We are IN a depression,,,WE have lost to many jobs to even think we can rebuild. As unemployment runs out,,,people WILL survive...
PARENTS will find food. WE all will fall victims to total meltdown.
Be ready,,,I'll give us about six months to see it at your door.

If Micky-d's starts closing stores here,,,,,,,,be AFRAID, VERY AFRAID!

How are your local FOOD PANTRIES DOING??
And local churches??? Thats another way to be up on how things are going,wink.. WE CAN'T BE TOLD WHERE IN A DEPRESSION.
The government THINKS we will PANIC,,,,and WE WOULD....But truth is truth..

and what do you propose to do besides panic????

Im just really blown away how a govt can do this to a people.

Ok.......yes jobs are scarce, and people have lost their homes........but you guys have brains.

Think about it.......world economy.....ruled by govt and the black market and banks........take that away and what have you got???


People!!! Me......and you........helping each other.

Wow, you must have believed in the Y2K theory as well.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

God helps those that help themselves.

Survivors..........SURVIVE

I've put in 14 fruit trees, pear, peach, nectarine, figs. My chickens are going strong, eggs every day. 4 hogs I can butcher, my animal traps all active.
My neighbor doubled his veg. garden. We share.
Cable, elect., and water are paid.
If someone actually comes by hungry, they can work for food.
This is when I thank God for abusive parents, seriously, and the military.
I learned how to be a survivor.

The Next Big Thing: Barter



The signs are everywhere: Barter is going to be big.

For example:

A helicopter-skiing company is offering barter in exchange for stock in tanking companies:
http://www.tlhheliskiing.com/content/stockrollback.php

You can barter with a lawyer for legal services:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=barter+%22legal+services%22&btnG=Search

There’s an informational webpage on how to barter for daycare services:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4712203_use-daycare-barter-trade-exchange.html

General contractors are offering their services for barter:
http://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fsfbay.craigslist.org%2Feby%2Fbar%2F1030272349.html&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

A professional writer will - for barter - write your love letters:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=barter+for+love+letter&btnG=Search



Indeed, the Wall Street Journal just wrote an article entitled “Barter Fits the Bill for Strapped Firms“, which states:

As small businesses find it impossible to borrow money and customers are slower to pay bills, the barter economy is becoming a crucial way for many companies to find the cash they need to keep operating.***

In 2008, about 250,000 North American companies conducted barter transactions worth more than $16 billion, according to the International Reciprocal Trade Association, a nonprofit based in Portsmouth, Va., that regulates and provides standards for modern trade and barter-service companies.

And given the worsening depression, and the prospect of a devalued dollar, barter might become essential in the future. For example, a respected economist is recommending buying gold and bottles of booze to barter once bailout-induced hyperinflation makes the dollar worthless.

I have news for you.

The government didn't do this to us we did it to ourselves.

7.6 % unemployment, where we are now, is not a depression.

Unemployment in the 20 % range is.

Wasnt it Reagan the shifted the way those numbers we figured? Florida is at 10% but am told if it was figured the same way as it was in the Great Depression we would be some where around 16-18%!! Not far off of those depression numbers. If Im wrong please correct me. I like to learn!!!!!!

Ive never heard that.
During the Great Depression unemployment was around 28% for years..........

I put it out there to find out....

you see why I am teaching myself how to make bread?

This is why Angel Food Ministries is helpful for large families. I go out and buy $100 in food and feed my dad's family of 6 for a couple weeks. (they give you about $200 worth for that $100 it's enough food to feed a family of 4 for a week, just one box which is normally about $30 but you get about $50 in food)

This is also why I have started training myself to enjoy the strangely sweet taste of shelf stable milk and have storage containers filled with non-perishables and I continue to rent my apartment with a working fireplace in case the electricity goes out, etc.


However, it is up to us as human beings to help out our fellow mankind.

Without each other, we would have never made it out of the first Depression.

Learn to use a sewing machine. I crochet and sew and wouldn't mind learning to knit.

Learn useful crafts you can use to trade for other things you might need.

Be resourceful.

AND STOP PANICKING.

GREAT POST!!! No panic here I saw this coming 2 years ago. I think we need to hit bottom and quit pushing more paper into the system. Doing that will only make the bottom that much more painful for all. I have a freezer full of fish, a big garden and neighbors who came together to buy things in bulk so we all save. I think what we are going to create is mega-inflation with a jobless economy..JMO

Stop freaking out..

When Ronald Reagan took office there was double digit unemployment(not today)....double digit inflation(not today)...and double digit interest rates...remember when a 16% home mortgage was considered a good rate????.....None of this is as bad as 1980...