Pfft,
I couldn't care less about my life savings.
I'm just waiting for bow season...
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/17/2009 6:58:05 PM PST by The Comedian
Hardcore survivalists cherish what I call the "George Romero Scenario." It goes like this: The proverbial poop has hit the propeller. Cities collapse into chaos. But we, the prepared, are...well, we're prepared. We hunker in our rural bunkers, clutching our Super Whiz-Whacker 3000 combat arms, eagle-eyed and ready for any eventuality. We boldly fend off wave after ravenous wave of starving city folk who stagger at us like unstoppable zombies in a Romero horror flick. These zombies crave not our living flesh, but our six-gallon, mylar-lined superpails of dried lentils, our root cellars full of last year's carrots, and our genuine, federally issued Meals Ready to Eat.
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Just one of many statements she makes jumping out at me.
This one synopsizes the situation in one sentence.
That said this whole thing reminds me of the early 80s. Reagan's just been elected and is really shaking cages. Particularly Communist cages.
America's Hollyweird scum & scum from abroad go into high gear, vilifying RR & his effort(s).
Two productions ideal for demonstrating the smear are: The Day After by ABC {spit}.
The other's a BBC production titled Threads.
While both films attempted to portray what'd happen to society due solely TO RR's course, in hindsight beyond laughable, they also accomplished depicting the utter chaos of a full nuclear exchange unlike anything before, too.
Images one could really connect with, the desired tool of propagandists having a viable use for perhaps the first & only time? LOL
Nuclear or natural disaster, what's the difference if everything we've come to rely simply no longer exists?
Moreover while The Day After is nearly comical in many ways aside from visuals? Threads does a pretty damned good job showing what the government's role will be in such a disaster, and, how the governments will get every surviving soul to toe their line.
Even if Wolfe's survivalist issue has been addressed, many times, before? It ain't pretty.
Good topic, my friend.
BTW, curious: what part of the republic you live, now? Rural WI, here.
Ping me anytime to CWolfe's stuff, OK? TIA :^)
Claire is a fairly regular contributor to Backwoods Home along with Masaad Ayoob. It’s worth checking in there from time to time.
Can you give me some examples of this? - thanks
Sure. Buying stock in companies based in foreign countries that pay dividends. (Why do you think foreigners buy stock in American companies?)
Buying income producing properties in another country. I have a little beach house in Mexico that I paid 30k for. I spend a month or two down there each year and rent it out for the rest of the year. They take care of the place and I get a couple of hundred a month for it. I know it isn't much, but it would probably be enough to feed me and my family if necessary.
Heard that one before. Pisses me off.
They are just lazy.
That is why I have dogs.
thanks
Pfft,
I couldn't care less about my life savings.
I'm just waiting for bow season...
I put a hand pump on top of my 140 ft. deep well. Cost me five hundred bucks.
It sure feels that way sometimes : ( And some of your scenarios would play out that way.
But and this is a big but : ) The most likely scenario won't play out that way. We are watching the collapse play out right now. California is broke. The Federal government would be broke right now if they couldn't print money. This is an excruciatingly slow process, until the final collapse.
But our society isn't going to collapse, it will be transformed. How? I have no clue, except that it will be broken up regionally (most likely based on energy grids). The only thing I am positive of is that there will not be an armed rebellion. There will be no one to rebel against.
People with assets will be the ones to benefit.
You go ahead and wait in line to feed those you love. I'll be at home, safe and feeding my family without having to depend on others.
Additional sources of income are fine, but why not do both, just in case?
Thanks, Lurker.
Bookmarking the site based solely on your recommendation. ;^)
"There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved."
- Ludwig von Mises
Dude, the "most likely" isn't even what worries me. I've got Farfal's book for that :-)
What is disturbing is that we are staring at a *flock* of "Black Swan" events, any one of which might have been experienced by perhaps a dozen people now living in America.
In the face of some of these events, a zombie apocalypse would be a calming, safe, nostalgic trip down the path of "normal".
BTW, as an act of civil disobedience, I have moved all funds and business activities save for a tiny fragment, offshore.
Screw the Coup.
Oh puh leaze. I live in Utah. I live an hour away from town. Except for milk and fresh fruit we start getting nervous if we have less than a years worth of food stocked up. We have a greenhouse and my wife loves to garden. I have access to a spring and the materials and know how to go off the grid for power and heat. Having said that, I am not self sufficient. I don't really think it is possible to be self sufficient.
My point is that preparing for a Mad Max scenario is financially stupid. Buying bulk food items that you like to eat, on sale, is smart. Buying guns and ammo before you are out of debt is stupid. Investing in a foreign company to get dividends in time of a crises is smart.
Predicting the future is impossible. Planning for the future is smart.
Well you didn't say that. What you wrote gave the impression that money is all that is needed to survive any given disaster.
Sounds like you have all the bases covered.
Grew up in SoCal. Left it many years ago. However, I do live in a small KaliDummo county.
I’ll be very glad if, and when, I can wrench my wife from this God forsaken state. Still, I have a hideaway in the boondocks not far from here.
God taught me that wherever too many congregate, there is trouble brewing. I really feel sorry for those that will be stuck in cities when the stuff hits the fan, although many may deserve it.
Thanks for the pings, as long as they last.
On a related note, I'm waiting on a barrel (Compass Lake) for my latest DMR project. Just a hobby, y'unnerstand...
Where did you get your hand pump?
As for tobacco, not a bad idea. Hadn’t really thought about it, but, easy enough to stock up on.
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