re: Fox News Commericals...Doomsday Prep

UK Daily Mail: Where will you go when pandemonium strikes? Super-rich are buying up underground bunkers and installing panic rooms in luxury apartments to protect against revolutions or natural disasters

Phil,

What's your opinion of Alex Jones?

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Think about this. If something happens and power goes out for any extended time, people die without water in 3 days and food in 3 weeks. Stuck in your house, how long would you last?

In densly populated areas crime for survival will be almost instant.

Now consider who runs the grid and and everything that could cause it to go down.

It's not far fetched to think it's a good idea to be able to survive a few months on your own instead of being dependant on the gov.

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There is a general consensus among many that the world is reaching a tipping point ...

1 - the average American is completely dependent upon a 72 hour food supply cycle supported by their local grocery store, drive through fast food and our home delivery of meals.

2 - riots, pillaging, burning have become more common, more accepted, more expected. Lines have been blurred that call into question the distinction between modern civility and modern savagery.

3 - a different element, one intent on social anarchy, now exists within this country and their intent is to eventually disrupt the power grid and/or the fresh water supply. That is their collective dream and they endeavor to either contribute to societal collapse or to stand by and survive it happening to those who are unprepared. It is a story as old as humankind itself as illustrated in the grasshopper and the ant fable. The Ant and the Grasshopper (Book by Aesop).LINK

4 - there is, some might argue, a basic human instinct, one genetically embedded, to go underground in the event of major emergencies. Given all of the issues the world faces these days, from over population to terrorism to radical extremists governments having nukes to NEOs buzzing us from out of the darkness of space to fear of poisoned water to fear of invasion to fear of the grid going down from whatever means be it solar flair or EMP ....

.... it's only a matter of time.

Smart people prepare. It's insurance for their family and loved ones just as is auto insurance, life insurance, major medical and homeowner's insurance.

It was also fast becoming a lost art until Katrina happened and then 9/11 and so on and so forth .... when people finally began to realize that the government cannot save you, will not come rushing to your aid and you're gonna need to get along on your own for awhile.

dpd, I see you are from Thibodaux...what part of town?

Ill answer you Jones question next

Alex Jones has been around for quite a while...he first was on short wave and then on just a few am stations...but he's hit it much bigger lately on the internet...he's no dummy, if that's what you mean...he also has some decent connections in military intelligence and some abc agencies...he's a little too dramatic for my taste...but because of my confident nature, I'm not above learning from any source, be it the right or the left...I'm a maverick thinker...and have explored most ideas in poetry form...so I fear no man or woman intellectually...I've traveled the world and debated some of the smartest people from every continent...Chinese, Jews, Russians, etc.. you name it and I've tried to pick their brains...does that answer yoyr question somewhat?

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Yeah, I grab some gasoline, dry goods and water during hurricane season. Yeah, I keep a few hundred rounds of ammo around the house. I have fishing tackle and hunting gear. I have a boat. I have medicine and first aid supplies.

But, damn... I don't lose sleep thinking the apocalypse is around the corner waiting to strike. Just seems silly to me.

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No one is losing sleep over it that I know of. Know one I know personally is thinking TEOTWAWKI 24/7. But sure, different people prepare in different ways.

Those of us who are older raised by parents who survived the Great Depression and/or confiscation of our gold ... yeah, we're prone to prep a little harder and pass it on to our kids and grandkids.

You prep ... you're a weekend prepper, a short term guy.

Some of us look at it differently. It's part of a lifestyle. You put a little back here and there every month and all of the sudden you're good for a year and then you start rotating and fine tuning. The six Fs of prepping. Fresh water, Food, Fuel, Fire, First Aid, Firearms.

More and more people of all sorts are very casually going about doing it these days. No one is forcing anyone. It's a cottage industry, like everything else you make your own choices.

Some people, like myself, consider ammo a precious metal.

Tell me this.

Which was the better investment in 1985 ... an ounce of gold or 1000 rounds of surplus milspec ammo in let's say x39 or x51 or even 5.56 x 45?

dpd, I've been studying economics for 50 years...the rules have been drastically changed by the Federal Reserve...the reason that times have been so seemingly smooth over the last 8 years is because the FED has created roughly 10 trillion dollars out of thin air and taken interest rates to zero or such...all the central banks of the western world are cooperating together to manipulate the markets...they have been borrowing from your future, trust me on that...the chickens are going to come home to roost...it's very convelouted and would take much more time to explain...what's happening is unprecedented...so this is why so many people have been wrong on things like gold,etc...one day I will go further explaining if you want...btw, do you ever go dancing at Gabbys? lol lol

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Remember when the EBT card system went down for a few hours, about 3 or 4 years ago. The lemmings were about to go crazy because they could get their stuff at Wal-marks.

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The credit card system have also become over load preceding some of the storms with people trying to buy supplies, and gas. I always keep a decent amount of cash on hand and have emergency cash stashed in my vehicles has helped me avoid the madness of those that try to prep for a storm at the last minute.

I addition to hurricanes those in the south also face potential situations form chemical mishaps at the plants, you may be required to shelter in place or evacuate at a moments notice,

You know that's the crowd that eats that stuff up.

Hell, my parents are in that crowd