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Considering all that is going on right now, what are your thoughts on this report?
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwa...rmy/index.html

Does anyone find this curious???

OMG! Very Scary

Perhaps he figures that when we wake up tomorrow and learn that the 401-K we spent 40 years building is worthless that we might be a tiny bit angry. Now i'm really gettin nervous.

I would love to hear Kahuna, Bucco and others expain what they think about this.

So Osh...you talkin' about a King George type of scenario? You know, for our own good?

I think this is one of the issues, rshoffer. If the economy goes under and there is a "Great Depression" again the government is now dealing with a completely different human mentality. The genteelness of the earlier era is long gone and I would be very concerned for the safety of many people as the hardships endured in the that depression are repeated now and even magnified. There aren't many people living on farms anymore to at least grub out food on the table and I'm certain there would be some blood in the streets. Henceforth, our military on our soil....

So while we are distracted by the McCain/Obama election, this stuff goes on.
For those of you that do not have a deep sense of foreboding in the pit of your stomach..I envy you.

I agree, Sam. I have an ugly feeling in the pit of my stomach. They just interviewed a fellow on CNBC who has a pretty good record for predictions in the market. They asked him where he would be invested and he said farmland in the middle of nowhere so he would be away from areas that could be hit by war and strife. Not much comment from the commentator. And all the Nero's in Congress continue to fiddle...

(This interview came after my first post here.)

I agree, Sam. Makes me particularly uneasy just because of what is happening with the markets. And I don't believe we know the whole story there either.

God bless America.
TV will not be in a good spot if this happens unless the developer maintains close ties to the administration in power. Better start those gardens. Look at the gas shortage a couple of weeks ago. Could that happen with food?

Oh boy.

This has to be one of the scariest things I've read about this administration. The idea that US military could be used on US civilians in an "emergency" is truly frightening. Anyone remember Kent State and the agony that caused? How about Nazi Germany and Krystalnacht? This could be ten times worse.

And I'm sure the excuse is that this is a different time and the Armed Forces are needed to protect US civilians from terrorists. My response to that is that there is no military agency in the world that can stop a group of people determined to kill others so long as they have no regard for their own lives.

Oshunluva, "bury one's head in the sand, bury one's head in the sand", after all that did work for the financial markets when this has been coming at us for at least 4 years. Discussion is desired, mocking... not so much.

Osh, This is not the time to be looking at the world through a glass navel.

My cousin lives in the mountains of central Pa... pretty much self sufficient... as he says "off the grid"... he might be a survivor. This is starting to sound like a Stephen King novel.