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Subject: Tim

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Allen Currie

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Date Posted: 12:00:46 03/22/12 Thu

I wish I did but my crystal ball is pretty murky. All I can say is it could happen tomorrow but more likely later this year. Or next year. Who knows how long government can paper over these cracks?

The fact is the world financial system went bankrupt Aug. 17, 2008 and we have been running on fumes ever since.

Given the recent draconian legislation being passed in the US, Chinas recent moves, etc., I think governments are pretty much aware and preparing for massive social disruption. On the other hand, NOBODY wants this and everyone who is aware is doing their utmost to stop or delay the chickens coming home to roost. I can't understand why anyone would want to be president of the US.

The trigger event could come from anywhere. Greece still has a long way to fall and the rest of Europe is teetering and will fall. Japan is and has been among the walking dead for years. China, whose attitude has always been Machivellian seems to be becoming moreso. They could decide that in war there are always casualties, and if they were to pull the plug they would get hurt less than the rest of the world. (probably true)

It is all about peoples confidence. As long as people believe that governments or god or somebody can restore us to what we had, and continue to go about life in what today is normal, then it doesn't matter whether every one of the banks are bankrupt or not. However currently more and more people are disturbed and small events can jiggle the jigsaw enough that a picture forms for them. When the situation reaches critical mass is anyones guess.

In preparing, you have just become among the one percent. You have thought something might be possible. That means you won't stare at the Tsunami coming in but will begin to run for higher ground. Chances of survival go up exponentially based on that alone. That doesn't guarentee you will survive but the chances are much better.

Having options (in your life, not the financial kind.)to allow you to take time to think about what is happening (like food) is the main thrust of my own preparations. Neither you nor I will forecast the future 100%. Moreover your circumstances are different enough that my best plan will not fit you and vice versa. Generally my goals and yours are common. To survive and thrive. The route we take climbing that mountain will be different.

There are all sorts of resources on the net as food for thought. The survivalists/preppers are people who have thought long and hard and about surviving the world as they see it developing. The "gold/precious metals" hoarding people too. My problem with all of them is that they are all 'one trick ponies'. Some of their solutions are brilliant, especially IF the world develops as they think it will. But I think it unlikely that will happen. The survivalists seem to concentrate too much on guns, IMHO. The gold bugs think that they will become rich and can buy whatever they need. Both are essential of course, but no one solution fits all.

As to your wife I think a deteriorating economic situation would justify stocking up on long shelf life foods. Similarly the number of tent cities springing up all over the place would justify looking around at a remote (read cheap to live) place. Just contingency planning of course. You are never going to be perfectly prepared. For a quarter of a century my preps have been a work in progress.

As an aside, how did you come to find me? (Where did you see or hear whatever it was that caused you to read?) If you found the novel enjoyable and/or useful would you, or do you, tell your friends and acquaintances to read too? That is why I wrote the book in the first place, to alert people to the possability. After that they can ignore or act as they choose. Ultimately we are all responsible for our own actions despite the politically correct thinking today. That is mother natures way.

Allen

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