Lets Start Where We Are...
I live in a city adjacent to Chicago.
It is certainly City; not half suburb and half city, nor a suburb trying to be a city. There are plenty-hundreds, I am sure-of small towns, bedroom communities, and mall-centered suburbs within fifty miles of where I live. These are really 'attached' to Chicago and the smaller towns that surround it. For all of these places, a car is an absolute requirement. Everything is done by car. Out there the average income level is is bit lower, as is the cost of living. This is where the big box malls begin, with fast food satellites always within visual range of wherever you happen to be.
Further out, there are hundreds more of old-fashioned small towns. This is farm country. But the farms are nearly all owned by big corporations. The people shop at Walmart and eat at Wendy's. The disaster continues.
Roughly, that's my America. Roughly, that yours too. Big cities, attached towns and suburbs, smaller towns and farm country.
Almost the whole country is, roughly, fat and helpless. Our government is getting pretty fat and helpless too. But not the corporations. They are sucking the life out of us and out of our government-the government that should be, and was designed to be- by Us and for Us; We the People.
So why the Mapquest tour from city to farm?
Because the first thing we need to do to rebuild a middle-class or blue collar life is to understand and get back our sense of independence. And we cannot do it by reading political books and blogs and watching TV. (Watching what goes on in Wisconsin could be helpful, though.) No. We have to put independence into action in our own lives. Political action? Later. Let's start with the LDS Preparedness Manual. Lets read it and make up our minds to take action right away.
This Manual is free for download. Soon it will be available at minimal cost through Amazon. I would recommend paying for it. The people who put it together and continue to work on it know better than most what we mean when we talk about Independence. They should be supported in their good work.
Why start at home with this book?
I began my website and this blog to find people who were interested in Energy Independence, but who also had limited funds. This grew out of my everyday work in the Solar Industry, as a designer and installer of solar electric and solar thermal systems.
In the process of learning about electricity in America-how it is financed, produced, and delivered-I learned that the most dangerous threat to our country is our fragile electric power system. It is a disaster waiting not so patiently to happen.
When the power goes out, will you be ready to suddenly have full, unqualified Independence? Because when the power goes out, you will have it.
The following will also happen;
There will be no heat for buildings or hot water, and limited or no natural gas supplies.
There will be no space cooling or refrigeration.
There will be no lighting, TV, garage openers, elevators, fire protection systems.
There will be no communications.
There will be an immediate run on all food, beverage, drug, hardware and liquor stores.
There will be a run on any place that sells guns or other weapons.
There will be no operating gas stations.
There will be no traffic controls.
There will be little or no police and fire services.
There will be few medical services other than major hospitals.
No one will know who is in charge, because there won't be anyone in charge.
Let's begin our blue collar reconstruction effort by starting to change our own helplessness in an emergency situation. Start with the worst. If we are really ready for what happens when the power goes out, no terrorist will ever get over on us. Not even the corporate terrorists in our own country.
The Plan
Water
Food
Power
Security
Communications
These are the minimum requirements for ourselves and our families, in an emergency or in everyday life.
Please pick up the LDS Preparedness Manual and skim it. Next time we will start on The Plan.
It is certainly City; not half suburb and half city, nor a suburb trying to be a city. There are plenty-hundreds, I am sure-of small towns, bedroom communities, and mall-centered suburbs within fifty miles of where I live. These are really 'attached' to Chicago and the smaller towns that surround it. For all of these places, a car is an absolute requirement. Everything is done by car. Out there the average income level is is bit lower, as is the cost of living. This is where the big box malls begin, with fast food satellites always within visual range of wherever you happen to be.
Further out, there are hundreds more of old-fashioned small towns. This is farm country. But the farms are nearly all owned by big corporations. The people shop at Walmart and eat at Wendy's. The disaster continues.
Roughly, that's my America. Roughly, that yours too. Big cities, attached towns and suburbs, smaller towns and farm country.
Almost the whole country is, roughly, fat and helpless. Our government is getting pretty fat and helpless too. But not the corporations. They are sucking the life out of us and out of our government-the government that should be, and was designed to be- by Us and for Us; We the People.
So why the Mapquest tour from city to farm?
Because the first thing we need to do to rebuild a middle-class or blue collar life is to understand and get back our sense of independence. And we cannot do it by reading political books and blogs and watching TV. (Watching what goes on in Wisconsin could be helpful, though.) No. We have to put independence into action in our own lives. Political action? Later. Let's start with the LDS Preparedness Manual. Lets read it and make up our minds to take action right away.
This Manual is free for download. Soon it will be available at minimal cost through Amazon. I would recommend paying for it. The people who put it together and continue to work on it know better than most what we mean when we talk about Independence. They should be supported in their good work.
Why start at home with this book?
I began my website and this blog to find people who were interested in Energy Independence, but who also had limited funds. This grew out of my everyday work in the Solar Industry, as a designer and installer of solar electric and solar thermal systems.
In the process of learning about electricity in America-how it is financed, produced, and delivered-I learned that the most dangerous threat to our country is our fragile electric power system. It is a disaster waiting not so patiently to happen.
When the power goes out, will you be ready to suddenly have full, unqualified Independence? Because when the power goes out, you will have it.
The following will also happen;
There will be no heat for buildings or hot water, and limited or no natural gas supplies.
There will be no space cooling or refrigeration.
There will be no lighting, TV, garage openers, elevators, fire protection systems.
There will be no communications.
There will be an immediate run on all food, beverage, drug, hardware and liquor stores.
There will be a run on any place that sells guns or other weapons.
There will be no operating gas stations.
There will be no traffic controls.
There will be little or no police and fire services.
There will be few medical services other than major hospitals.
No one will know who is in charge, because there won't be anyone in charge.
Let's begin our blue collar reconstruction effort by starting to change our own helplessness in an emergency situation. Start with the worst. If we are really ready for what happens when the power goes out, no terrorist will ever get over on us. Not even the corporate terrorists in our own country.
The Plan
Water
Food
Power
Security
Communications
These are the minimum requirements for ourselves and our families, in an emergency or in everyday life.
Please pick up the LDS Preparedness Manual and skim it. Next time we will start on The Plan.
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