Friends, if you can take the time to watch this, please do so. It's a link down at the bottom of this blog.
First, can I just say that Ann Curry, you have no clue as to how lucky you are that you're no longer trying to fit on the morning couch with Matt Lauer and his EGO. You forte is doing stories like this. Consider what Today did to you a favor.
Now, after you watch this, what was the first thing that came to mind? For me it was this: Why are these people crying and begging and screaming for SOMEONE, THE GOVERNMENT, FEMA....ANYONE.
Therein lies the problem! We have been so conditioned by the government to depend on them for everything. As Glenn Beck once said, you should be so prepared for ANYTHING that comes at you that when the FEMA trucks do roll into your neighborhood, you can politely tell them, "We don't need you. Go find someone else to help."
People make fun of preppers. Until they are the ones showing up at your door with a meal, or dry blankets, or offering to let you come over to their house for a hot shower because they thought ahead and installed solar panels that heat the water tanks, or however those things work. We are not preppers per se, but we do have quite a bit to help us out in an emergency. Make fun of that family that buys MRE's and Food Insurance and Stove In A Can, and propane stoves, until they are the ones bringing a hot meal to you after the power goes out.
In Oregon there are government officials that will FIGHT you until you are broken down over YOU having the gall to save rainwater in barrels and other water resource containers. They don't WANT you to have bathwater saved for your garden. Why? Because then they can't come along and give you what you need, but you have to follow their guidelines and their rules or they don't give you what you need.
That is just such bullshit. They claim ownership of the water because it fell into the STATE of Oregon. Again, what was that word? Oh, yes, bullshit. The rain falls and if it falls into a cistern in my backyard then it's mine and I'll use it however I wish. We were given a buttload of medical supplies when Mike was discharged in August from Salem Hospital. They didn't want to restock them so fine, hand them over! I am making a REALLY awesome first aid cabinet. If we have a natural disaster I'll be happy to bandage boo-boos. Because we have the materials on hand. The family across the street needs a meal? Happy to oblige.
Why?
Because we are AMERICANS. We take care of our own (hey Barack, that is why we're so pissed at you for Benghazi. Because you didn't take care of four Americans.) and we make sure our own are well-fed and have needs met when disaster strikes.
So go ahead and keep making fun of that family that lives out in the middle of BF Egypt and hunts fowl and has a pantry that would make Caroline Ingalls cry tears of giddy happiness. It's that same family that will be the first to knock on your door to see if you need help.
These people in Staten Island, Long Island, along the Jersey Shore--when you get back on your feet--and you will because you're AMERICANS, and Americans bounce back no matter how far off the building we are dropped--get your homes in order, clean out a closet or two and start putting away the things you so desperately needed and didn't have because a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, you let the government tell you they would give you everything you need.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/11/02/NBC-Staten-Island-Abandoned-By-FEMA-Red-Cross
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