I don't consider myself a doom and gloomer but considering that I live in South Florida, I am always prepared for disaster....can food, flash lights, batteries, etc. In 2005 when Hurricane Wilma hit, we lived without electricity for three weeks.....we ate can food, barbequed, fought in the stores with people for water(LOL)...we bathed in my mom's swimming pool...to tell you the truth it was no big deal to me.
Sometimes when I read the news, or come here and read some of the threads I feel like I'm in the twilight zone because what I truly see out "in the real world" doesn't match what I read. In 2001, in Argentina "all hell broke loose".....if you get a chance, recently a documentary of the happenings of Argentina's "collapse" was posted on You Tube(it's posted I believe in twelve parts). Now that was a collapse!!!.....banks closed.....ALL banks.....people banging pots and pans in the streets yelling "WE want our money", people went and hounded politicians day and night at their residences, massive store lootings, police beating up people on the streets, people being kidnapped, food shortages, the president "escaped" via helicopter from "the casa Rosada"(Argentina's White House), there were a whole host of different currencies (different regions used different pesos), inflation skyrocketed, unemployment in the double digit, we had 5 presidents in the span period of I believe one month. I was here when it started, but when I heard from my family, I took off to buy a house. I have learned that it is during these times that you buy...some trains only come by once or if you are lucky twice in a life time. So, you better believe I'm not getting off of this train!! I don't see a collapse or nothing even close. Could it happen? Surely, and I will profit from it. I hate to tell people to stay the course because we are all different...what is right for me may not be right for my neighbor.