Interesting course

[Guest]

Hi All, I ran across this course recently and found it to be disturbing but very interesting. How about a few look at it and we can have a discussion afterwards. It is made up of twenty videos and can be taken in small sections, the whole thing takes a few hours. Go to web address below and click on crash course in the upper left.

http://www.chrismartenson.com/

Bob

[Guest]

I have watched approximately 14 chapters. I nodded off twice. Alot of interesting info. The total debt per family at over $700,000 is staggering.
Thanks for the read. I'll probably finish it tomorrow.:beer3:

[Guest]

I finished all of them including chapter 20. Lot of good information to ponder, however he is still using data the way he wants to support his theory. He certainly raises some good points. Doesn't offer any solutions or actions for you to take, even though he says he will. My guess is he publishes a news letter or something to get money other then the donation he requests at the end. If he is right, everyone's way of life will be distroyed as we know it today.

[Guest]

Hi All, I ran across this course recently and found it to be disturbing but very interesting. How about a few look at it and we can have a discussion afterwards. It is made up of twenty videos and can be taken in small sections, the whole thing takes a few hours. Go to web address below and click on crash course in the upper left.

http://www.chrismartenson.com/

Bob
BobFL - Thanks! Definitely, very interesting. It opens up discussion on several issues, such as:

1. Guns and Butter. There's no question that wars spur inflation, but wars are not unilateral. As a result, they have proven to be inevitable. Sad truth is that small wars occur so that larger ones are avoided - and while that may not be comforting or desirous, it is real.

2. Demographic Pyramid. The why the current pyramid has been turned trapezoidal is crucial to any correction. As this is an historically unnatural phenomena indicates that society did this to itself via an unnatural act. I can only think of one, and the mathematics of what an additional 40-50 million under-30 persons would mean to reforming the pyramid are obvious. So, we may have placed ourselves in a no-other-choice situation - import 30 million or so immigrants to fill in the holes in the demographic pyramid foundation.

3. Augmenting the Oil Supply. I can't dispute Mr. Martenson's numbers. However, he seems to view alternative sources only in a one-for-one substitution for oil, especially in his description of the nuclear option. It would seem that more logical that all of the alternatives need to go forward full-throttle, with each mitigating to some degree our current oil dependence. It won't solve it, but some is definitely better than nothing.

4. The Paper Money Printing Press. When the collateral remains the same, and the printed money supply keeps growing, then it takes more of the latter to buy the former. So, were the bailouts nothing more than economic artificial respiration applied to a bleeding economy (e.g., wrong first aid technique considering the injury)? If so, the worst is yet to come.

Would definitely recommend taking the time to view Mr. Martenson's crash course. It does provide interesting history and disturbing view of today and tomorrow.