It is time to talk about December 21, 2012 and how similar
things are just before the 1929 great depression. I have to admit it is scary when you look at
how similar things are. The biggest one
is that most of the world finances seem to be controlled by 1% of the
population, both now and then. I can see
how this is a real problem. The people
who have the money to make the changes that are needed don’t want anything to
change. They have what they need and don’t
want to change that, or give up the control they have. Simply put - why would the person (or people)
on the top want to do anything to change that?
There is more money sitting in banks doing nothing then there is in the economy
being used. One important thing the
people with the money have forgotten – you cannot make and sell things to
people if they don’t have money.
Food bank lines look much the same now as they did during the great depression.
People who want change are not in a position to create
change, unless they force a change. Many
people are afraid and are starting to rebel all over the world. There is anger, destruction and a lot of
fear. Many people feel helpless and
angry so they lash out at easy targets.
Some are trying to make life better, others have given up and are not
trying to do anything, and they expect things to go bad so why try or care
about anything? I see it every day, not
just on the news but in my neighbourhood.
The second biggest similarity is the drought and other
natural disasters (and some not so natural) that have destroyed much of our
food sources. A lack of money combined
with a lack of food – that is a bad combination. People will do what they need to so they can
feed their family, even kill others for food.
The lack of oil is creating an increased cost of food, from putting it
into the ground, harvesting it, transporting it and converting it into “food”
we buy at stores. This means it is
harder to get food, the cost keeps going up.
Now with crops being destroyed food costs are going to be even more expensive. Wars are already being started over “land”
between China, Japan and Taiwan.
However, it is really about being able to fish around the Islands – so it
is about food. In the Middle East it is
about oil, but really it is about being able to keep the economy going, farming
and getting food to people.
How did we get out of the last depression – war! So it is not surprising that war is a common
worry, and is actually starting in many places.
Countries are going to war with each other. In Canada Montréal is trying to separate from
Canada again. Populations are starting
to rebel against their Governments.
People are afraid and angry.
I knew more than a year ago that something bad was going to
happen. I also felt that it was going to
be caused by people; either greed or fear would be the cause for most of the
bad things that were going to happen.
Other than a few natural disasters I still feel that most of the easy to
see upcoming problems are being caused by people. That does not change the fact that we are in
trouble! I don’t know what is going to
happen, I do feel that we are going to be sucked back into another great depression,
and all that comes with it – death, war and drastic changes.
I know what we are doing to try and protect ourselves and
our family. We don’t have money to move,
or get to a better place but we are doing what we can. We have ideas of what to do if things go bad,
but no real plans because we don’t know exactly what is going to happen. There are just too many possibilities to
worry about them all. We concentrate on
what we can do, and changed how we do things now. We are not going to let fear win; we are
going to concentrate on survival of whatever happens.
I think people need to talk about their fears and what they
do if things go as bad as we think they will.
Please comment and let me know your fears, expectations and what you are
going to do to survive the changes to come.
