What life could possibly be like after an economic meltdown and martial law

I don't know why, but I have always been interested in what life could possibly be like if some of the talked about conspiracies actually have happened. Below is only what I have been thinking lately, and I believe it is still fairly tame though. Please read, and let me know what you think. Also, let me know what you think what life would be like. You can add to or subtract from what I said. It would be interesting to put in the why you think things would happen that way also.

Many already know inflation is increasing every year. The FEDs keep creating billions each year to try to keep the economy afloat for now. As more money keeps being pumped into the economy, the less our dollar is worth. The more we have to earn later on to keep the same standard of living. Eventually something has to give. The shadow government and ultra-wealthy are more than willing to see us go into another economic depression whether it is created by inflation, a stock market crash, a housing bust which is currently happening, or etc.

Those who have mortgages and/or are deeply in debt will be hit the worst. Owing your home outright isn't going to help if our money becomes worthless through various economic factors crashing down around us. Most people would loose their homes. Having your mortgage paid off isn't going to help any.

The homes we buy, we don't truly own in the first place. If we really owned our own homes after the mortgage is paid off, then we would never have to worry about the government taking away our home even if we became penniless.

Because of property taxes, our homes that were paid for by our sweat, blood, and tears can now be taken away if we can't pay the taxes. If our money becomes worthless, I would say most homeowners would become homeless whether they owned their home out right or not. Landlords could easily loose their properties if their money was practically worthless.

This could make another big depression worse than great depression, and would open the way for martial law to be implemented. Most people would be out on the streets either kicked out of their houses or evicted with no lawful way to obtain shelter. There will be millions of empty houses. I could actually envision people becoming squatters in what was previously their own homes.

The police force wouldn't really be able to do anything about it, because there would be too many of squatters. The police themselves would practically be in the same situation as everyone else. Chaos would ensue, especially if people couldn't even work a day and be able to buy food for that day either. The only thing the government would probably think of to do is to round up all the citizens and put them in temporary shelter in a controlled environment, whether it be camps or FEMA trailer parks like in Katrina.

Then the government would have a chance to get rid of us or retrain us. Part of the retraining would include getting chipped or having some sort of permanent ID placed on your body to be able to track all of your movements. You would not be able to eat, talk, or sleep without them knowing about it. They would force you to retrain your mind to what they want you to think, and make you become healthy. If resistance is met, they always have the choice of getting rid of you. Seeing spouses, children, and other relatives will be a privilege and not a right.

Of course they would have work camps. I wouldn't be surprised if they took retrained or mostly retrained workers out to the houses to either knock them down or fix them up for the rich who didn't get rounded up. The rich would easily obtain the houses for pennies on the dollar. Now they would also have free labor from the work camps.

Then when they (those who are now in power) retrained enough people and reformulated the money (either by taking billions out of circulation or creating a new form of money such as the whispered about Amero), then they will let the new citizenry come back and let the people buy the rights to live in a particular house. This would let them retain the valuable proprities, and accumulate even more wealth through monthly payments that would look like regular mortgage payments. Inspections and repairs would be mandatory with the right to live in the house. Of course with the rights the owners would still have to pay property and other taxes, except this time they would even be more expensive.

If you miss one payment, you would be forced to go back to one of the camps. If the house fails an inspection or they find something in the house that is against any of their new laws, then they can force you to go back to one of the camps. If the people can't afford to move out of the camps, they can continue to live in the highly regulated camps that more resembles prisons. No matter where one lived, parents would be allowed to see their children and give them basic care, but they would not be allowed to be their main care givers or allowed to teach them in any way. The government will now be their main care givers, and "teach" them everything the child will need to know.

I could also see having to buy the rights to be able to move. To move, you have to already have a job waiting for you. They wouldn't want you to waste resources having to travel long distances to go to work. They could also implement having to buy the right to travel from one town or city to another, with extra fees for traveling in the wrong direction because you got lost, and wasted precious gas and oil resources. They would limit how much you travel. You better hope to be living near your relatives in the first place, if they are still alive.

I can envision that they would regulate not only how much food we can buy, but also what types of food we can buy. We could still possibly have access to computers and a highly regulated internet. It would make it look like they were giving us a choice of where we are getting our news and information from. When in reality they are just offering us a choice between zoning out in front of the TV or zoning out in front of the computer playing games and reading the information they want us to read.

