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I need some positive reasons why not to plan for a SHTF scenario.

Posted on 11/16/2008 3:15:11 PM PST by rfmad

I am seriously thinking of taking to steps to go to a survivalist approach planning to survuve total chaos and financial and institutional break down. Some one please help me see why this is not going to happen. Thanks


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KEYWORDS: emergencyprep; preparedness; shtf; survival; survivalism; thecomingdarkness; tshtf; wtshtf
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To: MarkeyD

One already did here.


61 posted on 11/16/2008 3:50:54 PM PST by MamaB (Heb.13:2)
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To: rfmad

Stock up on staples but don’t forget to read Psalms. Israel had a “few” internal problems back then. There’s encouragement there applicable today.

http://www.Biblegateway.com


62 posted on 11/16/2008 3:51:13 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: OneTimeComment
This would be good in the event of a disaster or severe inflation. I am a huge Glenn Beck fan, and he recommended this.

Just a little nit to pick - what we have experienced so far is not severe inflation, but rather severe deflation [of asset prices].

In a deflationary environment, you do not want to be invested in fixed assets - you want to be invested in cold, hard cash.

Now that's not to say that Obama & Bernanke won't inflate the currency into the stratosphere, but, for the time being, inflation is not our immediate concern.

Rather, our immediate concern is their gun-grabbing and their creation of a brownshirt civilian defense corps.

And, beyond that, the general breakdown in law and order which will ensue as the USA starts to look less and less like the country we grew up in, and more and more like South Africa or Zimbabwe.

63 posted on 11/16/2008 3:51:18 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: randomhero97

Thanks. I never heard of Gander Mountain.


64 posted on 11/16/2008 3:51:54 PM PST by ncpatriot
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To: DugwayDuke

Both are signs that One Has Been In The Field Too Long...


65 posted on 11/16/2008 3:52:59 PM PST by George Smiley (Palin is the real deal.)
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To: steadfastconservative
Why would anyone think that the election of Barack Obama would lead to a complete breakdown of social order?

It must be those darn socialists spreading rumors again.

Everyone knows the one is going to make things peacfull and serene.

Why do you post such niave questions?

66 posted on 11/16/2008 3:53:41 PM PST by An Old Man (Lead, Follow, or get the hell out of the way)
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To: Arkinsaw

If I were you, I would put back $700 billion or so for a rainy day.


Easy for you to say. I’m down to my last $150 million.


68 posted on 11/16/2008 3:54:05 PM PST by Canedawg (The media is a ass, a idiot.," said Mr. Bumble.)
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To: rfmad

God is still on His throne.


69 posted on 11/16/2008 3:56:14 PM PST by Rockitz (NObama 2008- Strange we ain't believin')
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To: Safrguns

The BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
Let’s see how could that little tidbit really change everything.
Nobama get’s tossed due to citizenship status, Joe moves up to Prez, Joe picks hitlery (look at all the klintonistas hooked up for GOV again), Joe get stroke (arkanacide), hitlery is Prez by default, hitlery and slick find a loophole in Constitution and TAKE OVER.. Looks pretty scary to me.
Hey does anyone have any spare tinfoil?


70 posted on 11/16/2008 3:58:34 PM PST by dusttoyou (First they steal our savings, then our liberty)
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To: EBH

I’ve not seen one person, including myself, who has been called “nuts” for thinking this way. And that says a lot!


71 posted on 11/16/2008 3:58:46 PM PST by Terry Mross ( It's just a matter of time before we're all 'GUILTY' of hate speech.)
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To: rfmad

Excellent post as I’ve been consumed by the idea of war at home and my family being killed and torn asunder.


72 posted on 11/16/2008 3:59:42 PM PST by mcshot (Bitterly Loving God, Family, Life, Guns and our Constitution as written!)
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To: rfmad

There is no way of predicting the particulars of a SHTF scenario.

What was the best way of surviving Nazi rule, the Bolshevik Revolution, Jonestown?

Leaving. Only leaving.


73 posted on 11/16/2008 4:01:30 PM PST by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: rfmad

I’m way down that path already (bought my mountain side retreat a decade ago) so I cannot comply with your request. Instead I’d suggest you go to the very sensible information at www.survivalblog.com and start planning in earnest for the future.

It’s important that we constitutionalists survive the collapse and pass on our knowledge and values to the coming generations, because the new country will have to be built on something.


74 posted on 11/16/2008 4:03:17 PM PST by crusher (Political Correctness: Stalinism Without the Charm)
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To: rfmad

Maybe your problem is that you aren’t looking for reasons TO prepare for the SHTF that everyone keeps fearing. Your predecessors fought the Fed. Reserve Bank, the New Deal, and the Great Society.

The first shot hasn’t even been fired here, and you’re already sounding the retreat. Man up, people. How can you talk about cashing it in and running before the fight is even engaged?

Quit running from shadows and find some moral courage. You can lose, but be willing to do so with honor.


75 posted on 11/16/2008 4:03:22 PM PST by thepresenceusmc (Libertarians...refusing to settle for RINO since 1971)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

http://beprepared.com"; has an ACORN for a fav icon!

Aaaaaaaugggghhhh!

They got to them, too!

;]


76 posted on 11/16/2008 4:03:31 PM PST by Salamander (Welcome to Obamageddon! The best apocalypse foreign money can buy!)
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To: mcshot

Sooner or later there will be another civil war. We’ve gone beyond any kind of peaceful reconciliation. I have no doubt the left can be defeated in a real fight, as they believe nothing is worth dying for. What worries me is a foreign invasion while we’re taking care of business.


77 posted on 11/16/2008 4:04:12 PM PST by clintonh8r ("My friends, we've got them just where we want them." McCain. Or Custer.)
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To: mcshot
I think the fear is coming from Obomas Stalinist agenda.
It's enough to scare any freedom loving people, because we've seen leaders who thought like this before.
78 posted on 11/16/2008 4:05:51 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: dusttoyou

The Birth Cetificate issue, until I see it picked up by any mainstream media outlet, there will be no legs to this story. They are going to do the three step-cha-cha and sweep this matter under the rug./Just Asking - seoul62......


79 posted on 11/16/2008 4:06:00 PM PST by seoul62
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To: gotribe

My 401k is also in cash, but now I worry about the D’s proposals to seize 401k’s and fold it into SS. I’m near retirement, and would be quite disgusted should this happen.


80 posted on 11/16/2008 4:06:38 PM PST by GregoryFul
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