OT:Law Firm Associates Getting SLAUGHTERED…

[davelj]

[quote=partypup]
Well, if this is what constitutes an “implosion” of the world, in your opinion, than yes: the world is going to implode.

You and I clearly have very different definitions of what “implosion” means. I thought you meant a Mad Max scenario.

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No, I don’t mean a Mad Max scenario, which would also (obviously) qualify as implosion. But I think any scenario where you can’t find a dentist to perform dental services would qualify as implosion. And, yes, implosion, as I describe it, has indeed happened in many countries throughout history. I would say the Great Depression qualifies as implosion (based on unemployment, social strife, etc.), to use just one example. But we can agree to disagree on semantics.

I think we can see massive dislocation in the economy and otherwise without seeing all dental services and cell phone coverage disappear. Just my two cents.

[partypup]

[quote=Aecetia]I do not have a ham radio, but I have some friends in the emergency services business that do. I think I will talk to them about that. If the fairness doctrine quashes talk radio and most do not migrate to satellite radio, then we will need a network for freedom of speech. I agree about getting strong both mentally and physically. However, I wonder if a medium layer of fat might be a good idea to survive. After all, that is how humans survived during the ice age. Getting medical taken care of now is a good idea, because under Obama there will be long lines. Maybe old fashioned docs will go back to bartering for service. I do not see your thinking as classical Freudian defense mechanisms, but I do see a lot of these ostriches evidencing a lot of denial and projection. I think genetically, people with some degree of anxiety live longer because they do not sleep so soundly they do not hear the sabre tooth cat coming for them. I liked the movie “Red Dawn”. Maybe that scenario is still not out of the question, but substitute Cubans with Chicoms. Now who is paranoid?[/quote]

There are, indeed, a lot of ostriches on this board. Are you paranoid if you buy car insurance or fire insurance? LOL. According to some of these posts, one would believe that buying insurance means that you are expecting your home to burn down or your car to get stolen. And what’s completely hilarious is that people feel totally comfortable buying insurance when the indicia/likelihood of disaster for their home or autos are MUCH lower than they are in the global markets right now.

And your sabre tooth analogy is one that I have often used. I’m sure the early cave men who slept with one eye open and managed to escape the jaws of predators didn’t mind being called “paranoid” the next day after their soundly-sleeping cave mates were mauled. At the end of the day, as long as you’re still doing the things that you WANT to do and ENJOY doing in life – and believe me, I am living it up as long as I can – then the cost of preparation is minimal. It’s the best insurance possible.

[partypup]

[quote=Aecetia]I do not have a ham radio, but I have some friends in the emergency services business that do. I think I will talk to them about that. If the fairness doctrine quashes talk radio and most do not migrate to satellite radio, then we will need a network for freedom of speech. I agree about getting strong both mentally and physically. However, I wonder if a medium layer of fat might be a good idea to survive. After all, that is how humans survived during the ice age. Getting medical taken care of now is a good idea, because under Obama there will be long lines. Maybe old fashioned docs will go back to bartering for service. I do not see your thinking as classical Freudian defense mechanisms, but I do see a lot of these ostriches evidencing a lot of denial and projection. I think genetically, people with some degree of anxiety live longer because they do not sleep so soundly they do not hear the sabre tooth cat coming for them. I liked the movie “Red Dawn”. Maybe that scenario is still not out of the question, but substitute Cubans with Chicoms. Now who is paranoid?[/quote]

There are, indeed, a lot of ostriches on this board. Are you paranoid if you buy car insurance or fire insurance? LOL. According to some of these posts, one would believe that buying insurance means that you are expecting your home to burn down or your car to get stolen. And what’s completely hilarious is that people feel totally comfortable buying insurance when the indicia/likelihood of disaster for their home or autos are MUCH lower than they are in the global markets right now.

And your sabre tooth analogy is one that I have often used. I’m sure the early cave men who slept with one eye open and managed to escape the jaws of predators didn’t mind being called “paranoid” the next day after their soundly-sleeping cave mates were mauled. At the end of the day, as long as you’re still doing the things that you WANT to do and ENJOY doing in life – and believe me, I am living it up as long as I can – then the cost of preparation is minimal. It’s the best insurance possible.

