OT NEXT GREAT DEPRESSION..WHAT TO DO?

Say the stock market crashed tomorrow? What would the next step be to go on with life?

No jobs, no cash, maybe no electricity etc. What would you do? Seriously...what would you do for survival?

hang out in my shop and eat a lot less

Boycott the recession.

First thing your going to need is a gun to protect your family and possesions, because when things get bad, they are really going to get bad. Now, I live in an area that has big cities not too awfully far away, and when they run out of money and food there, they are going to go out into the country looking for your stuff.

2nd thing you should have is your own food supply, canned foods and grow a garden.

3rd thing is your own generator so you can make your own power on atleast a limited basis.

I have a feeling the country boys will survive a whole lot better than the city people just because we are more self sufficient. A country boy doesn't think food only comes from a grocery store.

What you do is max out all your credit card to cash, hid the cash and wait for them to "forgive" the credit cards with a bail out.

Well, let's see..... there's deer in the woods, rabbits, too, fish in the lake, taters in the bin, beans in the jar. Got room for some chickens next Spring, if I can get gas, I've got a rototiller and plenty of space to put in more for me and the kids...... They are teachers, probably won't get laid off, but they might need a bit of food. Got locks and a twelve gauge to keep away intruders, got lots of good neighbors and church friends to team up with. 2010 will be my fiftieth high school anniversary, so I wouldn't mind going back to the old home town a bit skinnier(can't do anything about the bald spot, though). Will probably cancel my $55/month cable TV so I won't have to watch CNN, Fox News, MSNBC News and get so worked up about "the second Great Depression. Will also try to remember two things; 85% employment rate during the last depression, and my favorite paraphrase of Psalm 23; "The Lord is my shepherd, I have everything I need."

Ive already have a start.I live off grid -have wind mill, generator Battery storage system. Have own well with static water level at 15 ft so I can use small pump if necessary. We 'can' everything we get a hold of-dont depend on freezer. Raise pasture feed beef and pork-just enough for us. We live 4 miles from town and we are quite comfortable when we are snowed in for a few days.We are well stocked on guns and ammo. Live in an area where deer and turkey abound and a few hundred yards from a nice Lake for fish. Although I would miss my internet.....

I have a hunting cabin so far back on the creek farm, no one would ever find me. Propane cook stove and propane lights. Three years of wood for heat, with wood heating stoves in cabin, farm shop, and home. Water storage with pump running off a 12v battery, charged by solar. Outhouses, generator, canned food, deer, turkey, plenty of guns and ammo. Gold and silver stored in gun safe. Bows, arrows, crossbow, muzzleloader, bullets, gunpowder, 10,000 primers, New and fired brass cases,plus all the reloading equipment.

Did I forget anything? Not trying to brag, this is just the stuff I have accumulated because I like to hunt and farm. Biggest concern would be fighting off those who would swarm the countryside trying to take what you've got.

Simple I would buy up all of the stock that I can find from major companies that are very low. When its all over I will sell it at a very nice profit.
The market always rebounds some times it take a little longer but it always rebounds.
Only suckers sell when its low.
Walt

Get the guns loaded and keep watch.
The Paranoid lemming idiots say the sky is falling and sell their goods at less then what they paid for it. (Foolish!)

It seems to me that there is a big difference between a market crash and a depression.
This current doom and gloom about the market is nothing more than doom and gloom really. The only ones that will actually 'lose' money are the ones tht decide to bail now with the prices down. That, on the other hand, seems to create a great buying oppertunity for those who are likely creating the doom and gloom, which is most likely what this is all about.

The core problem that existed with sub-prime, and the credit crunch it's created will likely be mostly offset by the 700 bil 'package'. That should restore liquidity to the banks, provided this foolishness doesn't lead to a bank run.

There is no doubt a slowdown or recession upon us that won't be good, but I don't see why it has to be very bad IF the doom talk can be brought under control. Two major election campaigns under way in north america right now are not helping. Here in Canada I'm watching the news nightly... and I see Dion and Jacka$s both spouting depression talk and taking cheap shots at the government in hopes of scoring political points by playing on peoples fear when their comments could have real results in generating fear. Both seem to me to be the most irresponsible type of fools that could ever hope to take office. Sitting here, it doesn't look any better to the south...
It seems to me that recessions and depressons are self fulling profecies... based on fear, creating more fear and causing a chain reaction. Chill....

