Blame Trump: Families Out of Food, Money - What Economic Collapse Looks Like
Apr 3, 2020 23:52:03 #
This Is What Economic Collapse Looks Like
BY: MICHAEL SNYDER
ON: APRIL 3, 2020
Approximately ten million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits over the past two weeks.
To put that in perspective, the all-time record for a single week before this c****av***s p******c hit was just 695,000. So needless to say, 6.6 million claims in a single week puts us in uncharted territory.
Just check out this chart.
We have never seen a week like this before, and we may never see a week quite this bad again.
Of course, millions more jobs will be lost in the months ahead as this p******c stretches on, but it is hard to imagine another spike like we just had. When you add the last two weeks together, somewhere around 10 million Americans have filed new unemployment claims during that time period…
The torrent of Americans filing for unemployment insurance skyrocketed last week as more than 6.6 million new claims were filed, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That brings to 10 million the total Americans who filed over the past two weeks.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had expected 3.1 million for last week, one week after 3.3 million filings in the first wave of what has been a record-shattering swelling of the jobless ranks. The previous week’s total was revised higher by 24,000.
As I have documented repeatedly in my articles, survey after survey has shown that most Americans were living paycheck to paycheck even during the “good times”.
Now that those paychecks aren’t coming in anymore for millions of Americans, a lot of bills aren’t going to get paid.
Just like we witnessed in 2008, mortgage defaults are about to skyrocket, and Wall Street is bracing for the worst…
Borrowers who lost income from the c****av***s, which is already a skyrocketing number as the 10 million new jobless claims in the past two weeks attests, can ask to skip payments for as many as 180 days at a time on federally backed mortgages, and avoid penalties and a hit to their credit scores.
But as Bloomberg notes, it’s not a payment holiday and eventually homeowners they’ll have to make it all up.
According to estimates by Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, as many as 30% of Americans with home loans – about 15 million households – could stop paying if the U.S. economy remains closed through the summer or beyond.
As I noted yesterday, the St. Louis Fed expects the unemployment rate to eventually hit 32 percent. That won’t happen immediately, but if we do get there it will be worse than anything that we witnessed during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Because of all the shutdowns that have been instituted nationwide, economic activity has already dropped to levels that we have never seen before in our entire history.
Personally, I was absolutely astounded when the latest box office numbers were released…
The Domestic Box office (movie theaters) brought in a whopping $5,179 for the week of Mar 20-26.
Down 100% from $204,193,406 the same week a year ago… These numbers are just incredible.
And even once all the “shelter-in-place” orders have finally been lifted, a substantial portion of the population will not want to go to movie theaters anymore due to fear of catching the v***s.
Many movie theaters that have closed down will simply never open up again.
Another thing that has really surprised me is how rapidly many Americans have run out of food.
A Daily Mail article that documented a line of vehicles a half-mile long at a church in Orlando that was giving out food received a lot of attention today…
Today, the hundreds of families flocking to a church parking lot across town from Orlando’s iconic resorts and theme parks are here for a starkly different reason: survival.
‘In the amusement parks, the purpose or the outcome is about having joy or a thrill,’ says mom-of-three Glenda Hernandez, winding down her window to speak with a DailyMail.com reporter.
‘This is about having a child’s belly full for the night or the next couple of nights on wh**ever they give us.’
How is it possible that so many families are out of food already?
And apparently charities and food banks all over the country are seeing similar surges in demand.
Here are just a few examples that were shared by the Guardian…
In Amherst, home to the University of Massachusetts’ largest campus, the pantry distributed 849% more food in March compared with the previous year.
The second-largest increase in western Massachusetts was 748% at the Pittsfield Salvation Army pantry.
The Grace Klein community food pantry in Jefferson county, which has the largest number of confirmed C****-** cases in Alabama, provided 5,076 individuals with food boxes last week – a 90% increase on the previous week.
In southern Arizona, demand has doubled, with pantries supplying groceries to 4,000 households every day – double the number supplied in March 2019.
“We saw an increase during the federal government shutdown but nothing as rapid, massive or overwhelming as this,” said Michael McDonald, CEO of the Community Food Bank of South Arizona.
If things are this bad already, how much worse will the suffering be a month or two down the road?
Meanwhile, U.S. farmers are facing problems of their own.
Because of all the shutdowns, it has been difficult for farmers to get enough workers into their fields.
The following comes from CNN…
April and May are critical planting and harvesting times for many US farmers.
They need sk**led laborers to work their fields, and a reliable supply chain to deliver their goods. And they don’t have any time to waste.
If farmers can’t find enough workers or if their farming practices are disrupted because of the p******c, Americans could have less or pricier food this summer. And because international farmers and their supply chains face similar problems, we could receive fewer food imports, potentially limiting supply and driving up prices.
