The Upcoming Great Depression...

[Divine Discontent]

now with Edwards out, and the focus not being on the poor, and low wage earning worker class, and the massive divide between the 'classes', the mounting trillions in debt - I ask how you're planning on surviving the great depression about to hit us sooner than later?

I think I'll move back to the mountains and start storing food and building water purification systems, along with putting up a nice row of traps around the property... I'm half-joking. There is so much bad news from the economic side of things, and with 2 corporate candidates getting to duke it out for our votes, and amazingly and SHOCKINGLY only being at a 50/50 tie against McCain in the head-to-head matchups, when a DEM candidate, after 8 years of shrub, should be double digits ahead of them (cough like Edwards was cough) makes it clear to me we're in for more votetrickery.

Let's form a compound and live together. LOL

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Smirk." - Commander AWOL

"But on the Bright Side, my republicon homelander cronies are making beaucoup oil & munitions profits. Ooops, almost forgot my republicon homelander propaganda talking point: 'too bad about you little people.' Smirk."

- Commander AWOL

[Swamp Rat]

2. I expect I'll be drafted

[Divine Discontent]

3. oh SHIT

what am I thinking????

I will be too!

Forget the tree-hugging I was gonna be doing. They'll have my gay ass in the War against (insert any country's name here).

[Annces]

14. Death does not seem to bother him at all

as long as it is not his.

[Swamp Rat]

17. "Have an iPhone soldier!"

[Selatius]

4. I think the recession is going to be bad, but I don't see a Great Depression happening.

The Fed helped bring about the Great Depression by constricting the money supply when it should've expanded the money supply. It had the effect of deepening and prolonging the Great Depression. The economy in 1929 was already dropping like a rock well before the stock market crashed, but that was due to the Fed of the era not knowing what the hell they were doing.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. oh, there will be lots of money floating around, it just won't be worth anything...

I'd start filling up a wheelbarrow with cash... you're gonna need bread.

[Selatius]

16. I just don't see that happening unless Bush does it with Iran. Then I would agree.

People know a lot more about how an economy runs and what makes it tick than they did 80 years ago when the Fed was new with incomplete doctrines to work with. They helped bring about the Great Depression before knowing how to get rid of it, but with the knowledge we know about how the economy works today, we would be in a better position to counteract a downturn in the event of a world war in the Middle East.

[El Pinko]

5. Believe it or not, the latest Rasmussen poll shows McCain beating BOTH Hillary and Obama

I guess the American people are gluttons for punishment and want "hair of the dog that bit them"...

:banghead:

[Divine Discontent]

9. good HEAVENS>.....

see, this just shows how DUMB, racist, and bigoted our country is...

how pathetic this country is... pathetic...

to give the nation back to the party that has brought us massive debt, a deepening poor class, and permanent war - yeah, THAT'S WHAT WE NEED - MORE GOP RULE!

[melody]

12. McCain has no chance -- you can find a poll that will show anything, given the circumstances

They'll tie Captain Idiot to McCain and he'll go down like a bad pup tent.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. I've been actively looking for an alternative community to join...

A group of DU'ers would be the best possible choice. :)

[Divine Discontent]

13. true...

we certainly have a similar mindset.

[Kazak]

7. Lie low, and...

be glad that I'm not in debt, and hope that's enough...I guess.

:shrug:

[Myrina]

8. Caravan to Canada!

Line forms here --- any Canadian Du'ers wanna take a bunch of raggedy Americans in? :hide:

[Divine Discontent]

11. I think they'll have us...

gladly. They'll need us to fight off the invading forces.

[lonestarnot]

15. by the short curlies.

[leftofthedial]

18. I'm planning to be adopted by one of the 300 or so households of the oligarchy

maybe they'll let me be one of their corporate slavemasters

[ixion]

19. I bought a patch of land in the back country and am currently developing someting autonomous

hopefully I'll have it done before everything goes to hell.

[MadHound]

21. My folks went through the Great Depression

And both agree, it is easier to come through tough economic times in the country. You can grow and shoot your own food, and if you have the money now, put up some sort of electricity generating system, wind or solar. Plus folks out in the country form a network to help each other out.

[ixion]

22. yep, I would agree with your folks...

the city is definitely not the place to be during something like that.

[Indenturedebtor]

20. Im going to open a new business

Selling guns and ammo. It's a growth market.