Rod

You can do that right now with Federal Mogeul, Dana Corp, and Delphi. Go out and buy away.

SIMILAR TO GENE MO

I have a 45 acres out in the piney woods. House is setup for natural lighting, propane stove, water heater etc. Recent hurricanes have provided lots of firewood. 2 acre fish pond loaded with catfish and bream. Manage the property for planted pines and wildlife. Lots of canned food every year from garden with fresh game available. Beyond tractors hunting is second passion and set up with plenty of traditional and non-traditional hunting supplies archery, blackpowder, and reloading supplies and equipment.

Did I mention some of this stuff is safe stash underground? Active militia training during the Clinton years forced alot of forward planning not to mention I just love playing in the dirt and I love hunting and fishing.

As others have said the biggest risk is fighting off those who are not prepared.

Off hand I"d suggest not panicing. Then stop making up and telling unrealistic stories which just makes things worse.

I live 35 miles from the nearest Town/City of any size, the majority of my neighbors, friends and relatives would be considered at or under the official poverty level and they would most likely all survive just fine if things really do get bad. Most of the people in Shreveport would be in line screaming for Obammy or Pelosi to make the cruel, greedy, racist Rednecks who have land, equipment and skills take care of them -- I don't think there would be a whole lot of stealing because they would be too lazy to cook the food they stole and to walk any distance to steal it. Remember New Orleans after Katrina -- full grown men standing in the broiling sun on an interstate overpass begging for water, saying no one told them where to go or what to do. The sheeple are already broken in spirit, they will not take care of themselves. This is why the liberals will never really have complete and total control of the rest of us.

BINGO!!!

Together we can make it happen, but only if we all panic at once...

Kinda like the rich people crying cause they lost a few bucks and they are figgern a way to take it off the porrer people to get their stash back, I feel bad for-em .

Where can we make a donation so the government will quit yellin WOLF!!!and the media will quit trying to press the issue?

where do you come up with 85 % employment durning depression. not to start a fued but what I have read itwas higher ,only thing that would have helped I would think is all the people farming but some of them had to work durning dust bowl. Iwas too small but was born and listened and have read about it. Just curious

Stop by old neighbors farm and ask politly if Amish need some extra help. Maybe call old Outlaw buddy and ask where the 1%er rally is going to be. Sharpen knife and check out book on cannibal cooking- lots of fat Liebural nnalert around to feed off. (humor alert-some people need the hint). RN.

The highest unemployment figures I have seen for that time is 24.9% in 1932.

Many Americans are going to do just what the majority of German"s did in 1933. They are looking for a Messiah...a man to deliver them from their woes, real or perceived.

The German"s elected an Austrian madman named Adolf Hitler. History records what he brought to them and the Jews of Europe.

Blind Americans are willing to vote for a man named Barack Hussein Muhammad external_link, forgetting what the nnalert handed us on 9-11. He promises them jobs and prosperity...just like Hitler promised the German people.

God help us all.