Of course, the main thing that is going to drive up prices is the fact that the system is being absolutely flooded with new money. Many Americans have applauded the recent moves by the Federal Reserve, and just about everyone seems thrilled that big government checks are coming, but they won’t be so thrilled when a loaf of bread costs five dollars and a gallon of milk costs ten dollars.
As the v***s spreads, many are concerned that it will sweep through low wage communities particularly hard, and that is a huge problem because low wage workers are absolutely vital all along the food chain…
By law, food manufacturers must prevent anyone who is sick or has a communicable disease from handling, processing or preparing food for human consumption.
But much of the food supply chain is staffed by low-wage workers, many of them undocumented immigrants with limited ties to health services.
So what are we going to do if there are not enough healthy workers to get our food from the farms to our dinner tables?
Already, confirmed cases are starting to pop up at quite a few food production facilities…
The first case of a worker at a major U.S. meat producer testing positive for the v***s was reported last week at poultry giant Sanderson Farms Inc. Since then, infections have cropped up everywhere from JBS SA plants in Iowa to Harmony Beef in Alberta.
While scattered factories have closed temporarily or cut output, generally companies are keeping plants running when workers get sick. Rather than shutting entire plants, they’ve focused on identifying areas where infected people have had direct contact.
Fear of the c****av***s is going to paralyze even “essential” industries such as food production.
We are now being told that authorities hope that cases peak in April and that this crisis will hopefully be behind us by June. Let us pray that is true, but what most Americans don’t realize is that this p******c is just the beginning.
Even before any of us ever heard of “C****-**”, our world was already descending into madness, but now this p******c has certainly accelerated things.
Millions of Americans have already lost their jobs, and the days ahead are going to be exceedingly challenging.
This is what an economic collapse looks like, and it is just getting started.
Article posted with permission from Michael Snyder
BY: MICHAEL SNYDER
ON: APRIL 3, 2020
Approximately ten million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits over the past two weeks.
To put that in perspective, the all-time record for a single week before this c****av***s p******c hit was just 695,000. So needless to say, 6.6 million claims in a single week puts us in uncharted territory.
Just check out this chart.
We have never seen a week like this before, and we may never see a week quite this bad again.
Of course, millions more jobs will be lost in the months ahead as this p******c stretches on, but it is hard to imagine another spike like we just had. When you add the last two weeks together, somewhere around 10 million Americans have filed new unemployment claims during that time period…
The torrent of Americans filing for unemployment insurance skyrocketed last week as more than 6.6 million new claims were filed, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That brings to 10 million the total Americans who filed over the past two weeks.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had expected 3.1 million for last week, one week after 3.3 million filings in the first wave of what has been a record-shattering swelling of the jobless ranks. The previous week’s total was revised higher by 24,000.
As I have documented repeatedly in my articles, survey after survey has shown that most Americans were living paycheck to paycheck even during the “good times”.
Now that those paychecks aren’t coming in anymore for millions of Americans, a lot of bills aren’t going to get paid.
Just like we witnessed in 2008, mortgage defaults are about to skyrocket, and Wall Street is bracing for the worst…
Borrowers who lost income from the c****av***s, which is already a skyrocketing number as the 10 million new jobless claims in the past two weeks attests, can ask to skip payments for as many as 180 days at a time on federally backed mortgages, and avoid penalties and a hit to their credit scores.
But as Bloomberg notes, it’s not a payment holiday and eventually homeowners they’ll have to make it all up.
According to estimates by Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, as many as 30% of Americans with home loans – about 15 million households – could stop paying if the U.S. economy remains closed through the summer or beyond.
As I noted yesterday, the St. Louis Fed expects the unemployment rate to eventually hit 32 percent. That won’t happen immediately, but if we do get there it will be worse than anything that we witnessed during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Because of all the shutdowns that have been instituted nationwide, economic activity has already dropped to levels that we have never seen before in our entire history.
Personally, I was absolutely astounded when the latest box office numbers were released…
The Domestic Box office (movie theaters) brought in a whopping $5,179 for the week of Mar 20-26.
Down 100% from $204,193,406 the same week a year ago… These numbers are just incredible.
And even once all the “shelter-in-place” orders have finally been lifted, a substantial portion of the population will not want to go to movie theaters anymore due to fear of catching the v***s.
Many movie theaters that have closed down will simply never open up again.
Another thing that has really surprised me is how rapidly many Americans have run out of food.
A Daily Mail article that documented a line of vehicles a half-mile long at a church in Orlando that was giving out food received a lot of attention today…
Today, the hundreds of families flocking to a church parking lot across town from Orlando’s iconic resorts and theme parks are here for a starkly different reason: survival.
