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joyful1:

--- Quote from: Stevernator on March 26, 2008, 06:10:20 AM ---Even still, I think it would be wise to be aware and be prepared just in case.
Kind of like wearing a seatbelt, ya know?

--- End quote ---

;) I hear ya bro! and yes, I definitely wear seat belts, lock my car and buy  insurance....because, unless you're a prophet, you have no idea what tomorrow will bring...I'm just saying its a good idea, especially for you young folks who have so much responsibility now, to resolve within yourselves that you are not going to let it worry you....lock your car and walk away. Its a sensible thing to do. Worrying about every little bump in the road will only wear out your adrenaline gland prematurely! :)

God's peace be to you and yours!
Joyce :)

Matthew 6:34
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Chuck:
What concerns me as much as anything is the price of gasoline.  I believe the continued elevation of fuel prices will cause increases in food, trash pick up, delivery of products, etc.  Rhetorical question......how will someone making minimum wage afford to drive to work when the price of gas nearly doubles in a 12 month period?  Of course the fuel companies continue to make record profits......nearly as much as Joyce Meyer's each year!   ;D

gmik:
Ha!!! ;D

Robin:
This is the 3rd time I've seen this happen. 4 years ago I told everyone it was time to buy gold. I never have the money to do it though.

It seems there is always a killing in the real estate market. Then it slows down and the bottom falls out. Then gold increases and gasoline goes sky high or there is a gasoline shortage. Then there is a long recovery period and it happens all over again.

The difference this time are the bad loans and so many people losing their homes because of it. Even the lenders are losing their homes because they were forced out of business.

I read that it is good to have small gold coins on hand if something does happen. The article said it would be the only way to purchase anything. I never have money to do that either though so I guess I'll just go with God's plan.

carol v:
I'm a stock trader so watching it everyday. The Fed makes everything worse. It drives me crazy that we are bailing out the banks who set this in motion. Alan Greenspan was particularly guilty in this subprime fiasco and isn't it convenient that he decided to "retire" about 2 months before the...uh-hum...stuff hit the fan.

The deflation of the dollar is a huge problem. We also let lobbyists run the country. Let's take the corn growers as an example. First they get billions in subsidies which enable them to invent and produce megatons of that wonderful substance known as high fructose corn syrup making the nation fat as pigs on vacation. NOW, which drives me nuts, they have forced our President to make one of the stupidest decisions ever known by man -- to mandate the increase of Ethanol as fuel for our cars. Truly, ethanol is about the stupidest idea man has ever had and could be the famine for us all. And the President has actually mandated this as law. We need to move the first primary out of Iowa.

Renewables should be air and sun but never plants of any kind. Even the switchgrass and mesquite trees will change the ecosystem of the entire planet. And burning our food supply in our cars...dumb. They are stripping the rainforests even faster than usual to plant more corn and soybeans. Bye bye water. Say goodbye to land and crop rotation. Hello more toxins in the air with fewer forests, trees etc. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Can you tell this bugs me :-\ The high food prices can be laid squarely on the door of this stupid "renewable" strategy.

If we don't have more nucleur power plants for electricity soon the lights are going to go out. It's clean, efficient and safe. France has been almost 100% nucleur for a decade now. Except for Chernobyl which had no safety standards and was very poorly constructed, there has been no one killed at all by nucleur power.

Oh...I really just wanted to say that buying small silver coins is always a good idea. Anything before 1964 is silver. Don't save anything after that. Wish I had all those mercury dimes I took for granted.

I appreciate all the great comments with scripture. Not my focus on this post but as we worry about our kids and our own futures it is truly the most glorious thing to know that even the bad stuff is God's plan and has a glorious purpose.

Carol

Whew...I feel better now ;)

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