[Dieter122]

unsure.

my biggest concern isnt food or anything like that, it would be Rx medications that many people NEED to live a normal life ( and in some cases, just to LIVE).

Food supplies can be interrupted. Needed drugs for people....cannot.

 

[Dieter122]

Who is actually loaning us money and dont they know we will never be able to pay it back?

the Chinese primarily.

We repay them in a number of ways.

Lot of bits of the US is going to the Chinese surprisingly. Parks, land, etc.

 

[Dieter122]

uncle sam owes about 16 trillion, 1.2 trillion of that debt is to the chinese. the bulk or largest holder of that debt is the federal reserve or in other words, taxpayers. just like in the 80's when everybody said the jap's were buying everything and again in the 90's when the saudis were thought to be buying everything. this is just hysteria. do you really think the chinese will foreclosure on the us goverment.

Isnt hysteria. The Saudis are smart enough to invest in things other than oil which they know will eventually run out / low.

1.2 trillion is still a $hit ton of money. Look at the GDPs of many countries.... puts it in perspective. People have gone to war over MUCH smaller things than a "silly" or "insignificant" 1.2 TRILLION.

im just saying, dont ever discount anything 100%.

 

[Dieter122]

folks have been fantasizing about some form of Apocolypse for millenia.

WWI...WWII....Vietnam....Korea....Katrina.....these were close enough to apocalypses for most people, for those who lived the areas effected by each of these events.

Major natural disasters are just as nasty as wars in many cases also...

 

[Dieter122]

yeah, but folks in this thread are talking about more of a fantastical situation of martial law, NWO-take over, UN invasion, breakdown of the USA, civil war, kinda fantasies.

Breakdown of the US isnt an impossibility. If you think we are "beyond" or "above" that, then you are greatly mistaken. Every empire in history has thought the same, and all have met the same fate in the end.

The Balkanization of the United States is a very real possibility.

Dont forget, though we are a very young nation, that we are one of the oldest democracies that hasnt undergone another revolution and great change.