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Each person has the responsibility to protect and provide for there family, whether or not it's food, personel protection(guns) whatever it takes. If not then in a police report (afterwards) you are listed as victum or deceased.
I hope to be skiing in the US in January 2013. I better get some travel insurance
As everybody knows, the world ended when the millenium arrived. Now it's going to end again. I hope that travel insurance rates don't go up too high. Insuring people against a second ending of the world cannot be a pleasant task. Especially if the insurance company has to pay off on the claims.
Bad things happen. They always have and always will. Who knows when they will happen? Nobody.
The thing is, when something bad DOES happen, it’s always those who scoffed the loudest that get all emotional, crazy, and start causing trouble (looting, stealing, etc). These folks are the ones to be most afraid of by the levelheaded people who are prepared for a rainy day. That silly, alarmist food and water storage suddenly becomes quite appealing and important.
There is nothing wrong with being prepared. It's no more foolish than carrying a spare tire in the trunk of the car.
It's amazing how many people think only crazy tin foil clad wackos prepare ahead for for hard times. None of our grand or great-grandparents would think it was silly, they would think it was silly not to.
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
You are the same people who purchased canned goods and stocked up on water during the New Year's of 1999, no?
Probably are. The smart ones. The supplies are still sitting there in case they are needed. If they are not needed, good; if they are, they are ready to go.
Are you the guy that doesn't carry a spare tire, doesn't carry anything with him during a hike in the mountains, and doesn't have a spare pair of underwear in the in the drawer in case you s**t your pants?
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Originally Posted by Chango
It's amazing how many people think only crazy tin foil clad wackos prepare ahead for hard times. None of our grand or great-grandparents would think it was silly, they would think it was silly not to.
Indeed. No one seems to value being prepared. I'm not completely prepared, but at least I understand the value and I'm working on it. I'm not sure what it is about most people though; it really just seems to be a lack of common sense. My grandparents lived through the depression with minimal discomfort, thanks to their food storage and forethought.
Probably are. The smart ones. The supplies are still sitting there in case they are needed. If they are not needed, good; if they are, they are ready to go.
Are you the guy that doesn't carry a spare tire, doesn't carry anything with him during a hike in the mountains, and doesn't have a spare pair of underwear in the in the drawer in case you s**t your pants?
Indeed. No one seems to value being prepared. I'm not completely prepared, but at least I understand the value and I'm working on it. I'm not sure what it is about most people though; it really just seems to be a lack of common sense. My grandparents lived through the depression with minimal discomfort, thanks to their food storage and forethought.
I'm not going to prepare. I'm going to just join the packs of roving, hungry people and take all that nice stuff others have stored away. It's the American way.
I'm not going to prepare. I'm going to just join the packs of roving, hungry people and take all that nice stuff others have stored away. It's the American way.
That's exactly why I will never live in a huge metropolis.
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