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What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« on: February 21, 2009, 09:10:35 PM »
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GiveMeFreedom  Donating Member  (62 posts) Sat Feb-21-09 08:34 PM
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What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
   

I am curious and afraid at the same time. Personally, I do not know what will happen.

Will martial law be declared?
How will that work?
Who will be in charge?
What is and will there be anarchy?
What other form of civil unrest can happen?
Will public services, like water treatment, sewer, garbage cease?
What is the best action for people to take if this happens?

These are just questions I have and I am not wishing or hoping for such a thing to happen. I would like to be prepared, though! Just in case and maybe that's like getting baptized in Hey Zeus's name, just in case. Maybe we should discuss a plan of action?

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Stephanie  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Sat Feb-21-09 08:41 PM
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4. Step 1 will be to arrest all those who predict total collapes of the economy followed by martial law
   
Look out your window right now. If you see a black helicopter, go hide in the basement.

Okay. Fess up. Who's been using company property to torment the DUmmies again.  Whale oil for those helicopters is expensive and this sort of waste diverts resources away from the chemtrail spraying budget.

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Anyone hear a helicopter ?

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Vincardog  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-21-09 08:44 PM
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8. IT will not be on TV because there will be no electricity. You will not be able
   
to buy anything in the store because no trucks will be bringing anything to the stores.
The hungry urban people will riot and the cities will burn.
Martial law will be declared but there will not be enough police or military to police the whole country.
There will be no public services:
no public water treatment,
sewers will overflow and garbage will block the streets as the rats run wild.

What to do? Start you garden now. Drill your well and make sure you can operate it with the power you can generate.

Please tell me I'll still get my Free Ponyâ„¢ ?

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18. Socialism or fascism
   
Fascism is more likely - we were virtually there before Barack.

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21. I'll take neither, thank you.
   
Historically, both have almost always involved a centralized, despotic, authoritarian government.

Granted that most people have become conditioned to accept Big Brother/Sister running their lives.

But that may be part of the root cause of what ills us.

Whether Big Brother/Sister wears a socialist hat or a fascist one.

Can I hear a black helicopter...

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leftstreet  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-21-09 09:17 PM
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25. Where has socialism created a 'centralized, despotic, authoritarian government?'

Really ?.  :banghead:
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2009, 09:14:41 PM »
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leftstreet  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-21-09 09:17 PM
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25. Where has socialism created a 'centralized, despotic, authoritarian government?'

Wait... what? Seriously?  :loser: :thatsright: :mental: :bird:
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2009, 09:15:37 PM »
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leftstreet  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-21-09 09:17 PM
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25. Where has socialism created a 'centralized, despotic, authoritarian government?

You gotta be shitting me. 
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2009, 09:18:25 PM »
I read a book about just such a total collapse.

Guess what?

Conseravtives win.

The name of the book is Patriots by James Wesley.
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2009, 11:12:35 PM »
I plan on burning the corpses of liberals in my fireplace to heat my home.
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2009, 11:33:01 PM »
Quote from: Tantal on February 21, 2009, 11:12:35 PM
I plan on burning the corpses of liberals in my fireplace to heat my home.

I am NEVER coming to your place, Tantal.  The stench just on final approach would be absolutely hideous.  I'd have to bathe in dead skunk stench just to make it smell better.
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2009, 12:30:54 AM »
What happens? A buncha DUmmies starve. That's what happens.
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2009, 01:43:55 AM »
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25. Where has socialism created a 'centralized, despotic, authoritarian government?'

Are you naturally that stupid? Or do you have to work at it?
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2009, 03:24:37 AM »
Quote from: Attero Dominatus on February 22, 2009, 01:43:55 AM
Are you naturally that stupid? Or do you have to work at it?

Both. I blame publik skewlz.
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2009, 04:18:06 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on February 21, 2009, 11:33:01 PM
I am NEVER coming to your place, Tantal.  The stench just on final approach would be absolutely hideous.  I'd have to bathe in dead skunk stench just to make it smell better.

Not to mention that the filters in your gas mask would be saturated within minutes (think toxic fumes).
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2009, 04:20:35 AM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on February 22, 2009, 04:18:06 AM
Not to mention that the filters in your gas mask would be saturated within minutes (think toxic fumes).

