JayMcB
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Gotta work out also how many people are within a tank of gas of your area, and will be rushing to your area if the trucks stop.
it's false to assume they're all coming in 1 direction. More likely to disperse over an area. Wrong also to assume people will have a tank of gas. Normalcy bias will have them siphoning out gas from their gas tanks to run their box store generator until it's gone, because 'things will go back to normal'
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From what I have read on this, a loss of about 20% of the population would be devastating enough that our technological society would be thrust into the dark ages. Forget the constitution when it's everyone out for themselves for whatever food or fresh water is left.
It depends on which 20%. I could see a 20% reduction in population which would be very beneficial to this country. Start with the FSA. If the 20% that produced zero were removed, the remains who do produce wouldn't be thrust into anything but sustainability.
It might be enough for a reset.
What could be more interesting to us individually is what happens when we default on the loans from China and they come to collect.
What do they collect? All of the federal lands, without firing a shot? An aircraft carrier or 2?