Reply #11: This is the speeding train roaring down the track, no brakes... [View All]

[Javaman]

and a brick wall at the end.

When gas goes up to 5 bucks, this country will be in a world of shit.

People will continue to get more and more credit cards to pay for gas and the various items of useless shit they don't need, but they won't cut back on their driving, take mass transit or really think about whether or not they need the crap they buy.

If this trend continues, which I believe it will, I say in about 5 years, the way things are currently going, we as a nation are going to be in a world of shit.

The coming depression won't hit like a bolt from the sky, like in 1929 (actually that didn't either but people were in as much denial then as they are now), this one will creep up on us to the point where one day, the housing market will collapse, cars will be abandoned on the road little by little and people will quietly starve to death behind closes doors so as not to appear embarrassed in public.

We live in some truly strange times.