How do you plan to survive the coming Depression?

[greblc]

Seawolf shoo'ed me from the lounge and said I should ask this here.

[babylonsister]

1. What depression?

:shrug: I hope cooler heads will attempt to prevail. But I'm optimistic that way.

[Speck Tater]

2. I already grow most my own food.

I'm already set up to pump water from my well without electricity.
I have enough firewood on my property to stay warm.
I have provisions for cooking without electricity.
I have a solar charger form my mp3 player, so entertainment is taken care of. :)
I have lots of books and plenty of candles, plus gobs of bulk wax and wicks.

[arcadian]

3. Selling weed

[cyr330]

8. Tee Hee

You should have plenty of business! :)

[sciouscience]

17. smokin' it.

I have to be honest, it's either that or not surviving it.

[WarbirdForObama]

4. I'll pray to Dumbya's Invisible Friend

Geebus.

Although, maybe I should stick with the Flying Spagetti Monster.

That Geebus guy that the Giggling Murderer talks about, seems to have an obsession with war and violence...

[cliffordu]

5. I will stand in the soup lines with all the rest....

[Voice for Peace]

14. I will chop onions for the soup, and weep

[gateley]

6. However I can - whatever it takes.

You can only plan for so much - we don't really know what we'll be up against until it happens.

What are your plans?

[cyr330]

7. Thank god I'm an RN.

I'll always have work, regardless of the coming economic meltdown or not. . . not that I'm not horrified.

[Indiana_Dem]

9. Maybe. I'm an RN, too.

They may have to lay off some and the ones working will have horrible conditions. Our pay may have to go down but at least we could have a paycheck of some kind.

[cyr330]

10. Good Point--

However, we have an incredibly strong union out here. How about you?

[Indiana_Dem]

22. Not in Indiana. Our nurses are too much wimps.

I've tried to talk to some of my co-workers about needing a union and many of them don't like unions. DUH! I guess it would have to get pretty bad before they would even think about it. Yeah, it sucks.

[bemildred]

11. Damn if I know. nt

[rhiannon55]

12. I'm a food stamp caseworker. My job won't survive

the crash. Food stamps will be one of the first programs cut. I'll be in the same boat as my clients.

[roody]

13. I plan to put water catchment systems on my house soon.

I have some extra pounds that will sustain me for awhile.

[liberalmuse]

15. By squatting in an abandoned McMansion...

off some beautiful beach in California. I'm half kidding. I guess by staying the hell away from the assholes with guns, growing food (I've got seeds and spores saved),foraging, and by hopefully sticking with family and finding others of like mind to live in a commune-type setting (without a power-hungry Jim Jones or Manson-type dude). Bartering goods and services. Maybe I'll build an earthship nest. God knows there are plenty of discarded tires. I rather like New Mexico and have spent quite a few years living there off and on.

[Digit]

16. I have no idea

I don't even know if it is worth it.

[tomreedtoon]

18. GUNS! GUNS! GUNS!

No, I won't use 'em. It's pointless. But lots of YOU will buy them from me. You are all so freaking insecure and frightened you will arm yourself to the teeth. And I'll profit from it.

And you'll probably do yourselves some good, killing your neighbors to steal their stuff. (You'll justify it with claims that you're ecologically thinning the human herd, or as we savvy people call it, the Ras Al Ghul Final Solution.)

Don't you love idiots who post paranoid threads like the original poster? They open themselves up to such amazing ridicule.

[stillcool]

19. day by day...

same as now. The worst times of my life were not that bad until after it was over. I think we human beings are resilient and adapt to our circumstances. Even homeless people laugh.

[VP505]

20. I plan on adopting the

prevailing attitude of some of the less than stellar citizens in my neighborhood. If someone with money has something I need it or want it I'll go take it from them.

[MercutioATC]

21. My job's pretty secure, but inflation will make things a little tighter.

The devaluation of the dollar ant what that will do to my retirement is my biggest concern since I can't get my employer to pay me in Euros.