[FireJack]

I posted on the Rage 3d forums about the book "The Second Great Depression: Starting 2007, Ending 2020" by Warren Brussee and am scared by the responses I got.

My original post:
"I didn't make the title it's from the book : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159...Fencoding=UTF8

It's something that has concerned me for a while espeically as skyrocketing energy prices seem set to exasterbate the problem. I don't think this guy says anything surprising with skyrocketing consumer and government debt with the average saving rate being negative. I wonder if most people are aware of the great hardships they are about to face.

There is a interview with the author:http://financialsense.com/Experts/2006/Brussee.html"

First 3 posts wern't serious and the 4th guy agreed. The 5th post though was this:

"I don't know if there will be another great depression in the US. If there was, the world would join us in it, since the US is 1/5 of the Earth's economy. All the major nations sell things to us and if we cannot buy them, their economies tank also.

Personally, I think we have placed our nation into a holding pattern, to give the rest of the world time to catch up. Most of the world cannot afford to buy US products. As their economies ramp up, their people become wealthier. As they become wealthier, they can afford more of our products.

That is my crystal ball gazing prophecy."

The next guy agrees with him. I thought of arguing but I tried before and its useless, these people want to live in la la land. This puts me another step forward to making a hidden shelter and stocking it full of food and hiding there until idiots like that either die of confront reality.

[UIUCstudent01]

"All the major nations sell things to us and if we cannot buy them, their economies tank also."

People just don't understand that the United States isn't exactly the center of the world anymore. There is a rising middle-class everywhere that can take up the slack. (Including China, but it's everywhere really.)

[NeoPeasant]

I don't try to figure out complex monetary policy arguments.
I think it is sufficient to understand that the balance between numbers of people and quantities of energy, food, and other stuff will change in such a way as to quickly make most of us dramatically less materially well off.

The best advice to prepare for peak oil is to prepare yourself for a life that is worth living even while you deal with poverty and material scarcity. Study afluenza and voluntary simplicity.

[Peak_Plus]

The world is about to fall apart very soon.

Does it help any of your posters to know that?

Has it helped you? I knew about 10 years ago that we have about 10 more good years (its all in the demographics), but have not been able to do a single stupid thing about it. As individuals, we are mostly powerless.

Better to be blissfully ignorant, don't you think?

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Peak_Plus', 'T')he world is about to fall apart very soon.

Does it help any of your posters to know that?

Has it helped you? I knew about 10 years ago that we have about 10 more good years (its all in the demographics), but have not been able to do a single stupid thing about it. As individuals, we are mostly powerless.

Better to be blissfully ignorant, don't you think?

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')ersonally, I think we have placed our nation into a holding pattern, to give the rest of the world time to catch up. Most of the world cannot afford to buy US products. As their economies ramp up, their people become wealthier. As they become wealthier, they can afford more of our products.

[TheTurtle]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NeoPeasant', 'T')he best advice to prepare for peak oil is to prepare yourself for a life that is worth living even while you deal with poverty and material scarcity. Study afluenza and voluntary simplicity.

[RonMN]

Voluntary simplicity...I'm good with that! I can turn down the heat & wear an extra sweatshirt! I can carpool! I can......

[JoeCoal]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RonMN', 'V')oluntary simplicity...I'm good with that! I can turn down the heat & wear an extra sweatshirt! I can carpool! I can......

[DantesPeak]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Peak_Plus', 'T')he world is about to fall apart very soon.

Does it help any of your posters to know that?

Has it helped you? I knew about 10 years ago that we have about 10 more good years (its all in the demographics), but have not been able to do a single stupid thing about it. As individuals, we are mostly powerless.

Better to be blissfully ignorant, don't you think?

[grabby]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', '
')
So, pray tell, what is it we are yearning to buy from the US?

Unless of course he means armaments.

[Peak_Plus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DantesPeak', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Peak_Plus', 'T')he world is about to fall apart very soon.

Does it help any of your posters to know that?

Has it helped you? I knew about 10 years ago that we have about 10 more good years (its all in the demographics), but have not been able to do a single stupid thing about it. As individuals, we are mostly powerless.

Better to be blissfully ignorant, don't you think?

[grabby]

It used to be when a lady was pregnant, the husband would pace in the waiting room until the doctor would anounce wether it was a boy or a girl.
This is different now.

Now we have smiling little girls on cell phones, with their boyfriends "not married" allowed IN THE DELIVERY ROOM and the parents (mother and father) waiting outside on the cell phone informing the girls high school friends how the delivery is going. and watching the other babies from this 14 year old this time girl.

The majorityare single now, and unmarried and society is paying for all of it.

We cannot afford to have more than two kids, but these ILLEGAL aliens can have as many as they want cause the more they have the more benefits they get.

Something is wong with our society, I must say, it cannot support every baby born.

All of these have food coupons and free medical.

sad out of control condition cannot be continued, something will give.

Now, through the law passed by Bill clinton before he left office, the HIPPA privacy law, no one is allowed to access any medical records to see how many of these are teen mothers and pregnancies it is illegal to share these medical records, therefore these will neveer be discovered or brought to light. But the nurses working in OB know.

and it is illegal for them to talk about it.

it is all hidden by law.

and the situation is bad.

[Peak_Plus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('grabby', '
')We cannot afford to have more than two kids, but these ILLEGAL aliens can have as many as they want cause the more they have the more benefits they get.

Something is wong with our society, I must say, it cannot support every baby born.

All of these have food coupons and free medical.

sad out of control condition cannot be continued, something will give.

[grabby]

I believe peak oil is about unsustainable population, and we do not want a positive birth rate if they are not helping us pay taxes.

In other words, we should KEEP THE LAW

When a law says something is ILLEGAL we should not DO THAT/
Novel Idea eh?
It is pretty sad when the GOVERNMENT is SUPPORTING ILLEGAL ACTIVITY.

Whom shall we sue?

[Peak_Plus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('grabby', 'I') believe peak oil is about <b>unsustainable population</b>, and No, I am not hapy about my taxes almost 50% percent of my income when there are illegals with 4-5 children living off my taxes, sorry.
...

[savethehumans]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he world is about to fall apart very soon.

Does it help any of your posters to know that?

Has it helped you? I knew about 10 years ago that we have about 10 more good years (its all in the demographics), but have not been able to do a single stupid thing about it. As individuals, we are mostly powerless.

Better to be blissfully ignorant, don't you think?

[grabby]

The best thing about post peak oil, is that I probably won't have to pay half my income in taxes.

I am looking forward to that aspect ( attitude, condition, expression, facet ) viewpoint of post peak oil anyway.

People will have to learn to be responsible *(answerable, at fault, chargeable, constrained, culpable, duty-bound, engaged, in charge, in control, incumbent, liable, obligated, to blame) or they will not survive.

There is going to be a very steep learning curve for those who will survive.

The wild west was uncivilized, and the law of the west was developed, when people became law abiding citicens, they did well. I foresee a lot of lynchings for a while.

[Peak_Plus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('savethehumans', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he world is about to fall apart very soon.

Does it help any of your posters to know that?

Has it helped you? I knew about 10 years ago that we have about 10 more good years (its all in the demographics), but have not been able to do a single stupid thing about it. As individuals, we are mostly powerless.

Better to be blissfully ignorant, don't you think?

[AmericanEmpire]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')o. I have been, am, and will continue to believe that it is better to know than to not know.