Most Americans alive today have never had to deal with scarcity. Sure there have been times of short supply, but they never lasted very long.

July 26, 2011 – Most Americans alive today have never had to deal with scarcity. Sure there have been times of short supply, but they never lasted very long. And if you had enough money they never even existed. When something is truly scarce, however, there is simply not enough to go around – and there never again will be.

Over the next 50 years scarcity will become an ever more dominant part of life. There are hundreds of scenarios that would seriously challenge our survival, yet the few who take the threat seriously are dismissed as paranoid lunatics.

Is it paranoid to have flood insurance when you live in a flood plain? Insure your home and belongings against fire and theft or your car against injury and damage to others? It would be foolish not to, but a great many people fail to take even those simple measures because they assume somebody will always step in and bail them out.

It follows that the reason most Americans see no need for survival preparedness is they believe the government would never let things get so bad. The same government that can’t even make its mind up to pay the bills. The government that is rapidly driving our country headlong into a crisis of scarcity brought about by the overabundance of cash.

Long before predictable shortages of fuel, food, and water start wreaking havoc on our society hyperinflation might well have already made everything scarce. And it begins with the most basic of necessities – food.

Profit margins on the things we eat are slim, and with runaway inflation producing and distributing food to the masses quickly becomes unprofitable. Very few will have the enormous quantities of legal tender it will take to feed their families. Some will have gold to spend and that will get them through. And others will be able to live off the land, assuming they are equally capable of defending what is theirs.

Everybody else – and there will be a whole lot of them – will be in trouble. Think of the rage over petty issues you see every day, then imagine what it would be like if tens of millions people were deprived of food. Are you paranoid yet?

One thing is absolutely certain: Those who had the foresight to lay away stores and build a reserve of gold coins will not be inclined to take care of people who chose not to take care of themselves.

Kevin Johnson

Senior Staff Writer – GoldCoin.net