June 30, 2011 journal, prediction of the immediate collapse of the great American empire. The ethanol tax subsidy program has failed but not before driving up corn price to double. America will be much better off without those desperadoes in Washington making laws. I quote the following writer because he appears to be credible and he sees the end coming. Consequences of Economic Collapse-by Reginald Kaigler http://demcad.blogspot.com/ "For the last three years, I've been warning my viewers on Youtube about the inevitable collapse of the U.S. Empire. I've discussed how the U.S. government is so far into debt that it can't even pay off the interest on it's debts. Like all dying empires, the U.S. has over-expanded in Asia with unnecessary wars of greed, spent more than it can ever pay back, degraded into extreme corruption and devolved into a systemic ponzi model. The state governments have massive amounts of pensions that are underfunded, many cities can't even provide basic services (such as education, fire protection and law enforcement) and the national economy has lost its manufacturing prowess. Essentially, America has transported into a ponzi economy where everyone uses credit cards to buy cheap junk that is made in third world countries. So you see why I believe that this is fundamentally unsustainable. This economic model of largess spending will collapse, which begs the question: So what the social consequences of an economic collapse? I live in the most dangerous city in America: Flint, Michigan. It is a former automotive powerhouse that has been economically devastated by the exodus of General Motors and the overall trend of de-industrialization. Flint is one of the poorest cities in America. I consider it to be a less black, but smaller version of the second most dangerous city in America: Detroit, Michigan. Both cities have experienced a major decline in its auto-industry, the massive white flight, epic crime waves, a collapse of its tax base, drastic population decline and a breakdown of basic services. Recently, Detroit, announced that it was closing half of its schools and cramming 60 students in a high school class. When the money and resources disappear, human behavior changes. The dynamic shifts. Most people go into survival mode and every decision centers around oneself. Many people stop thinking about community and start viewing neighbors as competitors. A general sense of anger and apathy seeps through the community and transform the way residents interact with each other and the system that they perceive as their enemy. I can't tell what will definitely happen, but I can use my experience to give you an educated guess. 1. Most Americans were shocked when they heard about the sinking of the Titanic. The normalcy bias makes it almost impossible to imagine the system collapse. People assume that just because the lights are on today that they will be on tomorrow. When the baby boomers see that their life savings are gone, many will choose to end their lives. Other will walk around in a daze. Many uppity 40-somethings who have been conditioned to believe that their life is only worth what they make, will kill themselves and their families. . 2. Backlash Against the Government.-If the dollar collapses, the food stamps benefits will not be able to keep up with rising food cost. The underclass (poor) and working class will feel abandoned. After watching Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and other Wall Street entities collect their tax dollars through a series of bailouts, the poorer Americans will violently attack a system that they perceive as screwing them over for the "big guys." That "Too Big To Fail" mantra won't go over so well when people are struggling to feed their kids, pay rent with a social security check that is losing its value. I expect riots and turnovers of federal and state government buildings. . 3. Violence in Communities-Gerald Celente said it best, "When people lose everything and have nothing to lose, they lose it." Do you really think that people are going to be content when the power company cuts off their lights. The poor will demand extreme tax increases of the rich and upper middle class, while the criminal class will exploit a weakening police presence. I expect to see a dramatic increase in murder, rape, burglaries, assault, robbery. . 4. Class Warfare-The working class and poor will not only blame the government and Wall Street, but the rich. The shrinking middle class will become a target of class warfare. The upper class will try to play the middle class against the working class and poor. . 5. Police Crack Down-An Iraqi War vet who was shot 60 times by a SWAT team in Tuscon, Arizona in an apparent drug raid? The only problem is that they didn't find any drugs. SWAT first claimed that he shot at them, but his gun was on SAFE. So they are now saying that he pointed his gun at them. Afterward, the SWAT team refused to let the paramedics into the house for over an hour. I assume he was already dead, but why did they behave in this matter. Jose Guerena, 26, was only the one of many police victims. So I fully expect the police to get very aggressive after the politicians put pressure on them. . 6. Backlash Against Police-There will be a call for "law and order", but the police will go too far. They will kill too many innocent people and the heightened state of anger in the black (and poor communities) will lead to an epic backlash. Criminals will target cops and their families, while the angry masses remain silent. Recently, a Miami cop was caught waving a gun in the face of a law abiding citizen after his buddies shot a suspect to death in his car. The idiot cop pointed his gun at the citizen (holding the camera) and his family. It was the type of thug behavior that is becoming increasingly common from the law enforcement community. Now ask yourself, do you honestly think that the police are going to alleviate the tension by sending an angry community over the edge? Think about it, you've lost your job, your house, your wife's respect and now these cops who have been disrespecting you all of your life are pointing a gun at you. Super criminals: No, I'm not talking about Superman's Doomsday, but when you have millions of highly educated young people facing a bleak future with few economic opportunities, you end up with a new class of criminals. Traditionally, most criminals have been pretty stupid, but when you have people with degrees in chemistry, physics, accounting and engineering, you're going to end up with smarter criminals. . 