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Are we survivalists ?

softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I use the word "we" very loosely as I am very new to PM's. I have read and absorbed plenty in the two months since I caught this bug. One notion that I see repeated over and over again (not here) is that "we" are classified merely as SURVIVALISTS ........ constantly awaiting the complete collapse of economy in ways that dwarf the current climate. Similiar to those who hoard emergency survival products ....

Thoughts?

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  • ocon4008ocon4008 Posts: 1,703
    Been there done that; you can have the t-shirt. I am stacking because I remember 1979.image
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
    T-shirt? image

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My take:

    A "survivalist" is someone who has bought the flashy, sexy, surface of the concept (MREs, surplus boots, cammo folding cot and SKS bandoliers) despite (or even in addition to) the actual logic and practicality of the concept.

    Every able patriotic American should be responsible for and work to assure their own personal financial well-being. Just as every able, patriotic American should ensure their own necessities (food, water, clothing, shelter, heat, medicine) for themselves and every one of their immediate family.

    Keeping a low debt level, living within your means, taking good care of yourself physically and mentally, keeping not just an emergency supply of food and water but several months or even a couple of years worth of healthy food and sundries for your family is not "survivalism". It's sound, logical, fiscally and morally responsible, and patriotic.

    Precious metals are eschewed by people too scared to look in the mirror. Anyone who understands history--and you don't have to go back more than a few years or even months (Argentina, Zimbabwe, Belarus, etc) knows that you can't hyperinflate metals. Don't like them, don't think inflation or hyperinflation is likely? Keep your holdings to 3% or 5%.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow Weiss, you just saved me a lot of typingimage

    MJ
    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,213 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It gets pretty weird around here when talk turns to 'guns and ammo'. Thankfully, there's not as much talk of it as there used to be, as most posters seem to have realized the out of work businessmen aren't taking to the streets in packs, plundering and pillaging as they go.
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,124 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It gets pretty weird around here when talk turns to 'guns and ammo'. Thankfully, there's not as much talk of it as there used to be, as most posters seem to have realized the out of work businessmen aren't taking to the streets in packs, plundering and pillaging as they go. >>



    True, but you still have some die-hart apocalyptic doomsayers....just ignore them like I do and let common sense and knowledge be your guide.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    We have friends that own farms, others that love to play militia and others who own sporting goods stores so just in case I figure we better be the ones with silver-----------BigE image
    I'm glad I am a Tree
  • ocon4008ocon4008 Posts: 1,703
    <<T-shirt?>>

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  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,906 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep, just a bunch of lunatic fringe here, especially if you watch Financial TV, Except for Santelli.

    Hey, did you see him the other day ripping the guy from Oppenheimer by pointing out who pays his salary?

    Just "consider the source" no matter where you get your information. Everyone has a vested interest - the question is, "in what?"

    Weiss, good post!image
    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
  • BobkBobk Posts: 593
    Hey Weiss, why dont you run for office. I'll vote for you. Bob
    Pecunia in arbotis non crescit.
  • keepdachangekeepdachange Posts: 1,374
    I hope to survive unless I'm the only human left as that would get rather boring
    "If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins." - Patty Oswalt
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,124 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Yep, just a bunch of lunatic fringe here, especially if you watch Financial TV, Except for Santelli.

    Hey, did you see him the other day ripping the guy from Oppenheimer by pointing out who pays his salary?

    Just "consider the source" no matter where you get your information. Everyone has a vested interest - the question is, "in what?"

    Weiss, good post!image >>



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    Yup.. Santelli is "my man."
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • ttownttown Posts: 4,472 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It gets pretty weird around here when talk turns to 'guns and ammo'. Thankfully, there's not as much talk of it as there used to be, as most posters seem to have realized the out of work businessmen aren't taking to the streets in packs, plundering and pillaging as they go. >>





    You should consider one of theses, THEY ARE A MUST!image They'll never know


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  • mhammermanmhammerman Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭
    TT, that is wayyyy too funny!
  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>TT, that is wayyyy too funny! >>



    My ribs hurt...........way funny
    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • ocon4008ocon4008 Posts: 1,703
    Doesn't the Glock ruin the beer? Of course if you are a two fisted drinker .... imageimage
  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,953 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We are modern day speculators.

    The government is incapable of ever managing the economy. That is why communism collapsed. It is now socialism’s turn - Martin Armstrong

  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are we survivalists?

    No, we are DEVO.
    D. E. V. O.
  • bestmrbestmr Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>It gets pretty weird around here when talk turns to 'guns and ammo'. Thankfully, there's not as much talk of it as there used to be, as most posters seem to have realized the out of work businessmen aren't taking to the streets in packs, plundering and pillaging as they go. >>





    You should consider one of theses, THEY ARE A MUST!image They'll never know


    Fine Crafted Items image >>



    OMG!! That was hilarious!
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,240 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Are we survivalists?

    No, we are DEVO.
    D. E. V. O. >>



    Huh?image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
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