SHTF Poll: What are You Worried About

Is there anybody who knows about your surviving the collapse preparation, and whether or not they are being derisive or just plain curious, asks questions similar to ”Don’t you think you’re being just a little paranoid?”, “What do you fear?”, “What do you think is going to happen?”, etc.

Well I generally say something to the effect that while there is no shortage of things to be worried about, I am not generally focused on any one type of collapse or SHTF scenario, just getting better prepared to live and survive in a environment with degraded security and utilities infrastructure, where the ability to obtain food is greatly reduced. Well, that about covers what would happen in any type of collapse.

I recently saw a poll where common Americans, not necessarily forward thinking citizens who are planning ahead, were asked: ”What life changing, catastrophic events (list all that are applicable) do they fear the most?”

63% of the respondents said Economic Collapse was the most likely catalyst for TEOTWAWKI.

46% said that a Natural Disaster, on terms greater than Katrina, was what scared them the most.

44% of the poll takers stated that a Terrorist Attack was what the feared.

33% of the respondents believed that a Global or National Disease Outbreak was a likely catalyst for collapse.

Did the new health care law give Obama a Nazi-like "private army" of 6,000 people?

I just recently read an article on www.americannews.com contain the below heading. It appears that in the article, our President has powers to establish a civilian type Army under the Obamacare laws. But it appears that the law is being read incorrectly. Read the article below that was posted on americannews.com and then following the article, read what is really means. The clarification was provide by www.factcheck.org.

"All Armed Americans To Be Detained In FEMA Camps Starting In 2017

When President Obama was campaigning in 2008, he made a statement that seemed daunting to most. He told the American public that we were in need of a private, civilian army that was equally funded as the regular army.

“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set,” he told the audience. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

Of course, the quote got very little coverage from the liberal media, and it wasn’t long until this sentiment was
forgotten completely.

Now, however, concerns are rising again as some are question whether Obama’s vision for a private army is
actually becoming a reality. Some believe that the loophole may have been included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, in section 5210, which is called “Establishing a Ready Reserve Corps.”

This is what the bill outlines:

H. R. 3590-496 (Page 496) SEC. 5210. ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS.

Section 203 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204) is amended to read as follows: “SEC. 203.

COMMISSIONED CORPS AND READY RESERVE CORPS. “(a) ESTABLISHMENT.

“(1) IN GENERAL. There shall be in the Service a commissioned Regular Corps and a Ready Reserve Corps for service in time of national emergency.

“(2) REQUIREMENT. All commissioned officers shall be citizens of the United States and shall be appointed without regard to the civil-service laws and compensated without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

“(3) APPOINTMENT. Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall be appointed by the President and commissioned officers of the Regular Corps shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

“(4) ACTIVE DUTY. Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall at all times be subject to call to active duty by the Surgeon General, including active duty for the purpose of training.

So it appears that the President has actually signed a bill into law that gives him the power to create a standing army of soldiers that are not only being trained, but are ready for deployment at any time. And this may be the fuel to the fire when it comes to the theory of FEMA Camps.

FEMA stands for Federal Emergency Management Agency, who have a mission to “support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.”

FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security, and has been since 2003.

While it is not a bad thing to have someone standing by to help the nation recover from natural disasters, something doesn’t sit right about a private organization that has the right to seize control of the government and suspend the Constitution if “deemed necessary.”

The last piece of the puzzle is the Readiness Exercise 1984, which is a plan by the federal government to test their ability to detain large numbers of American citizens during a state of civil unrest or emergency. The project was launched under Reagan, and has been kept somewhat of a mystery ever since.

Now it appears that FEMA camps are being built in plain sight, and some fear that the US government is just steps away from attempting to exercise a harsh level of control over the Americana people.

What do you think? Is this plan terrifying?"

Here is what factcheck.org provided in the interpretation of the law:

Q: Did the new health care law give Obama a Nazi-like "private army" of 6,000 people?

A: No. Contrary to false Internet rumors, the new Ready Reserve Corps of doctors and other health workers will report to the surgeon general and be like the "ready reserves" in other uniformed services. They will be used during health emergencies.

Why The Collapse Is Coming

Many Preppers have their own version of why they are preparing and why they think the collapse, of any type, will be coming.   But here is the cold hard truth:
We will never be able to pay off the Federal Debt.  The government (Dems and Republicans in Congress and the Executive Office) will never be able to reconcile their ideology differences and develop solutions for the good of the country - even if there was time; The government will soon cease to exist and therefore be able to pay it's "obligations" which the biggest end if entitlements.  Which will put almost 50% of Americans on the streets and push communities into anarchy and chaos.  Deaths from violence, starvation and disease will be rampant.

 An article by Terance P. Jeffrey says that:

"When America re-elected President Barack Obama in 2012, we had not quite reached the point where more than half the country was taking benefits from the federal government."

"It is a reasonable bet, however, that with the implementation of Obamacare — with its provisions expanding Medicaid and providing health-insurance subsidies to people earning up to 400 percent of poverty — that if we have not already surpassed that point (not counting those getting veterans benefits) we soon will."

"The 153,323,000 total benefit-takers at the end of 2012, said the Census Bureau, equaled 49.5 percent of the population. The 150,026,000 taking benefits other than veterans' benefits equaled about 48.5 percent of the population."

"In 2012, according to the Census Bureau, there were 103,087,000 full-time year round workers in the United States (including 16,606,000 full-time year-round government workers). Thus, the welfare-takers outnumbered full- time year-round workers by 6,544,000."

"In the fourth quarter of 2008, when President Obama was elected, there were 96,197,000 people living in
households taking benefits from one or more federal welfare programs. After four years, by the fourth quarter of 2012, that had grown by 13,434,000.

Those 13,434,000 additional people on welfare outnumbered the 12,882,135."

The collapse of the dollar world-wide or a significant jump in the inflation rate - for which the real rates are being kept secret by the Administration, will trigger this.  Imagine what will happen when over 100 million Americans cannot get food to fed their families.   It's going to happen.  Plan well, prepare even better.