Crisis spurs spike in 'suburban survivalists'

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Crisis-spurs-spike-in-apf-15339847.html

The last time survivalists showed up it was the early 1980s and unemployment was at 9.6% nationawide. Even I was living on my 2 1/2 acres in the woods near Mt. Shasta and preparing for U.S. economic collapse. However, then I didn't know one thing. It was that the world had a vested interest in the U.S. not economically collapsing from the money drain from the Viet Nam War. So it was amazing to me then that the world loaned the U.S. all the money it did then to keep going because they were more afraid of the Soviet Union and Communist China that they were of the U.S. So here we are today.

This time I think the problem is both worse and better. It's worse because the whole world is affected and not just the U.S. this time. However, it is better because our government nipped it in the bud before everything got too crazy like it did then.

However, the world may not return the the same level of success for about 10 years or possibly never because of ongoing global climate change and droughts and floods as a result. If the world succeeds now it will be in a whole new way than ever before

So, just like the early 1980s, today's survivalists are like the old ones I knew, they are just looking around at the world and they are scared by what they see. And as the economy gets better slowly and surely they will just store their AK-47s and assault rifles and put away their generators and just use their home bunkers for storage or the bunkers will be used for their teenage boys to take their girlfriends to for privacy.

That's what happened in the 1980s, and if things keep recovering that's what will happen again. So if things get better the survivalists will stop being so afraid and things will start again to return to normal just like before.

By the way there was a really funny movie made back then with Robin Williams called "The Survivors" made in 1983.