Is The U.S. Government Stockpiling Food In Anticipation Of A Major Economic Crisis?

The Economic Collapse ^ | September 23rd, 2011 | ~~~

[Shalmaneser]

If anyone here on FR is on the inside, and has any knowledge about this issue, please post it here. (For obvious reasons please no not post any classified documents.) Thanks.

[Go Gordon]

He told me that the dollar amount of the order was in the "five figures".

WOW, a full five figires! $20,000 worth of food wouldn't feed Michele and her entourage for a day.

[Go Gordon]

figires = figures

[richardtavor]

It is always good to be prepared with this government. Glen Beck started quite a movement of Preppers. It has taken hold and has caused shortages.

[driftdiver]

5 figures isn’t that much, but its wrong. The amount they’ve been buying up is very high. The amounts I’ve read about are in the millions of meals.

demand for these products is also very high among the general consumer. At one point the backlog for Mountain House was at 4 months.

[Molon Labbie]

If the gov is stockpiling food, it’s not for poor people. Gov does what it needs to do to survive, and if there was a disaster pending that was going to fundamentally change our way of life, they would not tell anyone until the absolute minute.

[Abathar]

What the hell do you want, at $16 a muffin a platoon of Marines could run you 5 figures easy, those boys can EAT.

[SaxxonWoods]

Good example of how to create an article out of nothing.

[trailboss800]

He told me that the dollar amount of the order was in the “five figures”.

Approximately the cost of one day of muffins and coffee for the Pentagon. I wonder if they’re ordering freeze dried muffins?

[liberalh8ter]

No author name and unnamed source. Hmmmmmmm.........

[BreezyDog]

(For obvious reasons please no not post any classified documents.) Thanks.

Please PM me the "classified docs" then...

[ilovesarah2012]

Anonymous rumors are just that.

[pgkdan]

When I talked to him today, he had just received a huge order for storable food from a U.S. government source. He told me that the dollar amount of the order was in the "five figures".

That's 10's of thousands of dollaaars. Not exactly a huge buy.

[ToxicMich]

“Good example of how to create an article out of nothing.”

Yep... Indeed...

[pgkdan]

When he asked about why so much food was being ordered, the government source told him essentially that "you know what is coming".

I doubt a low level procurement officer would have any idea whatsoever why this purchase was being made. I sell to the DOD every day and it doesn't work like that.

[Uncle Ike]

” No author name and unnamed source. Hmmmmmmm......... “

Yeah - the mods must be in a really good mood this morning...

;)

[Erik Latranyi]

If multiple agencies within our gov’t and gov’ts around the world are stockpiling, someone would spill the beans.

Government cannot do anything on a large-scale in secret.

[cd jones]

to quote Mitt

“Nice try”

[ctdonath2]

MREs are about $5 each in large bulk. $10,000 is about 2 years of food for one hard-working person. Per my tagline-indicated blog, low end for reasonable eating means $10,000 would feed 9 people for a year.

Scale the “5 digits” consequences accordingly.

[ErnBatavia]

This internet urban legend makes the rounds every year or so, in one form or another.