Yet Another Bleak Doomer Scenario

Are we destined to be the last generation of Americans to enjoy the life style we have been taught to expect and demand? The past five generations of Americans have, in the main,experienced an American Dream of comfortable retirement, adequate medical attention and the creature comforts that add years to life spans. Is it all coming to an end?

Will our decline, assuming it's already happening, continue as a gradual lowering to Second World status and, perhaps, then slowly diminish to an even lower permanent standard? This could, early on, mimic in many ways the collapse experience of Russia from the USSR to what it now has become. Russia pulled this off rather handily, possibly because life under the Commissars promised little and the Russkies had reduced expectations. Have we, on the other hand, grown to expect way too much from life, for way too long, to land gracefully?

Among us are many who hope to avoid diminishing circumstances by investing in more durable symbols of wealth. Dr. Tom Burnett addresses that notion thusly:

"You may think you are going to get rich investing in silver and gold - or you may think you can protect your wealth by owning it - or you may think that people will stop accepting paper money and no one will be able to buy anything without it. All of that is nonsense.
The same people who stole the equity in your home and your retirement and have been shipping 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month overseas since 1999 are also stealing the last hope of individuals, ounce by ounce, by packaging gold and silver as something that will hold it's value and selling it to people as a hedge against loss. That's nonsense as well."

Burnett goes on to say:

"Here is the secret to the entire affair. This is what no one will tell you and what you won't believe even after I tell you. Precious metal dealers are in business to MAKE MONEY FOR THEMSELVES - not to provide for your future. If one of them thought for a New York minute that the actual VALUE (not the PRICE- there is a huge difference) was going to triple in a year or five years, they wouldn't sell it. EVER. They'd keep it. No one would sell a huge guaranteed profit if they could make more by doing nothing.
The mere fact they are willing to sell it to you means that your cash is more valuable than their metal."

If we remain in a gradual slide, perhaps early symptoms might show up in spasmodic delays in shipments of goods and food stuffs; perhaps, even, the total absence of commodities always available in the past. Certain roads or bridges may be in permanent detour because the funds are not available for repairs. One of these days, if you haven't made payment in advance for protection (shades of Ben Franklin), the local (private) fire company will arrive in time to watch your house burn down. And the Black Ops. minions, now warring for Uncle Sam, will war for you if you pay them enough.

This bleak doomer scenario gets much worse. If we don't have the resources, the energy or the expertise to continue to monitor tens of thousands of nuclear devices and installations and their waste products in perpetuity, survival for anyone will be dicey, at best. Either they are dealt with timely, while we are able, or they will deal with us someday. They are capable of our annihilation any old time, and time is on their side.