Stockpiling Food

Is it time to stockpile food? What some have to say.

FEMA, said that the standard is that you personally are responsible for taking care of yourself the first three days. They can't expect themselves to feed/water/etc. everyone the next day or the day after that. FEMA recommends that you prepare for three days of having to survive on your own. That means a store of enough food, water and any other necessary supplies.

ABC NEWS,“Worried about the dramatically rising cost of food? Afraid of a shortage? Well, then maybe it's time to clean out that old Cold War-era bunker and stockpile your favorite treats. Just move those gas masks to the side and start stacking up the canned string beans. OK, so maybe that is a bit extreme. But some families have been talking about stockpiling to hedge against further increases and possible shortages.”

Wall Street Warns Americans To Begin Stockpiling Food. In the Wall Street Journal, columnist Brett Arends warned, "Maybe it's time for Americans to start stockpiling food. "No, this is not a drill," he wrote.

The New York Times recently told its more wealthy readers to consider buying a rural cottage, or even log cabin, to ride out the water and food riots that militarized police forces are preparing and training for., and now Wall Street recommends its readers to begin stockpiling rice and cereals.

The American Public Health Association advises that every family should have at least a three day home stockpile of food water and medication.

The US Department of Health and Human Services has advised that during a pandemic, families might need as much as two weeks [if not more] worth of supplies in their stockpile.

Apr 30, 2009 ... AUSTRALIANS have been advised to stockpile food and water after the World Health Organization raised its swine flu alert to phase five.

Makes one think

-Very Good Topic Choice-

Food prices are already rising much faster, and there is good reasons to believe prices on the shelves are about to start rising even lot faster. Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing:

New York Sun
Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World
By Josh Gerstein

"Mountain View, Calif.— Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.

At a Costco Warehouse in Mountain View, Calif., yesterday, shoppers grew frustrated and occasionally uttered expletives as they searched in vain for the large sacks of rice they usually buy..."

Could this be a sign of things to come? Maybe we need to pull our heads out of the sand.

Remember Biblically the Seven fat cows and Seven thin cows, most of us have some memory of the story of Joseph and his brothers.

Again referencing current world situations, I too submit the following partial narrative.

Rising Grain Prices Panic Developing World
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Foreign Service

SHANGHAI --“A spike in the price of rice and other food staples is triggering consumer panic, including food riots in Yemen and Morocco, and hoarding in Hong Kong.

Governments around the world have taken radical measures in recent weeks to control their countries' supplies of rice. Egypt last week said it would ban all rice exports for six months. Cambodia has stopped all private-sector exports of rice, and India and Vietnam also have imposed restrictions.”

Why, would we not think the U.S. could or would have the same situations? Let’s be realistic and not quickly forget the economic chaos that has occurs here. And, I truthfully feel it’s far from over, no matter how they positively are trying to paint over the situation.

Building up food stocks in times of comparative prosperity and surplus is simply a WISE idea, and has been since Pharaoh and Joseph were doing it.

Maintaining an ample reserve of food means that you are not as vulnerable to disruptions and crises. But national stockpiles have been falling steadily for the last decade, with world reserves presently at their lowest since records have been kept. Just as we’re not saving money any more, we are not presently reserving our staple foods for hard times.

Just maybe this is an issue we need to be thinking about.

For God’s own Word says in Ezekiel 7:19,“They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, NEITHER FILL THEIR BOWELS: because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity.”

The recession begening in 2008 was and is currently something drastically different, and won't be short-lived.

This recession was generated by a failure in the global credit market. For decades, the global credit market grew in an enormous debt spiral. We should have seen trouble coming decades ago, the dark side of this scenario will soon be clear to everyone.

Our national debt and mounting monetary liability to China, just by itself is cause for apprehension. We as a nation have lived on credit far to long. Current generation only know 'buy now, worry about it later'. Friends,‘later’ has now come! Decades of wasteful spending by our U.S. Government too is finally starting to take it’s toll.

Let us consider the ‘Bankrupting of America’

This is no ‘Chicken Little’ reaction, it’s a mater of fact. Moreover, I believe that fact will soon smack us all right square in the face. I personally believe those in the high places in our government are already aware of the answer to this situation, yet are reluctant to admit it due to the severity of the issue and what its disclosure could incur.

It’s just time to face facts, the U.S. Government is functionally bankrupt, and the worlds greatest debtor nation. Our government spending has bankrupted this nation, with even further plans to further increase that liability. Our federal obligations now surpass the collective net worth of all Americans. On-the-books national debt is $11.6 trillion. But off-the-books federal debt, including Medicare and Social Security, is $107 trillion. Americans total household net worth, diminished by falling stock prices and home equity, and is $56.5 trillion. But rising costs for unfunded social programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security increased to $56.4 trillion, and that was before the more recent stock market crash,$700 billion bank bailout, and enormous federal deficits. America now owes more than its citizens are worth.

Do I hold the Bush administration responsible....absolutely!
The Obama administration.......absolutel y!

I too hold our Congress and Senate responsible for decades of irresponsible spending, self-indulgence, earmarks, pork barrel projects, dishonesty, and catering to big business and lobbyists at the expense of those they were to represent, us.

Are we soon to become a Third World Country? I do believe this nation shall be severely tested!

The forecast for the United States is not positive. They are predicting that the United States economy will have zero growth in 2010, despite Obama's stimulus package. They are also predicting that U.S. unemployment will climb in 2010 to over 11%. The United States is in a great recession with no real end in sight. Our failure to deal with our trade deficits threatens a dollar collapse.

We're in the throes of an financial collapse.
The Fed is in panic mode.
The government is intent on grabbing control of whatever it can.
American firms are dropping like flies.
Oil and food costs push to inflated levels that are unsettling the markets.
Unemployment is soaring.
Debt is soaring.
The money supply is soaring.
Our foreign policy is a wreck.
We have more enemies than we can count.
We have a drug war on our southern border.

We have criminals in government.

“If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless”
-Thomas Jefferson

Its time to stop buying “instant foods” and start buying bulk products that can be turned into more than just one meal.

Good topic discussion

We think our Congress does not get it, that they have lost their minds or are just plain stupid.

Nevertheless, in certainty dear friends, we are the ones who are not getting it.

We say “they” are blind to the common sense realities of our crumbling nation and economy, but are they.

Of course not!

Is Congress blind to the national economic debt?

Did they not realize the deliberate actions of the Federal Reserve since the early 70’s, and their creating currency without the backing of any tangible resource, the destruction of the U.S. Dollar?

Do they really believe borrowing from China, and printing worthless currency for national bank bailout and stimulus bill will revive a DOA economy?

Do they not comprehend we are insolvent many times over?

Do you think that Congress just does not get our concerns related to countless million of illegal’s crossing our borders, stealing jobs, and sucking Medicaid and social services dry?

They are not dimwitted, nor are they uninformed.

American WAKE UP, our Congress does not care what you think,
Nor how loudly you yell,

WAKE UP!
Their agenda is to steamroll over our rights, our wills and our treasured freedoms.

Calamity has a way of compelling people to make choices of character they normally try to avoid. Such an economic catastrophe will force MANY spoiled Americans to run into the arms of globalized influence. The lug-of-war will be between those who are fearful, and those who are not. Those who have had some foresight and those who have always just gone along for the ride.

They are smarter than you think. This is all a well thought-out, perfectly orchestrated and mathematically designed monetary collapse, at least 40 years in the making.

Now, how does it feel to be the sheep of their pasture?