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Meet Your Neighbor, The Survivalist
cnbc ^ | May.29 | Jane Wells

Posted on 05/29/2009 5:28:31 PM PDT by JoeProBono

There's a new breed of Americans stocking up on canned goods and ammunition. It's not the guy hiding out in a backwoods shack. It's your neighbor.

Jim Wiseman is a fire protection contractor who works "with my hands and the sweat of my brow", a 54-year-old father of five. He lives about as far away as you can get from Washington, DC, and Wall Street...La Jolla, California.

La Jolla hardly seems the sort of place where you'd find a man stocking his garage for disaster, but Wiseman's not alone.

More Americans who are concerned about the teetering financial system dependent on government handouts are preparing for a potential doomsday scenario. They've been dubbed "Suburban Survivalists", and they're one reason the stocks of companies like Cabela's and Big Five.

"I got involved in this six months ago when I became concerned about the financial meltdown," says Wiseman, standing in a garage piled high with enough canned goods to feed ten people for a year. He was concerned that the government's response to the banking crisis wasn't to let the free markets work, but to hand out money. "If this was our response from the government to fix the problem, then I can't depend on them to provide for me and my family."

In the last six month he's spent about $20,000 on food, a 250-gallon water storage tank, a water filter, medical supplies, a grain mill (which can be operated by hand if there's no power), a generator for his RV, and guns and ammunition. "I believe I'm pretty well set." Wiseman says he spent $6,900 alone on food, much of it from online companies which specialize in disaster kits. "I wanted to get it done before the rush happened," he says, adding that his timing was good. After he started ordering, the companies which make these kits were overwhelmed with orders, and some goods are now on backlog.


TOPICS: Food; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: survivalist
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To: CH3CN
Sweetbreads! My gosh, that is nasty.

Heck, when I was a kid, I thought they was pretty good eatin'! :)

21 posted on 05/29/2009 6:59:35 PM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: dynachrome

Bookmark.


22 posted on 05/29/2009 7:14:57 PM PDT by AZ .44 MAG (A society that doesn't protect its children doesn't deserve to survive.)
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To: Max in Utah; CH3CN

Sweetbreads with Scrambled Eggs

23 posted on 05/29/2009 7:39:46 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

It looks great! The aroma is even better...a wonderfully meaty, fatty smell. Put that stuff on a pretty plate and garnish with something cute. That’s when the problem starts. It still tastes just awful. Gack!


24 posted on 05/29/2009 7:48:46 PM PDT by CH3CN
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To: Secret Agent Man

1st time I’ve seen it.


25 posted on 05/29/2009 8:44:06 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Why does this article continue to be re-posted again and again?”

To bug you.


26 posted on 11/13/2010 11:23:27 PM PST by diamond6 (Pray the Rosary to defeat communism and Obamacare!!)
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To: diamond6

thanks you’re six months late...


27 posted on 11/14/2010 2:56:15 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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