Any day now,it's coming, as the song goes " that'll be the day"
We've been through this before, haven't we? The reason you had go that long on stored supplies is that you didn't have any money. It wasn't that there weren't any supplies available, or that money had become worthless, or some other SHTF type of thing. Had you saved up some cash you wouldn't have had to forage.
We are in agreement that saving up money is smart. Why? Because financial disasters happen to people all the time.
Where we disagree is that this therefore justifies "prepping", as in keeping a years worth of dried beans around. Why? Because the chances of SHTF are exceedingly small -- not worth worrying about as JIM ROBINSON HIMSELF HAS ACKNOWLEDGED (hee hee) -- making it a misallocation of resources to put up more than a few weeks worth of stuff. After all, a few weeks of stuff is enough to get 90% of people through the worst part of whatever act of God your particular part of the country is prone to.
Any day now,it's coming, as the song goes " that'll be the day"
At least I own my property outright, and only have to pay yearly tribute to the protection racket we call local government.
I'll keep my larder full. You do as you please.
But I'm done with you. You seem to take perverse pleasure in being disruptive.
Plonk.
/johnny
yer a troll
If you read anything about people who HAVE BEEN THROUGH IT, in Argentina and Bosnia, you will find out that Cash is King for about 2-4 weeks, adn then it is utterly worthless.
Where we disagree is that this therefore justifies "prepping", as in keeping a years worth of dried beans around. Why? Because the chances of SHTF are exceedingly small -- not worth worrying about as JIM ROBINSON HIMSELF HAS ACKNOWLEDGED (hee hee)
Jimrob did not say that it is not worth worrying about. He said he, himself, is not particularly worried about it. I happen to know why.
-- making it a misallocation of resources to put up more than a few weeks worth of stuff. After all, a few weeks of stuff is enough to get 90% of people through the worst part of whatever act of God your particular part of the country is prone to.
I'm of the opinion that the experiences of Argentina, as survived by one FerFAL, and Bosnia, as survived by another blogger, are eminently possible and possibly even probable, given the crap-currency we are issued, and the unsustainable government spending binge we are on.
Do you know how the USSR collapsed? One day, they simply could no longer pay anyone in the government. All the government workers walked off the job. Bam, the USSR collapses.
The probabilty of that occuring in the United States is near-unity. WE get the added benefit of massive urban riots when the EBT cards flash "ERROR".
But if I am wrong, it is likely because of minor or major miracles. If YOU are wrong, we shant speak about it, for you and I will be busy on the task of surviving AT ALL.
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I wouldn't overwork that too much if I were you.
You are really dumb - why do you think Jim's not worried about it? Why am I and Kartographer and JRandomFreeper and yorkiemom and all those preppers on this thread are not worried about it? BECAUSE WE ARE PREPARED. You are the one who isn't prepared and thrashing around in your mud pit, throwing out mud.
Just hoping I can unload my house and everything else anchoring me to California and get my family settled into Texas before it’s too late. If Prince Rebus and Tokyo Rove blow it in next year’s election by running a herd of loser RINOs and or for whatever reason we fail to gain sufficient majorities of conservatives in the house and senate to rein in the wannabe dictator, and his dem/RINO enablers, this country could be facing its last days as a somewhat free nation. I wouldn’t dream of telling anyone they should not be prepared.
Only to an MSNBC viewer and when there's a democrat in the White House.