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Accurate? The comment section yes, the article and obvious attempt to smear Preppers as a subculture similar to hippies of the 1960's no, not accurate at all. YMMV
I calculate roughly a million American preppers and maybe another million Americans who are practically self-sufficient. That would still be less than 1% of America. Then there are closet preppers who noone knows about and financial preppers who are saving every penny because they see the maniacs in washington. Youngsters are figuring out that college is a scam to own your ass and keep you working for the system the rest of your life. Compared to 3 or 4 years ago I see a big increase in awareness. The same college croud that felt good about Obama are now the ones in Occupy movement.
The large banks and corporations who influence the media want people to keep faith. They want people's money tied into stocks and bank accounts or in any kind of debt at all like a house or car. Meantime money is worth less and we're having more natural disasters and wars. I see us approaching the tipping point. Ron Paul's campaign is doing a great job spreading this awareness and I want to see him stay in the campaign even if he continues to get sidelined by the media because people are watching and connecting dots.
National media is slick. They cover the inevitable so they can say they covered it. Or they invite aware people to talk, then they try to make fools of them. They will agree with everything that's true, then at the end, spin it and say everythings fine. Let's be "hopeful". Hopeful does nothing. Preparing, sticking with likeminded people and voting with your dollars does.
When gas goes up to $6.00 a gallon this summer, and so does milk, CNN will still be insisting that Ron Paul and those zany nutty preppers are simply a sideshow. HLN will still be selling their darling Robin Meade's CDs about "We Love Our Veterans!" to a simple-minded and gullible public. Our kids will still be fighting and dying in Afghanistan, and go into Iran to spread still more democracy, while Blackwater collects another three billion dollars for their 'help'. And some celebrity-or-other will still be the lead story in a genre that cannot, does not want to, face the facts that more and more people are living in tents or their cars, homeless and foodless, transient and begging for jobs. This is going to be the most non-existent economic calamity in history - because the media isn't going to tell anyone about it.
I think regardless of the blatant smear attempt by Reuters, it's still a positive thing that millions of people who may otherwise have never read or considered the possibility of life as they know it being disrupted have now been exposed to a growing movement towards responsibility and practicality in the shape of being prepared for the unexpected.
If more people learned practical off-line skills, and knew the many benefits of storing food long term for any type of disruption, we'd all be better off and the aggregate odds of survival would increase.
My dear old mother, God rest her soul, used to say the end of the world must be very near. I used to tell her, it's probably not the end of the world but it could very well be the end of our nation.
The truth about the economy will never come from the American media. That's like expecting a realtor to tell a buyer it's not a good time to buy, or a seller it's not a good time to sell. In America where it used to be wise to follow the flow of the dollar in any discussion of economics, it has gotten more difficult because, as of late, that flow has become a trickle.
This comment made me laugh.
Good bumper sticker material: "Honk if you are a survivalist and have at least 3 preppers marked on your topographic map."
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