The Star Telegram of Texas published an article titled, Dallas-Fort Worth’s ‘modern survivalists’ are ready for layoffs – or war. It’s rare that modern survivalists get shown in a good light but Melody McDonald wrote a great article about some local Texans who are preppers.
Here’s an excerpt:
Spirko, an Army veteran and self-described “stark-raving-mad Libertarian,” is part of a growing movement of people who are preparing for a disaster — natural, economic or man-made. Referred to as “modern survivalists” or “preppers,” they are taking steps to protect and provide for their families should something bad happen.
Here’s a video from Knob Creek Gun Show (April 4, 2009) with Rand Paul speaking to a crowd that morning. He talks to them about how politicians lie and how we need to realize that it’s BOTH parties at fault. We have to look to ourselves and our values and how we stand on issues and now just vote down party lines.
And here’s even more of a reason to be prepping, Bloomberg reports that Americans Feel 15.6% Unemployment as Underemployment Surges. The government cooks the books people, they change the numbers to make things not seem as bad. They tell us we have around 9% unemployment but they don’t count people who aren’t currently seeking work or drawing unemployment. Finally someone in the mainstream news reports the real unemployment numbers and 15% is depression numbers. We all have a risk of losing our jobs so having stored food and supplies will help if you lost your income and have to live on less money.
A measure of underemployment that counts those people has almost doubled over the past two years, to 15.6 percent, providing a more complete gauge of the labor market’s deterioration. Along with an historic drop in the percentage of the population who are working, and record numbers of long-term unemployed, the figures point to a permanent shift in employment patterns, said former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich.
7 comments
Humble wife
April 7, 2009 at 2:54 pm (UTC 0)
I agree so much about politicians. I often think that the politicians have us neatly sorted to fight amongst ourselves about abortion gay rights, and the other stuff to just blur the path. The money is always the key and they control it all.
New Mexico has not been hit too hard so far, as most of us are already in the lowest financial brackets(sadly we have far too many people relying on government programs and THAT will be the downfall for those folks.
We need to prepare for sure.
matthiasj
April 7, 2009 at 2:57 pm (UTC 0)
Good point Humble Wife, they want us to bicker about unimportant side issues to keep us distracted from the $13 Trillion they have stolen from us.
Anonymous
April 7, 2009 at 6:51 pm (UTC 0)
The article is good, but Spirko is just out to cash in on the Preparation movement. I listen to his show and enjoy it most of the time. But he is continuously commercializing which detracts from his message.
Plus he preaches physical fitness and is morbidly obese.
Mr. Liberty
April 7, 2009 at 8:51 pm (UTC 0)
I agree Anonymous. It is awfully hard to take Spirko’s and Alex Jones’ advice about health products when they are obviously being commercialized. If they profess the “practice what you preach” philosophy and promote these healthy lifestyles yet they themselves are not healthy and are obese it doesn’t say much for their genuineness or the validity of their claims/advice. However, this doesn’t invalidate other good points that they make.
matthiasj
April 7, 2009 at 9:23 pm (UTC 0)
Thanks Anonymous, I didn’t know Spirko was a radio show host.
erniesjourney
April 8, 2009 at 12:44 am (UTC 0)
Great post Matt! Just keep hoping the prepping catches on with more mainstream people so that more may be saved!
matthiasj
April 8, 2009 at 3:07 am (UTC 0)
Thanks Ernie! It seems to be getting more mainstream.
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