Do they have an extra 3000 poles on hand? 15,000 fuses? 2500 transformers? An extra 1000 bucket trucks? We had crews here from all over the country to rebuild distribution, primary & secondary lines The existing inventory was gone in days, and the work took months. This area was hit with one hurricane after another. Some damaged poles weren't replaced for over four years, due to the money spent on emergency repairs, and the depleted stock of new poles nation wide.
Ask Walmart to help setup the logistics of the supply lines. ^_^
TDD
The craftsmanship built into a lot of the old gear would be hard to duplicate today with the corporate pencil pushers involved but IC chips and surface mount components of commercial and military grade quality and construction makes for some very reliable gear. ^_^
TDD
Hell, require gang members to go to police target ranges and receive marksmanship training so they won't hit innocent bystanders when they decide to shoot each other. ^_^
TDD
"Michael A. Terrell" on Tue, 07 Aug 2012
08:40:24 -0400 typed in alt.survival the following:I want the benefits of extended employment. Not extended unemployment benefits.
Gunner Asch on Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:38:27 -0700 typed in alt.survival the following:
Tanks sliding snow and ice
Was it Reagan that said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' Cheers, John B.
Those days are over. Most employment has been offshored.
Look for the "Hecho en China" label at your local McLowes Depot or ChinaMart.
walmart would be useless. they only carry items that aell and do not keep items that don't sell. It is also likely that they actually have no stock on hand at all, but that it comes vrom the manufacturer on a JIT basis.
I've never drawn unemployment.
My hobby was restoring old test equipment, and the occasional high end radio. My last job was building $80,000 telemetry receivers.
Or just give them cheap guns that explode, and kill the user?
Sure you can.
Simply live frugally and barter for goods and services and you can legitimately avoid taxes. Its pretty much just as easy as avoiding Walmart and the other corporate venues.
Stormin Mormon wrote the following on 8/7/2012 7:55 AM (ET):
The labor unions would violently oppose any type of construction that wasn't unionized.
Better accounting and hopefully more responsibility.
Ok, then let everyone have AK-47s, etc... with no qualifications and can be bought with credit cards or food stamps. I bet you'd love for me to say something along that line. I don't think so.
Not true. The ratio of federal govt debt to private debt was the same in 2008 as it was at the beginning of the great depression.
I can easily imagine they would display bad manners like that.
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The labor unions would violently oppose any type of construction that wasn't unionized.
Wrong. You still owe taxes on barter.
Utter nonsense.
Wrong, of course.
Moron.
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