Monday, February 26, 2018

BAU 3 of 3


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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