Posted on 12/08/2012 7:07:43 PM PST by 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.”
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Darn right ‘Toad. I, along with many other FReepers I’m sure, have spent quite a large amount of time and money ‘getting ready’ over the past years. I’m up in the boonies along with a small secure prepped group of family and neighbors, (If they can be termed ‘neighbors’ in the usual sense, we are a bit spread out up here in the mountains), that all think quietly alike regarding preps/politics and the climactic fiscal meltdown, a meltdown which has been called a ‘mathematical certainty’ by quite a few of the money men, that is headed America’s way. The unprepared ARE stupid, the warnings and examples are everywhere and have been for years for ALL to learn from. Even with Katrina and Sandy, preppers are STILL getting slammed as being goofy or paranoid or any number of other creative names. A fiscal mess or another big storm or anything really....it does not hurt to get/be ready.
This little honey-pot is not doing a very good job of getting the message out to prepare. Then, she bitches about those who listened to her and prepared. She is a mental.
Prep in secret.
BTW: Is it just me, or do ladies with hypenated names normally mean trouble from day one? Is the hyphen code for “democratliberallawsuit”?
Sigh. What a concept.
Selfish is not doing anything and counting on others. It’s being selfish and lazy!
Yes, I am a prepper and “socially selfish”...and at “a level of indulgence that is selfish and counter-productive to providing for the common good.”
This cry baby woman must have met me somewhere - maybe at Kroger while I was buying all the food in the store so she couldn’t have any.
No, we are not responsible for those who don’t prep, but it may be in our best interest to help some of them on a case by case basis. There’s the moral issue of helping our fellow man; however, there is also a more practical reason. Some people that may need help could have a valuable skill or other personal asset that could help your circle of friends. So, I guess it depends on who needs help and what’s your moral compass. If you believe in Karma or the Golden Rule, there’s that also.
Absolutely.
Nope
Charity ? Not anymore. Someone asks me to give, I tell them to go ask Obama. They voted for him to give them free sh*t, so they should go to him for it. . .
Anyone that comes for my provisions will be given hot lead!!
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Bible says tithe 10%.
Under the circumstances, that could entail making up bags each containing a $1 pot, a few pounds of rice, a few matches, and a cheap blanket - or some suitable inexpensive “sustinence bag” cobbled from Dollar Store items and a huge sack of rice/flour.
10%, spent with care and preparation, could help a lot of people in a pinch.
Oh yeah, right. It's only selfish right wingers who believe that Kroger's wants to maximize profit by keeping the shelves stocked ;)
“bags each containing a $1 pot, a few pounds of rice, a few matches, and a cheap blanket - or some suitable inexpensive “sustinence bag” cobbled from Dollar Store items and a huge sack of rice/flour”
Close to what I keep on hand as “extras”. Sportsmansguide.com has quite a bit of cheap military surplus from various countries. Quality IS variable. Czechoslovakia went out of business and became Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Lots of extra military stuff with the old logo on it.
“...a few pounds of rice, a few matches, and a cheap blanket - or some suitable inexpensive “sustinence bag” cobbled from Dollar Store items and a huge sack of rice/flour. 10%, spent with care and preparation, could help a lot of people in a pinch.”
And, if you give them that, they will never leave the outside of your house and if you don’t keep on giving, they will attack you for the rest in your house.
I am like many preppers at this point - let them get it from Hussein.
Good luck with that when the word gets out. Every democrat in the state will be trying to break down you door to scarf up all they can get their hands on.
There was an article posted a while back about a church giving out free meal tickets to the poor for some reason. So many people showed up for the free handout, they had to shut it down. Once the word got out, the whole town suddenly claimed to be poor and needy.
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Pray for repentance and a Christian revival.
Without a Christian revival, and clinging to their guns and not their Bibles, “Preppers” will get nuked or killed during invasion also.
Bet on it.
We normally give to a few national organizations, this time of year. This year, we'll give to a few individuals we know could use a little extra help. But, not to ANY known 0 voters!
The first rule of emergency management, is that emergencies don’t respond well to “management”. . .
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