Why you should Prep

[nutmeg]

Quote from Lucrum:

I've noticed a lot of hand to mouth types seem to drink and or smoke.
If you can afford it, fine. If you're checks are bouncing - you can't afford it.

I was talking to a propane guy. He said some of his customers can't afford to fill up their tanks and are buying 20lb tanks and hooking them up in place of the 100 lb tanks.

You know you're a redneck when you buy 20lbs propane, a 12 pk, some smokes and lottery tickets.

Hey, give 'em props for working.

 

[PHOENIX TRADING]

Quote from pspr:

I think RCG was referring to his own "mental" decline. I've noticed it ever since he revoked his decision to join the Tea Party. Since that time he has been in increasing decline.

If he ever gets one of those Alzheimer's brain pace makers installed to slow his mental decline, I sure would like to know how to over ride the circuitry and increase the voltage. Maybe I could get him to walk around and cluck like a chicken.

Well he already foams at the mouth like he has rabies.

 

[denner]

Quote from hughb:

I overheard my next door neighbor on the phone with his bank a few months ago. He was complaining to them about a direct deposit that wasn't made in time and it caused his rent check to bounce. In the course of the conversation I heard him say that he has exactly $571 deposited every 2 weeks. So not only is his bank balance so low he bounces his rent check, he only makes less than half of the median income in the state in which he lives. He comes home about 2 in the morning drunk 2 to 3 days per week. Oh, yeah, almost forgot - he smokes too. What are cigarettes, $5 for generics? For all I know he's burning up name brands at $7 a pack. He's not a young man just entering the workforce, he appears to be in his 50's. However, back to the point of the thread, the mobs of ne'er-do-wells rampaging in the streets, we probably won't have to worry about my neighbor, the way he hacks and coughs, he won't have the health and vitality to be a rioter. Whew.

Doesn't say much for you now does it? You live next to a 55 year old drunk making $14k a year? What trailer park do you live in, again?

 

[denner]

Quote from CaptainObvious:

Major grid failure and it's over. Bank account size won't save you. Bio/Chem attack, it's over. Some freak solar/magnetic storm, it's over. Something people are going to be surprised about if the shit were to really hit the fan. It's one thing to be physically prepared for such an event, food, tools and supplies, proper clothing, guns and ammo, etc., etc. It's quite another to be mentally prepared and my friend, most ain't even close, and the ones who REALLY think they are, aren't. When/if the killling starts on a wholesale scale there will be lot's a people curled up in the fetal position while sucking their thumbs. The fortunate will die early.

Agreed, you'd probably last a bit longer in some isolated place, but at what cost? you'd still die eventually OR just about everyone you've ever known or loved who wasn't living out in the boonies with you would be gone.

 

[denner]

Quote from achilles28:

Ah yes, here come the armchair economists...

Hey RCG, was the mass looting in New Orleans an example of the Liberal mindset?

Ron will tell you that the mass looting is the fault of the white man because he provides the communities with the weapons and ammo.

 

[pspr]

Quote from denner:

Ron will tell you that the mass looting is the fault of the white man because he provides the communities with the weapons and ammo.

And the stuff to loot.