“Survivalists are not the people living in bunkers that the media makes them out to be. Above all their primary goals revolve around self sufficiency.” – Jack Spirko
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Some of us prep simply because we have had a hard time eating when things got tough. I lost my engineering job along with nearly 70,000 other engineers over a one year period back in 1991. There were engineers with doctorate degrees flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s for minimum wage that year. Never again! I will make sure my family is taken care of. That is my whole purpose right now. Of course, the media doesn’t care about that aspect of prepping because it doesn’t have the mass crises appeal of an economic disaster or an EMP etc…