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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Who knows.  There are so many factors.  If the U.S. crumbles, then it will 
be a domino effect.  While some folks think China will rise up, I don't 
because they depend on sales to the U.S. and other countries that will fall 
because the U.S. fell.  Plus countries such as Israel, So. Korea, etc. will 
fall.  Perhaps a modern equivalent of the Dark Ages?  The demise of the 
middle and upper working classes and the traditionally defined middle class. 
The poor always survive because they have traditionally gotten by on little 
or nothing.

I really don't give it much thought as there is little I can do to change 
things in the big picture.  So, I prepare my family.  Not in the bugout bag 
sense but rather in the self-sufficient homesteading style.  I'm teaching 
classes in homesteading skills (canning, scratch cooking, etc.) to local 
kids.  It is amazing how few have parents that have a clue.  Next month 
we'll be teaching the kids cold-process soap making.

We've done quilting, sewing (still doing sewing), darning, dying, spinning. 
Last year we taught book repair.  The year before, tanning.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


> What do you see happening as or after the whole thing tumbles down?