Unfortunately, as governments weaken by the weight of their debt loads, and consumers become increasingly strapped from unemployment and debt of their own, a forced reversion to frugality and all that comes with it inevitably happens.

The break up and ensuing devolution of the former Soviet states is an example. They, certainly, will not be the last.

The question on everyone’s minds is not “if” but “when” 1st world nations (including the US) will collapse under their own debt weight.

The following link has a pretty good analysis of when that tipping point is:

http://www.SavingsAndLoanBailout.com

Source: Richard Cook

After the collapse of the Soviet Union caused it to split up into its components, the newly-established nations each faced an economic crisis. In Russia the crisis lasted for a decade. Inflation had destroyed the currency. There…

In particular I recall seeing a video online in which he describes the barter system, unfortunately I can’t find it right now.

Aint anybody noticed that there are not more fruit trees, wild berries, vegetables or anything growing wild that is edible in the neighborhood>

when i was a kid folks used to supplement their gardens with the supermarket, not the other way around. Crab apple trees brought us jelly, grapefruit, avocado, lemons. Neighbors would always be sharing their abundance from the gardens with other neighbors. This was just a normal neighborhood with little yards. as kids we knew who was growing watermellon and when it would be ripe and that the old world war 2 vet growing it was ecstatic about sharing it with us.

Now we all have IBS from all the GM processed garbage and no one grows anything anymore. even if one chose to, the seeds and or plantlings are GM as well and maybe get one harvest but those seeds wont re germinate.

So whats left to barter? What good are any of you? Is that degree or job qualification going to help when foraging for food or trying to protect what little you have?

Its a blessed event should that 50 day food supply dwindle, suddenly all the super smart, mortgaged university indoctrinated elitists will see in retrospect the real useless eaters are.

By the way, Israelis are constantly expanding their territories to grow organic food within organic communities while the rest of the world is ripping open a plastic wrapper with their teeth. What does this tell you?

“Question 4. “What should be the purpose of money?”

Douglas: “In many places there is a complete misapprehension as to the use of [a] money system at the present time. In the first place all the vocal orthodox economists are quite obviously and honestly unaware of any change whatever in the reasonable functions of money and in the economic system in the last 300 or 400 years. For example, I saw a letter attacking me in ‘The Listener’ from someone who said that my views on Economics had been exposed by Sir Francis North in 1641! To my mind that is one of the most completely damning things that could be said. Anything I can contribute is based on the conditions which have come into prominence within the past fifty years.

“The first thing to be clear about is that the idea of money as a medium of exchange is, if not obsolete, so rapidly becoming obsolescent it is really not worth considering [i.e.,] the idea of an economic system carried on by isolated craftsmen or farmers exchanging their products with each other on a basis which will ensure that the products are in fact, exchanged.]

“The modern economic system is not in least like that. It is a system in which you have a central pool of production through enormous industrial organisations in which by far the most important factor is real capital—machines, power, etc., and the problem is not to exchange between these institutions. It is to distribute from them to people who fundamentally have nothing whatever to exchange. They are simply standing on the outside line of an organisation which is productive, and the problem is to get the goods over from the organization to these people—not to exchange at all.

“The idea of a money system as a means of exchange is only applicable to a small and diminishing fraction of the total production of the world.

“Therefore, it is of the most fundamental importance to enquire what is the purpose of money. It is that it is first of all an effective demand—a ticket system—a valid demand for goods and services. Consequently, it is the most extraordinarily flexible voting system which the mind of man can conceive.

“Every time I go into a tobacconist’s shop and buy a pack of Black Cat in preference to Gold Flake, I vote for Black Cat in preference to Gold Flake. Every time I buy Cadbury’s cocoa in preference to Fry’s, I vote for Cadbury’s. This preference is transmitted day by day to the companies concerned and they know whether or not their goods are meeting with public approval. This is the whole essence of the economic system. The problem is to produce what the public want and to get it over to them.

“The fundamental purpose of a proper money system is first to give the most rapid and flexible indication to producing organisations as to what the public want, and secondly to see they get it.

Melbourne, Australia

Finally, someone just wrote a great book about a small town that also stood up to federal tyranny & ended up starting the
2nd American Revolution.

It’s the same reasons that started the original revolution (high taxes, govt. tyranny, etc.). If you want to see what’s coming nxt to Americans, by our govt., then I strongly recommend it as a must read this yr.

http://www.booksbyoliver.com

At least when it comes to the human soul.

Half a loaf of American Dreams anyone? Only a few spots of surface mold, guaranteed!

A 1 week old slice of pie?

In the sky, that is….

It’s high time to come back down to reality. Eww, that just sounded so 70s.