Take a moment from your regularly scheduled dose of daily optimism, and look on the dark side.
The recent political events in Greece, in which a stable government was not formed, requiring whole new rounds of voting, have received some attention on the nightly news. But there’s still a feeling of “it can’t happen here.”
That’s a great disservice. Because it can happen here.
And this is not just “political instability.” We’re not talking about a political hot potato going nuclear. We’re talking about complete financial implosion. That’s what happens when government is involved in everything.
“Conservatives” and “progressives” have set up for us a house of cards. So what is now happening in one of the great cradles of Western civilization is likely to happen to the whole of today’s big-government-based civilization.
How bad can things get? Well, for chilling reminders of what a true collapse is like, consult the Economic Collapse Blog. A recent article gave us a top ten list of “things that we can learn about shortages and preparation from the collapse in Greece.” The top five are frightening enough:
- Food shortages can actually happen (indeed, have already begun in Greece, starting with the prisons — and remember, America has more prisons than anybody)
- Medicine is one of the first things to become scarce (which is bad, if you require meds to live)
- The power grid goes down (which means almost everything goes down)
- You can’t even take water for granted (and you can’t live without water)
- Your credit and debit cards will probably stop working
So, congrats to Michelle Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, et al. — they won’t have to preside over the next great crisis. Nor we endure them.
Hey, look on the bright side.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.