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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 ...
The Army taught me how to be a soldier in a war zone.
If I want to learn how to be a civilian in wartime Bosnia them I will read him.
There are better sources for Americans and preparedness.
One of the things that first gets boring to survivalists, and especially after years of it, is the constant obsession with weapons and soldiering and military aspects of it.
I don’t spend time discussing artillery and the degree of difference between artillery supported American infantry and someone’s steps they have taken to be prepared against looters, when I am helping people get prepared for emergencies.
Two quest please point out the objectionable parts in the exchange I reposted, because I see no such obsession with weapons and soldiering and military aspects shtf in his post. Clearly all is written from a civilians view. If I am wrong please highlight what I missed. Where in his exchange is there any mention of artillery other that being a civilian trapped and trying to survive a artillery barge?
As far as better source of those with real shtf experience here in the US, please list such so that I may add them to my resources to better serve the Preppers Pin List.
I don’t see how I was unclear about anything. But since it went over your head, I’ll repeat myself. I wouldn’t take advice from anyone who had ZERO personal, hands-on experience in that area. The fact that you are speaking about your own experience means that you value that and it must in some way have some value to you. Or do you believe all information on the internet is valid and equal and always applicable to every situation?
Disaster response means different things to different people. There are a multitude of approaches to being prepared. What works for someone living in the coutry would never work for someone living in a city. A plan that works for someone in their 20s would not work for someone in their 70s. And so it goes. There is just a lot of nonsense out there from well-meaning people who have no experience and no business telling others how to prepare for a disaster. I wouldn’t want to learn to fly a plane from someone who has never flown themselves. Would you?
So basically we got a blogpimp with garbage in a shiny sack.
How could you have been clear on anything, you haven’t really said anything.
You won’t tell us what disaster you experienced or what advice you took or why it was wrong.
Without some information about what you are talking about, we don’t have any clues about your vague complaint about something, you need to flesh it out some.
What disaster, what advice, whose advice was so bad?
First-hand accounts are excellent resources to build upon. However even these can be misapplied or misinterpreted. The fact is that every disaster presents unique challenges that are only fully understood in hindsight.
Really?
So which FEMA re-education concentration camp are you living in?
You do the best with what you have. Some intel is always better than none. Some people do nothing because they find or look for fault in all actions, some do the best research they can and do something.
Moctezuma, is that you you sly ol' dog ... I haven't seen you in a coon's age!
-Hernando C.
Considering the grilling I got when some though I was a blog pimp (even though I didn’t have a site or a blog) you guys have gone soft. ;-)
Same here .. I moved from the big city to rural W. Tennessee. Quite honestly I do miss the city life, but the writing was on the wall long before Baltimore burst into flames.
Changing times and old age.. pick one. ;-)
I like the way you plink!
“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.”
A discerning person who hasn’t experienced an emergency, can still prepare a good way after searching and reading what others did that worked.
However, there is nothing like experience that points out errors and better ways to prepare for live saving necessities. Every hurricane that came my way, pointed out small errors I made and ways to do something better.
You keep repeating that vague statement, that doesn’t explain what you are talking about.
After trying so hard to get you to explain your vague condemnation of prepping, I think I can call BS on you.
You won’t even let us know what kind of disaster you were involved in if any, you just keep mumbling that people should talk to us who have been through disasters, rather than seek other information.
Do you really think that most of those people in New Orleans are experts now?
“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.”
I’m not clicking through to his original article since he wants us to add to the numbers clicking onto his website.
You are correct that those of us who have thought through the process and prepared accordingly, don’t have to rush anyway to get supplies. I would prepare my power system to take over when power went out, set up water system and purifier, those types of systems that take over when the ones we have now are gone.
Keeping money around is a good thing: plenty of paper cash since that is our way of paying for goods and that will come back eventually, and particularly coins. Likely the best money in an extended crash, would be in soap and wet wipes (instead of toilet paper since it is cheaper and stores in a small amount of space).
However, unless one is going to leave the house the day a crash happens, and I am not, hunkering down with no outside exposure, is likely the best thing to do at the beginning, to see what the trend is going to be. The only exception would be one has a safe place and fast way to get there and leaves immediately the day of the crash or before.
I’ve been around race riots some, from the 1960s to the 1992 riots.
Not something that I would focus on as the major thing to prepare for for most preppers, and not an excuse to waste large portions of time, expense, and energy preparing them for Sarajevo.
Good info, I wasn’t willing to go to the site to investigate that much.
The font size and color will get you blocked by google. Its a 1995 approach to SEO.
I think he should be banned but he’d probably resurface under a different name he’s already got.
BTW, all I was saying is his reasoning for google reputation was legit.
This additional research shows him to be a sketchy character bordering on illegal.
I never click on blogs unless someone like Kart posts them.
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