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asmith



Joined: 18 Jun 2009

PostPosted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:17 pm    Post subject: Economic Collapse Reply with quote

Well, it's upon us.

http://highfidelityrecords.blogspot.com/2009/10/put-on-those-tin-foil-hats.html

I think I'm going to keep my doom and gloom stuff confined to one thread.
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Joe666



Joined: 19 Nov 2008
Location: Jesus it's hot down here!

PostPosted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do not believe American soldiers would kill their fellow countrymen. I agree that if things get really bad, the civil unrest will be damn ugly all around. I already wrote this exact sentiment on this board about a month ago. I must have been one of asmith's threads.

I really hope it does not come to the point of unrest!!!
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madoka



Joined: 27 Mar 2008

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I've bought a few cases of MREs, some guns/ammo (in case I need more stuff Twisted Evil ), fifty gallons of water, a portable generator, and a portable butane stove. In the coming apocalyse, if I'm going to have to eat dog food, at least it is going to be warm!
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asmith



Joined: 18 Jun 2009

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

madoka wrote:
Well, I've bought a few cases of MREs, some guns/ammo (in case I need more stuff Twisted Evil ), fifty gallons of water, a portable generator, and a portable butane stove. In the coming apocalyse, if I'm going to have to eat dog food, at least it is going to be warm!


Laugh away.

When the former fed chairman declares we'll have double digit unemployment for the next several years, that's scary stuff.

Of course, he's the one who got us into this mess.

Do you think the American people are going to put up with several years of REAL unemployment hovering around 20 percent?

This isn't the Great Depression Era. We are no longer as polite as we used to be.

Many of us are drunk and hopped up on drugs. We also own lots and lots of guns.

Things are going to get ugly.
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Juregen



Joined: 30 May 2006

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The problem with economic collapses is that young men seem to have a lot of time on their hands, so they start using energy protesting and becoming violent instead of creating a revenue stream ......
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aboxofchocolates



Joined: 21 Mar 2008
Location: on your mind

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Canada got by with a 16% unemployment rate for quite a few years. My particular area of the country had nearly 30% unempleyment at one point. Look at us now, full of call centers and walmarts. the US. will be fine.

Oh, and americans will shoot just who they are told to shoot. Propaganda is like that.
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aboxofchocolates



Joined: 21 Mar 2008
Location: on your mind

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Juregen wrote:
The problem with economic collapses is that young men seem to have a lot of time on their hands, so they start using energy protesting and becoming violent instead of creating a revenue stream ......


Point is it can't be done. It's a recession; there is no revenue to make. The reason the (haha) young men are protesting is they are used to the system working for them. They are not part of the standard disenfranchised groups everybody seems to hear as so much white noise these days (you know, minorities, elderly, disabled, non-heterosexual-males, etc- those guys!).

Don’t worry, no one wants the USA to collapse. The economies of all the first world nations have way too much at stake for the US economy to collapse. You might find out what it’s like to be working poor and hungry in your old age, but your state will be fine- just ask the upper-middle classes how well fed everyone is!
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aboxofchocolates



Joined: 21 Mar 2008
Location: on your mind

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zulethe wrote:
As much as I hate asmiths parrot like gloom and doom ad nauseum, there is some good news and bad news.

The good news is that the dollar is tanking so our wages are going to be worth more.

The bad news is that we owe China trillions of dollars and should they decide to ween us (U.S.) off the money nipple the great depression will be here in full force.

This isn't going to happen because of our symbiotic relationship with China.

Hold on to your won until it hits 1000 to the dollar. I guarantee right now it will hit that by the end of the year or early into the new year and then it will vascillate around there.

800 to the dollar is also a real possibility.


That. Sorry if you planned to move that yourself, Zulethe- I'll delete if you do.
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bassist33



Joined: 07 Jul 2009
Location: Mok-dong, Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Asmith, might I recommend Zoloft. Also, I propose that if we do not see an utter collapse of the American economic system by the time you've predicted, that you make a public apology for your constant fear mongering on this board. If we do see a collapse, I will gladly become your henchman and man the machine gun mounted to the top of your sand runner...
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mole



Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Act III

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bassist33 wrote:
Asmith, might I recommend Zoloft. Also, I propose that if we do not see an utter collapse of the American economic system by the time you've predicted, that you make a public apology for your constant fear mongering on this board. If we do see a collapse, I will gladly become your henchman and man the machine gun mounted to the top of your sand runner...

Zoloft is sooooo '90's.
Cymbalta is a bit less ancient.

Do the hustle.
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ThingsComeAround



Joined: 07 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

asmith, have you passed through Baltimore?
Yech! Wink
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Jane



Joined: 01 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We love you asmith!!!

Surprised Very Happy wooooo!
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Deep Thirteen



Joined: 18 Jun 2009
Location: Swamp Land

PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How dare you all doubt the prophet. He's got mad credentials backing him up. Scholars will be decoding his blog a thousand years from now, much like they do today with Nostradamus' quatrains.
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princess



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia

PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

asmith wrote:
madoka wrote:
Well, I've bought a few cases of MREs, some guns/ammo (in case I need more stuff Twisted Evil ), fifty gallons of water, a portable generator, and a portable butane stove. In the coming apocalyse, if I'm going to have to eat dog food, at least it is going to be warm!


Laugh away.

When the former fed chairman declares we'll have double digit unemployment for the next several years, that's scary stuff.

Of course, he's the one who got us into this mess.

Do you think the American people are going to put up with several years of REAL unemployment hovering around 20 percent?

This isn't the Great Depression Era. We are no longer as polite as we used to be.

Many of us are drunk and hopped up on drugs. We also own lots and lots of guns.

Things are going to get ugly.
I'm not so sure about this. It seems to me that most Americans are still in the dark about everything and they tell people to put their tin foil hats on if they speak out. Many are already too brainwashed to see straight. Sad, but true. I think they will line up like the good little sheep and do whatever big brother tells them to do. Already, many people in Massachusetts said they would be OK with wearing a metal tracking bracelet. Americans are scaring me more and more. Shocked
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Gibberish



Joined: 29 Aug 2009

PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nothing is going to happen. Nothing ever happens. Nothing ever changes. Nothing will ever change. Shit will continue forever. This same shit has been happening forever, with people calling for the economic collapse and the brink, but nothing happens.
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