What Triggers Collapse?

[livingston]

What Triggers Collapse?
A variety of forces will disrupt or obsolete existing modes of production and the social order.
Though no one can foretell the future, it is self-evident that the status quo—dependent as it is on cheap oil and fast-expanding debt—is unsustainable. So what will trigger the collapse of the status quo, and what lies beyond when the current arrangements break down? Can we predict how-when-where with any accuracy?
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: What Triggers Collapse?

 

[Robin]

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

Imagine (if the $ survives long enough) how big that number will be after 8 years of Hillary.

Bllllaaahhhhhhh :vomit:

Our unfunded liabilities are already catching up to our national assets.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

I think people really fall into being complacent. People really hold onto their own personal life experience and think about what is comfortable to think about. Its rare people try to challenge their established thinking. They are likely to fall into the trap of expecting their normalcy bias to just continue on its merry way.

Once things do start changing and people start to recognize it, they may be slow to see the signs around them, but once they do.....it will shatter their expectations and way of thinking and cause panic. When enough people panic I think it will create a system of self sustaining panic where the situation continues to escalate in a downward spiral of increasing velocity.

If people used common sense a lot of the knee her panic reactions could be mitigated on a large scale hedging the effects of adversity.

Now, that may be true but (putting my tin foil hat on) if the economy doesn't natually correct years of artificial stimulation and an obscene amount of unfunded liabilities on its own I think that there are enough evil people in the shadow government(NWO/globalists) that will create a way to give us a shove into chaos so they can try to consolidate power.

 

[meketrefe]

Bubble economies ran by Wall St. scam artists in cahoots with the government.
The rich get richer and the poor poorer.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Bubble economies ran by Wall St. scam artists in cahoots with the government.
The rich get richer and the poor poorer.

That pretty much sums up the last decade.

But hey summer of recovery! It got Obama re elected.....

 

[meketrefe]

This started with Greenspan the mastermind Con artist. So it is much earlier than Obama.
Obama was handed a mess and he didn't do shit, only doubling out debt and further mortgaging the nation.

 

[Phauxtoe]

the Government in Power, will not attack the National Debt, because the president would be very unpopular!!!

the debt will climb until it Crashes off a Cliff, we dont know where that cliff is but it will be an Ugly day!!!

Dont be near any of our Major cities when that day happens, they will pour out of the city and ravage everything in their path like Locust!

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

the Government in Power, will not attack the National Debt, because the president would be very unpopular!!!

the debt will climb until it Crashes off a Cliff, we dont know where that cliff is but it will be an Ugly day!!!

Dont be near any of our Major cities when that day happens, they will pour out of the city and ravage everything in their path like Locust!

If(when) Hillary wins, I don't think our debt can continue its obscene accumulation rates for another 8 years. At the rate Obama increased debt, Hillary may very well double or triple what we have now. That's unfathomable to me. Our unfunded liabilities would be off the charts.

This cannot continue forever. It will fall off a cliff.

 

[Bananabandit]

Hillary being elected.

 

[Frankly]

I'm glad my Timney never collapsed.