1) Those that want to harm you/steal from you don’t come with a pirate flag waving over their heads.
2) Neither do they start shooting at you 200 yards away.
3) They wont come riding loud bikes or dressed with their orange, convict just escaped from prison jump suits, so that you can identify them the better. Nor do they all wear chains around their necks and leather jackets. If I had a dollar for each time a person that got robbed told me, “They looked like NORMAL people, dressed better than we are”, honestly, I would have enough money for a nice gun. There are exceptions, but don’t expect them to dress like in the movies.
4) A man with a wife and two or three kids can’t set up a watch. I don’t care if you are SEAL, SWAT or John Freaking Rambo, no 6th sense is going to tell you that there is a guy pointing a gun at your back when you are trying to fix the water pump that just broke, or carrying a big heavy bag of dried beans you bought that morning.
And then there’s this:
Once the SHTF [shit hit the fan], money is no longer measured in money, but you start seeing it as the necessary goods it can buy. Stuff like food, medicine, gas, or the private medical service bill.
To me, spending 500 dollars on beauty products, and to make it worse, on a guy? That’s simply not acceptable.
The way I see it, someone with that mentality can’t survive a week without a credit card, no use in even considering a SHTF scenario. And this guy is a firearms instructor?… probably the kind of guy that will say that a handgun is only used to fight his way to his rifle… and his facial night cream…
Once you experience the lack of stuff you took for granted, like food, medicines, your set of priorities change all of a sudden. For example, I had two wisdom tooth removed last year. On both occasions I was prescribed with antibiotics and strong Ibuprofen for the pain. I took the antibiotics (though I did buy two boxes with the same recipe just to keep one box just in case) but I didn’t use the Ibuprofen, I added it to my pile of medicines.
Why? because medicines are not always available and I’m not sure if they will be available in the future. Sure, it hurt like hell, but pain alone isn’t going to kill you, so I sucked it up.
Lot’s more words of wisdom on dealing with a collapse if you read the whole article. Just in case.
Found by Brother Uncle Don
Is Agentia a real place? 🙂 Looks like a fat-finger incident.
Some of the things listed here are what I keep telling “survivalists” who stockpile food and supplies for themselves and think they will be able to defend it. It’s the small communities who share and band together to protect each other that will survive any sort of collapse or disaster.
The author of that runs a very interesting blog now at http://ferfal.blogspot.com/
My wife is from Argentina. We were there in April, and it’s amazing just how huge the disparity is between the “haves” and the “have-nots.” Going through sections of the country that look exactly like the commercials you see on TV where you can help children for $1/day is a huge eye-opener for a Westerner like myself.
I hope we never get to that point.
The Powers That Be wont be happy until the average American is reduced to the level of a serf. Do you think it is a coincidence that the education system is a shambles?
#5
Your average americans are already reduced to “serfs” (whatever that means) for at least one generation.
Since the “Flower Children” generation took over, the American education system cranks out mostly or only just useful idiots, completely brainwashed and indoctrinated drones.
But if anyone thinks its bad… just wait until current generation of teenagers will “rule” USA. LOL. That will be fun to watch 🙂
Let’s just be sure the crooked bankers, war profiteers and our elected officials who drove us to this collapse are the ones who suffer most and are the first to die. Without their servants, $5 coffee, fancy cars and such they will drop like flies and so will their expensive whores. Maybe, without the umbrella of Law Enforcement protecting those slugs, some Justice will finally be done.
Corrupt president followed by a complete idiot, sounds familiar. Maybe it’s reversed?
…”after his poorly staffed regulatory agencies failed”…
That brings up the reason we have nothing to worry about here in the US. Going forward, not only will the regulatory agencies be fully staffed and generously if not embarrassingly well paid, there will be a burgeoning profusion of them and they will be led by a figure of extraordinary zeal.
History has shown that this is an infallible system for securing universal and limitless prosperity – as any tenured Ivy-league professor will tell you.
If you still have doubts, just ask any of Obama’s buddies at Goldman Sachs.
Nice screenshot from Tremors.
Sometimes the picture is just so much better than the article.
That one scene in the basement is enough for me to like the entire movie.
The conservative damn-near made it happen here… and I’m convinced it would have, had McCain been elected. It still might happen, but thank goodness we have some good leadership with Obama.
The article is bullshit.
“Though my English is limited, I hope I’m able to transmit the main ideas and concepts, giving you a better image of what you may have to deal with some day, if the economy collapses in your country.”
For a guy with “limited” English skills he writes exactly like an American survivalist gold bug gun nut.
From the source article, I agree heartily that those that appear of higher financial status are often more dangerous than the traditional “pirate” boogeymen.
As to the ultimate danger of complete collapse(of the US dominated economic sphere) I must disagree.
First, Argentina is in no way seriously similar to the current U.S. position. If China screws the U.S. it screws the largest market for China’s goods. Not only is the U.S. a large market of goods, it is also a military hyper-power. Right there the analogy breaks down. Argentina could be easily written off; if the U.S. is written off it would mean major trouble.
Prolonged steady decline is certainly possible. A sudden collapse is highly unlikely. As John D. points out, we are a massive market. That importance, gov’t fiscal irresponsibility aside, doesn’t just vanish.
# 17 chris:
“Prolonged steady decline is certainly possible.”
In fact, I believe it has already begun. I first started personally feeling it around 1981 or so (of course, that could just be me), though the first shock came with the Oil Embargo in the ’70s.
Cheap energy is what has made human civilization powerful and wealthy. First with firewood, and domesticating animals capable of doing lots of work. Then along came coal and steam, bringing on the Industrial Revolution. Then we _really_ hit the big time with petroleum and the internal combustion engine! There have been further advances, but oil and pistons are still our number one (and two, three and four) energy providers.
Well, guess what? The cheap, easy oil is almost all gone and the entire world is getting poorer. Now, while we still have some left, is the time to spend some of it on developing the main energy sources for the future. Our best bets are nuclear, solar, geothermal, wind and tidal. (The scientists working on fusion say it’s 25 years away, but they’ve been saying that for 50 years.)
But what do we do? We deny there’s a problem; they say we can’t afford to waste money on these foolish things; “It can’t happen here!”
Thomas Friedman states the problem in his latest opinion piece here.
(If link fails, search for Thomas Friedman, “What they really believe”.)
We need to be spending ten to one hundred times as much on these technologies as we are. Good luck to us all. I think it’s time to start learning how to live like the Amish.
You know the world is a scary place when even the inarticulate paranoid are vulnerable to attacks from every corner.
Hey ED, dont you mean A ‘R’ G E N T I N A.
For me the best part is watching how the rest of the world has gotten tired of propping up this nation of deadbeats. Appocalypse preparedness is definitely a good idea. You’ve got till the winter of 2012, make good use of it and prepare. Shelter, weapons, dried and canned food, mechanical water filtration, first aid etc. Better a small community than totally isolated. Better to emmigrate than to stay in the USA.
Safe water, food, clothing, shelter. If they have to in order to get those and maybe even if they don’t, people will kill you.
pedro – Not as bad? According to my in-laws (who are still there), yes, it was that bad. We went to Argentina in April/May of this year, and the disparity between the haves and have-nots is sickening. Corruption is rampant, jobs are scarce, poverty flourishes, and no one’s doing a damn thing about it. Kirchner and her husband are destroying the country.
The only positive thing going for Argentina right now is that the inflation seems to be holding, and their currency hasn’t tanked. Again.