How will you deal with the sudden collapse of the economy on Tuesday?

[Deep13]

As well all know, Tuesday the USA will default on its bills, our economy will collapse and all our assets will be worthless. What will we do to get by during that time?

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Roll over and go back to sleep.

[Deep13]

33. I pretty much do that every day. nt

[texanwitch]

2. I have a lot of beans and rice, sacks and sacks of them.

I have a big garden, big yard for chickens.

I am hoping for the best.

[w8liftinglady]

7. can I come over? I'll make tea...

[texanwitch]

16. Sure.

Nothing like pinto beans and ice tea.

[SusanaMontana41]

64. That sounds like

a tea party ...:hide:

:evilgrin:

[Deep13]

8. Hmmm, beans and rice, nice and crunchy! nt

[texanwitch]

13. I cook a mean pot of pinto beans and rice.

Might not hurt to stock up this weekend.

[Deep13]

17. Not without clean water and cooking fuel you don't.

Maybe you've stocked up on that too. :shrug:

[elocs]

21. Myself, I've got plenty of clean water and I can easily cook with the sun.

So I'm good to go in that respect.

[Deep13]

24. Groovy! Come to think of it, during this heatwave...

...I probably could have cooked on the street. I can open the sunshade in my VW and turn it into a big solar oven!

[texanwitch]

22. There is a old well on the land.

I think the city will still have clean water.

[Deep13]

27. I guess that would depend on from where they get it.

If it's mountain melt like NYC uses, you're in good shape. If it's treated in any way, that might be a problem. Here in Akron, our water comes from Lake Erie. There's plenty of it, but it requires an active processes to filter and treat it (I mean, it's Lake Erie!) and then to pump it to neighborhoods and businesses. And as we discovered when we had that big black-out, there's no back-up system.

[texanwitch]

30. I can go to the farm near Austin, a deep well is there.

I just hope this thing is worked out without giving everything away to the Republicans.

My neighbors who lived in the 1930s seem very calm.

This was coming, the Republicans were out of control.

I hope the adults step in and take over.

[kelly1mm]

66. You need to stock up on lead, the other precious metal!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. buy a bottle of champagne with my credit card.

cheers!

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. If they truly screw up my social security disability, I could be homeless, on the street.

I suppose that I can continue posting from the library.

[Hatchling]

50. Me too. nt

[Auntie Bush]

57. I don't have SSI...but take my SS away and my house and I are goners.

We should all threaten to set fire to our houses rather than give them to the greedy banks. That ought to slow down the myriad foreclosures if they stop sending out SS checks.

[0rganism]

5. two men enter, one man leave!

Thanks very much for the Thunderdome option. I look forward to preparing my Aunty Entity costume amidst a brand new mountain of pig shit!

[Shagbark Hickory]

6. Count my gold and load up my guns.

I kid.

[Deep13]

9. In that case, you should have invested in lead. nt

[Shagbark Hickory]

65. Tee hee. Snort snort.

[Kali]

10. sudden collapse?

is it just bounding along right now?

I'm close to the border and know some places to cross, anybody needs a pollero let me know I'll give DUers a special price:rofl:

[Deep13]

14. For much of the world, 30% unemployment is not unusual.

10 or 15% is bad by our standards, but globally it is still pretty good.

[Divernan]

35. Obama's supporters will preach that when we hit 30% unemployment

[Deep13]

49. Maybe, but I won't be one of them. nt

[Juche]

55. For basket case, authoritarian, dirt poor nations 30% is normal.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/World_map_of_countries_by_rate_of_unemployment.svg

For wealthy and middle income countries that is a poor number, most of latin america is under 10%. Countries with 30% unemployment tend to be ravaged by war, run by terrible governments or are failed states.

[valerief]

11. Well, I'm facing retirement and my retirement savings will be wiped out, so

now's the time to become a heroin addict, I think. Quick death, just like the Koch brothers want.

[edbermac]

12. Buy some 1st class weed and get zoned out of my skull.

Big Bud marijuana...FUCK YEAH!!! :smoke:

[XemaSab]

15. Get a still and trade booze for guns and food

:beer:

[Deep13]

19. You need food--grain--to make the booze.

And fuel and clean water.

[XemaSab]

36. We've got lots of crabapples, cherry tomatoes, pecans, dandelions

and other stuff growing in the back.

I'm sure we can figure it out.

