What should I be afraid of now?

[MP1983]

The National Debt

Greece is in peril over 1.8 billion of debt....we (USA) are in debt over 18 trillion.

I worry for the kids & grandkids. In 1976 the whole nation was a buzz over our bicentennial...I don't see that kind of hoop-lah & jubilee coming in 2076 for our tricentennial (if we make it).

I don't wish to be a kill joy, so I will close with wishing everyone a Happy 4th for 2015!

 

[R. G. Amos]

Our Federal government.

 

[DWalt]

Our Federal government.

More specifically, the Supreme Court.

 

[eb07]

You should be afraid of:

skyrocketing ammo prices
component shortages
general firearm price insanity

why? Here come the 2016 elections. Time to panic buy again!!!!

 

[fiasconva]

P&R Fan, only one of them has threatened my life but both of them have taken my money.

 

[GatorFarmer]

Bears...they might organize.

Sasquatch...might be hungry...or lonely...either way best avoided.

Cows...see the recent thread on cow guns

Chicken raptor awakening...self explanatory

Large man eating pigs...to them we are the bacon.

Escaped zoo animals...hey, it happens.

Gray aliens....Elves...Dwarves...brain eating amoebas....giant spiders....the inevitable zombie apocalypse...

Oh, and werewolves

 

[snubbyfan]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWxNcABmkrg[/ame]

 

[Vulcan Bob]

Speaking your mind these days seems to be a bit hazardous.

 

[M3Stuart]

Greece?!? Their whole country has 40% of the population of Texas and maybe, on a good day, 15% of Texas' GDP. How on earth can they impact the world economy unless everybody overreacts for no reason?

 

[luangtom]

Yup, Greece. An economy the size of Louisiana, 2% of the total EU economy. Will the drachma surge in value? Inquiring minds want to know.....

 

[Chuck24]

Speaking your mind these days seems to be a bit hazardous.

So is speaking the truth.

 

[Absalom]

Speaking your mind these days seems to be a bit hazardous.

Actually, given the internet and the blessing and curse of the "username", speaking your mind has never been as safe and as easy as these days. Nobody has to actually stand behind what they say anymore. In the old days you had to sign your name to a letter to the editor if you wanted to see it published, and be afraid what the pastor or your clients might think of your language. These days people unload their profanity-laden diatribes in internet forums without having to worry about anyone they know finding out what despicable oafs they really are.

That's one area where I kinda wish people had to worry more.

 

[wbraswell]

Why would I be scared of a large man eating pigs? Oh.........never mind.

 

[Engineer1911]

Fox, CNN, HLN, MSNBC, or the Weather channel will give you a new fear each hour.

Or, does this holster go with these shoes and shirt? Fashionistas are always afraid of something.

 

[vigil617]

What should you be afraid of now, OP?

Fear itself, my friend.

Fear itself.

 

[Laketime]

Apparently they've cancelled the prepper shows. I haven't been reminded of the EMP threat in a long time. ISIS...or ISIL...or whatever...is getting old - guys in pickup trucks on the other side of the planet don't seem very threatening...

So I'm confused, what am I supposed to be afraid of now?

You should worry about ISIS since they want to kill you.Remember the lesson learned about being a JV team made by someone in a rainbow colored house.I would also worry about the debt..once it reaches $24 Trillion the USA is done..can't pay the interest on that note.

 

[Huskerguy]

Only a 'small' dirty nuclear bomb?

What'll that do? Irradiate a parking lot or something?

A bunch of refugees? We already have a bazillion of those. The power already goes out all the time for no reason. And the race riots they have now are nothing compared to those REAL riots we used to have back in the 60's.

I'm not feeling very afraid yet.

Take a dirty nuc into a crowded stadium of 100,000. What don't get killed will kill each other trying to get out.

A blink on the grid is nothing to the panic that will set in when it is out for weeks or months. People will go nuts without TV, lights, heat, and mostly video games.

I was around in the 60's. They now have the police conditioned to not do anything. Cameras everywhere and a witness to everything. Once it gets started there is no stopping it. They could barely slow it down in Missouri and hardly made a dent in Baltimore.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Apparently they've cancelled the prepper shows. I haven't been reminded of the EMP threat in a long time. ISIS...or ISIL...or whatever...is getting old - guys in pickup trucks on the other side of the planet don't seem very threatening...

So I'm confused, what am I supposed to be afraid of now?

The Clintons

 

[Faulkner]

Greece?!? Their whole country has 40% of the population of Texas and maybe, on a good day, 15% of Texas' GDP. How on earth can they impact the world economy unless everybody overreacts for no reason?

Greece is only the first dominoe.

 

[shouldazagged]

Fear-mongers. Be afraid of fear-mongers. They often have unhealthy reasons for wanting you afraid.

Never let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory, and if in doubt blame everything on the government.

Sure, there are people who want to hurt us. We're about due for some terrorist activity. There's no way to prevent it completely.

But I pretty much live by some words of a wise man who hailed from the town of Assisi. He and some associates were working in a garden when a deranged man ran by, screaming that the end of the world was imminent. The wise man's friends asked him, "What shall we do?"

"We'll keep working in the garden," he answered.