plodding towards disaster

PLODDING TOWARDS DISASTER
I know, I know, I’ve covered this rather recently. But every time I hear this advice given, my scrotum retracts into my body and my teeth start to itch. Slow and steady wins the race. Good Christ on a pogo stick! Pull your head out of your rectal cavity! I understand that this is well meaning advice. Folks new to preparing are scared by the huge price tag. They are overwhelmed by complexity of it all. They don’t think they can afford it. So they are advised to just do one thing at a time, to put aside X amount every payday. Before you know it, you have enough to comfortably ( the “new” comfort will readily appear as carbon fuels disappear forever ) survive the die off. This used to be good advice, perhaps, at one time. Maybe between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the year before Y2K. And it is still very good advice, but not for newbies. For those just starting the game, this is crappy advice. It is dangerous advice. This advice, in case you don’t get how bad I think it is, sucks large donkey member.
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Once you wake up to the fact that one of several things is going to happen close to immediately, there is no time to waste. We could see an airborne barnyard flu ( man made, from those same wonderful people that brought you AIDS-simultaneous appearance in several places, and engineered the destruction of a tower too far away from a crashing plane to be anything else other than planned- splashing kerosene my pasty white ass ). We can see oil imports plummet even faster than they have been for three years. Who thinks unemployment is going to get better, or inflation isn’t going to accelerate? We could even see nuclear war over some contrived dispute such as Iranian uranium or India responding to a Pakistani “terrorist” attack. We are already seeing potential food problems “cropping” up ( sorry, I don’t think Ure at www.urbansurvival.com should get all the bad puns ). Wheat rust, drought, water and fertility and pollution problems. Global population is still shooting up and grain reserves are drastically falling. It would not take much to cause serious problems. Ask yourself this life and death question. “Do I want to wait to get my food supply until after it is as scarce as ammo?”.
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Immediately upon receiving this article from some idiot who reads my drivel, go on a crash program of acquisition. At a minimum, you need three hundred pounds of grain ( $75 half wheat and half corn from the feed store ) in buckets ( about $50 ) per person. A grain grinder for about $30 per family and at least one member armed. As low as $150 with a single shot 12 gauge and some ammo. $200 for a surplus bolt action and some ammo. A $50 water filter. You are, simply, a complete and utter fool not worthy of swimming in the gene pool if you don’t have this basic level of preparedness. This is what you need at a minimum. Forget everything else. Ignore the bells and whistles. This is what will keep you alive. It won’t be pretty. Or comfortable. It isn’t the best nutrition or means of defense. But it will do in a pinch. Because without it, with an incomplete list of equipment ( even if those items are top notch, the best, the neatest thing since sliced bread ), you don’t have a hope of lasting even a few months. You can’t survive in the wild unless you find an area all to yourself. Stone Age living is only possible after the die off, not during. Hunting/gathering needs a lot of wild per person. I don’t care if you bag possum with a sling shot right now, down in your neck of the woods there is going to be twenty seven hunters per wild animal. Most of our country is helplessly dependant on a small area of land producing grain- using diminishing oil to get crops out of depleted soil and watering from a shrinking aquifer.
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After you have your bare bones amount of survival goods, then you can stop panicking and go with the slow and steady course. You can beef up your diet with beans and milk and canned animal protein. You can get more ammo, a pistol, reloading supplies. You can stock up on winter gear and camping equipment and blah blah blah. Basics first, and basics fast. Because we have no idea what is coming down the road other than bad news. We don’t know when it is going to get here, other than too soon for comfort. Act accordingly. You can’t have it both ways- better a year early than a minute late, and slow and steady wins the race. God! you are welcome. Buy my crap at www.bisonpress.com ( including a grain grinder-hint, hint ).
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