I think the greater danger would be the narcotic effect of several of the chemicals in the smoke...
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2009, 08:08:34 AM »
I have 115 acres of fields and woods,numerous rifles,plenty of ammo,equipment to work the land....


CC ladies will be invited. :-)
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2009, 08:17:38 AM »
Quote from: Tantal on February 21, 2009, 11:12:35 PM
I plan on burning the corpses of liberals in my fireplace to heat my home.

Recommend using one of those exterior wood furnaces for that.  Don't ask.

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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2009, 09:11:26 AM »
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What happens in a total collapse of the economy?

Simple, DUmmie--you starve, and if you live long enough to get up to my neck of the woods, you get snared and sent to the camps to work the fields.

Next dumbass question?
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2009, 09:36:16 AM »
Isn't it cute how they are making an effort to spell Marshall Law correctly???  :uhsure: :-)
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2009, 09:48:40 AM »
"What happens in a total collapse of the economy?" .....evolution and intelligent design both become facts of life..... DUmmies die off either way.
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #16 on: February 22, 2009, 10:01:41 AM »
In the event of a total economic collapse I start rounding up starving treehuggers to work in my greenhouses.

Since none of them support the 2nd ammendment the cool part is that I will be able to send out my 7 year old with his air rifle to round them up.

Then I sit on the porch in a white suit with a shotgun over my knees fanning my face with a straw hat and drinking Mohitos while a bunch of vegans harvest my spuds.

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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #17 on: February 22, 2009, 11:42:31 AM »
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In the event of a total economic collapse I start rounding up starving treehuggers to work in my greenhouses.

Since none of them support the 2nd ammendment the cool part is that I will be able to send out my 7 year old with his air rifle to round them up.

Then I sit on the porch in a white suit with a shotgun over my knees fanning my face with a straw hat and drinking Mohitos while a bunch of vegans harvest my spuds.

:-)

Make sure you make screaming noises as they pull the potatoes out of the ground.

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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #18 on: February 22, 2009, 12:44:36 PM »
Quote from: asdf2231 on February 22, 2009, 10:01:41 AM
In the event of a total economic collapse I start rounding up starving treehuggers to work in my greenhouses.

Since none of them support the 2nd ammendment the cool part is that I will be able to send out my 7 year old with his air rifle to round them up.

Then I sit on the porch in a white suit with a shotgun over my knees fanning my face with a straw hat and drinking Mohitos while a bunch of vegans harvest my spuds.

:-)

If there's any hot ones, they should be put to "work" "pleasing" . . .

I'd better stop now, so as not to tip my wife off to my plan.  :naughty: :naughty: :naughty:

She knows where the handguns and ammo are, however . . .  :o
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #19 on: February 22, 2009, 12:58:09 PM »
Quote from: Tantal on February 21, 2009, 11:12:35 PM
I plan on burning the corpses of liberals in my fireplace to heat my home.

OH, NO!  PLEASE. DON"T DO IT!

You would render everything in a 10 miles radius from your house as a toxic site.  ALL LIFE within that area would be destroyed, and the surrounding area unfit for habitation!

The enviromental impact would make anything a globull warming activist could claim, no matter how extreme, read like a child's bedtime story!
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #20 on: February 22, 2009, 01:02:40 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on February 21, 2009, 09:18:25 PM
I read a book about just such a total collapse.

Guess what?

Conseravtives win.

The name of the book is Patriots by James Wesley.

I believe that "James Wesley" is "James Wesley Rawles."  I hit SurvivalBlog.com pretty regularly.
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #21 on: February 22, 2009, 01:51:31 PM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on February 22, 2009, 01:02:40 PM
I believe that "James Wesley" is "James Wesley Rawles."  I hit SurvivalBlog.com pretty regularly.

Correct.  Sorry for the confusion.
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #22 on: February 23, 2009, 04:48:02 PM »
Give Me Freedom-

ever heard of the Donner Party??
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #23 on: February 23, 2009, 05:03:03 PM »
Quote from: FGL on February 23, 2009, 04:48:02 PM
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ever heard of the Donner Party??

The ones that ate each other?  Yup.
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Re: What happens in a total collapse of the economy?
« Reply #24 on: February 23, 2009, 05:04:12 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on February 23, 2009, 05:03:03 PM
The ones that ate each other?  Yup.

The country folk will tell their kids about the cannibalism in the big cities during the collapse, so that they don't fall asleep during guard duty
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