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[quote=vec101;7969063]If Obama has his way - it will be a government of increased welfare for the people. Just not so sure where those welfare dollars will come from.
Question:
If you watch the Obama Deception or look at sites on the web, you will see concern about the bill H.R. 1388 Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act. It's been passed by the House and is going to the Senate. I don't get where those opposed to the bill are coming from. It looks like the bill is support for volunteerism and nothing more. If I read it correctly, some things which are allowed for further research may be questionable, but it looks to me like it is encouraging and supporting people helping people.
Your thoughts?[quote]
I haven't read the GIVE bill, only read synopsis' of it. Sounds like servitude to me. Must pay Mother Russia America for the right to live here? I've scoured my Constitution, but I'm unable to find the section that says the Executive or Legislative branch need to dictate law relating to volunteerism. FWIW, the folks where I live (6 full time families, 4 part time) have set up a date to walk the roads up the mountain to pick up trash. No legislation required. We have an elderly farmer who live alone on our mountain. He's actually the only true "local". We all rotate bringing him meals, and ensuring he has warm clothes and chopped wood. We don't need the government to enact anymore programs to "help" s help ourselves. It will cost us million if not billions of dollars, create more government jobs, and in the end be a colossal failure. Just like everyother Federal program.
The Bill that I think poses the greatest threat to all that is written here is HR 875, the Food Safety Modernization Act... excuse me while I get sick. Here is a link to a well written piece on it, as well as the link to the actual Bill The Final Hour: HR 875: The End Of Organic Farming?
But what to stock up on...? It's not really a financial collapse that worries me. It's H51N. It's out there right now, and there isn't any vaccine to stop it. Once it is introduced to a population mass, it will spread so fast, there will not be enough hospital beds or medical staff to combat it. Bird Flu: Why Modern Medicine Won̢۪t Save Us by bradford frank the frank group
Best be prepared to spend an extended period of time with contact with society. If you're unable to do that, you're in a world of hum.
Just my .02 though...
I'll take that .02 and give you some change.
Prepare the best you can.
Store the medicines you use - tylenol, acid reducer, pepto pink stuff, aspirin, maintenance medicines that you and anyone in your family is on. you can get a 3-month supply of them all at once, so do that. Add on to that with antibiotic ointment, anti itch cream, allergy medicines, sinus sprays, bandaids, cough medicines and anything you have ever taken or needed inj the past year or two.
Just because the masses come down with H5N1 doesn't mean everyone has to have it. I can give you more specifics if you send me a DM, but am not going to go any further to scare those who never heard anything about all this....
Many of these old stand-by disenfectants had multiple uses and with that in mind, concentrated storage space.
That post about stocking medicines was right on...aspirin being very important..
What do you do when you run out of perscription heart medicines?
Use a generic supply, off the counter pill that does the same thing!
Anybody have any tips on seed storage?
We have kept bean seeds frozen for over 10 years and had them germinate.
I wonder if taking the country in a 'green direction is a forewarning of the things to come?
David, that's a good question about the freezing of seed.
I took my kids to the mall in Bridgeport this Friday. We had to take a shovel back to sears because it was defective ( dang thing gave me splinters first time I used it). I rarely expose my children to consumerism so they don't go to the mall that often. We all needed new shoes and some other things. We did some shoppinig, then went to the Gourmet Cafe to eat and came home. It was a traumatic trip. The kids were overstimulated. On the way home, my friend said to me, maybe the best thing that could happen to us is a collapse. She thinks we've gotten to big for our britches, as my gma would say.
The kids saw easter dresses they wanted at sears. They were $50 each! I buy most of our clothes second hand. I had no idea that they even made kids dresses that cost $50 at sears! They weren't fancy dresses like for a wedding. Just normal kids clothes.
I have all of the foxfire books. Several of the rodale's organic gardening books, and a whole bunch of old mother earth magazines. I'll see what I can find about seed storage. I would think that the bigger the seed, the better it would keep...like corn and beans.
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