I tend to look at it this way: the dollar will continue to inflate. Already the international community is talking about dumping the dollar as the go-to medium of exchange. So what's left? The euro? The euro is a joke, and if the dollar goes, the euro will fail as well.
Once our dollar reaches a critical point, it's value will drop, and food, commodities will go off the regular market and onto the black market. Medium of exchange will be gold, silver, and diamonds at the higher end of our economy, and at the lower end, our end, medium of exchange will be driven by need and desperation. What will our medium of exchange be? Whatever we've got. The grocery shelves will empty in a matter of hours, once the panic sets in. People have to eat, so whatever we have to do to feed and protect ourselves and our families we will do. Think you'll know what to do? Trust me, you won't. People will become angry, desperate, irrational. We don't think well under that kind of pressure.
When it reaches this point, don't expect our government with it's access to military might, to sit idly by. Remember Katrina. Remember what they did to that little old lady, and the other people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taU9d26wT4&feature=related And no, The Posse Comitatus Act will not prevent a declaration of martial rule. If martial law is declared, we have no rights, just do as we're told. All dressed in black, they will come in the night after our guns.
They come, break down the door if necessary, scaring the crap out of the kids, and they're in your face and they want your guns, and will take them, if they can find them. Remember, the guy in black with the AR is "just doing his job". And maybe the wife is scared, for the kids, and she says, "Honey, just give them the guns". Game over.
Looters, government goons, and our own sheer desperation will weaken us, make us fearful, however outwardly we keep up the good fight. An individual is very, very vulnerable. People will begin to band together (safety in numbers). What about gasoline?
Do I know what I'll do ? (assuming I live long enough, which is unlikely) in such a situation? Nope. If I had to guess, I'd probably try to put space around myself, away from towns, etc. - assuming I could get past the checkpoints which have by now sprung up all over the country. Gas is gonna be a problem. Beyond that, I just don't know. I'm 70 years old, so odds are, I won't live to see this, but that don't mean I'll give up. I'm learning how to reload & will pass that along too, along with my guns when the time is right. If you are in your 20's, 30's maybe even 40's, you may well have to go through hell. This is not the America I grew up in.
My motto is: "learn and teach". It's always worked for me.
