ammo blues

AMMO BLUES
My first thought today was, Happy Friggin Monday. I love it when my kids call me on the weekend, they always have amusing adventures to report ( my son managed to burn his boots in the camp fire ) and it goes a long way towards filling in their absence. The only bad part is that we gab for hours on end and before I know it the day is shot to hell and that just brings the work week around that much quicker. Some weeks I simply don't want to be here which you can all relate to. My second thought was to do an article on the big story of the weekend, everyone talking about the Rolling Stone article on the corporate power grab of the government through bail out funds. Instead, I'll just give it a quick look here and we can move on to other matters. And, for the record, this is a knee jerk reaction and I didn't completely read the whole thing.
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Rolling Stone is a typical liberal government cheerleader. Republicans are evil corporate ass kissing stoolies and Democrats are only out for the little people and want to help the worker with Union wages and the oppressed minorities with entitlements, blah blah. While I hate the Republicans myself, I also hate the Democrats. Both buy off certain opposing groups with tax money. If you vote for either you are voting against individualism and for Big Government. End of story. No grey, just black and white here. Compassion for anyone equals destruction of my paycheck which equals irreplaceable units of my life stolen from me. I have nothing against private welfare, church welfare, or beneficial societies. I do oppose compulsory compassion. So, the Rolling Stone article is simply more anti-business, pro interventionist propaganda. Plus, it is nonsense. I like conspiracy theories, but they have to be credible. I don't think this one is. Big business buys and sells Congressmen. They aren't engineering a fake economic meltdown to take control of the government. First off, they need government as a patsy to do their unpopular bidding. The target of painful actions thus becomes the government and the businesses can act innocent. Two, businesses need government to protect them with the monopoly of force. They act to keep competitors in line. You want to have a friend in government, not necessarily to run it. It is cheaper to bribe the government than to perform the acts of force yourself.
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We all know the current problems with the national ammunition supply. Chronic shortages and rising prices. Now, here is a conspiracy I can get behind. The government endlessly prints money to buy up all the ammunition for use by the military and causes the civilian supply to implode. This then becomes de facto gun control. Everybody owns a semi-automatic. Groovy, we can withstand the coming dictatorship. Oops, a small problem, Houston. We can't buy more than a few boxes of ammo for them. Elect the black guy, everyone freaks out and causes more shortages by stripping the shelves in a panic about the coming gun control. And while this is going on, attention has been diverted from the coming food shortages. Gun control or not, it doesn't matter. We will be starved out with no ammunition. We've forgotten that there is more than one way to skin a cat.
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If you had been listening to me you would have concentrated on bolt actions and revolvers and the current magazine and ammunition crisis would not be effecting you. If you listen to me about the food and stock up on grain now, you can sail through the coming food shortages. I'm not psychic or necessarily more intelligent, but I can think logically. Yes, at times it hurts. The good thing is that I won't have to wait fifty years to be vindicated. I'd give it five. Okay, my timing has always been off, but not the general direction of events. You can't do a damn thing about ammo prices if you've waited too long. But you can actually get enough on a budget if you stick with the ammo stingy weapons. Bolt actions and revolvers. Mass manufacturing and affordable commodities is swiftly coming to an end. This includes affordable ammunition and grain. Buy as much as you can, but don't waste your limited resources. Semi-autos waste your money and then they waste your limited amount of ammunition. You don't need them. It will be harder to accomplish the same task with a more primitive tool, but it can be done.
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