Are Preppers responsible for the unprepared?

World Net Daily ^ | 12-8-12 | Patrice Lewis

[dynachrome]

Last week on the website Emergency Management, there appeared a blog post written by an emergency manager named Valerie Lucus-McEwen in which she made a grave error in judgment. She called doomsday preppers “socially selfish.”

She based this startling conclusion on the National Geographic’s “The Doomsday Prepper” series and concluded that because the people featured in this show were spending their OWN time and their OWN money to stockpile their OWN resources in order to prepare their OWN families for whatever disastrous scenario they foresaw, they are selfish. Specifically, as another emergency manager phrased it, this is “a level of indulgence that is selfish and counter-productive to providing for the common good.”

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I, along with many in the prepping community, found this attitude disturbing to the point of creepy. It was exacerbated by the follow-up comments as she replied to reader questions. “It really doesn’t matter how much food you have or what you buy with your money,” she writes in a comment. “The tipping point is how you use it. … Is it something you are planning to hoard or are you working in your community to make sure everyone else is prepared also. I’m not sure how else to say it.”

[Sarajevo]

No, you're not the only one. Doomsday Preppers is for ratings and makes everyone who partakes in prepping look like a fool. Yes, some shows have some good ideas, but driving through 2 major population areas to get to your hide site or having your family walk 15 miles through town after dark to a site is ridiculous.

Oh well, to each his own.....

[vox_freedom]

But wait! Isn't government supposed to save us from every catastrophic disaster whether it be economic, environmental, earthquake, tsunami, fire or pestilence? I watched as Sandy survivors (who decided to stay and "ride it out") started screaming three days after the storm that government wasn't saving them! "I'm hungry! I'm cold!" "No one is here to help me!"

It's time for people to take responsibility for themselves. Especially when a major storm, such as Sandy, was shown to be a likely threat to the NE for 5.5+ days.

Every home should have food and water and a means for heat -- that will provide those things for seven to ten days or more.