When I lived in Pennsylvania, we lived near the Amish country. We got snowed in every winter, sometimes more than once. I mean, the kind of snowed in where you don't go anywhere for a week. And nobody freaked out about it. We always had 2 weeks of food on hand. It was called "living".

I don't think people there would understand whats happening here now. We city dwellers really don't need to keep a calorie of food in our house, everything is available 24 hours a day. Thats one problem with discussing survival ... its vastly different for people in different populaces.

According to my Dear Old Dad, in Florida they now recommend that people keep one to two weeks of food on hand. But really, that should be everywhere.

I agree with you. If the company needs to fail, it needs to fail. If people are only prepared to die, then they need to be allowed to die.

We see these lessons with our children again and again... you can't bail them out constantly or they learn nothing.

On the plus side, these masses are easily controlled and manipulated, but I haven't quite got my fleecing mechanisms in place. I need a couple more years for that.