Posted on 09/04/2012 5:37:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee
Hey man, we love ya back!
Agreed on politicians and their favored constituents keeping black folks and most others in bondage. Sure, crime’s much higher in black neighborhoods, but most black people are more conservative than ignorant outsiders realize. [I’m white but once lived in a “rough,” black neighborhood for years in my youth.]
Fatherlessness is enforced against all (of all races) who can’t afford to buy or otherwise influence the judges or have incomes from government, and both political parties participated in passing many bad laws and funding many evil offices for that paradigm.
And there won’t be any rebuilding in general, until the manufacturing base is rebuilt without the anti-domestic-competition regulations and anti-family policies.
I guess suburban areas in Texas are a bit different. A blown down tree would be chained up, moved to the side of the road by an SUV and cut up for firewood.
There are a lot of differences. When you have 56% of the cars have pistols or rifles in them you sort of get a different attitude.
I Wish!!
done.
A bit ago I took a stab at actually mapping it out. There's a LOT of data to throw around, and I still didn't have quite as much as I needed (fine-grain income data, average & deviation mapping to census districts). Am hoping for a chance to complete it when I get a new computer in a few weeks.
Alternatively, let the cities burn. Who gives a rat’s ass about some inner city trashing its self.
As to the innocents, They should not be there in the first place.
If you're not already at the farm, you're missing the point.
Survivalism is a way of life: when SHTF, you should hardly notice. When the music stops, it's too late to start looking for a chair.
At 5,600 words, I was constantly trying to keep the focus narrow and just on the EBT cards failing leading to massive food riots. I could have spent another 1,000 words describing the dozen ways the EBT failure might manifest, but decided not to. The point is, mathematically, our debt-fueled binge partys is going to end sooner or later, no matter what the politicians and food stamp recipients wish would happen. And when it does, the food will not go to the urban cores, and food riots on a scale perhaps never seen before will happen. We have climbed way out on a slender branch with the food stamp and welfare version of bread and circuses. When the music’s over, there will be hell to pay.
It’s going to be a hell of a ride. That’s why I spend a lot of effort asking folks to consider their location, should the S hit the F.
Makes all the difference. It's not yours, not even in the "we're all part of the government" sense. Ownership means something.
And, FYI, you seem unaware of modern supply chain management: darn near everything operates on a "just in time delivery" model. Even food, if you'll look close at where it comes from: if some food is in season, it's sent to where the demand is now; to significant degree it's cheaper to ship food around the world for use ASAP, than to store it in giant refrigerators waiting for local demand to catch up with warehoused supply. Yes, there are lots of giant refrigerators holding lots of food; that food doesn't stay in there long before being removed, used, and replaced.
And as you note, Agribusiness as a whole is oriented to a “push” system by which farmers sell to commodities brokers, who in turn sell to retailers, very carefully calculating market demand ahead of time, so that farmers do not over or under produce. Black swan events, like massive national rioting, is not included in those careful calculations.
Yeah, I am one of those unfortunate commuters at the barricaded intersection.
Last week, Anderson Cooper had a show on about of all things, preppers.
He asked for a show of hands from the audience about how many had a three day supply of food, water, and needed meds.
This was an audience of about 60 or so, and as you can imagine, nearly entirely middle class soccer mom types driving SUV’s or whatever.
NOT MORE THAN FOUR hands went up.
I was stuned! Truly stuned!
No matter how deep we keep trying to convince people we’re in, it’s deeper than that!
It’s that old normalcy bias.
“The stores have always been stocked, and open. Therefore, the stores will always be stocked, and open.”
If only one in ten of the middle class is prepped, I doubt if one in a hundred EBT users are...
I’ve said it before, SHTF means there would be open cannibalism in the cities by the end of the first week.
There won’t be a dog, a cat, a pigeon, or even a rat to be found.
And it would probably spill into the suburbs fairly quickly.
“just in time delivery” is a more accurate way of describing “push”. However, this being said, the end result is a paradox.
Private ownership does indeed mean that goods flow to where they are most profitable. However, government ownership implies rationing not based on market forces. Neither are good as extremes, but both can function in parallel to better result.
In this case, if there is a national need, there are many ways government can restrict exports. Likewise (like with sugar), if there is strong national and international competition, government can restrict imports.
But in exchange, government can only efficiently ration to the neediest, based on what the public wants to provide to them. They are, however, effectively outside of the market in this process.
I dearly hope you are adequately armed.
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