300UGUY
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Friend of mine has lived in a house built in 1880 for over 30 years. The locals still call it the Gigler house, the original owners.
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Friend of mine has lived in a house built in 1880 for over 30 years. The locals still call it the Gigler house, the original owners.
300UGUY
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We have lost a lot of skilled trades folks. Our recession started in 2000, when manufacturing really started to be globalized. We lost about 1 million jobs, over 10 years, in 1 state! They are currently talking about our "comeback". According to their charts, if the comeback continues until 2030, we will recover 1/2 the jobs we had in 2000. Some comeback....
Bird
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I think they all moved down in this North Texas area. Traffic gets worse and worse all the time, and the amount of construction going on is just mind boggling; single family homes, mostly big expensive ones, incredibly huge 3 and 4 story apartment complexes, new shopping areas, and lots of road construction. Of course the 31 mile widening of I-35E from Dallas to the north side of Denton is one of the bigger ones and I noticed at just one of their many staging areas a huge sign "NOW HIRING ALL TRADES". The project is "scheduled" to be completed in 2017, and I'll be surprised if it's even close to being completed by 2020. But there are many, many other road construction projects going on in the area as well.
DrRod
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I've read a good bit on the various strategies for surviving a disaster and it appears the smart money is on small towns. When the trucks stop rolling, there are only two days of food in you average super market. This is verified every time we get snow in the Baltimore/Washington area -- by the second day there's hardly anything on the shelves and people get antsy. So the main thing to fear is roving gangs of scavengers. They will start in the cities but eventually migrate to the suburbs. And there will be some desperate people in the suburbs as well -- even that nice accountant next store could become a bit irrational if his kids are hungry. If you retreat to the deep country you are pretty much on your own and could be the victim of just one or two crazies. So the safe spot is a small town -- primarily because the people will band together to share, help, and defend.
The other thing to include in your preparations is trade goods. Its amazing how valuable liquor, fuel, toilet paper, ammo, and the like can be when there isn't much of it around. Also, if the crisis is prolonged, there's nothing like gold or silver coins -- but at that point things must be really bad.
The other thing to include in your preparations is trade goods. Its amazing how valuable liquor, fuel, toilet paper, ammo, and the like can be when there isn't much of it around. Also, if the crisis is prolonged, there's nothing like gold or silver coins -- but at that point things must be really bad.
Ken
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To help understand what will happen if and when another failure of Government control over the lawless portion of this nation. We can only look how the rebels and the winners of the civil war took place. The gruella Fighters In Mo. and along Kansas border with Okla.
In Ark. the carpet baggers came in by train loads and established a form of government.
1. First clean out the banks of all funds.
2. Groups to scour the country side and remove anything portable of value.
3. Remove resistance.
4. Then Rob, Rape, and Rampage until nothing left.
There is a bunch of talk of holding out until the problem is over. Any resistance will only focus on where you are at and the more resistance only causes the more determination to get to you.
Referring to past civil war. There were groups that after the 3 R's would burn the House ,Barn and anything they could not move.
The effects lasted well over 100 years of not trusting some one moving into small communities with out family's.
to give reason for your being there.
I live in my Father's house and it is still referred to the person who deeded the Property over 110 years ago.
ken
In Ark. the carpet baggers came in by train loads and established a form of government.
1. First clean out the banks of all funds.
2. Groups to scour the country side and remove anything portable of value.
3. Remove resistance.
4. Then Rob, Rape, and Rampage until nothing left.
There is a bunch of talk of holding out until the problem is over. Any resistance will only focus on where you are at and the more resistance only causes the more determination to get to you.
Referring to past civil war. There were groups that after the 3 R's would burn the House ,Barn and anything they could not move.
The effects lasted well over 100 years of not trusting some one moving into small communities with out family's.
to give reason for your being there.
I live in my Father's house and it is still referred to the person who deeded the Property over 110 years ago.
ken
drajj5
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I am unsure about the new generation(s). So much knowledge- the old ways are lost to them. I try to teach my kids everything and yet they feel that they must, "GOOGLE or YouTube" the answer. What happens when there is no internet....
There is so much that my Father didn't teach me, I can not cure/salt a ham, store grown food for long durations, or sew a patch in my drawers. If I were to go into the woods and get some root to help with sickness I would probably kill myself in choosing the (right) root. However my Granny can still do this and so many other things. She lived during the depression and those survival skills are with her still.
100 years have passed since the days of self survival. I am guessing that most would perish not from economic collapse - but by not having access to...... Google/Youtube Agree?
There is so much that my Father didn't teach me, I can not cure/salt a ham, store grown food for long durations, or sew a patch in my drawers. If I were to go into the woods and get some root to help with sickness I would probably kill myself in choosing the (right) root. However my Granny can still do this and so many other things. She lived during the depression and those survival skills are with her still.
100 years have passed since the days of self survival. I am guessing that most would perish not from economic collapse - but by not having access to...... Google/Youtube Agree?
SPIKER
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Mich & Ohio both were hit REALLY bad by NAFTA (Thanks to Clinton for signing that one into law.) Most of those jobs went to low labor, no EPA or other Progressive BS to deal with.
Yes TX has pushed to be Business Friendly where as many other states thought they could tax the businesses and increase their pay in light of NAFTA it made the decision to move south or north a much easier than putting up with rogue EPA State Tax agencies etc. Ohio has learned this had lesson but with Kasich I don't hold much hope for a real recovery (maybe after Oblamo and Kasich are out...)
Mark
tjcarguy
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We retired to a declining rural area. Wife and I have always been ruralish. Now we live on a dirt road but it's only a mile and a half walk to town, decent grocery store, hardware, liquor store, bank, doctor, best of both worlds. Good farmland so the small farms have mostly disappeared , one of our favorite past times is driving around counting abandoned homesteads. ---Trevor