Well when it happened before people were a lot better off in a way because lots more of them lived in the country and knew how to get through bad times.This time its hard to say just how bad it would get because it seems to me like theres not a whole lot of people in the city that would make it,the ones that do survive will be mean and mad.What you would have to hope doesnt happen is a nuclear war.Your ammo and canned stuff would get you by a while if you have a cellar to live in for a month or 2,but who knows what it will be like after that on the surface?There would be places that might not even notice,but there would be large chunks of the country where nothing would ever live again,the water would be contaminated,all the livestock dead,it would be unsurvivable.I think it would be safe to say that it wont happen like it did before.You wont want to see all those starving mad unemployed crazy people coming out of the city,you better hope it doesnt happen like that.It will probably look something like Mad Max would be my guess only about 10 times worse.By then there wont be law any more they will all be killed off,the crazy ones will come shooting cattle and you if you try to stop them like a bunch of locusts or grasshoppers devouring everything and eventually each other.They will be young,mean,killers,like an army.It will take an army to stop them.It might even be our own army.Thats why you cant let stupid people run the government.This whole thing is stupid,should never have happened,and will affect our lives for many,many years to come.This will probably end in a world war that goes nuclear,or not.Like somebody said there will be people looking for a Messiah to fix it.external_link is not some nnalert Messiah out to ruin us,I dont think.I think we have had enough of this type of religious/political types running their mouth all the time.It was not always this way,the country went through hard times and got better.People now are so dumb they keep voting for the problem which to an extent is religion in my opinion,since most of those people are misinformed,lied to,and misled,selfish,and corrupt example-John Ashcroft is one of those in my mind,stupid religious jerk trying to naziize our country.It might take a depression for them to quit voting the problem in.Just like when things get bad that it speaks of in the Bible and other books,it is the state of mind of the people that cause the problem.Sure people disagree always will.When they loose sight of whats right,and get greedy,miserly,selfish,and mainly evil,it is just asking for some calamity to happen.The one that does end up happening could be lots of things,could be another planet in our solar system.One that comes close to Earths orbit and pulls the ice sheet off of the south pole and causes a huge flood and kills most everybody,or an ancient nuclear war that big shots know happened when it was Atlantis because the ground was radioactive in Christs time in India.Shepards would take their sheep through,but not spend the night in those ancient places because of radioactive sickness in the shepards and dieing sheep.Its not right to spread fear because of something like nnalert,that doesnt really mean that a Billion nnalert in the world want to go to war with us.There may be a couple hundred thousand that have been brainwashed into believing that.There is far more known about the past if you look for it.The only thing is you have to try and figure out when you are being decieved.Civilization rises and falls.Stupidity is responsible more than any thing else.The knotheads in charge are so worthless after a while they corrupt it until nobody will have it,so they can keep the power,and lie about stuff so people will keep working,supporting them.If you want to fix it,quit supporting them,and things will get better.It takes faith in whats right,not what goes along with the sheeple.I would say we would more likely see big rocks fall out of the sky,or missiles,than a Messiah,I could be wrong,and hope I am,but the way some people talk about that stuff is ignorant.

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could be another planet in our solar system.One that comes close to Earths orbit and pulls the ice sheet off of the south pole and causes a huge flood and kills most everybody,or an ancient nuclear war that big shots know happened when it was Atlantis because the ground was radioactive in Christs time in India.Shepards would take their sheep through,but not spend the night in those ancient places because of radioactive sickness in the shepards and dieing sheep.
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Trucker40. Please write some more of this comedy. The guys here at work are still laughing after reading this last fable.
Radioactive wasteland? Ever hear tell of a couple of Japanese cities being A-Bombed into ashes in 1945?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt on top of ground zero and have been populated cities since.
Doesn't look like a barren wasteland to me.

