fighting back

[NorthernRaider]

On occasion I still hear from many of the old gang of survivalists and pioneering preppers and almost to a man ( woman or couple) they are still prepping and often say they are either trying to insulate themselves from todays society or to put as much distance as they can from todays society or to protect themselves from the way society is going etc, nearly all singing from the same page if not the same song.

One made a very good point in his letter sent with his Christmas card to me, he said something like

" We pay more taxes now than ever, we have more people in the UK than ever before, we have built more houses, more roads, more schools, more hospitals, more GPs surgeries, We have more anti crime / ant terror / anti fraud/ anti discrimination laws than ever before and we are spending far more on public services and utilities than ever before.

But

We wait longer than ever to see a GP who has less time than ever to diagnose us, We wait longer in A & E and have to pay to park now, We wait longer than ever before for a council house, we see ever less of the police in our communities yet to most people crime has done nothing but rise, We see train reliability fall whilst fares rise, We see more imports in the shops than British made goods, We have more burst water mains than ever ( esp down south) even though water bills have doubled, and we see Council tax bills rise EVERY YEAR but services from the councils like bin emptying, street light repair, pothole repairs, dog wardens, libraries, street cleaning only ever reduced.

We pay more and more only to get less and less, SOMETHING IS GOING TO GIVE and it wont be pleasant."