They know what they are doing. The dollar will cease to be the world's currency in a few years. Russia, Germany, India, and China have all been hording up gold to back up their money. We don't have enough to back up ours. When this happens, our nation will be bankrupt. We will owe, China, Japan, other foreign nations such as Brittan and a few Europen countries. However, most will be owed to American pension funds. When there is no money, no pensions, no welfare, no food stamps, not even enough money to pay the military. There will be riots for money, runs on banks to convert our worthless money to some other currency as fast as possible since we will have hyper inflation. There will be chaos. Thus probably martial law and homeland security to handle it. Some states may at this time seperate from the union especially mountain, plains, and southern states. We must be prepared as much as possible. So prep your beans, bullets, and bandaids as much as and as best you can. If non is available, prep black powder for black powder weapons, buy some snares and traps, bows, crossbows, whatever weapons available. We may be in this for the long haul. Even with homeland security, the feds can't police everywhere at once.