small plastic bag of trash every week while my "Vote for Obama and Save the Planet" neighbors wheel two big-ass barrels out to the curb. But I digress.)

Anyway, these science-minded individuals dug up a hotdog, and from dates on newspapers in the near vicinity, determined it was close to 12 years old. They sniffed and examined it for harmful decay, and then cooked it and ate it claiming no harmful results. Obviously the moral is: Bury a couple dozen packages of hotdogs in your backyard cuz the preservatives in those things -- and a lack of air -- should make them last forever. (Lips and assholes.)

[Recon133]

If you subscribe this year and we do have a complete economic meltdow like the depression in the 30's, Conquer the Pyramid Package will be out of business. Money won't be worth anything anyway. All the stores will be ransacked by millions of peple, there won't be any thing left to buy. No gas, no food, no clothing, no medicine, no ammo, no guns, just a lot of pissed off, hungry, unarmed anti-gun liberals. Stock up on basics - food, clothing, batteries, water, guns, and ammo.

[Zimmy]

I optimistically hope for America to weather an economic meltdown like she did the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and like the English during the Battle of Britain.

While I prep for us degenerating into a 300,000,000 person Rwanda, I don't see that happening. Not past an initial Get-The-Fuck-Down-Or-Die response nationwide to looting marauders, anyway. That'll also give us time to figure out how to live and whether our gov't gets to keep playing in its current form and style.

Now if a semipermanent grid failure occurs, you better be ready for anything and everything.

[JoBa]

Man I hope none of this crap goes down until after I'm dead. I'm way too old for all this kind of shit. I'm seventy now, well, I will be in December, If y'all could hold off for say another ten or so years, I'd be real appreciative.

Thanks,

-John