Whoa now,this is serious.Its true.Tell you what,just Google it and you can probably find it.Zechariah Sitchen is a good starting place.There is a story(you say fable)but how do you know its a fable?It is true even now in India,there are pictures of this city and nobody lives there now and there are places that still have high radioactivity where nobody lives in other places on Earth,some in North America and all over the world.Another thing recently they found more cities under the ocean water on the West coast of India,Turns out the reason it was called a fable was because these cities had not been found,now they have.There is a story about an ancient nuclear war in India.Elephants flying through the air on fire,among other things.Every civilization on Earth since the flood knew about it,even when they find those lost tribes that never saw civilized people before they know about the flood,and it was because of the planet Marduk coming close to Earth and the gravity of the planet Marduk(this also was the name of a god) pulled a bunch of the south polar cap into the ocean and caused the great flood.There is even an ancient map that shows where the bombs fell,the person who dropped thems name,the name of the person he was at war with,why,(that name will amaze you and make you mad after you think about it a while)basically every desert in the world,and since space flight was possible its been confirmed,and this was written way back like 12000 years ago.It was who was called Gods by the Sumerians who lived on the Earth in that time.Gilgameshs story by itself is a lot more along the religious side than a fable if you consider that there were actually Gods living on the Earth during that time,and they actually did have rockets or some flying machine that took off from the Earth and he wanted to go with them,but since he was only a third God they would not take him.Still the only one taken has been Enoch,except for Jesus,yet.Since I found lots more stuff than this(it appears the Jewish and Egyptian religions are very close,and even one has been stolen from the other possibly and both came from something earlier like the Sumerians.Thats just on the surface,the rest of the story gets a lot worse,and a hint is the book of Enoch.People called the Watchers or Nephilm or Sons of God from the planet Marduk(there are other names) that comes into the path of Earth,Mars and I dont know which others.Very interesting story.Zechariah Sitchen and others have lots of books about this and lots of other things that happened,and were written about,and have been translated since they found the Rosetta Stone in Napoleans time which I think was around 1800 at least by 1850,which confirmed things that were already known by Kings and other people who always have been in the know.Old Kings had maps of the Earth that were taken from space, most likely,way before Columbus ever sailed.Even the list of Kings in old Bibles refers to when Kings were on the other planet and kingship was passed to this one,the first Kings name that was passed to Earth was Enlil.In a short hint of the story Enoch is taken by God,where he is taken to is what will blow your mind,heaven and the other place and back,and also to come back again in the future.Yes its all very easy to find,even in your public library,thats where I started looking in the late 1980s.No its not nut case stuff like Nostradamus and other things.Doesnt it seem just a little strange that all of a sudden civilization just happened?After billions of years,and lots of dinosaurs and other critters,suddenly man appeared?Turns out the Genesis story,with a better translation than the ancient one,has a lot of truth in it,but its not just the literal story that is taught now,its got a lot more civilizations involved than the Jews by themselves.Some of those people that were fought and killed by the Jews were actually hybrids that turned evil.Its all in those books,and I might add,the Jewish priests and whatever know this,and have their own books that arent in the Bible,and you can read them if you know what to ask for,that are right up there with books in the Bible now,even Jesus refers to Enoch in the New Testament,dont remember what verse,but its there.These books go right along with all of what I just wrote,every bit of it,and even a lot more that the others dont even get in to.Its hard to take,and it will make you mad once you realize whats been hidden,and the deception thats gone on continuously all the time.Basically the other planet is some different than ours as the people live lots longer,are more advanced,and have been coming here for many thousands of years before they even manufactured man.They did live on the surface of the Earth with man until the flood.There were 2 men types built(just my guess)caveman,then us.For a while both were alive,but the flood got rid of a lot of grief for the Gods,including some giants that were cannibals,that were a mixture of the Sons of God and Earth women,some of who are immortal and in suspended animation somewhere in this solar system(that is even mentioned in Genesis)They almost got rid of man completely,but Enki who is Enlils brother,and responsible for creating man in the first place,told the man who is called Noah by the Jews to build an ark.Yeah,you can find it,just look.If you look and learn fine,I just spent a long time writing this,just for that.If you dont,I dont have time for you to argue,and dont care what you think otherwise,its a lot better than you will get from school or any church I can think of,no agenda other than finding out the truth,and I dont translate languages or write books,I just read them.Its always been there,you just have to look for it,and its not all that funny,unless you are like the people in that movie Idiocracy.

How far off could we be from a depression though, especially six months from now? I've heard talk of double digit unemployment before this is over. Of course it is only 6.1% now if I remember right. That is quite a way from 10%. Any unemployment rate isn't so bad unless you are one of that rate....Stock market has fallen over 30% in one year, so somebody's hurting. Glad I don't put much faith or $$ into stocks.

