Modern governments have a tendency to make precisely the same mistakes with regard to currencies.
“Act Before Things Exist”
But as a nation approaches a systemic collapse, the sheep must be kept from straying to other pastures and, for millennia, governments have created pens to contain them.
If It Gets Bad, I’ll Go to Idaho
Unfortunately, if people are to escape becoming casualties of an economic crisis, they must make plans and implement them in advance of the crisis.
The Final Blowout Sale
But, once a year, a Final Closeout Sale would be held. Prices were far lower than the cost to manufacture the goods and this would be the one and only time in the year when extreme bargains were to be had.
“The Bank Was Saved, and the People Were Ruined.”
History shows us that the present situation is not an accident. It is the repetition of a very successful method by which bankers, with the complicity of governments, create boom-and-bust cycles.
A Question of Timing
Once the warning signs begin to appear, it’s important to remember that, historically, the process never reverses itself. An apathetic population is not one that will suddenly decide to roll up its sleeves and get the country, once again, on a productive footing.
Get an Education
As has always been true, education can be the key to open up the future. Whether it does will depend, in large part, on what definition of education you pursue.
The Blind Leading the Clueless
We must be prepared to study our leaders’ actions, to be prepared to be contrarian and, most importantly, to question everything.
The American Republikflucht
Republikflucht was the term given to those who sought to leave the GDR. It’s significant that the translation into English is “desertion from the republic.”
The Freedom Fairy
“the most natural tendency seems to be to irrationally hope that the Freedom Fairy will come along, wave the magic wand, and send the country back to a time when most everyone worked for a living”