Let’s assume that Defense and Customs is also off limits.

That leaves Education, Commerce, Homeland Security,…

OK, that’s good for starters….

Be prepared.

Problem is, there are plenty of people right here in my general area who are living large and have no idea what’s coming. The type of people who will drop their kid off right in front of the school door because having them walk an extra 10 feet would be a human rights abuse or something. People who have the latest of everything but only $200 in the bank. People who go into hysterics if the power dies for longer than 3 hours.

Bishop on March 11, 2013 at 10:44 PM

I know people who can’t imagine the Internet being down for 3 hours.

True story: had one of our employees call me during the extended power outage from last summer’s Derecho storm (the one that smashed through from Indiana to West Virginia last June) wanting to know if there was any way to get Internet with no power.

IE, even the cell towers had no power. Had to explain to him that without electricity that the whole computer industry basically doesn’t exist and all…

I’ll opt out. Just give me my money back. Nice shack in the white mountains, I’ll survive. I paid in my whole life. Can I just get some of it back? I’m willing to take even a percentage to just opt out.
Get the hell out of my life. Give me my money back. I could have bought land with it.
Thieves. That’s all they are.
In a just world, they owe me interest if I cashed out.

wolly4321 on March 11, 2013 at 10:21 PM

The greatest enemy of a liberal is someone who “just wants to be left alone”. You can’t be permitted to do this because your betters, well are just smarter than you. Just ask Michael “Sodapop” Bloomberg.

I don’t know if farming will cut it unless you can ring your land with armed men. If the cities ever empty out the people will head for the “farms” where they believe they will find kindly rural folk welcoming them with feather beds and homemade apple pie.

It will be a locust mentality, stripping everything bare and then moving on.

Bishop on March 11, 2013 at 10:19 PM

Your average inner city thug would be helpless 5 miles outside of one. Especially against people who haven’t been disarmed by the cities…

Your average Obamavoter inside a city has to be bussed to the polling place, to the welfare office, to the government cheese handout. Look at New Orleans as an example of what those people do in the event of any kind of disaster: they sit on their butts and wait for government to save them. They couldn’t be bothered to walk 10 miles to safety on their own. Chances are a great majority of them will starve to death before they even realize their city is a death trap.

Any place that’s 50 miles from a major city (100K plus) should be safe enough.

our constituents earned

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Spot on.