Preparation ideas for the deeper economic crisis

We are headed for the deep abyss of the Economic crisis, so we have to reinvent our society and the personal framework in which we live. I don’t see how we are going to take the arm chair approach and sit back and let it all “just happen”. We have to share ideas, which this blog is great for. So my thoughts are nothing new:

1) Spend little and save a lot
2) Move outside your comfort zone and develop a circle of friends that have skills you can trade with i.e. a mechanic buddy is good to trade what ever you are good at and so on.
3) Grow a huge garden and learn how to preserve. Become self sufficient; make your own bread, etc.
4) Vote out the idiots. This was supposed to happen last November.
5) Go back to Church and get involved. Develop a sense of community.
6) Demand accountability and transparency for the crimes that have been committed against the Nation.
7) Don’t give up. Follow Ron Paul’s advice and demand honest change.
Down size your home.
9) Families will have to come together. Be good and help each other.
10) Don’t support the police state that is being built. Encourage others in participating in ridiculous juries to exercise reality and quit overloading our justice system, i.e. war on drugs….who cares. Cut back government. Also companies will encourage cleanliness.
11. Get out of the middle east.
12. Invent your occupation.
13. Hang a copy of the U.S. Constitution and hang it on the wall. It soon could go completely away.
14. Help you neighbors.
15. Help the kids. They will never get an education in the government youth propaganda camps.
16. Don’t buy it unless it is made in the Americas.

The ’74 recession was far worse than the ’82 recession but we made it.

The 2008-2010 may at some point be as bad as any of the above recessions. However, it is not yet there. If it does get as bad as ’73-75′ we will think we are in a depression because we have had it so good for so long. For some of you, you just have no idea what a little suffering is like. It is a process of resetting expectations.

One reset may be retirement. The retirement age of 65 was based on the assumption that you would be dead at 65. Now that we live longer, retirement has been adjusted to 67, and it may be adjusted to 70. Many work in some capacity beyond 70 now. Many more will as they will have no choice.

Another reset may be independent living. Multiple generations may have to live in the same home. And of course no second homes.

There are many possible areas where expectations of a better life may have to be reevaluated. Sack lunch. No eating out. No Starbucks. No Vacations to exotic locations. Sounds like the ’60′s doesn’t it.

The economy is now adjusting to the resetting of expectations.
Leisure Travel/Airlines have been hit hard.
2nd home retirement concept developments have been decimated
housing stock demand will decrease as extended families live under the same roof.
Private Schools-not
Starbucks is a safe stock to short.

Its like we all just woke up and realized that we didn’t need that stuff.
Perhaps I will plant a garden on the extra 1/4 acre that I have to now. And perhaps I will abuse my children and make them hoe the garden and help pick the produce.

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