peev2c6 -post 2 of 2 today

PEEv2c6 ( post 2 of 2 today )

How Much Food Should You Store

Wow, you poor deluded fool. You are simply SO cute, sitting there all smug with your one years food supply, the shelves groaning under the weight of MRE's and canned meat. Which is fine, if you are old and going to die soon. If, however, your plan involves stocking enough food just in case you live longer than you think mathematically possible, one year ain't dingus or diddly squat. It is merely a trial run for a real stockpile. The problem with a one years supply is that it belongs to the early Cold War years where it likely originated.

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( Or, it could have been the Mormons fault, although I have no idea how far back their food storage doctrine goes. If it was back in, say, WWII, would church members have gotten away with hoarding food? Or, did the church just put a moratorium on the practice for those four years? Was it in response to modern social upheaval, nuclear war, or was it always a practice going back to the hostile attacks against members prior to them settling their current territory? Much is made of the Mormon Massacre of Union troops, but few mention the deaths by other “tolerant” religions in their prior settlements )

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Back in the 50's, there was a lot more reason to be all Optimistic Ollie, even with the scare of the rice eaters almost eating our lunch in Korea. We had just colonized nearly half the globe. We were importing oil instead of exporting it, but that was okay because the dollar really was the king, not like today where it is merely the de facto Least Worst ( for now-no guarantees as the petrodollar is rejected and supplanted ). It was actually feasible to think the Global Factory could rebuild after a nuclear exchange.

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Who needed more than a few months of food, in that case? If you had a year of food, you were REALLY paranoid. After all, the government did actually have surplus and could hire talent and intelligence as needed. A nation of factory hands could get 'er done. A nation under the rule of lawyers only knows how to steal and disguise and play victim. Not to say the embryo of today's problems weren't present then. After all, blue blood east coast asswhores were still in charge. They just didn't have to squeeze the turnip to get to the blood, as they do now. There was more than enough to go around.

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As the 60's saw the coup by the bankers, written in JFK's brains on the pavement ( the rich douches in Texas buying an admission ticket into the old British royals domain of rule, but quickly learning their state was to be sacrificed to the very bankers as Alaskan oil bankrupted them, and now today the Blue Wave ), the old generation of fallout shelter Yuppie Scum suddenly had economic competition from gold bugs and others who suddenly saw the possibility of longer term disruption and a discontinuation of the governments ability to fix things after a disaster.

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It is hard to remember today, but recessions used to actually be very serious affairs. The only reason they are ignored today is because EVERY day is a recession and when another one is “proved” mathematically, nothing changes from the everyday fecal sandwich we are already snaking on. Back in the Sixties, after almost twenty years of full employment and stable prices, the recession, or at least fears thereafter, was a HUGE motivator behind those turning into survivalists. Do you think American Blacks actually going full Mau-Mau during the Hippie Salad Days calmed them down after the economic scare?

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Does it need repeating that the fully televised war in Vietnam could have been seen as the actual colonial empire crashing, even long before the conflict was officially lost? Remember that 1959 date, where US iron ore peaked, and the newly built Korean and Japanese steel mills were already taking business away from our economy ( and the US gov helped not at all, by encouraging these investments in foreign factories, as an anti-communist measure )? Survivalism got a lot more real, economically. By the 80's, at the peak of global nuclear warheads, folks already knew a war meant everyone died. Look at the success of the dire TV movies on that subject, at that time.

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Nuclear war was only survivable by the rich kids, able to build a LONG TERM shelter ( as opposed to an expedient one prior-although plenty of folks still tried to sell the Po Boy shelter idea, you pretty much knew it wasn't feasible with the fallout from THAT many bombs ). But economic collapse? It was already here. It only took the 70's disasters to make everyone aware of it. The survivalists already knew before that. And yet. The myth, the fable, the legend of the Mighty One Year Stockpile Of Food persisted. Rarely if ever was there a deviation from this expectation. One year was simply the standard.

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Now, granted, back then the assumption of trapping and hunting and farming rural land was MUCH more realistic. There were far less people, everywhere. No immigrants taking the crappy little jobs you could still get at mom and pop businesses out in tiny little towns, before they died economically. You actually probably could find enough wild game, with less population. Outside the cities there was almost no crime ( ruined after crack was introduced, and I imagine it had some help ).

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( Remember the 90's and the Black Ghetto crack cocaine epidemic? You don't think that didn't have a little help, from outside forces, say, intelligence agencies? What makes you think it was natural for economically displaced Whites to suddenly, after decades of decline, turn to one of the most destructive drugs around? I think they got a “helping hand” also. War against the rural areas by the urban elite, because closing lumber mills and coal mines under ecological auspices wasn't enough )

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You probably COULD have successfully farmed unmolested back then. Something most Homesteaders don't have a clue about. Safe farming in the boonies ended with crack addicts and banks hemorrhaging money ( we are ALREADY in a bank liquidity crises. If you think this ends well, I have a bridge I'd simply love to sell you. Low money down, too! ). Its only saving grace is that is is LESS dangerous than the cities and suburbs ( despite the occasional rural home invasion where nobody can hear you scream, in my opinion. In the city, they CAN hear you scream. And do nothing anyway )

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Back then, I can forgive the sloppiness of ONLY having one years food stockpile. Not any more! I'll continue tomorrow.

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