Ferfal's book was a definate eye-opener. This website is sweet too, and very much appreciated. Without doubt, high inflation/deflation is on the way, and without doubt, crime will go through the roof. I'm a correctional officer, younger than 40, and ex-infantryman. So little room to write what I wish to write. How do I say this…I'm actually scared and starting to buy the things I'll need because I'm taking this seriously. For example : California is laying off 850 state correctional officers, and releasing 40,000 inmates back into the streets over the next year/year and a half. Of those 40,000, how many will be Surenos? Nortenos? MS-13? Eme? They WONT be able to get jobs…what will happen to California? Rip Torn robbing a bank? RIP TORN?! I thought I was the only person prepping (at work) so I started talking to alot of co-workers…turns out I'm not the only one prepping and it turns out I'm not losing my mind (I think). I dearly hope this is all a fairy-tale…but there's that mathematics-thing getting in my way. Money, basic economics…I'm really creeped out. 15 bank closures in the last week & 2 days…Sam's Club giving 12,000 people the boot…Verizon telling 17,000 employee's to "take a hike"…the local PD telling their officers "not to use ATM's unless it's directly affiliated with your bank; even felon's can legally buy ATM's and re-wire them!"…a friend telling me about his brother, who is a cop in a city about 75 miles south, where the people out of work are now rioting 2 nights a week, and how they're unable to deal with it due to lack of manpower. Because I work in a prison, my awareness is way up there already, and I'm not liking what I'm seeing even in my "nice area". As a child, I spent 4 years living in Philadelphia (5th-8th grades). It was sufficiently rough enough back then, that you needed your head "on a swivel", so-to-speak. I don't need to tell anyone, I think, that living in high-stress environments is stressful! To think that our crumbling economy will bring those Philadelphia crime-rates to our front-doors is terrifying. It isnt fun. And I, for one, am scared.