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My normal advice to everyone is that you should max out the amount of money Uncle Sugar gives you.  This isn’t taking away from your grandchildren-that argument assumes we never run out of energy or money and was moot from the Reagan administration on anyway.  The FedGov needs to borrow money to pay interest on the old amount it borrowed and I don’t know where you learned your economics but in my learnin’ book that means you are already bankrupt.  Taking gov money now is merely increasing the odds of your survival later since that is more preps now.  The Titanic is sinking, so why worry about the ownership of the gold trim in the purser’s office?  Just take the bitch and jump in a lifeboat.  What, it’s better to leave it to sink to the bottom?  Think rationally rather than emotionally.  Having said that, I of course excuse myself from my own advice and am not collecting Food Stamps.  Instead of eating on $50-$100 a month I could get almost $200 and that extra money could go to preps.

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Well, it is kind of a challenge living without bennies, I’ll admit.  But I enjoy it, kind of a superiority feeling “anything you can do I can do better!” as the song says.  And while I’m not lazy, I am adamant about living the rest of my life while minimizing my stress.  I had enough of that the last two and a half decades.  Plus, I really just don’t care.  How many more prep supplies do I need?  Sure, I could get MORE of the same, but why?  To what purpose?  I think I have way more than everything I need to live out the rest of my natural life, let alone my untimely death come the apocalypse ( remember, preps aren’t to assure your survival, they are for IF you survive ).  It is probably just as important to know when to stop prepping as it is to know when to begin or how much to get.  And you can have TOO much, believe it or not.  If I had ten or twenty years of food, and/or more than the bare minimum, how motivated would I be to get off my ass and go get me some more elsewhere?  The limit is what lights the fire under your ass motivationally.  And, yes, I know we keep tiptoeing around the sensitive issue of stealing or killing in relation to food.  Sorry, but YOUR morality and good intentions don’t stop others from acting poorly.  And morality and good intentions are only applicable to your own tribe.  If you love and honor and protect the old, pregnant and young from another tribe, for instance by refusing to take their food and hence killing them, you are in the long run endangering the infirm, breeders and children of your own tribe.  Yeh, not living in surplus is a bitch.

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Another aspect of not bothering with Food Stamps is that I eliminate their eventual demise as a factor in my planning.  Since I know it will just be a temporary fix, I’m not bothered with their absence ( not to say for some bizarre reason I won’t be forced on to them, nor that you shouldn’t get on them post haste if your preps are short ).  Sure, I’m still “planning” on Social Security, in that if they are still around I’ll go ahead and collect them ( not that I really think the system will last ten more years as that takes us too closely to the Olduvai Theory date of 2030 as the year our oil supply matches a century ago which is obviously unsustainable ).  Why, I’m not sure.  I still plan on writing up to the day the Internet goes tits up and cold.  Perhaps all of you will be broke by then and I’ll need money from another source.  Remember, not burning any bridges.  I just can’t see it being around.  There are simply too many issues with our energy supply and our way of life that precludes assuming a soft landing. 

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Great Britain might have been able to hang on after empire by virtue of its small size, North Sea oil, coal and public transportation, but the US has none of these virtues.  Plus Britain is our obsequious butt buddy in the Global War On Terror and other central bank shenanigans for the very reason that their energy supply has contracted so far they need our scraps to survive.  They are not a good post-imperial role model.  Japan might be a better one as they are limping along after their economic collapse and nuclear disaster.  Not that we can emulate them due to their close knit tribal nature and our not so very homogenous population.  But they sure do know how to survive with a lot less energy.  Well, we could talk about the reasons business as usual and can kicking are unlikely but I think we all assume as such anyway.  How does one get Slow Collapse Insurance?  Sure, I’ve strung you along for nearly four thousand words now, but it is actually quite simple and easy.  Well, in theory if not practice.  Can you survive on your own without money for six to twelve months ( surely far longer than the system will last without food distribution on par with today’s norm )?

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And I’m not talking about having extra savings.  I’m talking about having the supplies to live off of for that time, above and beyond your post-apocalypse storage items.  If you’ve been following the discussion on canned or frozen meat, you know where I’m going with this.  Can you eat off of your perishables for the time it takes between infrastructure break-down to the final infrastructure collapse?  Housing is of course an issue, but not necessarily an insurmountable one ( we assume here you keep working during this time, or at least want the option to-this isn’t batten down the hatches just yet, unless you live near the ghetto, although it could be if you want a real early start on bugging out.  Obviously there is little way to assume a time frame for this event ).  Medical of course is off the table completely unless you can survive now by fudging your pill popping regime and squirrel away some meds slowly but surely.  Medical care is already past the point of incompetence as the new normal, so it won’t take much to get to “even bad care now isn’t available”.  You don’t need a solar storm knocking out the electric to reach the point where hospitals aren’t getting high tech machine parts replaced or disposable items restocked.  Hell, a few Chinese hacker attacks can play havoc on ANY of our systems.  Put yourself in their shoes, look at the unprovoked attacks on Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as our proxy Saudi Arabia’s wars in Yemen and Qatar, and tell me you wouldn’t try to take down the psycho bitch that is the US?  PetroDollar collapse, economic collapse and hacker attacks simultaneously, anyone?

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I guess the best comparison right now is Venezuela.  I HATE, with a purple friggin passion, the pretty pony preppers  glomming on to that countries collapse as a “life lesson”, as they inevitably go full retard and blame it all on socialism rather than its more obvious petroleum issue ( but, but, how could that possibly be?  Why, if ‘Murica is two hundred years energy independent on fracking oil, how come Venezuela isn’t the same after a century of oil production?  I’m so confused!  I better go buy a FLIR scope so the world makes sense again! ).  But as far as an illustration of how social services break down and food delivery is problematic yet the government is still slaughtering its way to dominance, it does serve as a very good example.  Think of them and think what it is like surviving on intermittent power supplies, grocery deliveries and etcetera.  I can’t imagine our society will survive as long as theirs has in that state, as there it is the 1% against the 99%, whereas here we are much more fragmented and hostile and spoiled, but I suppose it is possible.

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You need a food insurance hedge to get you from Everyday Wal-Mart Shopping to the true apocalypse, and what better way to do that than by buying daily current food ahead of time?  Food you are going to eat anyway.  It is money up front, but it isn’t extra money.  In fact, as already discussed, it might be LESS money, as you save on sales and bulk.  You need motivation to do so, don’t worry your pretty little heads about all my personal complete collapse fears, just picture Venezuela.  Even short term, less than complete collapse, issues and events can get us to that point.  You can’t eat beef and butter after the apocalypse but you sure can take your cupboard and freezer ( yes, freezing might be an issue with regular brown-outs, so proceed with caution obviously ) from a months supply to six or twelve months supply and enjoy those very luxuries in the pre-collapse phase.  And you should.

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