Posted on 04/28/2015 9:25:27 AM PDT by ClaudeDavis
“Most of us are so used to running out to the supermarket or to Wal-Mart for whatever we need that we never even stop to consider what would happen if suddenly we were not able to do that. Already the U.S. economy is starting to stumble about like a drunken frat boy. All it would take for the entire U.S. to resemble New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina would be for a major war, a terror attack, a deadly pandemic or a massive natural disaster to strike at just the right time and push the teetering U.S. economy over the edge.” - Steve Quayle (Source)
Plus the current debt ($18 Trillion) is nearly as much as the country produces in a whole year. In the short run, the economy and voters benefit from deficit spending. In the long run, a growing Federal debt is like driving with the emergency brake on, further slowing the U.S. economy. At any point, debt holders could demand larger interest payments to compensate for what they perceive as an increasing risk they won't be repaid. When this happens, the United States will have to pay exorbitant amounts just for the interest.
So don’t be totally surprised if one day you hear it on the news, and the next week you’ll lose your job or you can’t sell anything or you go to the store just to find out that bread costs $40 and all your money will go into buying food, preventing you from paying you credits, bills or rent...
(Excerpt) Read more at askaprepper.com ...
Im no prepper but i have lots of tp canned goods a few guns lots of ammo i need to work on the water thing next
Since you claim to be the author, what prevented you from posting the whole thing?
“1. No matter if you own a business (and have large stocks) or simply if you have something in the house you no longer need and want to sell on the internet. If all of your money is in one single bank account, you might end up with none if the bank goes bankrupt. The day the economy collapses, go to the bank and withdrew a large part of your money and move them into different bank account (other banks).”
Oh fer cryin’ out loud.
“3. Sell. The day the economy collapses, the banks are the LAST place you want ANY money. Indeed, paper money itself becomes useful for lighting a fire only. Electronic money becomes valueless immediately.”
Bwahahahahaha!!!!
There’s nobody to sell to. What are you going to get, more paper money? Ha ha! Dude: Lead, water and food.
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Welcome Newbie.
By rights it should have happened by now. Fed printing should have turned us into Weimar Germany. The fact that is has not tells me the fix is in.
This is like a poker game where everyone at the table holds a crummy hand. So who’s gonna call?
Claude may have a short term memory disorder:
10 Things to Have Ready before the Huge EMP !!!
4/20/2015, 3:24:50 PM · 82 of 205
ClaudeDavis to humblegunner
It’s my first post. I don’t know how things work here. I saw people post excerpts. I’ll post the whole article next time. Thanks!
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On your site, you state “Pay off your debts”. Should the economy collapse, that is OBE.
4/20/2015, 2:24:50 PM · 82 of 205
ClaudeDavis to humblegunner
It’s my first post. I don’t know how things work here. I saw people post excerpts. I’ll post the whole article next time.
Thanks!
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It is your choice you can prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm blanket and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news.
The world is dry tinder just awaiting the right spark. Baltimore has shown us that. It also shows us that if you have a ‘Blue’ City. County or State government in place they are going to take any action to protect you until it is far to late.
So listen to what the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. NIV Proverbs 22:3
Selco covers this in this article many times people just can not except that a breakdown is occurring even as they watch it happening before their eyes. Why don’t they realize it? It’s caused by a condition called ‘Normalcy Bias’ a mental state people enter when facing a disaster.
It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.
A good article on ‘Normalcy Bias’ is on our own ChocChipCookies Blog The Survival Mom:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/12/29/normalcy-bias/
You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become their ‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
Just getting started or an old hand you might find my Preparedness Manual helpful. You can download the manual at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf NOTE! THIS IS A FREE DOWNLOAD. I DO NOT MAKE ONE CENT OFF MY PREPAREDNESS MANUAL!
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, cash (I myself have been putting up change for the past few years both for the metal content and the fact that using change places to make what purchases you can will move you down the the list of possible marks during shtf), tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Again I like to recomend FReeper’s ChocoChipCookie Blog The Survival Mom (Please Blog Police let this one slide!) Where you can get lots of useful information like:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/02/survival-priorities-the-rule-of-three/
And More
Also there is Ferfal’s Blog a survivor of Argentina’s first collapse:
And there is Selco’s Blog a Bosnian War survivor at:
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.”
24 seconds!
As far as I’m concerned, the only people with qualifications to talk about prepping are those who have survived a real disaster and learned from their mistakes. Probably 90% of the prepper information floating around out there doesn’t actually work and is a complete waste of time.
If you’re trying to lure preppers out, trust me, the ones I know have fewer than 10 things to do on STF Day.
More like a minor blip on the radar.
So why didn’t you post it?
So define “a real disaster”. Is that a tornado? Hurricane? earthquake? Snowstorm? alien invasion?
Sure theres lots of bad advice. The worst one I saw today was that 90% of prepper information was bad.
I am so screwed.
I am so screwed.
You are so screwed.
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