[partypup]

[quote=Aecetia]I do not have a ham radio, but I have some friends in the emergency services business that do. I think I will talk to them about that. If the fairness doctrine quashes talk radio and most do not migrate to satellite radio, then we will need a network for freedom of speech. I agree about getting strong both mentally and physically. However, I wonder if a medium layer of fat might be a good idea to survive. After all, that is how humans survived during the ice age. Getting medical taken care of now is a good idea, because under Obama there will be long lines. Maybe old fashioned docs will go back to bartering for service. I do not see your thinking as classical Freudian defense mechanisms, but I do see a lot of these ostriches evidencing a lot of denial and projection. I think genetically, people with some degree of anxiety live longer because they do not sleep so soundly they do not hear the sabre tooth cat coming for them. I liked the movie “Red Dawn”. Maybe that scenario is still not out of the question, but substitute Cubans with Chicoms. Now who is paranoid?[/quote]

There are, indeed, a lot of ostriches on this board. Are you paranoid if you buy car insurance or fire insurance? LOL. According to some of these posts, one would believe that buying insurance means that you are expecting your home to burn down or your car to get stolen. And what’s completely hilarious is that people feel totally comfortable buying insurance when the indicia/likelihood of disaster for their home or autos are MUCH lower than they are in the global markets right now.

And your sabre tooth analogy is one that I have often used. I’m sure the early cave men who slept with one eye open and managed to escape the jaws of predators didn’t mind being called “paranoid” the next day after their soundly-sleeping cave mates were mauled. At the end of the day, as long as you’re still doing the things that you WANT to do and ENJOY doing in life – and believe me, I am living it up as long as I can – then the cost of preparation is minimal. It’s the best insurance possible.

[partypup]

[quote=Aecetia]I do not have a ham radio, but I have some friends in the emergency services business that do. I think I will talk to them about that. If the fairness doctrine quashes talk radio and most do not migrate to satellite radio, then we will need a network for freedom of speech. I agree about getting strong both mentally and physically. However, I wonder if a medium layer of fat might be a good idea to survive. After all, that is how humans survived during the ice age. Getting medical taken care of now is a good idea, because under Obama there will be long lines. Maybe old fashioned docs will go back to bartering for service. I do not see your thinking as classical Freudian defense mechanisms, but I do see a lot of these ostriches evidencing a lot of denial and projection. I think genetically, people with some degree of anxiety live longer because they do not sleep so soundly they do not hear the sabre tooth cat coming for them. I liked the movie “Red Dawn”. Maybe that scenario is still not out of the question, but substitute Cubans with Chicoms. Now who is paranoid?[/quote]

There are, indeed, a lot of ostriches on this board. Are you paranoid if you buy car insurance or fire insurance? LOL. According to some of these posts, one would believe that buying insurance means that you are expecting your home to burn down or your car to get stolen. And what’s completely hilarious is that people feel totally comfortable buying insurance when the indicia/likelihood of disaster for their home or autos are MUCH lower than they are in the global markets right now.

And your sabre tooth analogy is one that I have often used. I’m sure the early cave men who slept with one eye open and managed to escape the jaws of predators didn’t mind being called “paranoid” the next day after their soundly-sleeping cave mates were mauled. At the end of the day, as long as you’re still doing the things that you WANT to do and ENJOY doing in life – and believe me, I am living it up as long as I can – then the cost of preparation is minimal. It’s the best insurance possible.