‘In the amusement parks, the purpose or the outcome is about having joy or a thrill,’ says mom-of-three Glenda Hernandez, winding down her window to speak with a DailyMail.com reporter.
‘This is about having a child’s belly full for the night or the next couple of nights on wh**ever they give us.’
How is it possible that so many families are out of food already?
And apparently charities and food banks all over the country are seeing similar surges in demand.
Here are just a few examples that were shared by the Guardian…
In Amherst, home to the University of Massachusetts’ largest campus, the pantry distributed 849% more food in March compared with the previous year.
The second-largest increase in western Massachusetts was 748% at the Pittsfield Salvation Army pantry.
The Grace Klein community food pantry in Jefferson county, which has the largest number of confirmed C****-** cases in Alabama, provided 5,076 individuals with food boxes last week – a 90% increase on the previous week.
In southern Arizona, demand has doubled, with pantries supplying groceries to 4,000 households every day – double the number supplied in March 2019.
“We saw an increase during the federal government shutdown but nothing as rapid, massive or overwhelming as this,” said Michael McDonald, CEO of the Community Food Bank of South Arizona.
If things are this bad already, how much worse will the suffering be a month or two down the road?
Meanwhile, U.S. farmers are facing problems of their own.
Because of all the shutdowns, it has been difficult for farmers to get enough workers into their fields.
The following comes from CNN…
April and May are critical planting and harvesting times for many US farmers.
They need sk**led laborers to work their fields, and a reliable supply chain to deliver their goods. And they don’t have any time to waste.
If farmers can’t find enough workers or if their farming practices are disrupted because of the p******c, Americans could have less or pricier food this summer. And because international farmers and their supply chains face similar problems, we could receive fewer food imports, potentially limiting supply and driving up prices.
Of course, the main thing that is going to drive up prices is the fact that the system is being absolutely flooded with new money. Many Americans have applauded the recent moves by the Federal Reserve, and just about everyone seems thrilled that big government checks are coming, but they won’t be so thrilled when a loaf of bread costs five dollars and a gallon of milk costs ten dollars.
As the v***s spreads, many are concerned that it will sweep through low wage communities particularly hard, and that is a huge problem because low wage workers are absolutely vital all along the food chain…
By law, food manufacturers must prevent anyone who is sick or has a communicable disease from handling, processing or preparing food for human consumption.
But much of the food supply chain is staffed by low-wage workers, many of them undocumented immigrants with limited ties to health services.
So what are we going to do if there are not enough healthy workers to get our food from the farms to our dinner tables?
Already, confirmed cases are starting to pop up at quite a few food production facilities…
The first case of a worker at a major U.S. meat producer testing positive for the v***s was reported last week at poultry giant Sanderson Farms Inc. Since then, infections have cropped up everywhere from JBS SA plants in Iowa to Harmony Beef in Alberta.
While scattered factories have closed temporarily or cut output, generally companies are keeping plants running when workers get sick. Rather than shutting entire plants, they’ve focused on identifying areas where infected people have had direct contact.
Fear of the c****av***s is going to paralyze even “essential” industries such as food production.
We are now being told that authorities hope that cases peak in April and that this crisis will hopefully be behind us by June. Let us pray that is true, but what most Americans don’t realize is that this p******c is just the beginning.
Even before any of us ever heard of “C****-**”, our world was already descending into madness, but now this p******c has certainly accelerated things.
Millions of Americans have already lost their jobs, and the days ahead are going to be exceedingly challenging.
This is what an economic collapse looks like, and it is just getting started.
Article posted with permission from Michael Snyder
Apr 3, 2020 23:57:47 #
Sicilianthing wrote:
This Is What Economic Collapse Looks Like br BY: M... (show quote)
People who choose to live paycheck to paycheck reap what they sow...
Apr 3, 2020 23:59:45 #
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
People who choose to live paycheck to paycheck reap what they sow...
>>>
That’s not nice to say Canuck... that does not apply to Everyone.
That is absolutely an unjust thing to say or think and unfairly applied across the board.
That is a general mass applied false statement.
Apr 4, 2020 00:12:16 #
Sicilianthing wrote:
This Is What Economic Collapse Looks Like br BY: M... (show quote)
The Bible warned us that these tribulations would come upon us like a thief in the night.
That's why conscientious Bible thumpers have been preparing for these days.
We will now have to feed the foolish who have ignored the word of God.
Apr 4, 2020 00:15:35 #
Wolf counselor wrote:
The Bible warned us that these tribulations would come upon us like a thief in the night.
That's why conscientious Bible thumpers have been preparing for these days.
We will now have to feed the foolish who have ignored the word of God.
That's why conscientious Bible thumpers have been preparing for these days.
We will now have to feed the foolish who have ignored the word of God.
>>>
Noted
Apr 4, 2020 00:18:27 #
Sicilianthing wrote:
>>>
That’s not nice to say Canuck... that does not apply to Everyone.
