What Do You Need to Survive?

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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.? ~
Cervantes

Ask yourself: what do you personally need to survive in case of an
economic meltdown, in case of sudden hyperinflation, a global resource
blockade, a sudden declaration of martial law--or a simple nuclear
exchange resulting in national panic?

I?m sure readers at STR have given serious thought to the question,
especially in the present time when our political leaders appear to
have given so little serious thought to the consequences of their
actions and what those actions do to the average citizen.

What do you need to survive?

Money, you say? A handy supply of cash and a fast car to rush down to
the store and amass more supplies? Suppose your friendly grocery
store is already besieged?or empty?when you get there? Suppose your
paper dollars are declared worthless under a new martial law?
Suppose?worse case scenario--gold is declared illegal to own, as it
was under friendly old FDR.

Suppose a limited nuke strike and a resource blockade in the Strait of
Hormuz (Day One - The War With Iran) causes prices of everything to
skyrocket and hoarding to occur on a huge scale? Take a quick look in
your pantry. If your cupboard is like mine, we both have, maybe, a
week?s worth of grub. Suppose a can of Bush beans is suddenly no
longer available at $2 but $20, while a 10 lb bag of rice is now
$100--if you can get it.

The US economy is in a freefall, resembling that slow motion film
footage of the airship Hindenberg, crashing into a massive fireball.

Okay, maybe not yet that bad. Not yet.

But a five-year graph clearly indicates the US dollar descending like
the backside of the Rockies versus other currency. You know the dollar
has a problem when the Philippine Peso outperforms it. Not to mention
gold and silver, platinum and copper. You know the US dollar is in
trouble when a pound of copper pennies (pre-1982) is worth more than
$3 and federal law prohibits you from melting them down into ingots
and using them as legal tender.

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