Author: Michael Snyder of The
Economic Collapse blog,
Sometimes I think that I sound like
a broken record. I am constantly using phrases such as "get prepared
while you still can" and "time is running out". In fact, I
use them so often that people are starting to criticize me for it. But the
truth is that only a small percentage of people out there are actively taking
steps to get ready for what is coming. Most of the country is not
prepared at all. [With] the great financial crisis of 2008 struck and millions
of people lost their jobs and their homes. Unfortunately, the next
great wave of the economic collapse is going to be even more painful than the
last one. It is imperative that people get prepared for what is on the
horizon, but for the most part it is just not happening.
A lot of it has to do with the
fact that we have such short memories and such short attention spans in America
today. So they are not doing anything to get ready for the immense
economic pain that is coming. The
following are 16 signs that most Americans are completely unprepared for the
coming economic collapse...
#1 Could you come up with
$2000 right now? According to a shocking study that was just
released, most Americans could not...
Forty percent of individuals in
the U.S. said they could not or probably could not come up with $2,000 if an
unexpected need arose, according to research by Atif Mian of Princeton
University and Amir Sufi of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
#2 In that same study, Americans were asked the
following question...
"Do you have 3 months
emergency funds to cover expenses in case of sickness, job loss, economic
downturn?"
An astounding 60 percent of people
that responded said that they do not.
#3 Another study found that
less than one out of every four Americans has enough money stored away to cover six months of expenses.
#4 Some people are actually trying really hard to get ahead,
but admittedly that is really tough to do when we are all being taxed into oblivion.
In fact, it was reported this week that Americans now spend more on taxes than
they spend on food, clothing and housing combined.
#5 Right now, more Americans are dependent on the government than ever
before. In fact, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 49 percent
of all Americans live in a home that currently gets direct monetary benefits
from the federal government.
#6 It is estimated that less than
10 percent of the entire U.S. population owns any gold or silver for
investment purposes. That is a stunning number.
#7 It has been estimated that there are approximately
3 million "preppers" in the United States. But that
means that almost everyone else is not prepping.
#8-16 The following are nine more statistics that come from a
survey conducted by the Adelphi Center for Health Innovation.
As you can see, a significant portion of the population is not even prepared
for a basic emergency that would last for just a few days...
·
44 percent don’t have first-aid kits
·
48 percent lack emergency supplies
·
53 percent do not have a minimum
three-day supply of nonperishable food and water at home
·
55 percent believe local
authorities will come to their rescue if disaster strikes
·
52 percent have not designated a
family meeting place if they are separated during an emergency
·
42 percent do not know the phone
numbers of all of their immediate family members
·
21 percent don’t know if their
workplace has an emergency preparedness plan
·
37 percent do not have a list of the
drugs they are taking
·
52 percent do not have copies
of health insurance documents
What do
you think is going to happen to these people once the economy collapses and
there is chaos in the streets? How are
they going to survive?
After all
of these years of writing about the coming economic collapse, nothing has
changed as far as the long-term outlook is concerned.
We
are still heading toward a complete and total economic meltdown.
But
most Americans continue to have faith in the system, and the mainstream media
keeps assuring them that everything is going to be just fine.
And in
this "dumbed-down" society of ours, most people are perfectly content
to let others do their thinking for them. In America today, only one out of every six Americans can even find
Ukraine on a map of the world. That is how far we have fallen.
In this
day and age, it is imperative that we all learn how to think for
ourselves. The foundations of our society are crumbling, our economic
system is failing and the blind are leading the blind. If we do not learn
to make our own decisions, we are just going to follow the rest of the herd
into oblivion.
In
addition, we all need to start taking a long-term view of things. Just
because the economic collapse is not going to happen this month does not mean
that it is not going to happen. When you step back and take a broader
view of what is happening, it becomes exceedingly clear where we are heading.
Sadly,
most Americans will never do that.
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