[partypup]

[quote=Aecetia]I do not have a ham radio, but I have some friends in the emergency services business that do. I think I will talk to them about that. If the fairness doctrine quashes talk radio and most do not migrate to satellite radio, then we will need a network for freedom of speech. I agree about getting strong both mentally and physically. However, I wonder if a medium layer of fat might be a good idea to survive. After all, that is how humans survived during the ice age. Getting medical taken care of now is a good idea, because under Obama there will be long lines. Maybe old fashioned docs will go back to bartering for service. I do not see your thinking as classical Freudian defense mechanisms, but I do see a lot of these ostriches evidencing a lot of denial and projection. I think genetically, people with some degree of anxiety live longer because they do not sleep so soundly they do not hear the sabre tooth cat coming for them. I liked the movie “Red Dawn”. Maybe that scenario is still not out of the question, but substitute Cubans with Chicoms. Now who is paranoid?[/quote]

There are, indeed, a lot of ostriches on this board. Are you paranoid if you buy car insurance or fire insurance? LOL. According to some of these posts, one would believe that buying insurance means that you are expecting your home to burn down or your car to get stolen. And what’s completely hilarious is that people feel totally comfortable buying insurance when the indicia/likelihood of disaster for their home or autos are MUCH lower than they are in the global markets right now.

And your sabre tooth analogy is one that I have often used. I’m sure the early cave men who slept with one eye open and managed to escape the jaws of predators didn’t mind being called “paranoid” the next day after their soundly-sleeping cave mates were mauled. At the end of the day, as long as you’re still doing the things that you WANT to do and ENJOY doing in life – and believe me, I am living it up as long as I can – then the cost of preparation is minimal. It’s the best insurance possible.

[partypup]

[quote=davelj]

I think we can see massive dislocation in the economy and otherwise without seeing all dental services and cell phone coverage disappear. Just my two cents.
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Agreed, and appreciate and respect your two cents. I certainly do not expect cell phone coverage to disappear, just as I don’t expect our power grid to disappear. I make the preparations I do so that if any of these things are interrupted I can still get information and communicate. Some people don’t mind being in the dark for extended periods of time. I’m not one of them. So be it.

And I hardly expect dentists to be wiped off the face of the earth. That is pretty far afield of the point I am making. The article I posted above about the economic impact on health services focused on the lack of insurance. I have a lovely $250 deductible on my AETNA policy that I meet very early in the year, and dental services are basically free for me from then on. If my insurance carrier begins to have problems, then the crown that I paid $400 for in December will be at least double that.

But hey, if you’re flush with cash and don’t mind coming up with that kind of money, more power to you. I guard my money more jealously. And so on my last few trips to the dentist I made sure that I had taken care of all crowns and fillings that I would need for a good long while. No harm in that. If my scenario comes to pass, I save quite a bit of money. If it doesn’t, I’ve just gotten a very annoying bit of business out of the way 🙂

[partypup]

[quote=davelj]

I think we can see massive dislocation in the economy and otherwise without seeing all dental services and cell phone coverage disappear. Just my two cents.
[/quote]

Agreed, and appreciate and respect your two cents. I certainly do not expect cell phone coverage to disappear, just as I don’t expect our power grid to disappear. I make the preparations I do so that if any of these things are interrupted I can still get information and communicate. Some people don’t mind being in the dark for extended periods of time. I’m not one of them. So be it.

And I hardly expect dentists to be wiped off the face of the earth. That is pretty far afield of the point I am making. The article I posted above about the economic impact on health services focused on the lack of insurance. I have a lovely $250 deductible on my AETNA policy that I meet very early in the year, and dental services are basically free for me from then on. If my insurance carrier begins to have problems, then the crown that I paid $400 for in December will be at least double that.

But hey, if you’re flush with cash and don’t mind coming up with that kind of money, more power to you. I guard my money more jealously. And so on my last few trips to the dentist I made sure that I had taken care of all crowns and fillings that I would need for a good long while. No harm in that. If my scenario comes to pass, I save quite a bit of money. If it doesn’t, I’ve just gotten a very annoying bit of business out of the way 🙂

[partypup]

[quote=davelj]

I think we can see massive dislocation in the economy and otherwise without seeing all dental services and cell phone coverage disappear. Just my two cents.
[/quote]

Agreed, and appreciate and respect your two cents. I certainly do not expect cell phone coverage to disappear, just as I don’t expect our power grid to disappear. I make the preparations I do so that if any of these things are interrupted I can still get information and communicate. Some people don’t mind being in the dark for extended periods of time. I’m not one of them. So be it.

