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I think and hope the entire economy will not fall to the great Depression levels but I hope all my stocking and prepping has helped.
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So many people trying to live far beyond their means with the over use of credit has caused many of the problems with the worldwide economy.
I have been using eBay and PayPal for 12 years now and as I have a perfect payment record I keep getting better credit offers all the time for buy now and pay later.
Buy now and pay later can cost far more then just money in the long run.
What keeps the world spinning is the "little people" that do the work for those that provide the credit and possible dreams.
Much like the company store in the past where by the time you got your pay you owed more then you made.
I realize that the talk of credit and debt are not a popular topic as the use of credit has become a part of normal everyday life for most.
I have always viewed credit cards as the cheese in the trap. The trap isn't meant to kill, just keep you on a chain or within a fence.
These daze it's hard enough making a comfortable living even without the chain or fence of the credit trap.
The smaller folks working together in forums such as this keeps things moving along as best can be.
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I watched that movie the other night. I have seen it a few times in the past. It is a very funny movie.Originally Posted by hobo finds
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First to Olddude - It's all good. If everyone agreed with me, life sure would be boring.I'm in no way trying to excuse our current President, or get into a debate on him. I just thought it was amusing in a sad kind of way, that being President literally puts you in that proverbial "****ed if you do, ****ed if you dont" place. An in the end..nobody likes anything you did till your dead! What a crummy job. Heh.
Far as everything else....
I agree it's a different country. My view on that is simple. What do you(General yous) expect when for the last 20 or so years, politicians having been deploying a divide an conquer plan. They divide us on things knowing the chaos it will cause an the only ones who benefit are Politicians, an Big Business.
They have us divided on everything from race, an religion to personal choices. We can't even agree to disagree with folks anymore without it becoming a name calling fest, or saying one is less American then the other. Craziness. (SMF is of course excluded, as most you folks are pretty good when it comes to such topics.)
So yes..I choose to view the world in a positive light. If I didn't..I'd go crazy. Great if others wouldn't, I guess they're just better then me.
You can read this post how you like. I'm by no means Naive or foolish. I'm well prepared for the world to go to hell. An when it does, I'll still be me, an looking on the bright side. After all, it could be worse. I could be dead. Ha!
All you's are general, an no way directed at anyone specific. On my blurb up top was to anyone specifically. An Olddude is awesome, even if he doesn't always agree with me.
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No, I think we are the same America we were 50 years ago. All of the "sins" of today existed back then as well, heck all the way back to the founding of this country. The major difference is with the internet and 24 hour news nothing is off limits and everything gets told one way or the other. 50-100 years a it was easy to cover things up by asking the papers not to print it in the news. People make a huge deal about a black president these days but even now a cripple like FDR would NEVER get to be president let alone get 4 terms. Wars for economic gain of the few date back well before the banana republics we invaded, taking over the Philipines in a war with Spain that was caused by the sinking on the battleship Maine in Cuba (blamed on Spain but was proven to be a ship design flaw).
We would be much better off looking deeper into what makes this country work and what needs fixed then sticking our heads in the sand and yelling were #1 in everything when its not true.
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Thank God one right we still do have is the right to our own opinions and the right to disagree.
P.S. At least the last time I read the news but I haven't checked in an hour so I'm not sure.
Last edited by EcoSafe; 03-24-2015 at 09:26 PM.
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Agreed Olddude.
Sirscrapalot - I do/may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire
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I don't know where the economy is heading but I do know where it's been. Both of my folks grew up during the Great Depression Mom on a farm where they could feed themselves Dad was in town and went hungry. Out here it lasted until 1939 when they started ramping up for War 2. I've been reading books on the Great Depression and here is how bad it was in 1933
" It was the fourth year of the Great Depression. One in four working Americans - ten million people- had no job and no prospects of finding one, and only a quarter of them were receiving any kind of relief. Industrial production had fallen by half in those four years. At least one million and perhaps as many as two million, were homeless, living on the streets or in Shantytowns like Seattle's Hooverville (photo) In many American towns, it was impossible to find a bank whose doors weren't permanently shuttered; behind those doors the savings of countless American families had disappeared forever. Nobody could say when, or if, the hard times would ever end. " The Boys in the Boat pg 9
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