Are we headed for a major economic depression?

[Athena]

Quote by: RVonse Some more food for thought. I am now wondering if many of the freedoms we are rapidly losing has more to do with the preparation of our internal collapse than terrorism and that this could be the real reason behind the Patriot Act. I am at least very confident that conterfeiting is not the real reason new currancy was issued and they are no longer reporting M3 which is very suspicious to me. Everything is so under wraps and the media is eerily silent about this subject. Could it be the insiders are seeing the handwriting that an economic and societal collapse is now a forseeable possibility and they're preparing for it. This could be the right time to start fitting me for a tinfoil hat.

Agreed, you are very paranoid, but not alone. Right now Bush's ratings are plummeting. Oh gee, war in Iraq is not a 3 month victory, but we have to pay for years and years for this foolish, at the expense of schools, housing, medical care and Social Security. Well, I'll be a son of gun, oil is finite and does have something to do with our economy, and Reagon lied to us when he said we don't need to conserve and began granting weapons to the mid east, including gifting Israel with nuclear weapons, and our lying media wants us to believe if Iran gets nuclear ability, it will start an arms race! I shouldn't say lying media.
I struggled with a local editor to get him to start informing the public years ago, and he honestly was ignorant and truly believed a false economic explanation, but hey, not even economic college professors would look at the reality of oil and economics, and like preist were teaching false economics and defending what they teach.

Excuse me- this issue is pushing a few of my panic buttons, and I am being an active volcano at the moment. This is like Rome. Those at the bottom know something is very wrong, while those at the top are sure Rome is the greatest empire on earth. When housing goes from $34,000 for a nice home, to over $100,000 in a matter of a few years, something is really wrong. It is an economy out of control. Wages have not increased at the rate of cost of living, and economic statistics are lying to us. GNP might be up, but our standard of living is going down.