Hell, push comes to shove we'll use acorns. :D

[WinkyDink]

18. Resist the urge to exercise the Second Amendment.

[Deep13]

20. I'm stocking up on torches and pitchforks.

And by "torches" I mean flashlights and by "pitchforks" I mean ammunition.

[AsahinaKimi]

23. Become a full time Ninja!

[Deep13]

28. First sensible idea I have heard all day.

Who the hell are those guys in the background? The one looking at the camera looks like he just realized that you infiltrated his suburban basement.

[AsahinaKimi]

32. heh..

I am not in this photo. Just something I found, on the net. Kinda funny, actually! The look on that guy's face is totally "WTF?"

[laruemtt]

25. get out my copy of

Final Exit - just in case...............

[Hatchling]

54. Interesting suggestion.

I wonder if the library carries it?

[laruemtt]

58. hatchling, it's just a fantasy.

i won't give them the satisfaction of checking out because of them. after reading your other post about being homeless as of 9/1, i pray you wouldn't take this route. i've had three people close to me take that way out and it's pure hell for those left behind. we'll stick it out just to irritate these idiots who are trying to destroy us all. you're not alone!

[Hatchling]

80. Don't worry.

It was just some dark humour on my part. That other thread gave me a lot of options and solutions. I am still depressed but the wild despair I was feeling when I started that post has abated.

[bluedigger]

26. I will continue to proudly serve my corporate masters, of course.

Resistance is futile.

[Deep13]

29. Well, yeah, goes without saying.

Get back to work!

[DearAbby]

31. Be out in the streets with the rest of y'all

Walking East towards Washington DC. Have plenty of time, and nothing else to do. Maybe I'll make it before I starve.

[zippy890]

34. there won't be an economic collapse on Tuesday

just heard Moody's isn't going to mess with AAA credit rating.

Wall St fat cats will not let this happen because of a bunch of stupid teabagging republican congressmen.

the Boner looks weak & stupid though, the republican circus has been entertaining

[Raine]

40. Agree ... at the eleventh hour they will pull

it out of their asses. Both sides manage to get exactly what they want and the big plus for them is they end up screwing the people out of what they are entitled to.

[Deep13]

43. I hope you are right. nt

[tavalon]

37. I picked the protein source

But I would like to point out the the mooching millionaires and billionaires probably have much better marbling. I'm just sayin'

[Deep13]

42. We save them for holiday feasts. nt

[tavalon]

59. What do we call next Tuesday? The Dumb Feast?

Because if the debt ceiling isn't raised, it's time to raise the roof.

But it occurred to me that the terrorists in the House are probably well marbled too.

[Broken_Hero]

38. ...

Understand the new economy. For example a pack of cigarettes is worth six rolls of toilet paper or two cans of beans.

[Deep13]

44. I think a fifth of Scotch is worth at least a case of Dinty Moore. nt

[rug]

39. I will hide in the 9/11 Forum until it's safe.

[Deep13]

45. But it's never safe there!

A giant massive building with its support structure suddenly removed just could not fall down!

[krabigirl]

41. other: nothing.

[Deep13]

46. Oh.

:-( Well BE that way then! :evilgrin:

[PufPuf23]

47. Stay the course.

Prepare for death with dignitiy.

I have never received a dime of unemployment, SS, nor medicare or medicaid nor any other public benefit except I was a Fed from 1969 to 1986 and had university scholarships at Cal and OSU and attended a year of of grad education as a GS-9/11 in the early 1980s.

I am unemployed/unemployable and unhealthy without insurance.

The life of my parents (no roads/electricy as children, depression, prohibition, and WWII eras), or grandparents or great grandparents are similiar what I would experience if the grid and USA society should fail.

The foolishness or complicity of Congress and the stupidity or complicity of the POTUS Obama WH are irrelevant (but complicit) to my situation.

I am prepared and in the space to pass on and leave an irregular Estate monkey wrenched to favor a Tribe (that shares blood) over WASP blood relatives and the governments that have broken every social contract I was taught to assume.

I hope to live 20 plus years but conditions of health may limit to less than 6 months. I will die and gift a boobytrap before being a victim.

[robcon]

48. None of the above: it's not a big deal.

n/t

[Juche]

51. Go to norway and commit a non-violent crime to go to prison

Their prisons aren't too bad from what the news has been saying.

Israel supposedly has humane prisons too (but that could be wrong). I think we are reaching a point where being in prison in a more humane/responsible/progresive OECD nation offers a better lifestyle than being free in the US if you are working poor. Not to make light of the massacre in Norway though, so no offense if it comes across that way.

