Rich Dad Advisors Discuss Food Storage for the coming 2012 Depression

YouTube ^ | 3/22/11

[Kartographer]

Rich Dad "Robert Kiyosaki" and his entire adviser team discuss how they have prepared for the coming depression: - Year's supply of food - Guns - Gold & silver - Cash on hand

They speak of the coming depression (inflationary or not it's going to happen), shutting down the credit card system, and higher taxes no matter what. Budget-cutting police forces promotes lawnessness.

What scares me now is these are not some local yocals on youtube speaking their wacky thoughts. Instead, these are calm, straight speaking, successful businessesmen in the know, telling us what they have done. We should take notice. They are prepared.

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This is a few months old, but I thought it was interesting in that it seem more and more everday you hear of people you don't think of being one of those 'nutty' end of the world preppers are prepping.

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PING!

For the link impaired:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZAzBDDnhwg

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If you haven’t already it’s time to prepare. 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, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.

If you are just starting or an old hand at prepping I like to recomend that you look over my Preparedness Manual which you can down load at:

http://www.tomeaker.com/kart/preparedness1i.pdf

I think that we are at the very least in for a collapse much like that of Argentina’s ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yerKMQc7-w&feature=grec_index), but as a armed society with a very large entitlement minded population our collapse will be much more violent and I see many many small business wiped out by flash mob looting, and large scale violence (look at what happened just this past Memorial Day weekend)and then there is this is going on in Chicago:”Emanuel said he spoke with McCarthy over the weekend and again this morning about the situation. The mayor said the city’s reputation as a safe place to work and shop downtown is being endangered by the thuggery. Many of the attacks are happening near the biggest tourist and shopping attractions in the city.

But, CBS 2’s Jim Williams reports, the problem of mob attacks downtown is much bigger than the weekend beatings, according to beat cops who wanted to remain anonymous.”

And it’s not just Chicago, but Washington DC, Las Vegas, St Paul, Philadelphia and on most major big ‘Blue’ cities are increasingly reporting such flash mobs and gang muggings.

Teenage Flash Mob Robberies on the Rise:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/18/top-five-most-brazen-flash-mob-robberies/

Rash of violence isn’t flash mobs, it’s wilding

http://www.suntimes.com/news/roeper/5826624-417/rash-of-violence-isnt-flash-mobs-its-wilding.html

I see what I call ‘Pocket Pogroms’ taking place in many big ‘Blue’ cities and if you aren’t a “0bamamite yutes” it’s going to get Reginald Denny bad for you very quickly.

As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”

Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3

And a little something for those who do not believe:
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”-Louis Pasteur

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Please enlighten me. I thought that over the counter gold trading will become “illegal” on July 15th. Won’t that make holding precious metals useless, if you can’t sell/trade them? Or did I misinterpret the law?

[Hammerhead]

Robert K is a total fraud and shuckster.

I bought his book. Piece of feel good garbage if there ever was.

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I haven’t kept up on the metals trade like I should as I don’t hold but a small amout ot silver coin and of than copper jacked lead I am not a big metal’s fan.

[familyop]

"Budget-cutting police forces promotes lawnessness."

Thanks for the post--good for promoting awareness and preparation. But I do disagree with the part quoted above. Cuts against the kind of spending that the Clintons were famous for in the '90s (100,000 new police on the streets, or something like that) won't promote lawlessness in the long run. There were warnings against expecting problems to be solved by hiring "more police" in earlier books written by several leaders retired from police agencies.

Many laws and ordinances passed over the past two decades are nothing more than measures against domestic business competition, measures against property rights and promotions of expensive frivolousness in the courts against residents. For example, shortages in manpower for enforcement may also bring sanity back to self-defense law.

[dr_lew]

And a little something for those who do not believe:
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”-Louis Pasteur

The prepared MIND, please note. He was referring to a receptiveness to scientific discovery. This is not a survival skill, as witness the story of Archimedes' death, slain by a soldier whom he absentmindedly told, "Please do not disturb my circles."

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Like everything there are those that find him great and those that like you think that he is a huckster.

I never read his book of attended one of his seminairs, but I known many that have.

Me I tend to keep a open mind as I too I have been called a huckster for promoting Preparedness even though I don’t make a dime off of it.

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I refer to it more to point out that preparedness is as much about what you know, what you do and how you conduct yourself as how many guns and how much supplies you have.

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PS: I also am reffering to ‘normalcy bias’, to many seem to think that there is nothing wrong that we are just in a ‘little rought patch’ and can not see or refuse to see the size of the very possible disaster before us.

[dr_lew]

I don’t see the point. If events transpire as imagined, it seems like the actual preparations, whatever the strategy, must matter more than any mental conceptions that may be held, unless you’re talking about Kung Fu or something.

[dr_lew]

But surely this is just a spur to make actual preparations before the event.

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You have to know how to use what you’ve prepared for one, you have to set you mind to do what needs to be done to survive for another. Survival isn’t a matter of a stack of canned food and a can opener.

[dr_lew]

Survival isn’t a matter of a stack of canned food and a can opener.

To quote Steve Dahl, "I thought it was." So far, though, we've only stocked up on light bulbs.

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Take the Twin Towers for example many people stayed in place instead of getting out because they thought that the ‘authorities’ would be along to save them and/or to lead them out. Many owe their lives to the fact that they listen to their in voice and realized that it was not a normal emergency and that they need despite being told to stay in place to get the hell out.

[dr_lew]

This is just an argument to make preparations. I do recall that the people were told to remain in the second tower, after the first was hit, but many left anyway, which was a very sound decision from a simple game theory perspective.

I would think that leaving or not leaving, in that case, would be analogous to stockpiling or not stockpiling in the case of predicted calamity. The logic in each case is that a low probability of high consequences for inaction outweighs a high probability of low consequences for unnecessary action.

[IncPen]

ping

[spokeshave]

I guess I have to dig up those Y2K supplies..........

[familyop]

It could be a survival skill in many more ways than the following (another example being food production/storage).

$2K Solar Space + Water Heating — One Simple DIY System
http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/SpaceHeating/DHWplusSpace/Main.htm

And yes, that was already invented. But modifications are often necessary for various situations (climate, etc.).