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.
Even people that don’t pay attention have their Spidey senses tingling that something is up. People from all walks of life are preparing. I’ve met many. This pounding on preppers is nothing but class warfare, liberal style. They want to demonize preppers the same way they do the “rich” so that should the time come they can claim preppers owe everyone else what they have, just like they do the so-called rich today.