Prepare... try to get yourself food and water independent... if electricity ever fails... and there's no water treatment... and food trucks can't get to grocery stores... just prepare.

Can you remember when all the shopping centers were full? When business owners still believed they could grow their businesses, that tomorrow would be better than today. When did doubt start to replace hope, caution replace optimism. Fear replace confidence

I do agree with the post; however, I would change ONE word. The author states "post-financial"; I would change to "PRE-complete financial collapse". When I first loved Economics 50 years ago, I was taught that Consumer Spending was about 30% GNP; should it ever increase to the point where our GNP is dependent on Consumerism, then the Republic is lost. For the looters and moochers have quietly taken over. Today, 70% of GNP is Consumer Spending; the ONLY reason for Obama to cut SSA withholding by 3% on the worker part was to get Consumer Spending fired and increase the economy. How can we, as a country at all levels, be so mindless. Spending never increases an economy it only permits the looters more control over the money supply by the printing of more mere paper. We will never see this Republic survive; the hole is just too big, the moochers still queuing up, and the Rabbit making it easier to get in line. Last week it was published that For-profit Cancer Centers (you have see the tv ads) no longer accept and even moved out Medicare patients. Why? April 1 started the cuts to providers (producers) that if the whole facility was Medicare, they, the Center, would go broke. I am old now and can no longer produce. So listen to me, you Producers, prepare and get YOUR money hidden from the Looters--that will mean get it out of banks, trusts anything that the government KNOWS about or cannot touch. Looters of this nation cannot touch your money in over 120 places on this earth; the closest being Canadian dollars. Forget gold; get silver in coins. Gold to silver value has always been 16 to 1; today it is more than 25 to 1. Imagine if gold goes to as low as $2000 and silver stays at its price now. The ratio increases; super inflation comes; and silver coin is the only fortune in this country that can be hidden. The Looters can take your land by eminent domain; they can nationalize your company; they can increase your taxes; they can break into your home--all in the name of "the public good" And the American public lost its brain 25 years; some 40 years ago and I fear it shall never be found. The Gulch and freedom and disappearance.

Will the masses come to grips with this reality, or will the painful consequences of 'sticking theirs heads in the sand' be the only wake up call?... Time will tell... Soon...

Well said.

I would call the current time post peak but not post collapse. We are on the down slope heading faster and faster toward the collapse. I'm afraid the "collapse" will be much worse and is yet come.

Rick1217, I think your comments about "Consumer" spending got a bit mixed up. If consumer spending was over 70% that would mean government spending would be below 30% and that would be good. We seem to argree high government spending is bad. But your comment seems to say high consumer spending is bad. I thought high consumer spending was good.

90% will suffocate with their minds occupied by Entertainment Tonight, laugh tracks and "action movies" avoiding "stupid politics", "boring economics" and "overly complicated issues". I think it's the Gulch or nothing.

Folks...Just read don't comment

Tried to send those words via yahoo email to 1 person that I know and I was asked to complete a captcha to help them "fight spam" before I could send it. It stopped me. Never had that happen before. A little spooky folks.