Always.. just how soon is the question.

i think we should have a depression (i wouldnt call it "great") withing the next 3 years.

it depends on when the elite (bank owners and the people who have there name on the notes) want there money back.

I'm really concerned about this. I am no conspiracy theorist, but economic downturns are part of an ongoing cycle no matter who is in power. Every so often, when enough different cycles line up, we get a really bad one. In the thirties, we'd had a drought in the west that had been ongoing for ten years, I believe, by October 1929. I saw a program on PBS some years ago about a scientist who was doing core sample analysis of sediments in ponds in the dustbowl states. He'd found that far from being an isolated event, the dust bowl was a cycle that recurred every 60 - 70 years. We just hadn't been out there long enough to recognize the pattern in the thirties. And I guess he was one of those researcher who didn't line up with the whole global warming theory, so he was never heard from again. We are in that place again. We have been having a drought out there for ten years, at least. We aren't having the dust storms, because there isn't the level of farming out there that there was in the thirties. I'm really concerned about the level of both federal and personal debt. I think we have a solvency problem at every level. I worry that if enough people are out of work at the same time, the government won't be able to get its hands on enough cash to keep the job corp, unemployment insurance, medicare, medicaid, social security, free school lunches, FDIC and other "depression proof" programs solvent. I'm concerned about the global economy. It seems like a lot of other nations are experiencing a slow down as well. I'm concerned about fuel prices, which are driving the slowdown, and always do. When fuel is cheap, the economy is hot. Every stage of manufacture, food production and transportation is cheaper. When fuel gets high, everything gets high and the economy slows. I'm concerned about the instability in a lot of nations right now. That is also what we saw in the thirties that led eventually to WWII. Its like tumblers in a lock all clicking into place and about to open Pandora's box. Click. Click. Click.