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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Bob, be it TEOTWAWKI or WTSHTF, either is going to mean a lot of loss of 
lives and a complete change in how folks live.  The nanny state will die, as 
it should.  Those who are prepared and can adjust to the changing times will 
survive, those who aren't prepared and can't OR won't adjust to the changing 
times, will not survive.  The world has become one big pyramid scheme and 
pyramid schemes don't work for long.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>


> Let us then leave alone the 'gold' discussion and go to your idea which I 
> now believe is what makes, for you,  gold or any 'money' irrelevant. 
> Correct me where I am mis-reading you.
>
> By what you wrote below, and similar other of your writings, you seem to 
> be in that group that really believes in the hard core version of 
> TEOTWAWKI.  For most people in this country and most of the devoped world 
> do 'earn their keep, 'shuffling' blips on a computer, or papers in an 
> office, or otherwise "ass-sitter" professions and jobs; Or , they do 
> simple service-industry jobs to service and provide for the shufflers and 
> ass-sitters.  What are all of those people going to do?  Are we all going 
> to kill each other?  Are we all going to start indivdual homesteads or 
> communal 'communes' ?  Is the gov't going to just disappear?
>
> I'll be honest, right now, the 'productive' of the ass-sitters still seem, 
> to me, to be doing better than those who actually use theri physical labor 
> to earn their keep.  I see, as you do, very bad things coming.  But, I'm 
> not sure I see a total 'collapse'.
>
> We came back after the North invaded our lands.  The Japanese came back 
> after we made their living g-d bow to our bombs; the germans came back 
> after we carpet-bombed them into nothingness.  And, we all became more 
> 'ass-sittish' , not less.
>
> I'm trying to follow your argument to its logical end.  The self-reliant 
> homestead ideal is still the most promising, regardless of how everything 
> really ends.  But, I still have a space of time with which to deal and 
> with which to plan, for a true and for a back-up.....................