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I am mostly concerned that our economic system and therefore our governments may be on the way to failure. This is probably because I do not really understand what keeps our economy going. I don't understand how we can continue to build wealth when almost everyone I know is employed in the service sector and hardly anyone is building anything. Is it really possible for us to prosper if all we do is perform services for each other (deliver each other pizzas)?
I am also concerned that we will wake up one day soon and find that our money is useless since it is only backed by the good faith of our polititians. Someday I suspect that people with something of value to sell like food will not accept these pieces of paper with pictures of dead presidents printed on them.
I talked extensively with my father and other older relatives before they died about how they made it through the great depression and people were closer to the earth back then. Almost everyone had family or friends associated with farming and there was a lot of bartering going on. My father's family made beer and traded for farm products for several years. I'm afraid that most of us today will have to ask for help from our failed government.
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