They shouldn’t be the same.
Police are supposed to be peace officers. To “protect and serve”. Soldiers are warriors.
But they are becoming harder and harder to tell apart.
If they think they need all of this equipment to be police, what does that say about what they think about the population which they”serve”?
For shoes.
One wonders how many of these eager people are in the 47% that the government says need pay no taxes because they are living in “poverty”…Yet they can afford a $200 pair of shoes.
And look at their behavior: These scenes were repeated all across the country..(you gotta wait for the commercial though)
And:
Just think what their behavior is gonna be like when they are HUNGRY. And cold. And you aren’t.
You think the doors on your home are gonna fare any better? And yes, there is definitely an ethnic/socioeconomic component to the crowds. Likely these folks don’t have jobs either, if they can be where they were when they were there to get the shoes. Likely living off of “entitlements”. But they can shell out the big bucks for fancy shoes. Even though the gubmint thinks they need more money from you to help these folks.
Think what’s gonna happen when the free stuff disappears and the police aren’t able to help you. When their children are hungry and the cities are unlivable. When the crowds discover that you have what they want and there is no one to stop them from taking it.
Whatcha gonna do then?
Crowds like these folks will change your liberal attitude, I assure you.
Once again. So all the bad press, and all the posturing was for naught.
What did they gain?
And how much did they lose by doing it?
Just once I’d like to see the Republicans decide to do something, and damned well make it happen. Stand their ground, be strong, and be principled. Not bow to pressure from the opposition, and not become afraid of what the DNC media says. I’d really like to see them have balls.
Oh, and Mr. Barry: If you really believe that having more money on the hands of citizens proles taxpayers, then why not REALLY cut in taxes. Say, 20%?
I really think that if a large Nickle-Iron meteorite were to hit Washington DC, the only thing I would mourn would be the loss of the monuments and the Smithsonian.But I’d trade them for the clean house in our government.
Now if only I could find one headed in the right direction…
In the 2008 elections found…….
all linked to (so far) ACORN (and DNC).
Any surprise?
I bet it is in all 57 50 states and that it is all linked to DNC and ACORN.
Of course, it is just now coming to light, as the 4 years are almost over. Why only now? Why not then? How does it take 3 years to examine signatures?
One wonders.
.
That Americans can’t won’t aren’t allowed to:
all those “shovel ready” jobs…rebuilding the infrastructure of America…paid for with Tax Dollars.
Paid to Chinese firms.
Sad.
But an explanation as to why the US is starting to circle the rim.
THey ough to shoot the stupid bastard. Or at least charge him with manslaughter.
Stupid bastard killed a young girl with negligence and stupidity.
A muxxleloader is no less a firearm than any other rifle.
Remember the four rules.
Why do we prep? Stockpile food, tools, a means to protect them (and us) from others who might wish to take them? Learn skills to make do without modern conveniences (like electricity) and the skills to protect what we have?
I figure it is insurance…and time.
I spend a little over $5 a week to stockpile food and materials which will give me a little bit of breathing room should the society in which I live go tits-up. Insurance against a time when the normal grocery stores full of food might have their just-in-time deliveries interrupted for a while…or for good. When the electricity which makes my life so easy for me stops doing so. When the natural gas which keeps me warm and which makes it so easy to cook food and gives me hot water for showering stops flowing.When your ,municipal water supply doesn’t.
Five dollars a week is all I spend. Seriously. An average of $5.00. I buy canned vegetables when it is a real bargain, and I store those cans in milk crates that I get for free. Rice and beans are also good items to find on sale and which store well, especially in a 5 gallon bucket with a few desiccant packs to keep it dry. $250 a year, more or less. Not much figured weekly though. Most of us spend more than that wastefully. A few less sodas, or one less Latte, or taking a sandwich rather than ordering from Arby’s for lunch once a week. But I can store a lot of food for that $5.00 a week.
But besides a bit of peace of mind, what am I really accomplishing? It takes a LOT of food to feed 10 people for a year (to pick a number). That is nearly 11,000 meals……that is 7,000 pounds of rice (or an equivalent amount of beans, or about 6000 cans of vegetables, or 4500 cans of Dinty Moore or Spaghettios. That’s a lot of space and a lot of weight. That assumes, of course, that you eat exclusively from your storage food. And realistically, unless you have resources that most of us do not, you cannot store an infinite amount of food, due to cost considerations if not space issues. That 7000 pounds of rice? Realistically that is a little more than 2 pallets of rice…or one of rice and one of beans. Few of us have enough space to store that much. 3 pallets of cans. I don’t have that much storage space, unless I clean out the garage….
But you CAN store a surprising number of meals with a little bit of judicious adjustments and some smart thinking. Put a layer or two of cans in the bottom of your closets…Cover with a blanket or towel. Put a board across the tops….You have used your space wisely. Same with under your bed. You can store a lot of calories under a bed. Not enough to last forever, but a lot…..maybe a shelf in the basement (if you have a basement). But with some thinking and ingenuity you can find a place for a few dozen cans/ a few pounds of rice. (a milk crate holds 32 cans, more or less)…
What you are really buying with your $5 a week is to have TIME. Time to adjust your lifestyle. Time to plant a few seeds to have a garden and have the plants bear. Time to figure out what to do, how to live BEFORE you starve. Time to deal with the new conditions you may find and experience. Time to figure out how things will change, and what will work and what won’t. Time to learn. Time to adjust. Breathing space, as it were.
Likely, you are a resourceful person. But no one knows what might happen, what conditions we might find….if and when. That $5.00 each week buys you TIME. Time which may well be as valuable as anything else when you need it to decide a course of action. Time to choose your path. Breathing space so you can make calm, informed decisions. Time which others will not have.
What are you prepping for? Really yer prepping for the future. Might be a bank crash/economic “realignment”. Might be a software worm that makes modern electronic banking stop working. Might be a terrorist attack. Might be a natural disaster (’cause FEMA and the local folks did so well post Katrina, didn’t they?) Might be an internet attack on our infrastructure, causing electricity to stop for a while. Might be any number of scenarios. No matter what happens (if anything) you, because of your preps, will have bought yourself some time to deal with the issues. Time most people will not have.
And that time may well be worth more than anything….Yer preps will be a great value when that happens.
“Owning a gun without practice does not make you an armed citizen any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.”
Cooper
I think I haz it.
This one.
Sadly, we have many who fit this description….many in our government.