9 things to hoard in the new year

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If you have a legitimate concern about lack of basic services in time of emergency,   I would think that keeping a stout supply of drinking water,  some non-perishable food items,  and a means of producing energy and heat,  would be a good idea.    If you live in a rural area,  and being without electric power would put you in a major Hurt,  by all means:   buy a gas generator,  and keep 10 or 20 gallons of fuel on hand.   This would be, primarily,  an insurance policy against weather or natural disaster event,  which might leave you 'on your own' for weeks, or months.

Those who BUILD BUNKERS,  stockpile ammunition and weapons,  and generally put a formidable amount of financial resouce into doing so -  well,  I think they're a bit Cracked.   Those people worry me.   Too many of them are just ITCHING for the chance to pull the trigger on someone - someone that they feel,  might be "coming to get them".   A Paranoid mindset,  at best.   This is different, say, from building a Storm Cellar in Tornado Alley.  We're talking Militia people here -  "Doomsday Preppers".

NO MATTER WHAT the "Doomsday Preppers" do,  to try and shield themselves from Mankind during  a disaster,  they will never be able to hold out for long.   MANY of them fear a hostile takeover by "U.N." troops (another far-fetched,  Right Wing Hysterical Rant)......if there WAS a Military Takeover,  those people would not last 90 minutes in their Bunkers.   Picture:   Saddam Hussein's attempts at a Static Defense,  in the Gulf War.   A squad of National Guardsmen could get you out of anything you could build in your backyard,  in an hour or less.   You'd come out, or you'd be dead.    In short,  being a Doomsday Prepper is an almost useless pursuit.   You would only be giving yourself the ILLUSION of safety.