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I see it coming too, but am experiencing some inability or unwillingness to act.
If none of my peeps are anything but sheep(s), do I really want to stick

around? It is all happening in slow mo so far but, as The Chosen said, it is

only because of unprecedented intervention- literally buying time- and not

that much, either. I think 2010 will be pivotal. Our infrastructure, economy,

medical systems and tattered safety net are all much more delicate than

most of us are willing to think. It is said that you never really know how

interconnected the parts of a complex system are until it starts to break

down. That has been staved off in the short term, but that could and

probably will change breathtakingly quickly at some point in the not too

distant future.
Many of us are insulated, to a degree, from the changes so far but when one

in eight Americans is getting assistance just to eat, things are already

breaking down. I hate being a doomer but can't see myself as a pollyanna

either. I'm not terribly competitive or particularly strong physically. I

wouldn't, I think now, battle it out for survival against my neighbor. And I

have trouble believing that the same neighbor will cooperate with me to

make it. So what to do? I'm seeing headlights, and freezing, and all while

trying to deal , again literally, with deaths and taxes, daily life, many

conflicting sources of info, limited means and great sadness for all the

suffering around me. How the **** can I be expected to be able to do , or even know what

is necessary to do in such a situation? I ask you.