Posted on 07/05/2010 3:22:21 PM PDT by blam
The theory of complete societal breakdown fails in a whole series of ways.
To start with, our national infrastructure is basically sound. America has been awash in food since before the Great Depression. We have an overabundance of housing. We organize well, we’re heavily armed and belligerent.
Add to this that except for natural disasters, they rarely happen all at once, which gives us time to adapt.
“A world of no banks, no public facilities, no food and rampaging gangs of desperate people.”
Banks are overrated, and people are far less dependent on them than you might think. There are lots of alternatives to banks.
No public facilities? Well, electricity could get haphazard, because of the eco-dumbasses. But that could be fixed in a few years, or even months, after we throw the eco-dumbasses off cliffs. Other than that, water is a big priority out West, and it’s unlikely that it will become less so.
And again, plenty of food. Right now we have to pay farmers to *not* grow food. Even if all they have to grow it with is water and seed, no fertilizer or pesticide, they will still grow enough.
Rampaging gangs (of Mexicans?) Sorry. We got guns.
Just the other day, I had a half-dream and was pondering which of my 3 cats I would eat first. I love my cats and I’ve been a freakin’ vegetarian for 40 years...!
On the other hand, having a couple thousand rounds of various shiny brass pipe-plug thingies is rather a comfort. You know, the ones with the lead tip, or hollow-points.
450 to 350 is a 60% drop in population?
Just got back from a practice rampaging horde control.
Well, maybe the prairie dogs weren't rampaging, but did find a couple of good towns off the thoroughfare and back in the woods on the Thunder Basin.
Maybe I didn't do so good beyond 300 yds, but the AR was guttin' 'em pretty decent out to there. The others on the safari were using .22s and .17s leaving the long shots for me [;)]. I have a bunch of old and cheap Russian Wolf ammo I need to burn through as I am restocking with Lake City and PMC for the collapse.
Moral of the story?.. Buy ammo. LOTS of it.
Mine either.
Also, gangs of desperate government thugs commissioned by a big government thugocracy that will find it necessary to confiscate more and more from citizens in order to keep themselves paid and living the elitist high life. Don't doubt it for a second.
There will be those with guns and ammo, and those without.
I am, and will remain, armed to the teeth.
Probably. Its not cheap to insure those brick and mortars. It was a financial decision. Put the bullet proof in place, or pay X amount more to the insurance companies. Which was the cheaper cost. Which leads into, how did they get data to support bullet proof glass? Or is it a blanket policy they now hold....the mind wanders on that..
Now that is an interesting development and thought.
We will call them zombies when the checks stop being mailed
With the economy down about 5% I doubt it will be any spunkier out there than it was about the time "W" was elected for the second time.
Unemployment is the real issue ~
That depends on your location.
Around my woods, a hundred yards would be a long shot, so the 62gr 109 round should do just fine, even in a sixteen inch barrel.
Too, I trained with, and carried, the A1, so the carbines we have are very familiar. I also happen to like 30 round mags.
Worse comes to worse, out comes the scoped M1A...
But we have a way to go before that happens, and November will be a major checkpoint for the future.
“world government by Illuminists.”
Sometimes ya feel like a nut....
History is littered with various secret and semi-secret cabals. Some more powerful than others and many have done serious harm in one way or another. Has any been all powerful? No thank the Lord, but not because they didn’t try. Like all such enterprises they have one weakness that is power sharing, no one wants to do it, so in the end there are always power struggles or outside powers who get worried, jealous and crush them.
The power I fear most right now is the growing power of the Islamifacist. Organizations that have form around religion have always been among the most powerful and when you combine that with the cult of death that Islam is it should be enough to make every sane man worry.
“Banks are overrated, and people are far less dependent on them than you might think. There are lots of alternatives to banks.”
Almost every business, exists because if credit, no credit, no paychecks, no inventory, no cash flow, no nothing.
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