And I hardly expect dentists to be wiped off the face of the earth. That is pretty far afield of the point I am making. The article I posted above about the economic impact on health services focused on the lack of insurance. I have a lovely $250 deductible on my AETNA policy that I meet very early in the year, and dental services are basically free for me from then on. If my insurance carrier begins to have problems, then the crown that I paid $400 for in December will be at least double that.

But hey, if you’re flush with cash and don’t mind coming up with that kind of money, more power to you. I guard my money more jealously. And so on my last few trips to the dentist I made sure that I had taken care of all crowns and fillings that I would need for a good long while. No harm in that. If my scenario comes to pass, I save quite a bit of money. If it doesn’t, I’ve just gotten a very annoying bit of business out of the way 🙂

[partypup]

[quote=davelj]

I think we can see massive dislocation in the economy and otherwise without seeing all dental services and cell phone coverage disappear. Just my two cents.
[/quote]

Agreed, and appreciate and respect your two cents. I certainly do not expect cell phone coverage to disappear, just as I don’t expect our power grid to disappear. I make the preparations I do so that if any of these things are interrupted I can still get information and communicate. Some people don’t mind being in the dark for extended periods of time. I’m not one of them. So be it.

And I hardly expect dentists to be wiped off the face of the earth. That is pretty far afield of the point I am making. The article I posted above about the economic impact on health services focused on the lack of insurance. I have a lovely $250 deductible on my AETNA policy that I meet very early in the year, and dental services are basically free for me from then on. If my insurance carrier begins to have problems, then the crown that I paid $400 for in December will be at least double that.

But hey, if you’re flush with cash and don’t mind coming up with that kind of money, more power to you. I guard my money more jealously. And so on my last few trips to the dentist I made sure that I had taken care of all crowns and fillings that I would need for a good long while. No harm in that. If my scenario comes to pass, I save quite a bit of money. If it doesn’t, I’ve just gotten a very annoying bit of business out of the way 🙂

[partypup]

[quote=davelj]

I think we can see massive dislocation in the economy and otherwise without seeing all dental services and cell phone coverage disappear. Just my two cents.
[/quote]

Agreed, and appreciate and respect your two cents. I certainly do not expect cell phone coverage to disappear, just as I don’t expect our power grid to disappear. I make the preparations I do so that if any of these things are interrupted I can still get information and communicate. Some people don’t mind being in the dark for extended periods of time. I’m not one of them. So be it.

And I hardly expect dentists to be wiped off the face of the earth. That is pretty far afield of the point I am making. The article I posted above about the economic impact on health services focused on the lack of insurance. I have a lovely $250 deductible on my AETNA policy that I meet very early in the year, and dental services are basically free for me from then on. If my insurance carrier begins to have problems, then the crown that I paid $400 for in December will be at least double that.

But hey, if you’re flush with cash and don’t mind coming up with that kind of money, more power to you. I guard my money more jealously. And so on my last few trips to the dentist I made sure that I had taken care of all crowns and fillings that I would need for a good long while. No harm in that. If my scenario comes to pass, I save quite a bit of money. If it doesn’t, I’ve just gotten a very annoying bit of business out of the way 🙂

[partypup]

[quote=davelj]I would say the Great Depression qualifies as implosion (based on unemployment, social strife, etc.), to use just one example.[/quote]

Then according to Volcker and Soros, you need to brace yourself for an implosion. Don’t shoot the messenger.

[partypup]

[quote=davelj]I would say the Great Depression qualifies as implosion (based on unemployment, social strife, etc.), to use just one example.[/quote]

Then according to Volcker and Soros, you need to brace yourself for an implosion. Don’t shoot the messenger.

[partypup]

[quote=davelj]I would say the Great Depression qualifies as implosion (based on unemployment, social strife, etc.), to use just one example.[/quote]

Then according to Volcker and Soros, you need to brace yourself for an implosion. Don’t shoot the messenger.

[partypup]

[quote=davelj]I would say the Great Depression qualifies as implosion (based on unemployment, social strife, etc.), to use just one example.[/quote]

Then according to Volcker and Soros, you need to brace yourself for an implosion. Don’t shoot the messenger.

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