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Last time I was in Houston I couldn't believe how many homeless were under the H59 bridge near the George R Brown Convention Center.

It seems like this is probably headed to Dallas, Houston, and I would imagine Austin.

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archiv ... -hellholes

First, the obvious: The Denver City Council has voted unanimously to decriminalize a number of offenses, including defecating in public. Also, urinating in public. Camping on public or private land without permission. Panhandling. And lying across public rights-of-way, such as sidewalks.

There’s just one problem – well, more than one – despite spending an extra $1.8 million last year in an effort to retrieve needles, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the department handed out about 2 million more syringes than it got back… many of which are now washing around the streets of one of the richest cities in America (along with the feces of their users).

And San Francisco is generous. It offers street people food stamps, free shelter, train tickets and $70 a month in cash.

It's easier to sell the need for more social programs and city services when vagrancy is allowed to blossom in broad daylight. Meanwhile the regular tax payers continue to pay the price in several ways.

I'm waiting for a big city to wake up and realize enough is enough. I doubt it'll happen in my lifetime and I'm in my mid 30s.

I wonder how much longer I want to tolerate all of this before retreating to isolation in a remote state.

Orange County is now dealing with Typhoid outbreak from the unsanitary conditions caused by the homeless poopin where ever they want to!

SQLGeek wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 11:19 am It's easier to sell the need for more social programs and city services when vagrancy is allowed to blossom in broad daylight. Meanwhile the regular tax payers continue to pay the price in several ways.

If you hadn't put "tax payers" in there, I'd have said that vagrancy and degeneracy seems to be regular now.

SQLGeek wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 11:19 am I wonder how much longer I want to tolerate all of this before retreating to isolation in a remote state.

I thought our ancestors already did that for us.

SQLGeek wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 11:19 am It's easier to sell the need for more social programs and city services when vagrancy is allowed to blossom in broad daylight. Meanwhile the regular tax payers continue to pay the price in several ways.

I'm waiting for a big city to wake up and realize enough is enough. I doubt it'll happen in my lifetime and I'm in my mid 30s.

I wonder how much longer I want to tolerate all of this before retreating to isolation in a remote state.

May I recommend WHY BEING A PREPPER IS NOT CRAZY?

The Annoyed Man wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:24 am May I recommend WHY BEING A PREPPER IS NOT CRAZY?

Nice Blog TAM! Didn't know you had that.

PriestTheRunner wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:11 pm

The Annoyed Man wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:24 am May I recommend WHY BEING A PREPPER IS NOT CRAZY?

Nice Blog TAM! Didn't know you had that.

Thanks!

The Annoyed Man wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:40 pm

PriestTheRunner wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:11 pm

The Annoyed Man wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:24 am May I recommend WHY BEING A PREPPER IS NOT CRAZY?

Nice Blog TAM! Didn't know you had that.

Thanks!

Agreed. Nice information TAM.
I am thankfully already much more prepared than most I know. I hope there are a lot more people doing this than it seems. Maybe everyone is just maintaining OPSEC.

RicoTX wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:46 pmMaybe everyone is just maintaining OPSEC.

Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s the case. In ancient times, larger percentages of people survived social collapses because they naturally lived a conservation/prepping lifestyle anyway. Societies were never advanced enough to become substitutes for being prepared. That has changed gradually over the past thousand years, but increasingly drastically over the past 100 years or so. I don’t seriously expect that most people will be prepared at all.

The Annoyed Man wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:45 pm

RicoTX wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:46 pmMaybe everyone is just maintaining OPSEC.

Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s the case. In ancient times, larger percentages of people survived social collapses because they naturally lived a conservation/prepping lifestyle anyway. Societies were never advanced enough to become substitutes for being prepared. That has changed gradually over the past thousand years, but increasingly drastically over the past 100 years or so. I don’t seriously expect that most people will be prepared at all.

TAM,

You are 1000% dead on. If EOTWAWKI hits I bet 90% of the people in most major cities would die off. They have become totally dependent on the government and the grocery store.

Syntyr wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:51 pm

The Annoyed Man wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:45 pm

RicoTX wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:46 pmMaybe everyone is just maintaining OPSEC.

Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s the case. In ancient times, larger percentages of people survived social collapses because they naturally lived a conservation/prepping lifestyle anyway. Societies were never advanced enough to become substitutes for being prepared. That has changed gradually over the past thousand years, but increasingly drastically over the past 100 years or so. I don’t seriously expect that most people will be prepared at all.

TAM,

You are 1000% dead on. If EOTWAWKI hits I bet 90% of the people in most major cities would die off. They have become totally dependent on the government and the grocery store.

I would add, even if you’ve been preparing, you shouldn’t get complacent. I’ve done what I could with the resources I have, but I am nowhere near fully ready, and it scares the hell out of me to think about what is still left to be done but I just don’t have the money for right now. I came to the preparedness mindset much later in life. It wasn’t until I was in my late 50s before I started seriously preparing. Some of the details of how far I’ve gotten are in that blog post of mine, but it’s lacking a MAJOR component, and that is land. I have plans to buy land, and I frequently check websites like LandsofTexas.com and LandsofAmerica.com to stay on top of prices and scout potential locations, but my ability to buy the land depends on an inheritance that will be coming to me on the passing of my mother. It’s not like I’m “just waiting for her to die” (I’m not a savage, and I do love my mother...despite her being a committed democrat), but .... it’s a fact that I won’t have the funds to buy until she passes. She’s 94 years old now. She’s in relatively good health for that age, but she is declining more and more rapidly with each year. I don’t expect her to survive more than another 4-5 years at most. My share of her estate will be more than sufficient to buy and set up a rural retreat. But for now, it is strictly a waiting game, over which I have no power - and that scares the crap out of me.

My best advice for ANY young person today, besides learning a trade that will still have value when the collapse comes, is to begin a preparedness lifestyle NOW, while it is relatively painless, and developing the habits of someone who is always working to improve his or her survival picture. Baby steps, done over decades instead of years, can accumulate into quite a preparedness portfolio.

As the American Empire continues to collapse, the more parallels an observant person can draw with how empires or cultures collapsed throughout recorded history.

When Rome fell, it probably sucked for most Patricians and Equestrians. Plebeians probably suffered in inverse proportion to their distance from population centers. Something to consider, even if "past performance is no guarantee of future results."

crazy2medic wrote: Wed Feb 13, 2019 11:47 am Orange County is now dealing with Typhoid outbreak from the unsanitary conditions caused by the homeless poopin where ever they want to!

Not just Orange County:
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2019/02 ... ieval.html

Modern antibiotics only work when the cause of the disease is removed! This is just crazy

Bushwhacker wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 5:42 pm As the American Empire continues to collapse, the more parallels an observant person can draw with how empires or cultures collapsed throughout recorded history.

When Rome fell, it probably sucked for most Patricians and Equestrians. Plebeians probably suffered in inverse proportion to their distance from population centers. Something to consider, even if "past performance is no guarantee of future results."

If you haven’t read How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill, you owe it to yourself to read it. For the first 2 or 3 chapters, the fall of Rome is described. The parallels between then and now are astounding - PARTICULARLY Rome’s unexplainable decision to stop defending its northern borders against the Goths.