So, would having a 1-5 month supply of the basics and other stuff suffice or would you say more?
I was wondering if the economic collapse does happen how long do you think it wil last??
I would say, MUCH,
MUCH MORE! It will take years to sort it out and I'll tell you why. The
delivery from farmer to wholesaler to retailer to consumer is too fragile. In third world countries they still take one independent family's production to the local market by ox cart. If they don't do their own delivery, they have only their next door neighbor to depend upon or the entire family carries all they can on their heads and backs. So, in the final analysis, if you're not growing your own food you will starve. Remember Joseph Stalin? He alone manipulated the starvation deaths of more millions than Hitler! By now folks should no longer be saying, "Can't happen here." If you're old enough you wouldn't have imagined that homosexual marriages would be matters of state law.
God has promised a time where everything that can be shaken will be shaken. This is a war that cannot be won. It has to simply die down. By that time, and my best educated guess is after 2020, there will be a time when we will be able to have a "say." Just look out, however, that the anarchists don't get into it again, because the "sheeple" are not going to have any such thing. They are lazy and want a king, president or emperor. The man that forces his way to the top to ensure anarchy will have just as tough a time and will be a killing dictator to get his way. This is a long run, Folks. There is simply too much to fight against. I should know. I wasn't able to win it peacefully at all. Vindication by every one I know who thought I was crazy, including my ex-wife and brother (woot!), has not settled well, because we still lost the Republic.
The first grocery store that closes its doors due to "no food" goods, will start such a panic in the US that whatever you're growing there for food will have to be guarded. The best places will be where an enclave would band together for 24 hour mutual protection, and I'm sorry to say that THAT place does not exist in the US. Better to be in an area where it is least effected by the US dollar. The really fortified places will be the shortest lived and hottest campaigns and such utter annihilation of them will send the "proper message" to all others.
I mentioned Joseph Stalin, are you aware that cannibalism was rampant? Anyone who had ruddy cheeks was a suspected cannibal. Children and young people vanished from sight.
I don't know how long or how bad it's going to be in America, but I can suggest this: Because Americans have not had to suffer much at all in these departments, it's going to be much worse than any of us can tell. I truly suggest getting out'a Dodge. And I do have learned reasons for suggesting no return before AD 2020. They are not published for general readership.
My own idea is to find mostly retired persons or carefully checked out younger ones who have more money than experience (brains), but people who have enough assets to sell now while they can still get something out of it, and go to a developing country where their purchasing power is amplified significantly. (You are aware of the law that the bad always chases the good out, aren't you? Silver coins, educated in Eastern Germany, etc.) My enclave would have these retired persons in a
developing world where the future is very bright, where electric and water is naturally assured, and where there is no infrastructure for food
delivery other than by local farmers to local markets. Such a fortunate few can fix up a place where like minded folks would have room for their children and grandchildren to flee just before it gets the hottest. The only problem with that is determining when the train just before the last one out is going. Shortly there after there will be no way out. Haven't you noticed that when the last train is leaving town that most people don't think about it until it's just leaving the station? Then they all want to get on, and that stops that last train. This takes some very positive foresight over a very negative situation.
Be very careful of any place in the Americas, and Africa is out. Europe is out. I predict there will be such a rush to Australia and New Zealand that it will not be worth even trying to go there, and any place you could get to would make living like a savage. Crowded Asia is the only place that offers some hope and is one reason why few would think to even look. And China is probably not one of those choices. So, figure it out!
I would rather be an optimist and be wrong than a pessimist who proves to be right. The former sometimes wins, but never the latter.
IBR