I have to add this,lots of myths,fables,just plain stories,have at least a part of truth in them.Most of these myths were written way after most of what I wrote about.Even the Bible was written way after what I was writing about.Some people try to claim its a myth,others say its copied from the Egyptians,and I even read somewhere in a religious magazine that that there were other books that you had to read in order to get what was going on in the Bible,some about astrology.Some even think it is based on the reading of the stars,or horoscope type stories that were passed down from stories that were told before writing was invented,Hmmm,seemed like sombody knew more than they were saying in that religious magazine I read that in.Seems like there is a part of Egyptian religion that talks about horoscope type stuff thats older than the Bible.They were right there next to each other,even fought wars with each other,stories written in the Bible about each other,intermarrying,so they are relatives.The Egyptians are older,and have a story that sounds kind of like Jesus only its Horus I think.Esau is another name that fits in translations for Jesus.I even heard one time that was a bad translation,that Esau or something kind of like that is more accurate than Jesus.Hmm,I dont know,but I think something fishy is going on with the story,and that its much older than we are led to believe,and the people involved are more real because they are really Gods,instead of myth.Thats just my opinion,I could be wrong.Then there are stories about the Druids since the Bible times where they talk about somebody like Jesus,dont remember what he was called but he was tied to a tree and thrown in a river(which is a lot like the Egyptian story where he is cut up into 8 pieces and thrown in a river and grows back up in a tree or something)or maybe thats a mixture of both stories,or myths,or something like a way to remember the zodiac,or I dont know.Some day it will probably get figured out,but its a story of resurrection.In the Egyptian Religion/Zodiac,God is the Sphinx,and all he does is wake up and speak the word"Ptah" and all of the universe is begun.In the book of John it says"In the beginning was the word" so that may be what he is talking about,this all probably came from Sumerians,who were from another planet,or knew the ones from another planet.I actually think there is a lot less myth once you throw in the book of Enoch,where it talks of space travel,and once you read it you know it belongs in the Bible actually was for a long time,and kind of makes lots of other things not a myth any more,which opens up a whole world of things to learn about then,not the hogwash you are misled into supporting.Why would an ancient shepherd,in the times of caveman,make up a myth about,and accurately describe,space travel,then end up the only man taken by God so far?Hmmm.Thats why its not in the Bible any more,people said he had to be crazy to think that stuff up,now we know better,but somewhere in some of that stuff written before the flood it talks about God coming to Earth,taking Enoch,blasting off and killing everything for a long ways in a circle around where the ship blasted off from,I think it was a 300 mile radius,and even tells that people were warned to leave the area before the ship blasted off,but those that didnt listen were vaporized with fire.Still think its a myth?Seek and you will find.The stuff Enoch talks about is amazing,will strike you with awe,and even makes you ask more questions,and thats just one of the books omitted from the Bible,obviously for deception purposes.People in the Bible obviously could travel into the future and back again,or it is a myth.Until now,these times,nobody knew you could travel in space.Evil knows lots more than we do if they are immortal,and in suspended animation,and still are evil spirits in the Earth.I read that in Enoch,even in this time have a hard time explaining it in my mind,but its more like a Star Treck episode than the Bible.I just cant see where its a myth.Fairly advanced for a shepherd before the flood,and there are lots more stories,from all over the world,about amazing things that happened to and on the Earth,which was once called Tiamet before Marduks Moon collided with it and tore a big chunk out of it and was captured in our orbit to become our moon,and to make the asteroid belt,and a planet about half the size it was now called Earth,millions of years later visited by Gods from Marduk.Still think its a myth?Think about all that while running your tractor or combine,just dont get a hedge post in it like happened today.Tears the heck out of a rotor and bean head.

Well after all that long winded stuff I looked up Hiroshima and found its not radioactive any more.Huh?I dont know everything,it kind of hinted it was mostly in the air and the wind blew it away right when the bomb was detonated.I was real surprised to find that out.You know I wasnt here when it all happened,I just read this stuff,it could all be a lie for that matter.When you start seeing all of the stuff thats been translated,it starts to look like lots of stuff has been lied about,its hard to pick whats true and whats not.I dont think I would go pitch a tent in that ancient city, though.It wasnt exactly radioactive that it was called,it was something that kind of sounded like it was radioactivity.Whatever happened seemed like they wanted to put lots of dirt on top of it,or maybe dirt piles up like that over thousands of years,I dont know.There are really places that have been destroyed and people still dont live there much,and hardly anything grows there,deserts.Not much explanation for some of them even being where they are,especially when they dig down and find trees and good dirt and who knows what else.Ancient nuclear or worse war does not sound all that far fetched with all the other stuff written about.