How are you going to handle your child crying in hunger? Are you prepared to tell your child 'I am sorry I don't have anything for you'? Countries like Venezuela and Argentina have gotten used to super hyper inflation. That's when your fiat currency loses its value to the point it takes a week's wages to eat one day's worth of calories. Venezuela has been in this boat for over a decade because their government got tunnel vision with the money oil was bringing in. Hugo Chavez focused so much on the oil revenue that he let the agriculture sector slide into disrepair. Lebanon has entered the same field as Argentina. The currency's value is going to hell in a handbasket.
People in the UK are seeing some strange things happen. Aisles being rearranged completely. I am not talking about the usual move stuff so the peasants spend more. No! I am talking about a beer display where candy bars should be. Shelves removed to make a cereal section bigger. I have seen this trick at my local Walmart. Yesterday it was as if the management had just had enough of everything. Christmas being pushed on top of Halloween stopping only for Black Friday. Shelves empty in different sections of the grocery area.
Everytime I walk through a grocery store I am reminded of pictures on Google of the first supermarkets here in America. I am also reminded of Sergie from the Ushanka Show on YouTube. He talks about how the stores were set up in Ukraine where he grew up. If you look at black and white photos of these stores today and what Sergie described. His parents keep him and his brother fed.
I'll ask you again, are you ready for a day when you have limited choices at the store? Are ready to handle having the military at the doors of stores to prevent fighting? Are you prepared for a time when rationing comes home to America, again? These are questions we had better start preparing for the answers to come. As a parent, there's nothing grotesque for me to do so my daughter eats. Even though she's 18.
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