"That is an exaggeration". In some ways yes, in some no life in a prison in a humane OECD country might be better. They have reliable health care, live in a country run by responsible people where plutocracy is in retreat and the rule of law actually applies to everyone (not just the bottom 99%), no fear of homelessness or starvation, free access to education, etc.


It beats living in your car and not being able to afford to see the doctor.

[Deep13]

69. I don't think they will send you to prison without violence there.

They are a civilized country, after all.

[Juche]

70. Become a wholesale pot dealer

Win/win. Either you get rich or you go to prison in Scandanavia.

[Forkboy]

52. I've already chosen the neighbors I plan on eating.

[Trailrider1951]

53. Well, with my veggie garden and well-stocked pantry, I could open a soup kitchen

for my neighborhood. That scene in "The Grapes of Wrath" with the starving children in the work camp haunts me. :-(

[Proles]

56. Well, there's hope for me in Mexico.

I'm a dual citizen there :toast:

[Luminous Animal]

60. You left off looting.

[Cal Carpenter]

61. Other - Spontaneously combust

I see no other option :shrug:

[Bluebear]

62. Eat my peas.

[Deep13]

68. Mmmmm...peas. nt

[YellowRubberDuckie]

63. I will continue to pay for my house and my car...

I work for a bank and I sell foreclosed properties. We'll get busier.
If the economy fails, our credit card bank will no longer get paid because it is part of the problem. And then we will use that money to pay off our car faster. These days when you go to buy a car, lots of places don't even pull your credit. Ruin my credit. I don't give a shit.
Duckie

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[Sportsguy]

71. I Wonder If There Will Be A Run On Banks?

:scared: :shrug:

[maryellen99]

74. Someone on Fox

Said that everyone should have $1,000 in cash at home.

[Sportsguy]

75. So I Guess If One Is Actually Fortunate Enough To Have More Than $1,000

they should leave it in the bank? I don't think so. I wonder if that is what they think?

[maryellen99]

76. I think they are trying to cause a run on the banks nt

Repukes are the scum of the earth.

[Sportsguy]

77. *Oh, The Light Bulb Just Went Off!**

Shit!:scared:

[Urban Prairie]

78. 1K in cash...lol

Yeah, I have that much in cash for exactly two days after I receive my SSD check at the beginning of the month. Maybe I just won't pay my rent if I get what might be my very last one on Monday for awhile.

Can't be evicted w/o a court order and there might not be any "courts" by the time the company that owns the condo that we are renting, realizes that I ain't paying my rent and hires or uses their lawyer. Just a $25.00 fee if I am late after the 5th of the month, which I can probably deal with if necessary. Eat or pay the rent...hmmm...what a dilemma.

[lonestarnot]

72. Always lived by the seat of my pants. Live one, live another then die.

[Urban Prairie]

73. Swim out past the breakers, and watch the world die

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWW4Gj771Wg



I am still livin' with your ghost
Lonely and dreamin' of the west coa-oast
I don't wanna be your dow-own ti-ime
I don't wanna be your stupid game

With my big black boots and an old suitcase
I do believe I'll find myself a new pla-ace
I don't wanna be the ba-ad guy-y
I don't wanna do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just wanna see some pa-alm tree-ees
Go and try and shake away this disease

We can live beside the ocean, leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers, watch the world die-ie
We can live beside the ocean, leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers, watch the world die-ie

I am still dreamin' of your face
Hungry and hollow for all the things you took away
I don't wanna be your goo-ood ti-ime
I don't wanna be your fall-back crutch anymore

I'll walk right out into a brand new day
Insane and risin' in my own weird way-ay
I don't wanna be the ba-ad guy-y-y
I don't wanna do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just wanna feel some su-unshi-i-ine
I just wanna find some place to be alone

We can live beside the ocean, leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers, watch the world die-ie
We can live beside the ocean, leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers,watch the world die-ie
We can live beside the ocean, leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers, watch the world die
We can live beside the ocean, leave the fire behi-i-ind
Swim out past the breakers, Watch the world die

Oh, yeah, watch the world die
Yeah-eah, yeah, watch the world die
Woh-oh-oh, yeah, watch the world die
Yeah, watch the world die

[MadHound]

79. I've stocked up on a decent supply of good alcohol.

Tequila, shots of good tequila.

[Poll_Blind]

81. Pray the last 11 years will have a Newhart ending...

PB