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Middle finga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 02:59 PM
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Are you ready for the Great Depression of 2008?
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bluerum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:03 PM
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1. Not funny - I volunteer at our towns food pantry. It has been getting busier
Edited on Sun Jan-06-08 03:04 PM by bluerum
and busier since I started about two years ago. The economic downturn has started and many are already affected.

I often wonder - how deep will it go and how long will it last?
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:05 PM
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2. I agree -- I don't think we can even fathom what we're in for.... nt
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knitter4democracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:06 PM
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3. I wonder that, too.
Michigan's hurting something fierce. I've got a bag ready to go to the Food Bank tomorrow, and I worry about some of the kids at my children's school. You can tell their parents are worried sick about everything, and I just wish I could figure out a better way to help.
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roamer65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:19 PM
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5. MI is hurting bad.
I have seen a lot more street people lately and the begging is getting pretty fierce.
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knitter4democracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:26 PM
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6. I'm seeing more and more at the bakery outlet.
The other day, they actually ran out of bread. It's that bad.
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roamer65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:29 PM
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9. That's because the world only has a 54-day supply of grains.
Edited on Sun Jan-06-08 03:29 PM by roamer65
An analyst reported this on BBC World Service the other day.
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:27 PM
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8. Have you heard about the backpack programs that some schools do?
They send a backpack of foods home with the kids each weekend, to ensure that they'll have food to eat through the weekend. Perhaps you could start one at your local school?
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knitter4democracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:50 PM
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15. Great idea! I'll talk with the PTA prez and the principal about it!
I'm sure we have kids that need it.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:31 PM
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10. Satire is often not lol.
The Modest Proposal certainly wasn't.
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:40 PM
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13. Our small food bank is getting stretched thin
More people are being served, but donations are falling behind. Used to be, the boxes had tremendous variety, something a lot of people looked forward too. Today, they are parred back to just the essentials.
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Robert Oak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:17 PM
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4. To Help
Get your local and state governments to create jobs for public works. Things like roads, bridges, infrastructure which should be (many are sold off believe it or not) public works are in desperate need and this is one of the things that FDR did to get the economy going again. He created a series of projects, which helped America, were needed and then hired the unemployed.

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roamer65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:26 PM
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7. This will be an inflationary depression.
Edited on Sun Jan-06-08 03:27 PM by roamer65
It will be something that the USA has never experienced. People's life savings will be wiped out as inflation goes well beyond its present 12%. All thanks to Mugabe Bush.
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roamer65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:34 PM
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11. A warning to everyone as well on "capital controls".
Edited on Sun Jan-06-08 03:35 PM by roamer65
When the Argentina has its problems in 1999-2000, the Argentine government enacted capital controls to stop the flow of money out of the banks. As the sub-prime crisis gets worse, I expect the same here in the US. Make sure you have enough cash or easily convertible commodities on hand just in case. They WILL enact capital controls to keep the big banks solvent, I have no doubt of it.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:38 PM
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12. hmmm that's interesting
care to expound on that a bit

any suggestions on some reading on the Argentine crisis and will I need wheelbarrows full of green backs to buy milk?
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roamer65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:47 PM
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14. Google on the Argentine fiscal crisis I would say.
Edited on Sun Jan-06-08 03:51 PM by roamer65
What I remember in the news is that before the crisis the Argentine peso was pegged to the USD. The Argentine government severly restricted withdrawls of cash from their banks, when they broke the peg. By the time the controls were lifted, the Argentine peso was around 33 cents US. People lost 2/3 of their savings just like that.

Nah, you won't need wheelbarrows of greenbacks. In this day and age of e-cash, we'll hafta call the credit card companies to ask for a credit line increase to buy the milk.;)
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knitter4democracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:52 PM
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17. That means load up the pantry.
The one thing I respect that most Mormons do is have at least a year's worth of food on hand. That's smart. I wish I'd dried more apples last fall--running low already.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 03:50 PM
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16. Good luck on that refrigerator carton
Recycling corrugated cardboard and forklift pallets has become profitable.

You'll have to figure out your own housing, instead. Informal junkyards outside town at the end of partially blocked dirt roads are your best source for building materials, like old refrigerators that provide insulation, just punch a few breathing holes in the door and jam the lock so you don't get trapped inside when you move in. Panels from old stoves, washing machines and dryers can be wired together and braced with scrap lumber into walls and roofs. Paint stained tarps can often be pried apart enough to provide adequate waterproofing and a barrier against wind, or chinks can be daubed with mud like in the old days.

Areas under highway overpasses, while affording temporary and slightly warmer protection from the weather, should be avoided by families, since they're generally the province of heavy duty alcoholics, most of whom aren't very nice.

My own advice is knowledge. Check books out of the library and learn how to cook poor folks' food like beans, oats, and turnips. Learn to like them. Learn how to darn socks, sew on buttons, mend seams, and apply patches. Learn that well placed old newspaper can extend the life of your shoes for a very long time. Learn that summer footwear can be woven out of old newspaper, phone books, or any other paper. Above all, learn that you are a human being, adaptable, and with intrinsic worth. Learn that while the world doesn't owe you a living, it doesn't owe Paris Hilton one, either, and that neither of you should be valued above the other.

Learn that you are an American and that means something.
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