Posted on 10/22/2013 12:29:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You can bet they think the answer is more free ice cream.
Drool...
I’m afraid you’re probably right. Because, if everyone had enough free ice-cream, then there wouldn’t be any need for free ice-cream, right?
For PINK Ruger 22LR rifle, I have CCI mini mag hollow points. My PINK rifle will hurt someone with those hollow points just like a brown or black 22LR with hollow points - don't laugh at my PINK rifle. Have close to 800 rounds. I started looking for those last January when I got the rifle.
For Remington rifle have Ballistic 243, 55 grain, Varmint and Predator rounds (fragmenting polymer tip).
For 12 ga. Remington shotgun have Maximum Rifled Slug Hollow Points and Magnum Buckshot.
Two 38s have Federal hollow points. Well, the one by my bed has buckshot in the first round, then hollow points.
I bought everything but the 22 ammo in 2012 before prices started up.
We had a major early blizzard here in the Black Hill of So. Dakota a couple of weeks ago. We were without power and communication for several days. (The worst was no internet, for me, anyway.) Once our very rural road to town was opened....thank God for our and our neighbors’ snowplows, I drove to Safeway hoping to find milk, eggs, bread and some fresh produce. Like Mother Hubbard’s cupboard, the shelves were nearly bare. No milk, no bread, very little produce, and meat.
Supply trucks weren’t able to make it in yet. If it weren’t for all the prepper supplies we had, we might have felt a few hunger pangs........not that that would have hurt us.
It was a learning experience for all of us.
I meant to say, you can see by the type ammo I have, if I have to shoot, it is to kill. My house must be safe and any intruder breaking in will be subject to those self defense killing rounds. With my warning system that works without grid electricity, the intruder would be taken down really fast.
Here we are talking about lawlessness of the highest order, people wanting to kill us for food and water and other things, but I fear this is what we face in the near future - our country, it’s unbelievable.
Penetration is better for a crowd. The 12ga doesn’t spread that much. A 44 will go thru 3 or 4
I read somewhere that only about 25% of welfare spending reaches the end-user (I wish I could say “poor” there), I guess I never thought about how much of that 25% might be skimmed off as “processing”.
I say we either go to WW2 type ration books (picked up monthly, bring your whole family) or we just abolish all welfare programs and just hand out cash. Cut out all the middle men. (Not really an improvement but imagine if we saved 50% of that overhead for the taxpayers)
It is a lesson that everyone is going to learn the hard way sooner than later
I don’t think they would be coming one or two at a time, at least for long. I think it’ll be like a zombie invasion.
This is a serious question: Let’s assume that the EBT cards and welfare in general fail to be ‘funded’. At what point in the ensuing chaos and general without rule of law scenario that follows does it all stop?
My own personal guess, is when the population drops several million, perhaps even down a 100 million people. Why you might ask? My own premise is fairly simple, at sometime in the last fifty years or so a ‘calculation’ was made and it was decided that we needed to reduce the population, both American and internationally.
Sounds a bit wacko doesn’t it? Consider though the efforts to reduce the value of human life by various regulations. In America the latest example is Obamacare with it’s death panels and assigning an economic value to the persons life expectancy vs. the cost of the projected care. Infant’s and the Elderly are both discriminated against and those who have the potential to work and pay taxes are not.
And then we have abortion both here in the U.S. and the efforts to promote it worldwide. Consider China’s one-child policy also. Then we can examine Japan and see clearly how a once vibrant nation has been reduced demographically and stands to see their homogenous population crash and burn in the next twenty years.
So what does it all mean? Circumstantially it means to me that the money bucket is empty, people aren’t dying off fast enough for the ‘elites’ and now it’s time to take drastic actions to achieve their goals and they are willing now to allow damage to the infrastructure that has been built up with the thought that it was all going to be abandoned and plowed under anyway once the population reached the desired levels.
And before I stop writing please consider what Peter Singer a noted ‘Bioethicist’ has been saying for some time now about the value of human life. Also there is Obama and one of his closer adviser’s; former chief of staff and now Mayor Rahm Emmanuel’s brother; Ezekial Emmanuel, another noted ‘Bioethicist’. It does make a person wonder, doesn’t it?
There is no meat in my long term food, so I buy canned meat to go with that. However, I keep thinking what would be the least numbers of types of food that would meet a standard to keep one alive and well. I think canned meat and packages of different types of beans with the seasoning bag inside for soup, and quick rice or regular rice, plus cans of fruit would do it. I'm talking just bare basic.
The fact I've finally learned how to grow food plants, gives me a way to have fresh fruits and veggies with the long term food. What a learning curve that has been and it's not over but I can grow food and couldn't before I started studying and asking questions of our good folks on the gardening thread.
Really, if you people haven't read the gardening thread that is new every Friday afternoon, you have missed laughing at my and other’s mistakes and happenings in our gardens.
Now, if you will go to the one up now, you can see pictures of my garden and deck. I finally had something to show the ever kind gardeners on that thread.
If I can learn to grow, anyone can.
“I say we either go to WW2 type ration books (picked up monthly, bring your whole family)”
I remember those ration books - yes, I am that old. I was a child so I thought it was normal, that is the way people bought items, they could only buy so many at a time, or only buy one, depending on what it was. One had to have a shoe coupon to get shoes. A sugar coupon to buy sugar and a gas one to buy gasoline and one to buy tires for the car. I think there was one for gasoline but I don’t remember seeing it but probably wouldn’t have seen it anyway.
“I don’t think they would be coming one or two at a time, at least for long. I think it’ll be like a zombie invasion.”
My outside house “disguise” and non-show “hardening” of entry points (2) will hopefully move them on to an easier target. Really, one has to cover all the bases to “try” to remain safe.
The amount they lost at those two stores is dwarfed by the profit they make in a week just in those two stores, much less their thousands of other locations. Have you been in a Wal-Mart lately?
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Surprisingly, more likely everyday, sorry to say.
Naïve is not even a strong enough word to characterize your comment. Delusional is more along the correct characterization.
re adult kiddo. Maybe you could convince him to have bottled water on hand. more important than food.
Crops? EBT'ers don't eat Crops...:)
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