Recently, I had a chance to visit with an old friend in Camp Douglas, Wisconsin. He is a businessman. Camp Douglas takes it name from the military base across the Interstate from it. It is in fact the home base of the Wisconsin National Guard; it also is home to an airfiield from which Wiscosin soldiers leave for and return from the Middle East.
I asked my friend about area business. He said that more than the usual amount of Chicago, Illinois people were buying weekend retreats in the area. What he said next stunned me.
He said that the current wave of buyers were coming to have a place to which to escape near a military base for security when the insurrections, riots, uprisings, etc. start in Chicago because of the economy.
"Put your money where your mouth is," goes the old saying. These folks from Chicagoland are doing exactly this. To have enough money to afford two homes means they are coming from the middle or upper classes of Chicagoland. In turn, this means they have good educations as a rule.
What these educated, well-off people see coming in the future is cause for pause. Forget bailouts. Prepare an escape route and safe haven. This is no longer "fringe thinking."
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