Posted on 11/28/2012 5:21:43 PM PST by shove_it
we bought our first generator back when we were still struggling financially.
We might be considered “rich” by now - but only by Obama.
It has been tough keeping up with heating oil,gas prices, and medical expenses - buy hey, rich is whatever they say it is.
Anyways...some folks go off and get a nice big flat screen. Some get fancy phones.
We went and got a generator that cost less than many video game systems.
I am always amazed at how incredibly stupid these “well respected” economists and columnists are.
When the “shift” happens and the gubmin checks stop comin’ in da mail,
everyone that has ANYTHING will be “the rich” and will be to blame for the stoppage of the freebies.
Sorry. This is far more than Liberalism. It is full blown Socialism. Everyone should have a generator or else none should? Sheesh. Let me guess....Kristof doesn't own a generator and got stiffed when he went to get one at Home Depot when Sandy was approaching.
We are here in Florida, the Hurricane Capital of the Nation. You can find gensets at the pawn shops for crissake.
As far as Kristoff is concerned, she is only reading the DNC talking points of the day. It’s just a job to her.
The “grasshopper vs. ant” analogy is a bullseye. The useless eaters outnumber the producers, and no nation so dedicated can long endure.
Kart, you mentioned three types of “preppers”: the Justified Looters, the Denier-cum-Locusts, and the It’s God’s Will people.
But there’s a fourth, and they’re more prevalent than we care to admit: the Uber-Patriot Militia Prepper. With few exceptions, they are over-sixty; overweight; possibly a ‘Nam vet who drove the Sergeant-Major’s jeep for two years but claims he was SpecOps-Ranger-Airborne-Delta-SEAL; equates the size of his gun to the size of his... gun; and sit on the front stoop of their patriot bunker in the mountains (which is nothing more than a Lowe’s toolshed in their suburban backyard) and loudly proclaim they are Lexington Green (when in reality they will be Ruby Ridge 2.0)...
The ants are heavily armed and we are mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore.
Solar panels don’t work very well during storms and are frequently destroyed by them. Also, they don’t work at all at night.
Generators work great 24/7 as long as there is fuel.
Draw your own conclusion, but I think they guy is just evil, grasping, ideologue.
That sentence was poorly constructed. I should have said, “In the rural villages, no one has more than another.”
Certainly, those in power and their friends are wealthy. That's the way communism works. Hussein would have it that way - he would live in luxury and so would his friends, but the populace, in the end, the way he wants it, would be the serfs with all having the same thing, not more than someone else.
Macao is an entry point into mainland China and they cater to tourists, hence the casinos. They also have a government building/restaurant for tourists and we were taken there to eat. Then, there was a government shopping building for tourists. We were watched by men in that building so they knew what we bought. We were not allowed to roam on our own.
My conclusion is that this guy is totally self-contradictory.
“Solar panels don’t work very well during storms and are frequently destroyed by them. Also, they don’t work at all at night.”
Though the same thing when I heard this guy talking about the “smart grid”, earlier this year, with every home having its own personal solar power source. Sounds smart, until you realize how fragile the photovoltaics are. Then I’m thinking, yeah, it’s not much better than the grid as is in the case of an emergency event.
I agree. It truly is rediculous, and it’s also rediculous the kinds of priorities some people have in terms of what they buy with their money. Frankly, I’m surprised at how many people I see where they have all these spanking new electronic toys, yet the maintenance on their own homes is crap. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
In general, properly mounted solar panels strengthen the roof and do not get blown off unless the storm is strong enough to take the entire roof. Other than that, I agree that the ongoing class envy is absurd. I'm proud of my neighbors with generators, not jealous.
That's a lot of ammo, not for practice but if needed in an emergency. I hope you won't have to put much of it to use in any crisis situation, but I'm glad you have it just in case. In contrast, I imagine Kristof will be complaining when the time comes that some people are able to go get their own 12 ga ammo and others aren't, and this is not fair, that some should have buckshot and others don't. And it's all because you're rich and have too much disposable income, and with that disposable income you're able to go out and buy private ammo that you really shouldn't be entitled to have. It's not fair.
Yep. That's what happened to my son's friend who owns a gun shop and shooting range in Metairie. It wasn't even in New Orleans but in the Greater NO area. We were flooded for a couple of days but that was because they turned our pumping stations off and left. But, it was after that time when they came in a confiscated ALL his guns. He eventually got them back but lost time and revenue in the meantime. We live in a sick, greedy, perverted country these days. The government is out of control in all areas.
I shall be only too happy to share my ammunition with them.
One round at a time.
But then again, I lost all my ammo in a tragic house fire. Is that fair, I ask you?
“Farm confiscation is in the plan. Coming very soon, 2013.”
Followed by the elimination of all private property.
I wasn’t commenting so much on what you said... I was just pointing out how communists live and how the serfs under them live. It was the same way in the Soviet Union. No problemo.
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NBC floated this years ago. A hard winter freeze in the mid-West and the correspondant throws out “...a lucky few have generators.” This was when Lauer was bitching about paying $600 for his iPhone.
This is why when the SHTF and word gets out you were a prepper....you will need either every bit of ammo or an uparmored vehical to bug out.
It is barely possible to do this, in some areas, with a peculiar type of housing.
I’m as entranced with “earthship” homes as Mr. Toad was with automobiles. The thing is part underground and heavily insulated. It is sited so that a large bay window faces the sun during winter, but it doesn’t get nearly as much sun in to house during warmer parts of the year. Skylights help with airflow to cool the house. No A/C necessary, only limited heating.
They can be wind or solar powered - but they have enormous stacks of batteries for night time and when power otherwise isn’t being produced. Their major appliances (stoves, Fridges) are not electric powered. (Dunno what the do for laundry...) But really smart owners also have back up generators.
This house is, by no means, a standard type of house. And it seems to work best in places like New Mexico...
So it CAN be done. If you live some place where the sun almost always shines, or the wind almost always blows, and you’re building your own house, consider an earthship and live off the grid. Otherwise, it is pretty much impossible and this guy is full of it.
Same here. Small rural town, one of the poorest in our state, lots of hills, and a fair amount of electrical outages due to storms, tornadoes, or old equipment.
People consider it a necessity to have a four wheel drive, wood stove/fireplace and/or generator.
We bought ours when my Dad lived with us, and he was on oxygen 24/7. Before that, we got by with the fireplace and candles and oil lamps, and sterno stove.
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