Getting better all the time?

[BeardyMan]

(22 November 2013, 10:12)Straight Shooter Wrote: Watching the main news media we are being told THINGS are getting BETTER and THINGS are starting to move.......? Well that might be the case in London BUT NOT around here.! Labour prices are forced down.....food prices are up.....utility bills up, NEW JOBS that's a laugh .....not only part time ....employers want to spread your hours over five days .....making it near impossible to hold two jobs to make ends meet. So what is this to do with prepping....? Everything...... I was talking to a lad that used to work for me.....a good lad , seen him in Aldis ....he asked why? All the milk .....because of the snow.? .....or .......wtshtf.....I was amazed by this....In the car park he carried on.....I started putting some food by ...when I was full time , but those days are gone ...along with the food I put by....take a look at this piece of shit ....pointing to a van....falling to bits ..any work about ? For me I am cheap as fuck these days NONE I say . THink I might loose the house .....his voice turns higher ......Fucking dig in son ,come out fighting I say....he nods his head and says your right........but I can see there is no fight left in the lad ......How can you start being a prepper when faced with this lot....people are just about surviving as it is.......THIS has done my head in...........So What's it like in your area .....spill the beans.

Everyone else round my way, apart from a few notable characters, are skint.
Next year could be interesting. Not where I am at the moment, you're not going to get many Roma coming all the way to Cornhole as there's no work here at the best of times, and it's definitely the most openly racist place I've ever been, so they wouldn't get a very nice welcome regardless.

What can you do to prep for the changes facing us? Try to remove your dependence on the system. Grow your own food, solar / hydro power systems - you get the picture. That'll reduce your outgoings (after an initial expense anyway) - not much you can do about people coming over here and filling the jobs. Well, apart from increase you skill levels. Learn something new (and relevant - a media studies course isn't going to cut it), something to give you the edge over the competition.

I used to think we should unite and fight the system, that was years ago. Now I'm happy to keep my head well and truly under the radar, no complaints, no fuss. Just keep doing what I do regardless.