August 13, 2011 5:39 PM PDT
when i was growing up, my parents made me aware of what to expect when things go bad...from reading all the books on how to survive a nuclear blast, to what plants you can eat in the wild, to cooking anything on an open fire, to being able to hunt and kill my own food...and i hated it! when i finally asked why the answer i got was simple.......the world has now become one big country, with selfish greedy people running it and sooner or late the glass boat is going to break and the government will be worried about their own and the rest of us will be s.o.l...unless we can fend for ourselves. i as well don't want to be all "gloom and doom" but with only three to five days food supply in any major city, and so many of our society having the "the government owes us" attitude when thin gs do go south i would much rather have the skills and not need them than need them and not have them.....to answer your question things are going south and the best thing you can do is hope for the best...but be prepared for the worst.
Glad to hear you are a suviver.
I was fortunate enough to have been brought up in a household where growing your own food, hunting, trapping, and fishing was taught by a woman that at 12 became the woman / mother of her household during the Great Depression after her mother's death, and a man raised on a farm who survived combat in WWII.
I am also glad I was a member of a Boy Scout troop with survivalist as leaders, and an Exployer post who's deal was emergency first-aid.
Being in the U.S.M.C.'s Force Recon was also a big part of who I am today.
Being born with the nack of building and or fixing stuff, was suplimented by attending factory endorced schools for machanics, welding, ect. sure goes a long way on being self suficent, I still have my CDL minus the Hazmat endorcement.
I feel bad for the folks that reality is a movie or a video game, if all hell breakes loose they are gonners.