For them everything is about extreme power, control, wealth, and greed. Humans are only as good as what they can produce for them. If a human can not produce anything, then they are worthless. The humans are just taking up valuable space, and the valuable time of others who are productive. Unproductive people are not even considered human.

Yes, the middle class is vanishing, dollar is plunging in value, deficit has grown to the moon, baby boomers are starting to drain social security...inflation(doesn't even include energy) grows yearly..war is always in the wind. My favorite line of your post >>

Humans are only as good as what they can produce for them. If a human can not produce anything, then they are worthless.

It should make us all reflect. Moreover as a country who has seen our leadership in dozens of industries such as steel, automobiles, computers overtaken not by one foreign competitor but sometimes several. At least the US is still #1 in cigarettes, military weapon systems, porn....you know the stuff that counts

I've thought it will be kinda like the movie 28 Days Later...

Originally posted by BlackProjects
Yes, the middle class is vanishing, dollar is plunging in value, deficit has grown to the moon, baby boomers are starting to drain social security...inflation(doesn't even include energy) grows yearly..war is always in the wind. My favorite line of your post >>

Humans are only as good as what they can produce for them. If a human can not produce anything, then they are worthless.

It should make us all reflect. Moreover as a country who has seen our leadership in dozens of industries such as steel, automobiles, computers overtaken not by one foreign competitor but sometimes several. At least the US is still #1 in cigarettes, military weapon systems, porn....you know the stuff that counts

Actually the Japanese have the porn market now. Have you ever seen some of their porn sites? Wicked and totally FUBAR! Those guys are sick!

Originally posted by Raoul Duke
I've thought it will be kinda like the movie 28 Days Later...

More like 28 Weeks later! If you think about it- both movies are quite amazing- but the sequel seemed more "real" to me.

Originally posted by dk3000


More like 28 Weeks later! If you think about it- both movies are quite amazing- but the sequel seemed more "real" to me.

Really I had the exact opposite reaction, lol. I liked the first one more, and I thought it was more realistic.

I haven't seen 28 days later. I may look into it, since it sounds like some type of horror movie. I don't watch them anymore. For something like this, I would go read the plot though if it is online somewhere.

Sometimes I wonder if the shadow government has their way, if it wouldn't be worse than during WWII and the concentration camps. Since WWII, we have come along way in our technology. It frightens me to think of some of the differences that very well could happen in the camps back then to what could happen now, especially if Gualtimo is any indicator of what they have planned.

Sometimes the only thing I feel like I can do is just live day by day hoping and praying nothing happens. The Bible has a line that really seems to fit this monstroity the shadow government seems to have become.

Who can fight against it?

PS. A little off the topic:
Black Project - You actually put a smile on my face for a change. I actually created a line someone could call their favorite.

What you will see in an economic collapse:
Mass unemployment, mass prostitution, mass theft, mass drug trafficking, mass voilent crime.

Child labout will be re-instated, occupational saftey will be non-existant, 8 hour work day will become 10-14 hour work day, fair wage will be obliterated.

Massive dissent and political unrest will be met by union/strike busters, militia men and the military. Mass arrests, beatings, political assassinations will be common place.

In short, the hard earned democratic rights of the Western World will crumble with the economy, for what good is political democracy without economic democracy?

It will be the 1890's and 1900's all over again.

[edit on 22-11-2007 by InSpiteOf]

reply to post by Mystery_Lady


First off I think the big plan is to cull the herd.However evil it may sound,it is going off with out a hitch.Americans especially live in a bubble.The land of milk and honey.We are kept deaf,dumb,and blind,so as for this plan to work.One way or another the planets population will decrease in size,very fast and very soon.Be prepared,be cautious,for only the meek shall inherit the earth,and a lot of rich bastards.
Peace and Mercy

one word




"Jericho."



funny thing I reflected on while watching this show is..

the heavy anti-gun push you hear nowadays.

if you want people to eventually kill themselves off while barbarically warring with one another over local resources... you'd probably be THROWING all the guns you could muster at them..

a-la "Zardoz"


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