7. Depression and transformation of Culture-Some men will turn to drinking. It's no accident that Flint gets a lot of domestic violence calls. Some men will turn to drinking. It's no accident that Flint gets a lot of domestic violence calls. Alcoholism, drug use and domestic violence will likely soar. I also expect the declining marriage rate to drop at an even faster pace. Disclosure: I don't believe that a man should get married. There's nothing that marriage offers that he can't already get. Plus, the divorce and family courts will screw him over in a big way. Nevertheless, many women will not be interested in marrying a poor or working class man. And frankly, more men will fall into this category. Moreover, less men will want to get married because they will feel they have little to offer. . 8. Black Market and Bartering-As the dollar dies, people will not only look to bypass the Federal Reserve, but skip the bureaucracy and taxes of government. People will use Swiss Francs, gold, silver and local currencies to by cost effective items on the black market. . 9. Federal Government Becomes Irrelevant-Simply put, it makes no sense for people in fiscally sound states such as Utah, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and Vermont to continue paying for a federal government that feeds resources to unconstitutional wars and falling states such as California. Sooner or later, many people will question why we need a union. So I expect a block of states to attempt to break away from the union. This could lead to a civil war or a revolution. But the last possibility maybe the most disturbing. . 10. Rise of Fascism-The Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act were just the beginning. Now, the Supreme Court has declared that the police can enter your home without a warrant as long as they believe that you're destroying evidence. So what's stopping the police from lying? So much for the fourth amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizures. We already have corporatism with the government bailouts of Wall Street, all we need now is extreme nationalism, militarism (the ever expanding war on terror) and an enemy. I think the TSA has been it very clear who they consider to be the enemy. Not only do they have the power to examine you through a full body scanner, but if you refuse, they can molest you and your family via pat down. So there you go, this is what I think will help when the system collapses. Buckhed agrees. Small towns and communities like the one I live in may do well. I live 70 miles from the nearest really big city. If the folks that I have living around my farm can form a bond of trust, a willingness to depend on each other for our safety, survival and future then I think we'll do fine. Many of these people 25 years ago taught me how to hunt, kin, process it, butcher a hog and so many other things. The skill sets they have for survival is unreal. The mobs that have been marauding the shops in Chicago and other places are the same mobs that'll come to your house for food etc when the SHTF. Initially they won't be the best armed robbers but as more places are taken over and weapons are rounded up by these vermin, they'll match most citizens tit for tat. I made sure that it'll take a long while for the ammo to run out. The cops are already as evil as the bad guys in some cases . He's an example here in South Carolina. This trooper was drunk and shot at a house from a moving car a couple of nights ago. http://www.wyff4.com/news/28346389/detail.html The fact that the Gooberment may become a thing of the past is a good thing. Police, military etc will kill a lot of people initially as they are told that doing so will restore peace. When they finally realize that the government, Wall Street etc is the cause of the domestic strife, that will be the turning point for the military to take over the government. It is then that the USA as we know it will have the greatest probability of becoming a military dictatorship. It will take a man in uniform who loves the Constitution and the Republican form of government more than he loves power to restore it back to the people. Muck About says: Too extreme. There will be pockets of extreme problems, mostly inner cities, but there will also be a lot of places where neighbors band together and provide a prickly place to loot. I don't know how bad it'll get but an individual being broke is bad enough (and I've been broke more than once) but a whole country going broke is some-thing I've never experienced before from the inside. Yes, you read about another Greece default, Zimbabwe, Argentina - a country that does it over and over - and they survive and adapt. Maybe we will too.. Not sure I agree with #6. There may be a backlash against the police, but there are dozens of federal agencies with SWAT capability and the trend toward increased militarization of the local gang of thugs they call cops has increased apace, as has been referenced by numerous articles that have appeared here and in other places. "American cities burned in 1968. As long as the fires and looting is confined to areas that are safely poor and black, the cops won't do much. Should a "smarter class of criminal" decide to lead the zombie hordes to the better sort of gated communities where their real oppressors live, then the cops will rise up and use the complete Majesty of the State against them. And it won't get reported, any more than the guy in Keene NH got reported, or the guy who protested the loss of his house and the courtroom behavior and ethics of the bankruptcy judge in NY, and then called him out on Youtube, and then showed up dead got reported. He sure has called it in re the Fascist State. Be sure to thank your congressman for his vote to approve. Bastards. I figure that everyone who posts (or for that matter, reads TBP) is already on a security list somewhere." 