08-24-2012, 02:38 AM
I'm with you Buffylo, and as close to that as is practical right now. If things get worse, my home will go off grid so fast your head will spin. Yes it's paid for, lock, stock and barrel - no mortgage, no rent and the taxes are paid for at least the next 20 years even if I don't work at all during that time. I'm on grid by choice, cut three wires and I'm off and under my own power 100% (Internet, TV, Phone) Electricity is already off grid solar and a small water turbine in the river.
I live amid great hunting and fishing areas, have a half acre garden the could easily become a full acre, raise hogs and chicken and, could add sheep, goats or a steer or two. And, yes, I have more than enough guns and reloading supplies to last the rest of my life should it ever come to that.
No I'm not a doomsday preper, but I am very much a survivalist and, though I really don't expect the worst case scenario in my lifetime, I won't be taken by surprise if it happens. I'd prefer to keep the modern luxuries I have, but they are just that, luxuries and, if need be they will go.
It will be a lot smaller of an adjustment for me that for many, if the worst happens, and even now it affords me the privacy and peace of mind few can enjoy today. If it comes to it I need just 75.00 US per year to live with only loosing phone, TV and internet. I'd give up foods I cannot grow or forage locally, salt, sugar, flour, dairy and, the like but, it wouldn't drastically alter my life. (have to pay the property taxes as long as the government is around enough to need even that.)
As it is now, for me there is no good choice in this election. Taxes, Obama Care, lose my gun rights but keep gay and minority rights, or gun rights, lower taxes, smaller government and loose gay and minority rights. I will vote for Romney because I feel he will do less damage to health care, the economy and gun rights than Obama would as an incumbent.
Yes I know that's sacrificing a part of who I am for another part of who I am but, as hard a call as it is to make, for me it's the lesser of two evils. I can take not getting married, even being denied some things over having my ability to both protect myself and survive threatened, and I can deal with having to be more discrete about being gay better than I can deal with the further collapse of our economy and more of the government pretending to know what's best for me and trying to take care of me in ways I do not want to be taken care of.
I live amid great hunting and fishing areas, have a half acre garden the could easily become a full acre, raise hogs and chicken and, could add sheep, goats or a steer or two. And, yes, I have more than enough guns and reloading supplies to last the rest of my life should it ever come to that.
No I'm not a doomsday preper, but I am very much a survivalist and, though I really don't expect the worst case scenario in my lifetime, I won't be taken by surprise if it happens. I'd prefer to keep the modern luxuries I have, but they are just that, luxuries and, if need be they will go.
It will be a lot smaller of an adjustment for me that for many, if the worst happens, and even now it affords me the privacy and peace of mind few can enjoy today. If it comes to it I need just 75.00 US per year to live with only loosing phone, TV and internet. I'd give up foods I cannot grow or forage locally, salt, sugar, flour, dairy and, the like but, it wouldn't drastically alter my life. (have to pay the property taxes as long as the government is around enough to need even that.)
As it is now, for me there is no good choice in this election. Taxes, Obama Care, lose my gun rights but keep gay and minority rights, or gun rights, lower taxes, smaller government and loose gay and minority rights. I will vote for Romney because I feel he will do less damage to health care, the economy and gun rights than Obama would as an incumbent.
Yes I know that's sacrificing a part of who I am for another part of who I am but, as hard a call as it is to make, for me it's the lesser of two evils. I can take not getting married, even being denied some things over having my ability to both protect myself and survive threatened, and I can deal with having to be more discrete about being gay better than I can deal with the further collapse of our economy and more of the government pretending to know what's best for me and trying to take care of me in ways I do not want to be taken care of.
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