Preppers’ PING!
We’re at Stage 5.
BTTT
If a nuclear exchange breaks out, most of the survivalist skills and equipment may be in vain, in my humble opinion, unless you are willing to live underground for a year or more. How you will survive with the onset of nuclear winter effectively stopping all agriculture and the fact rainfall and snowfall will contain dangerous amounts of radioactive material for at least five to seven years?
The biggest redistribution of wealth I've seen has been from the poor and middle classes to the rich.
Likewise, the biggest government entitlement I've seen lately has been government bailout of the banksters--who believe they are entitled to it (they do the work of God, don't you know).
STAGE 2. The Slippery Slope The economy goes into a slow but steadily increasing decline. Unemployment is on the rise. Ever increasing numbers of people receive government assistance in one form or another. People are paid not to work. Government spending has increased dramatically. The price of gold, silver, and other precious metals rise to prices unheard of just a few years earlier. Inflation reaches the double digit levels.
Worse than being paid by the government not to work, are the Banksters--who are rewarded by the government for working us into this mess.
If things go completely to heck, I am opening a fortified flea market with a little black market behind the scenes, so common folks can barter what they have for what they need. A woman with a baby can trade something for some milk, another person some bullets for some tools. There would be nothing that would spit in the eye of the socialists then people having a way of getting what they need without the government. I will hire some former police and military for security.
I think we are at Stage 3 and very, very close to Stage 4.
We are in deep, deep trouble.
I see Americans fleeing our country from the shores in innertubes sometime before my time expires.
Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains:
And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house:
And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his coat.
And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck in those days.
But pray that your flight be not in the winter, or on the sabbath.
Matthew 24; 15-20
Ping.
I’d say based on that list that we are on the cusp of stage 3 or already partly into stage 3. I am glad I live way, way out in the boonies. We have an artesian water source and a couple of bins full of Oats as well as a cellar across the road with a few million potatoes which we could trade water for and a sizable herd of meat on the hoof in the form of sheep and goats. All of the surrounding farms are either good friends or family. One thing I think every prepper should acquire if things get bad is a small heard of goats. They are easy to keep, cheap, and can live off of practically anything. They turn weeds and brush into meat and milk unlike cows who need grass. Chickens too are easy to keep and you can just let them forage most of the year.
Of course it may not be possible to keep all of these things if things really drop in the pot. Here’s hoping they won’t.
BTTT
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