Is the House Burning Down?

Shannon Kelley is a columnist at the Santa Barbara Independent. She is also a freelance writer.

So, in case my house burned down, I'd be able to get out of the country (saved the passport). But in the face of disaster and with no time to prepare, how do you choose? What do you take? At the end of the day, isn't it all just junk?

But with the economy every bit as much a disaster zone as the smoldering hillside, who needs a new sweater? Corporations, industries are going under. People are losing their jobs, their homes. Everything we thought was secure isn't. Everything we thought we knew about the economy, security, our very way of life, might, in fact, be wrong. READ FULL ARTICLE...