Life in a post-Katrina America

[Freedomfried]

Last week, the storm, in the following weeks to come will be the economic impact..or shakedown.

Watch for 6 dollar a gallon gasoline, grocery prices will skyrocket, everything will get more expensive from here on.

This event was the "Pearl Harbor" that the corporations have been waiting for, this is it, life in the USA has just changed.

Everybody but the extremely wealthy are fixing to get screwed hard.

[wli]

1. Quite true. The class warfare has only begun.

I will not survive the next round of it.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Maybe you will

When the "peasants" get pissed -- and they will -- they will rise up against the "lords of the manner". It may not happen overnight, but I think it WILL happen. Hang in there wli.

[tocqueville]

4. 3 conditions for a revolution

1. masses pissed beyond belief and in a financial situation they have nothing to lose
2. a demoralized weak army where parts of it are willing to back up insurgents
3. charismatic popular leaders with a good sense for strategy, the ruling power's weaknesses and even willing to sacrifice their lives for the cause...


I don't see that happening...

[Freedomfried]

7. We're definitely missing #3!

[wli]

5. I've concrete reasons for believing such.

I won't last without medicine for long. Economic hardship will be lethal to me.

[tocqueville]

6. don't worry you'll get relief from Europe

people here wouldn't allow Americans dying for lack of medecine

Do you know that we are already pumping millions of barrels of gasoline in the US to keep you afloat ? from our strategic reserve.

[Giant Robot]

3. I worry I will not make it either

My wife and I live paycheck to paycheck, and things are getting easier. It keeps me up at nights sometimes.

I just had a scary thought aside from that. What would happen if another major disaster happened in the country now? How much worse would things get...