Survival Food Supplies
Stock up on survival food supplies so you're prepared for all emergencies
Survival Food Supplies to Prepare for Any Problem
Why stock up on survival food supplies? The world's economies are still in deep trouble.
The French bank Société Générale just released a report, "Worst-case debt scenario," to its clients advising them how to get through a collapse of the global economic system within the next few years.
As taxpayers in the United States and many other developed countries realized, the stimulus and bailout packages didn't eliminate the debt problems. They just transferred the liability from the banks and homeowners who got us into this mess, onto us taxpayeers.
Their advice to their wealthy customers? Buy sovereign (government bonds) and gold.
Ah, but what about us ordinary folks? Our money is tied up in retirement funds and many people don't have money to invest. The interest paid on government bonds is going even farther down, according to this report (it's been nearly 0% in Japan for nearly twenty years).
It takes a large amount of savings to be able to buy enough Treasury bonds to live well on 4/10s of 1% interest. Yes, that's not 4% -- it's 4/10s of 1 percent.
Will the economic system continue to even operate? Our supermarkets are full of produce from around the world. What will they sell when the dollar no longer can buy it?
Food shortages are developing in many of the poor countries that export food. How much will they want to sell to us when their own people are starving? When their fields are parched from a drought? Or flooded by torrential rains?
In the past the United States government and charities have provided huge amounts of disaster assistance to people in such situations. Who will save them when we're too broke?
Having food for emergencies put away in your home and car is the smart thiing to do right now. I can't do much, because I live in a small apartment, but everybody can find closet space for a 72 hour kit for everybody in their family.
If you have a house, fill your garage and basement up with disaster supplies such as freeze dried foods, MREs (Meal Ready to Eat -- the prepackaged rations that the United States military now supplies to soldiers instead of the old C and K rations), water, guns if you choose, hand cranked flashlights, radios and cell phone chargers, first aid kits, grain mill, gold and silver coins, personal items such as soap, food bars, solar powered food dehydrator, water filters and purifiers.
Some people advise getting a generator in case the power goes off, but that is only good until you run out of the fuel, which in a real emergency could easily be more scarce than food. Besides, they're quite noisy. If you have the only generator in your neighborhood all your neighbors and anybody coming close to you (including mobs) will know you're the one with power. And if everybody on your block had a generator none of you would be able to hear yourselves think. It'd be worse than a pop music concert.
If you live on a farm or your house is isolated and you don't want to call attention to your survival, an electric generator will alert everybody for a mile or so around you depending on the accoustics of your environment.
No matter what happens, you and your family need to eat. If we escape a financial collapse, then you can just eat your survival food supplies in a few years. The freeze dried cans could last thirty years.