3 American nuclear plants in the West are in danger of flood or fire and that surely must signal the end of the nuclear age or the nuclear rage which puts people in a lot of danger universally. A broadcast rage over the strip search of a 95 year-old woman with cancer. It is time for the foreign vultures running this country to be deported to their homeland in Russia and stop this nasty insane security craze. In the year 1492 Spain expelled them all. Spain expelled all those imposters that called themselves Jewish with their artificial debt. America would discover a new world like Spain did when they expelled their debtors. The same people hold our debt today by expelling them from U.S. most debt would go. to most major problems there is a simple answer including people afflicted with cancer. The secret nuclear facility in Los Alomos New Mexico is almost sure to burn with 300 buildings that may be lost to this wall of raging wild fire, who would have ever dreamed that three of our nu-cle-ar sites could suddenly be in big trouble from fires and flooding. The cry for independent reporting free of Zionist thinking and ultimate news control. The synthetic news monopoly controls the thinking in America and the church with the Rockefellers the ritual of buying up Christian organizations and now more so through the stock market public stock issues. Many think we now need independent news reporting for accuracy and fairness. Fox News By Rupert Murdoch's a Zionist is the worst abuser. News manufacturing by the five majors are all compatible propaganda for Jewish causes. American Congress has been boy toys for 200 years for the Zionist hypocrites to exploit. They own and stifle the news of truth while they play to the churches songs of Israelites. The guillotine awaits the suckers of modern times wearing their sophisticated sunglasses. I heard Barry Goldwater say that the Christian right was the worst thing in America after I had voted for him and it hurt me deeply even though I had never questioned hisnationality as being Jewish. I was just trying to help the Republicans defeat those awful Democrats. There are some voices now even classified liberal calling for independent unbiased news. The medical establishment knows all about you, all they need to know, your finances and the date of your exploration long in advance. They have your picture on file like terrorist. The Department of Education is raising your taxes again by four mills but not all homes, unless you live in a rented house, and on BMW because they are for 50 years tax free. It is silly to argue over a debt ceiling when it is not accurate anyway, it is the imaginary. just turn on your television and watch sports to intoxicates your brain to ease the pain. Become a zombie with their cook in your nose seeing nothing hearing nothing political. "It struck me that the global corporations that basically have superseded the role of governments in many nations - including our own -would probably like to install an updated version of the Lazarus poem on Liberty Island. Here's how it might read: "The 1 Percent Colossus" Like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, gilded gates shall stand A mighty banker with a blow torch, whose flame Shall imprison millions in debt, and his name is Father of Wall Street greed. From his clutching hand Grows worldwide corporations & hedge funds; whose rabid eyes command The air-bridged harbor that the masters of the universe frame. "Damn the groveling unemployed, your poverty is distasteful!" cries he With bilious lips. "Cast away your tired, your poor Your huddled masses who are suckers & leeches, Deport the teeming hordes from our privileged shores of gluttony. Send these, the homeless, the jobless, the tempest-toast to an early grave, I lift my Cayman Islands bank account beside my door of gold! We are the 1 Percent: the chosen ones. Be gone the rest of you. We won; you lost" Of course, current reality no longer validates the original poem that welcomed poor immigrants to partake of the American dream. You can find archaic Lazarus poem, the original," Mark Karlin Editor, BuzzFlash, Truthout." "Yet the FBI recently invited leaders of the fundamentalist church to the Quantico Marine base in Virginia to talk to FBI agents as part of the bureau's counterterrorism training program. But after four sessions this spring, the FBI canceled the arrangement amid criticism from inside the bureau, while church leaders claimed that they had been misled. The church group, led by Pastor Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kan., says its protests are intended to tell the world that God is punishing the U.S. military for America's tolera-nce of homosexuality. The pastor claims to be the prophet of God's wrath. The FBI first invited the church group to address the FBI's law enforcement training classes back in 2008. And initially, there were no apparent problems. But the most recent sessions, including 3 at Quantico & one in Manassass, Va., stirred up controversy. Classroom Sessions-Timothy Phelps, a church leader and the youngest son of Fred Phelps, said he spoke to local law enforcement professionals at the FBI Academy at Quantico and then again to agents who had been in the bureau 3 years or less at a FBI facility in Manassass."