My bet.

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I hear about the economic situation. Most of my fellow bloggers at least touch on it, some of them (you) are focused almost exclusively on it. Why prep if not for, pretty much, that... at this point anyway. Anyway, I do have some things I feel need to be said.

Do I believe we are in an economic free-fall and potential TEOTWAWKI situation? Yes. Absolutely, we are there, further, "we" are speeding up the fall. The US dollar, among many others, are problematic more so overseas but coming to a city near you. The dollar, essentially, is not trusted. It should not be, but then it never should have been. Any currency, really, is a means of ramping production, creating a means of survival, or other such business. To vest one's purpose or sole means of survival in the flow of a piece of paper, or rock, or bits of metal... is suicide. You cannot eat paper. THAT is the problem, as much in America as anywhere.

As well, when people gain access to control through a cultural vestment in an absurd object, the games will begin. Does any one group or man control anything? Yes and no. There are loose groups, governments, organizations, and individuals who hold great sway... over the worlds "paper" (money). Like when dealing with a bank, you cannot beat the house. Banks are better at making money, in the long run, than even gambling. Actually, gambling is a means of banking, just faster. And, banks are better at it. However, these groups can only claim power over paper, they do not control individuals or other such. Here is were politics steps in.

Politics, in this scenario, makes it so that an individual cannot create a means or product by which to amass wealth. It is not complete or absolute, yet, in America, but it is getting there. By requiring permits, inspections, legal hoops to jump, and other manner of prevention, only people with the "paper" to fly a kite can get into the action. This limits entrepreneurship. Corruption does not help. The next time you meet a real inventor, ask them about the risks of losing their work through the system, one way or the other. This is politics, though it goes beyond this.

The stimulus is a part of the problem currently. I should say stimuli. These monstrosities, if thought up by incompetent economists, in part, was also adopted by the fifth column. This was a means of socializing everything from the banking to the auto industry, and much further abroad. This part, however, seems to have been mostly rejected by businesses and citizens. How much has been socialized, though, we will not know for a long time. This might just be the seed. Once on the tit, often industries can not recover. We will see.

My bet? My bet is simple. I bet that, with a deregulation and defunding boom the American economy not only can but will recover in record time. Paper is irrelevant. It means exactly what it is, paper. People not only can but will figure out a way in which to cause wealth to flow so that production, technology, and services may go forward with or without a national currency. Putting it another way, those who live their lives based on currency are no more wrong then people who are betting currency as we know it is needed to create wealth. That, my friends, is a big bad hard mistake.

The question is, will the freshmen do their job or just knuckle-shuffle another poor play which requires yet another bunt to the socialists? I guess that depends on something big. Is America, now and if so forever, a socialist state run by corrupt politicians and big players and groups? I do not know that answer. But I would bet my home on my suggestion. I simply hope we get the chance to see the bet played out.

Even a nuclear warhead can be predetonated or otherwise destroyed on the way to the mark. Why would an economic Armageddon be any different? TEOTWAWKI is here, but for good? We will see.