Doomsday opinion

[Bunny]

So I was very bored, LOL, and started watching doomsday preppers. Some of these guys ideas are absolutely off-the-wall insane, others are actually very well thought through. My question is, how do you think doomsday will occur?do you believe it will be a society breakdown, astroid hitting earth, solar flares, even semi-local situations such as Yellowstone? Just a thought was just wondering what you guys think my personal belief will be something from space but then again I am a space nerd lol

[Wulf202]

Theres a whole sub forum just for the tin foil guys

[Bunny]

Shoot sorry, I couldn't find it unless the government took it down tinfoil tinfoil

[rbeau30]

It probably won't be one lone thing. I think for it to happen it could be a few things happening at once or in quick succession. I am not closed minded to anything so I am doing my best to stay self-reliant overall. And less reliant on society.

[Bunny]

Very good point, I have never really looked into this. I really don't know where to start?

[rbeau30]

Very good point, I have never really looked into this. I really don't know where to start?

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Visit the Preparedness section of this forum. :-D

Get some ideas, get your mind thinking, ask more questions.

[newracer]

US economic collapse.

[ChunkyMonkey]

US economic collapse.

It's a matter of when. Uh oh

[KestrelBike]

[Economic Collapse] It's a matter of when. Uh oh

Yeah, we're pretty screwed. For 2014, they're estimating a $649 Billion budget deficit. This is better than the previous obummer years: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals

2009 $1.413 trillion
2010 $1.294 trillion
2011 $1.300 trillion
2012 $1.087 trillion
2013 $680 billion [average GWB year was $221 billion deficit]

If you take all of the expenses that make up that deficit, there are really only 4 large items:
Dept of HHS (medicare) 26%
Social Security 25%
Dept of Defense 16%
Dept of Treasury (roughly 75% of this is paying interest on our debts) 13%
The minor crap: Dept of Agriculture (paying subsidies to big agro, no shit) 4%
The rest is about 2% or less: Transportation; Labor; Education; Homeland Sec; Dept of Housing & Urban Dev; DOJ (just 0.8%). Things like the Nat. Science Foundation gets only 0.2% of the budget (NASA gets ~0.4%).

Imagine if you went crazy and cut the Department of Defense's budget in half (this would *never* happen). At $580 billion (FY 09/30/14 amt), you only took $290 billion from the budget deficit so theres still a ~$400 billion deficit. Medicare and Social Security are entitlements. Beyond the obvious negative connotation we have with that word, it means that it's beyond the control of the budget, there would have to be laws passed to cut those amounts that are "owed" to the recipients. In short, we're on an inexorable path towards default on our loans with china. Wonder what will happen when we cannot pay them, or they have an economic meltdown of their own and come looking to us to cash in their chips. (remember why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor: We stopped selling them oil)

[davsel]

Worldwide economic collapse followed by or in conjunction with WWIII.

Start with the necessities - shelter (away from urban area), water (natural source or large storage), food (garden, hunting land, and large storage), guns and ammo (assume you have that covered).