Friday, January 30, 2009
Steve Sees 30% Unemployment Coming
The latest pew poll indicates over 50% of the people like living in the cities. When things get dicey Spain, Iceland,Greece, France are not the only places that are going to be rioting. The last place you want to be is in the cities. There are hundreds of armed and dangerous gangs nationwide,there are 7 million pisoners througout the US that will be armed and dangerous. You don,t think the prison guards are going to be looking after the prisoners when things get dicey no they will be home looking after their families. Then you have all the 17 to 29 year old junkies, and druggies armed and dangerous to contend with also. No the cities are not the place you want to be when the balloon goes up. Find a place you can go to away from the metropolitan areas and stock it up and be ready at a moments notice. There are good used travel trailers out there for sale under 2500 which would make a good immediate shelter on a piece of land someplace. Its not if but when things are going to be dicey! So get ready if you can. Good Luck Steve
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Interestin' times acomin'.
Just got off a conference call with my VP. My company division, currently about 850 people +-3 will be cut down to 525 by the end of March. That's 325 people gone. I was laid off a couple of years ago and brought back four months later. If I get booted this time, I'll have 42 weeks severance and then I'll put in my retirement papers.
Don't really want to do that but last time I was off, I only had one interview in four months and that one was just for show (they picked an internal candidate.)
Gangsters can't hit you from 500 metres away. :)
We certainly are headed into it, however. There's no escaping a whole lot of suffering.
Please do remember your history: what happens when a country falls into an economic depression? That's right: a political messiah springs up, who promises to lead everyone out of it. Just give him a little power, and all will be well. Hitler is one example. The Jacobins are another. F.D.R. popularized socialism. Made it palatable for the masses.
They're going to tell you you need to surrender your liberties for the "common good." (Since when can the common good be disparate from the good of each and every individual? How can anyone truly benefit when the rights of any one man are violated?) They're going to tell you you must submit for your own safety and security. (Meaning, if you don't comply, you die.) They're going to condemn those who speak out against their subtle, then outrageous encroachments, calling them "not mainstream." "Bad Americans." "Unpatriotic." forget "they." Remember you. You are the basic unit of society: the individual. Society is nothing without the individual. This is not a call to selfishness. This is a call to recognizing that the person who best knows how to run your life is you. That you are responsible for your actions. "We" don't do anything. You and I do. To deny these truths is a sure recipe for disaster on a massive scale.
"America." It was never a government. It was never something that had to be forced upon anyone. People came to it in droves. It was a set of ideas, lived by people. Now those ideas have been thrown aside, forgotten. They're passé. They get in the way of our TV time.
Nothing new is happening here. It's the same play that has been acted out on the world stage time and time again. The actors' names may change, but the lines are always the same: "Safety and security. Submit, for your country's sake."
America is the truth that lives in the hearts of those who hold the ideas of peaceful cooperation. You can't force that truth upon anyone at bayonet point. You can't force ideas on people. You can't make anyone believe anything with force. That doesn't stop men from trying.
Live in peace. They're going to try to make you afraid of your neighbor. Don't be. Your neighbor is in the same boat as you. He has as much to lose as you. He has a home, a wife and children he loves, too. Let's venture into the coming storm in solidarity, not fear.
Stepping down from the soapbox now.
Well, every night I will fire up my shortwave and listen to the news, and think, "poor bastards" from the security of my mountain retreat.
Things are looking dicey, no doubt of that.
Steve, thou art wise indeed. I reckon in six months, 20% unemployment will be referred to as "the good ol' days". Dang skippy I'm gettin' me a trailer, then some land in the boonies....
Mayberry I have a set of hand drawn plans on how I attached a permenant roof to my 26 foot trailer if you want them I will send them to you. It shed snow for 10 years. I sold it when I finished the cabin whish I hadn't now because it would have been a grat quest cabin. Oh well-steve
Brass a final thought-I truely believe that the 20,000 special forces brought back from overseas, will be sent at some point to unarm the true militias in this country first prior to attempting to procure the rest of the civilian populations guns of course this is without the people putting up a fight. But since only 2,000000 people voted for fiscal sanity and 130,000,000 voted for the same ole same ole I guess that is too much to hope for! Steve
Thanks Steve, I can do that one myself. Got your house plans, thanks a million!
Crucis, I hope you get to keep your job.
Hermit, Must be nice.
Mayberry, Good for you on the trailer thing. Bout time.
Steve, Unless I am really mistaken we don't have anything even close to 20,000 Special Forces troops.
Ryan I stand corrected I mean't troops there is presently 8 special forces groups of 12 men per group as far as I know. Steve
Thats army also every branch of the armed forces has there special forces such as the seals for the navy.Steve
I have to bough down to a far superior intellect. A Westpointer in military history corrected me on the special forces-there are Quote"7 active ones that are strictly army this does not include Delta and the 19th and 20th are national guard SF groups only." Steve
Steve, That number sounds right. In any case an SF group is made up of 3 battalions. Each battalion has a few companies, each of which has a few teams. Each team/ ODA/ A team is 12 guys.
As for how many special forces guys there are I consider that the number of SP guys. Now Special Operations is a whole nother thing. There are Rangers, Seals and some other folks. When looking at total numbers do remember there are lots of assorted logistics folks.
Ryan Thanks for clearing up the total numbers very intresting!Steve
Steve & TOR
I work in an education center on a large Army base (which shall remain nameless). Let me tell you...the first problem any potential oppressor will have if he tries that forced [ie. at gunpoint ]confiscation bullshit is, "Who among the military and civilian law enforcement will obey me & who will openly resist, or more likely disappear into the mountains deserts and swamps - even cities & suburbs - remember Iraq, perhaps to oppose & also train opposition against me." Not everyone in uniform is so ready and willing to turn their guns on mom and pop, if you catch my drift. I'm no fan of Mao Tse Tung, but he did speak the truth about the guerilla being like a fish swimming in the other schools of fish in the sea. So any posers/potential dicators will have to wonder how much of the military will be with/against them. Not to mention the general (and by that time, I'm sure, supremely pissed off) public. Maybe some of the sheeple might wake up and find their stones by then. Even a dog will only take so much abuse before it turns on ya. No, any wanna-be Hitlers or Uncle Joes had better think it through dammed carefully before provoking a possible second American civil war, the final consequences of which, would be both unknown and [win or lose} horrendous.
Gandalf - from my lead lined Faraday caged bunker of ultimate paranoia (BOUP). :-)
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