Upcoming Radio Interview by John Wesley Smith

          

 

   I was interviewed recently by John Wesley Smith regarding, my book Rational Preparedness: A Primer to Preparedness.

 You can hear this interview tomorrow on   Thursday at 1 PM Central Standard Time (That's 2 PM in Eastern Standard Time)  at the
following link:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/doctorprepper/2013/05/30/destiny-survival-radio

 

John discusses this interview in the following article at:

 

A Nurse Talks about Rational Preparedness on Destiny Survival

and

A Nurse Talks about Rational Preparedness which appears in Before It's News

 

 

 

        John is a great interviewer.  He is calm and asks great questions.  Please tune in if you can.

I do believe the show will be archived afterward, and so it should be possible to hear this episode   in its entirety afterward.

 

           Meanwhile,  I have to tell you about a musical group I only recently discovered.

A group of Miami based musicians who have won Grammy awards for other projects got together in order to advance a more conservative, and shall we say, less socialist political agenda.   Their music is not only seamless, and the guitar work is incredible, but the songwriting and performance is very strong.  These are just a couple of the songs from their new album.    This group calls themselves The Voters.

           

This is a wonderful Medley of the songs on this album

      http://www.thevotersmusic.com/

 

    Their album is called Electile Dysfunction.   You can purchase it on Amazon at:

 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=the+voters++electile+dysfunction

or go to their website:

 

 http://www.thevotersmusic.com/

 

 

 

 

 

The Fiscal Cliff and Financial Collapse

(Cartoon by: Michael Crawford, a frequent contributor to the New Yorker. This cartoon found in condenaststore.com)

     
 

       I wrote Rational Preparedness:A Primer to Preparedness because I had concerns that many people had no disaster plan.  Natural and man-made disasters do occur, and each of our families need to have some type of a plan for these. The plans don't work if you use a plan designed for a California coastal dweller and you live in Michigan's upper peninsula. They don't work if you adapt a Floridian plan for hurricane to an area an hour from Alaska's Denali National Forest.  We each have inherent hazards wherever we live, and the focus of the book is to recognize and note the inherent natural hazards where you live and then to structure both a sheltering in place plan and an evacuation plan for your own family and your own situation.
             As I wrote Rational Preparedness, I was giving thought more to natural disasters than I was financial collapse, although many of the same strategies for immediate management would be the same.  In the last weeks though, more and more people in the mainstream have been discussing financial collapse within the context of the fiscal cliff.  We have a real impasse here.  Our president, elected by those who are apparently not paying attention, believes that the government can continue to provide consolation prizes to those who have been passed by, by the educational and job opportunities which used to exist within the United States. The House Speaker, Mr. Boehner, believes that he can continue to discuss a compromise with Mr. Obama and that one may happen.  The fact is that we are very likely to reach a point where the federal government grinds to a halt, the military doesn't get paid, the passport office stops, and the law of unintended consequences could lead to some very negative happenings before some adjustment is made.  Meanwhile, rather than being outraged at Mr. Obama's demands, the Republicans are trying to morph into kinder gentler souls so as not to lose the election "next time". I have news for the Republicans.  Many of the people I knew who stayed home this election, did so because they felt the Republicans were no longer conservative enough .   Many people feel that Congress and the Senate did not work hard enough to stop the financial and spending excesses of the present Obama Regime.
            The fact is that we can't give free cellular phones to everyone in the United States who has known a financial challenge in their lifetimes. Not if the phones are any good, we can't.  We can't give free health care to anyone who needs it indefinitely.  Not if that health care is being delivered to the US standard we used to have.  We can be compassionate and help those who need temporary help, as many people throughout life do, but a healthy economy must exist in order for someone to be earning and paying into the system which allows us to even consider rendering aid to those who are temporarily non-productive.  It is part of life to be financially challenged. Ask any college student. Many of them are so poor they can't even pay attention ! Most of us have periods of time in which we struggle financially, recover and then save and are relatively self sufficient. This is part of life and something to be accepted.  Accepting poverty of all as a status quo and something the government needs to ameliorate will not only be a complete failure, but does not give credit or creedence to the idea that life, for one reason or another is a struggle.
             Good luck Mr. Boehner. Mr. Obama will simply let the country fall off the cliff and blame your lack of cooperation when his intention all along was to create as many people dependent upon a Nanny State government as possible.

Creating your own Emergency Medical Kit for Home Base

   There are an abundance of really excellent emergency first aid kits available for sale which range in cost from as little as twenty dollars to two and three thousand dollars for kits which are designed to travel with owners on expeditions. Interestingly, three thousand dollars is without the addition of prescription medications, which would have to be obtained through a physician before such a trip.  I don't agree that most people need to make that type of an expenditure.  There are some choices here. Since your Emergency Medical Kit is remaining at home, it could simply occupy one shelf of a particular closet, or it could have a shelved cupboard or closet all its own.  Some people like to place they Emergency Medical Kit in an orange backpack or similar bag, because they like the idea of mobility within their homes, and mobility of their medical supplies around their property.  Over the years we have done relatively every Emergency Kit configuration and we now do a little of both. I have a small room which houses medical supplies of all kinds, and an orange rolling backpack for nebulizer supplies and respiratory equipment.  Other types of emergency kits are packaged and hang on the walls in that room so that they can be quickly grabbed, or the expiration date can be assessed.  When people buy an expensive and elaborate kit, they are often reluctant to open and explore all of the elements in it, and therefore they have not committed to memory its contents. First select how you will house your Emergency Medical Kit for home base, and then begin to fill it yourself. This way, YOU know what is in your kit, where it is, and you will remember where you obtained the items in it when it's time to refill or replace something. We will begin this next show to discuss all the essential items when starting this endeavor.  Some of the items are listed in the preceding post.