Are you ready? I think this is gonna be a rough couple years.

[Aerindel]

You can remove some of it..but some stuff stays forever and can be found fairly easy.

The trick is to never have it in the first place.

 

[UrbanHunter]

I heard a rumor that the Feds are being told to cut contractors by 60% as they prepare to "reorganize" and consolidate. They are also reviewing every contract and grant currently awarded with an eye to stop work and pull back the funds. The personnel reduction target was a 40%, the fork only got 3%, the probationary firings got 8%, that means that they are short of their target by 29%. So one in 3 remaining civil servants is still on the chopping block, they just haven't received their Reduction In Force (RIF) ranking yet... but it's in the mail as we speak. As for the Fork offering those employees a big expensive bonus, if you carefully read the severance pay guidelines for RIFs, the FORK cost was about 75% of that, so the next bunch will be more expensive. The Government will save money in the long run, but they will definitely be cutting services in your back yard. It doesn't matter if you work at GM, for a railroad, are on a highway crew, are a new doctor, are a scientist, or you are a farmer this will directly impact you or someone in your family. It may not impact you today, but within 6 months you will see it.

 

[poltiregist]

I heard a rumor that the Feds are being told to cut contractors by 60% as they prepare to "reorganize" and consolidate. They are also reviewing every contract and grant currently awarded with an eye to stop work and pull back the funds. The personnel reduction target was a 40%, the fork only got 3%, the probationary firings got 8%, that means that they are short of their target by 29%. So one in 3 remaining civil servants is still on the chopping block, they just haven't received their Reduction In Force (RIF) ranking yet... but it's in the mail as we speak. As for the Fork offering those employees a big expensive bonus, if you carefully read the severance pay guidelines for RIFs, the FORK cost was about 75% of that, so the next bunch will be more expensive. The Government will save money in the long run, but they will definitely be cutting services in your back yard. It doesn't matter if you work at GM, for a railroad, are on a highway crew, are a new doctor, are a scientist, or you are a farmer this will directly impact you or someone in your family. It may not impact you today, but within 6 months you will see it.

While the government waste cut that we are now seeing , which of course means loss of their present job for some , it is non-the less why we are preppers . If every road in the U.S. went undrivable and every bridge in the U.S. collapsed , my preparations for the worst S.H.T.F. that I could conjure up has me sitting ready . Depending on some government organization to tote me , ain't nowhere in my preparation plan . -- Too bad some folks didn't prepare but that is now their problem . I just hate to see the children suffer for their parents failures .

 

[Amish Heart]

I guess it has some redeeming qualities and tips....just hard to get into a soap opera...i will watch it again and take notes...
I would like to see the book Patriots made into a movie.......

The book, "Patriots" was what got me started in prepping.

 

[Amish Heart]

I heard a rumor that the Feds are being told to cut contractors by 60% as they prepare to "reorganize" and consolidate. They are also reviewing every contract and grant currently awarded with an eye to stop work and pull back the funds. The personnel reduction target was a 40%, the fork only got 3%, the probationary firings got 8%, that means that they are short of their target by 29%. So one in 3 remaining civil servants is still on the chopping block, they just haven't received their Reduction In Force (RIF) ranking yet... but it's in the mail as we speak. As for the Fork offering those employees a big expensive bonus, if you carefully read the severance pay guidelines for RIFs, the FORK cost was about 75% of that, so the next bunch will be more expensive. The Government will save money in the long run, but they will definitely be cutting services in your back yard. It doesn't matter if you work at GM, for a railroad, are on a highway crew, are a new doctor, are a scientist, or you are a farmer this will directly impact you or someone in your family. It may not impact you today, but within 6 months you will see it.

Maybe replacing with AI

 

[montanabill]

The book, "Patriots" was what got me started in prepping.

I have given that book to several people to see if they were interested in pursing a MAG....so far no luck. I first read it in a three ring binder after we had moved to the woods in montana.....simpler times..

 

[montanabill]

I think I read that book Patriots. It was a series of books wasn't it?

By james Wesley Rawles....Patriots was the first one that originally came out as the gray years or something...I read it in the late 90's when we were passing around a photo copy in a three ring notebook.
He went on to write more books on similar lines....
He also publishes a blog with giveaways for reader contributed stories..

 

[Amish Heart]

I have given that book to several people to see if they were interested in pursing a MAG....so far no luck. I first read it in a three ring binder after we had moved to the woods in montana.....simpler times..

I also have the three ring binder Rawles Gets You Ready. I bought that years and years ago. It helped get me started. The book was recommended to my husband when it first came out by a Colonel he worked for on base. The colonel was retiring and going off to live a quiet life, but told him to read it. I can guess the quiet life he was going to live after reading the book.