So what use are the "old folks" when TSHTF?

[Highlander]

(3 June 2013, 17:05)Tibbs735 Wrote: It's a shame that the people who lived through the Great Depression are becoming rare when we are approaching another one.

I agree with the above, it is a pity, they have the perfect insight into our biggest problems.

.... but many of us can still look back to our childhoods and know how our parents had to manage, many of us have come from poor backgrounds where `having to make do`, would make most modern folk cringe,... some of us were born to prepers, its just that as we grew up we didnt bother to keep up the skills, or life simply got too soft

Its only now that the older folk can look back on the `good old days` and remember a lot of the skills and ideas that we now need once again