BAU 3
As far as the government
keeping peace by feeding everyone, just remember this little ditty. Desirability has nothing to do with
ability. It is that simple. No matter how much you want to do something,
you need more than a Tony Robbins positive attitude. I think many folks forget this, as we have
wallowed in obscene surplus most of our formative years. Most of our jobs are nothing more than
consuming oil. It might be hard to
picture too little oil being available for everything we desire ( I’d love to
be wrong, believe me ).
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Once the food cannot be
distributed, it is Game Over. Until that
point, you need to understand that everything else will be on the chopping
block. Employment, shelter,
transportation, credit, grid power.
Everything is at the mercy of a failing economy and a failing energy
system. To get through the Semi-Stair
Step phase, you need to be able to muddle through with nothing from others
except some fresh food, and as little as that as possible. And this is where the Pretty Pony Preppers
kill me. They think two thousand dollars
in freeze dried foods are there in case they become unemployed. Hell, even my favorite Yuppie Scum Semi-Auto
Stockpiling Montana living Survivalist ( Commander Zero ), knows enough to
stockpile regular groceries for the time prior to the die-off.
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This is because Zero, no
matter how many magazines and semi’s are never enough, is a pretty smart guy (
I wouldn’t look forward to reading his “what
I bought at the gun store last summer” reports if he was a fool ). Are you?
Do you have a six month pantry, NOT including your survival food? Why not?
It costs no extra money in the long run.
It SAVES you money. Everything
except perishables is bought on sale.
Not enough space? Really? I live in a 600 square foot apartment ( with
no more than an additional 100 in the basement for groceries ) and I have six
months of regular eating. Regular, as in
meat every dinner.
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Out at the B-POD I don’t
have quite as much, call it three to four months canned meat to go with all the
grains. And all that was bought on
minimum wage, on twenty to twenty-five hours a week. Now, it takes just $100 a month to maintain
that. That is for two people. Granted, we still get some Food Bank food as
the NOL still works there, but it isn’t too much more than fresh fruit I could
cut back on and factory bread I could replace with home made. Giving up most butter and all snack chips due
to heartburn certainly helped get that food budget way down ( I’m better off
with and am actually craving a couple of pieces of dry toast for the nightly TV
snack, instead or Doritos or similar fake food ).
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No one is saying you
positively need to duplicate exactly what you eat now. Just close enough. Less than one pound of 79cent chicken or
$1.29 pork, for two people, and a quarter’s worth of rice or pasta or potatoes
keeps dinner at under a buck a night per person. The only thing we would be short on come food
inflation would be potatoes. During the
day eat your bread and oatmeal and whatever.
Right now, food prices at the grocery store are not bad at all. You want to wait on that? Who knows how long it will last ( it is all
subsidized by restaurant eaters and Yuppie Scum buying bakery sheet cakes and
deli fried chicken ).
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And do I really, really
need to bring up Junk land again? I was
so sad when I couldn’t find cheap land anymore and then a kind loyal minion
brought up LandWatch.com. The heavens
parted and once again $1k junk land is available. Hell, there is even a couple of $500
lots. Sure, it is one tenth an acre in
the backwoods of Arkansas, but why is that a bad thing? The counties these lots are in are rural with
predominately White populations ( sorry to be un-multiculturalist, but mixing
cultures is a Gott-damn-guarentee of race war later on-if you have been warned
and ignore that, the human races future gene pool thanks you ).
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And yes, Sally, I
understand that you feel all vulnerable and butt hurt at the prospect of being
without a car, but that is the future. I
don’t make the rules, I just report them.
If you are worthless and weak and cannot handle that, look into Texas
tax land in the east, where you’ll find semi-urban lots you can park an RV on
and still walk or bike to the bus stop, minutes away from shopping and
hospitals ( I can’t remember the minion written blog on this-it was years
ago-anyone? I believe it was the Dallas
area ). Otherwise, you need to plan on
driving just getting more and more expensive, eventually out of your pay grade.
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Okay, now you have no
rent, no grocery shopping ( if you are off-grid, substitute the frozen meat
with home canned ) and no transportation costs.
You have stockpiled clothes, solar energy and silver for property
tax. There is your six months on cost
free living where it doesn’t matter about government benefits. Things might last longer than that, but you
can easily stretch things with a bit of extra wheat ( again, NOT part of your
survival stash ) and by grubbing for new food the whole six months. Use your cash savings even on high priced
food. The money is just going to get
less worthy and the prices higher.
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I really don’t think government
can hold things together past a year ( if that ) with their welfare payments
shrinking through cuts or through purchasing power shrinking from
inflation. They could, but at least you’ve
eliminated touching your survival food an extra year. At least you could survive adequately without
money ( or, very close to zero). It is
just another form of insurance and it costs almost nothing. Hell, the grocery store savings could pay for
the land, or at least the canning equipment.
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Just remember that the
Welfare State was never possible before the insanely luxurious surplus in
carbon fuels. The end of those fuels is
the end of the Welfare State. It might not
yet spell the end of the Nation State, and that is what you are preparing for.
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* By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there
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