Have you purchashed your food insurance?

Good Luck said:
Liberals just cannot find enough to whine about their opposition, so they have to find silly things like this.

What, exactly, is wrong with preparing for possible (not probable, likely, or anything like that, but POSSIBLE) emergencies which would temporarily or long term decrease one's access to foods and other items we take for granted on a daily basis? Do people who purchase life insurance, health insurance, auto insurance, smoke and CO detectors, do so out of FEAR? Are people who buy flashlights and extra batteries FEARFUL of a power dropout? (Tell that to the people in San Diego!) Or do people prepare for various events because they want to be covered in case of disasters - be they personal, local, or more wide spread?

How is laying in stores, just in case something happens such that the local grocers cannot restock, or has significant reduced ability to restock (highway is out, bridge is out, flooded, etc.) for a week or more, a case of "living in fear"? Or, what if a political/economic collapse DOES come about? It has happened before, and it has happened to industrial nations before. Can anyone explain why such is impossible to reoccur?

Seems to me the ones actually living in fear are the liberals. They are looking at world events, seeing several of their favorite examples of "successful" socialist societies getting deeper and deeper in economic trouble, forced to resort to austerity measures to avoid total collapse, and it has them shitting in their fruit-of-the-looms. They are scared to fucking death the big bad republicans (and or the forces of history and economic necessity) are going to take away their big mommy government. Some have actually questioned WHY one would want to survive if government and/or the economy collapsed. LOL They'd rather die than face life without mommy government there to hold their hands.
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But people will die if "mommy government " isn't there. The buffalo no longer roam the Prairies. The average river water is not potable. And when the sewage treatment plants stop working everyone with a nose will know. Times will not revert to the settler's era.

But what is all this worry about financial collapse? How does that effect the fields that grow crops? Or the machinery? The roads are not going to collapse overnight. The power stations do not burn money to produce electricity. The worst thing that may happen is trading food for fuel. In any case the US can pretty much take what fuel it needs. If a country refuses to supply fuel it will be economic warfare and a well dropped bomb or two will put an end to that.

So, you've heard it here first. :) There will be no major catastrophe. Even earthquakes and tornadoes or floods like the entire city of New Orleans, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of citizens being displaced, people were rescued in a matter of days or a week. Any catastrophe that would result in a large portion of the population being unable to acquire food for weeks or months would mean the entire country has fallen apart.

Sure, store a supply of food for emergencies but one has to ask what type of catastrophe would prevent help from arriving for weeks or preventing people from leaving the area and going where food was available. And if total collapse did occur who would want to live? 300 million people out there hunting, fishing and collecting berries. It would be Woodstock without the music. :(
 
PostmodernProphet said:
I fell victim to the fear......when I went to the grocery store yesterday the peanut butter shelf was almost empy......a sign said it was because of a peanut shortage......I bought two jars even though I didn't need to.....
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Hey, we had a sale on peanut butter last week. $1.50 for 450g/one pound jar. I bought two. The Mrs. likes peanut better and toast. Me, not so much. Maybe a few times a year I'll have peanut butter and toast.

Talking about fear I have to admit my bar is well stocked. That's a necessity in the north. Once one experiences a major snow storm and a barren bar feelings of despair quickly rise.
 
apple0154 said:
And if total collapse did occur who would want to live?
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And there you have it.
Apple has finally stated what Liberals truly believe.
It's either all or nothing; because they truly don't want to have to work or strive for anything.
What a bunch of whiney, spineless, children they are.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
I fell victim to the fear......when I went to the grocery store yesterday the peanut butter shelf was almost empy......a sign said it was because of a peanut shortage......I bought two jars even though I didn't need to.....
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paranoid jerk. Now we're all out of peanut butter! Better beware, Apple will be over tomorrow with his super-soaker to divest you of peanut butter.
 
Jarod said:
A friend purchashed a years worth of boxed and packaged food, the stuff is packeged such that they say it will be good for 10 years. Its enough to feed a family of four for a year. He bought it because he fears political meltdown in the comming year due to President Obama's ineptness. He listens to Glenn Beck every day!

This is an otherwise very smart guy, graduate of MIT. What gives? Is this really an intelegent thing to spend your money on? Really? I am really certian that its a waste of money and storage space. Also almost all of his friends and neighbors know about the stash. If things get bad enough to make people hungry, especally well off people like him, dont you think someone or some mob will take it from him? If I was really concerned enough to buy this food Id tell noone and burry it under my house.
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Where is a good place to order? I have been thinking of buying it just for earth quake readiness, but don't know a good source? thanks, I am serious!
 
To answer the thread, no I have not. However I have about a weeks worth of freeze-dried left over from backpacking trips. I also have about 20# of pasta and a ton of canned stuff. I have a wood stove with a months supply of wood outside. A 6 gallon jug of fresh water, another few gallons in cases, and a water filter from backpacking if things really get bad. Not to mention my 20# dog who doubles as an emergency meat supply ;).

And plenty of ammo to protect it all.
 
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