The Quick Case for Preparedness:

As the old saying goes “there is something wrong in Denmark”.   As many of you know it not just Denmark it is the entire Eurozone that is on a faux life support.   The main culprits right now are the “PIIGS”  Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain.   The problem is that European Socialism does not work.   You can’t spend more money than you could possibly take in or as Margret Thatcher put it (paraphrase) “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”

Greece is the perfect example and major culprit of why Europe is going down the tubes.   The Greek social welfare system is out of control giving its citizens lavish benefits that the country can’t afford.   Socialized health care, generous pensions, and other goodies promised to its citizens can’t be taken back.   Does this sound familiar?   Every time the government tries to reduce these unaffordable treats the population protests and riots ensuring their own eventual economic demise.

Like Greece the other PIIGS as well as the rest of Europe are in a death spiral they can’t get out of.   The politicians bought off the masses with benefits to maintain power.   The masses will not allow those benefits to be reduced.   This puts the politicians in the position of continuing the benefits (they can’t afford) or lose power.   It is an escalating Mexican standoff with inevitable mutually assured destruction as a result.   The stronger economies like Germany, France, and England have to prop up, bail out, and stave off the looming disaster of the collapse of the Eurozone worsening their own economic problems.   And to top it all off France just elected a left wing socialist party that is promising even more goodies.

Now step back and think about what is going on in the U.S.; drastic expansion of food stamps, $16 trillion debt, Obamacare, unemployment benefits that never end, and a government that keeps spending more.   The bottom line is that in all likelihood Europe will fail before we do but we are trying to catch up at break neck speed.   Because of the connections of world economy; Europe’s collapse will spill over to our shores driving us into economic crisis.   The U.S. 2008 partial melt down drove Europe into economic free-fall that it still has not recovered from (not that it matters since the Socialist economic model always fails).

An economic catastrophe is bad enough but such an event will surely and quickly usher in social collapse as well.   Ask yourself this question:  “what percentage of the U.S. population is totally dependent on  commerce (grocery stores, department stores, etc.) for providing the all their basic needs (food, clothing, shelter, water, etc.) to survive?”   At the best and most conservative estimates it is well above 50% and higher in urban areas (more than 200 million people).   What will they do to survive if commerce shuts down?   What will you do to survive?   Your answer should be to “prepare”.

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