That is absolutely an unjust thing to say or think and unfairly applied across the board.
That is a general mass applied false statement.
That’s not nice to say Canuck... that does not apply to Everyone.
That is absolutely an unjust thing to say or think and unfairly applied across the board.
That is a general mass applied false statement.
I apologize to anyone who's feelings were hurt...
My stance remains...
If an individual can't afford something he shouldn't purchase it... Debt is i***tic...
Apr 4, 2020 00:24:23 #
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
I apologize to anyone who's feelings were hurt...
My stance remains...
If an individual can't afford something he shouldn't purchase it... Debt is i***tic...
My stance remains...
If an individual can't afford something he shouldn't purchase it... Debt is i***tic...
>>>
Ok that I agree to about debt.. yes but the rest some are just poor and screwed and so much more.
I come from a very very poor family too but I got my masters in the streets, another one In the Hustle and my PHD in the GAME ... I got out early sorta and now I make my own money when I want, how I want, but you’re right, I stay out of debt - PERIOD !
Apr 4, 2020 00:39:10 #
Sicilianthing wrote:
This Is What Economic Collapse Looks Like br BY: M... (show quote)
"Because of all the shutdowns, it has been difficult for farmers to get enough workers into their fields.
The following comes from CNN…"
Seriously? He's quoting C_A network to make his point.
And he thinks the world is going to end! Anyone who's a bible believing Christian knows from Scripture that's what won't happen. I smell another Jim Bakker...and I never felt harshly about him. He seemed to me to the type of personality who might be overly enchanted by the lights and glitz and honestly be led astray. He's still like that but not nearly as bad. Now he's in trouble for hawking a Wuflu cure. Sigh!
I don't know this guy but if he thinks the world will end he's dead wrong.
Nevertheless, everything he says isn't wrong.
The nature of the spiritual battle we're fighting is this: Globalism vs NOT
The only reason were NOT now is because T***p w*n.
I keep this very simple: We just jumped out the 5th floor of a burning apartment by crashing through the glass! I'm not interested in second guessing the guys who just "happened" to be there in the nick of time with
the net.
Apr 4, 2020 00:46:29 #
Wolf counselor wrote:
The Bible warned us that these tribulations would come upon us like a thief in the night.
That's why conscientious Bible thumpers have been preparing for these days.
We will now have to feed the foolish who have ignored the word of God.
That's why conscientious Bible thumpers have been preparing for these days.
We will now have to feed the foolish who have ignored the word of God.
...and the Great Tribulation ain't yet.
The Church needs to toughen up first. This generation thinks tribulation is paying tithes or the gas prices while vacationing in their motor homes or having a relative stay with them a week. We definitely are not yet ready for the task that is almost upon us.
But we will be...stay tuned!
Apr 4, 2020 09:06:45 #
lpnmajor
Loc: Arkansas
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
People who choose to live paycheck to paycheck reap what they sow...
When a paycheck barely ( sometimes, not even that ) covers rent, food, utilities, t***sportation and child rearing costs, paycheck to paycheck is the ONLY option. Now, those who have a mortgage, 1 or 2 car payments, PWC/UTV/RV payment(s), 3 or 4 line, unlimited data phone payments, premium subscription TV and ultimate sport package cable/satellite payments.....................................................could stand to trim a little.
The financial experts all say that folks should keep a cash reserve equaling 6 months pay, minimum wage workers CAN'T do that and others WON'T. I only have sympathy for the "can't" category.
Apr 4, 2020 09:12:12 #
lpnmajor wrote:
When a paycheck barely ( sometimes, not even that ... (show quote)
I think many of the "can'ts" will find that they survive...
But yes... I did not mean to suggest that there were not those who would suffer through no? fault of their own..
Apr 4, 2020 11:36:27 #
Sicilianthing wrote:
This Is What Economic Collapse Looks Like br BY: M... (show quote)
Blame the Democrats who held up the aid while filling it with non essential junk.
Apr 4, 2020 11:46:34 #
F.D.R. wrote:
Blame the Democrats who held up the aid while filling it with non essential junk.
And they want to do it again!!! Nancy has already said she wants to add "v**e by mail" to the "next" relief bill!!!!!
Apr 4, 2020 12:29:38 #
F.D.R. wrote:
Blame the Democrats who held up the aid while filling it with non essential junk.
True that, 👍🏻
Apr 4, 2020 12:34:30 #
EmilyD wrote:
And they want to do it again!!! Nancy has already said she wants to add "v**e by mail" to the "next" relief bill!!!!!
The c***ting dems are up to some thing.
https://www.teaparty.org/george-soros-groups-pushing-democrat-scheme-for-mail-in-v****g-434512/
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