kick in the teeth

KICK IN THE TEETH


Belong to some pestilent crap hole down in Dixie that will see a natural disaster? Tornado, hurricane, flooding? Want to gamble but don’t have airfare to Las Vegas? Just stay where you are. If you are lucky, something vital to the rest of the nation is located near you, but most likely you will simply be abandoned. I’m not necessarily saying that you will be surrounded by hostile forces and forced to stay and die as happened in Katrina ( with occasional forays of Blackwater mercs patrolling inwards to disarm anyone too stubborn to expire ). It could happen. But here is what is most likely to transpire. If you are living near, say, a group of refineries that supply 16% of the nations gasoline, help will be on the way. If you live in an area that used to be a swamp, with the nearby Honda plant shuttered from lack of parts, your town will be allowed to revert back to nature. No rebuilding will be done. If you are really unlucky, you can add in radioactive waste from a nearby nuke ( we are way past Peak Plutonium, so don’t expect those monster financial black holes to be rebuilt ), or some kind of other toxic sludge. You might receive a check from the feds, but physical rebuilding won’t happen.

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Our government can print up money until the cows come home. They have no problem letting you relocate to another unaffected area and renting a foreclosed house. They have no problem putting you on Food Stamps. This uses preexisting goods. What they can’t do is rebuild infrastructure. Putting up a few extra suburbia’s with dry wall and warped wood is one thing, rebuilding entire towns, railroads, bridges and sewers is quite another. Oh, they’ll have a few Potemkin Villages, eye candy, propaganda sites. But overall, for most folks, the damages will be left to rot. Our nation hasn’t had infrastructure replacement ( merely patching after failure ) for decades. Now, there is a decline in energy and ore and credit and capable insurance companies. What makes you think increased damage will be met with increased help, when just lack of disasters saw no upkeep? A society that can’t maintain what is in place certainly can’t replace what is damaged. I would think this is pretty straight forward, but most likely to acknowledge this reality is to admit our ongoing decline and eventual collapse. I think that a lot of folks, while knowing that sometime in the vague future there will be trouble, still expect it to be “business as usual” now. While it is true that we are encaged in BAU ( business as usual ), it means hanging on to the old way of doing business. It does NOT mean we have the resources to fix the problems like we used to. You can’t hope away collapse by pushing away the consequences of contraction into the far future when it is in reality already happening ( in earnest since 2005/2006 ). When a tornado hits you and takes out downtown, hope for assistance. Right now at least you get more fiat currency. But expect a screwing.

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The Yankee’s hate Southerners. How dare those impertinent pukes think they can decide their own future? The Civil War will never be over. The South will be a target again ( you don’t think a lot of fed policies aren’t designed to rub the South’s nose in grief? ) when resources are starting to become scarce. In the past, a certain amount of investment was put into the region. Because it paid someone in that bygone era of BAU. Military bases weren’t located there to benefit the locals, they were put there because the land was cheap and training could go on year round. And in times of budget cut backs, the bases were closed with nary a whimper. In a way it is good that the locals are abandoned by the feds, left to live without that brand of “help” ( strings attached ) but on the other hand, the racial problems down there can also be traced back to the feds interference in a lot of instances. Plus, as a final insult, after the collapse all those Yankees will come down in an invasion to get away from the northern winters without natural gas or heating oil. Think twice before you relocate there ( locals know how to deal, immigrants won’t be included in that tribal survival plan ).

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Okay, this is pretty weird. I occasionally check on my Blogger statistics and the other day I noticed I had two or three readers in Iran. Of all places. They are gone this week. I wonder if a few CIA spies were homesick for street crime and social collapse and visited my apple pie writing. I can’t imagine many survivalist in that place. Talk about a nuclear glass-over by Israel waiting to happen. Maybe there’s a isolated bunker in the hills somewhere with satellite Internet. Upwind of any city or military target.

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A brief add on to my bike only transportation. I think I’ve got enough wheat kernels. I could always rent a car or U-Haul a few times a year and get more, but I don’t see much need to worry about it. I’ll just start buying white flour every week, five pounds at a time ( much easier than transporting a fifty pound sack of wheat ). I don’t think white flour is bad for you, as long as you mix it with whole wheat. Then you are just stretching out the starch. I can stockpile hundreds of pounds of the stuff and be stretching out my kernel supply. And of course, I can bounce back and forth to beans.

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