[R-G] [BillTottenWeblog] Massive Economic Disaster Seems Possible

[Bill Totten]

Will Survivalists Get the Last Laugh?

by Scott Thill

AlterNet (July 26 2008)


They used to be paranoid preparation nuts who built bomb shelters for a
place to duck and cover during nuclear dustups with communist heathens,
but their tangled roots go back to the Great Depression for a reason. If
you want to get sociological about it, survivalism started out as a
response to economic catastrophe. And now, with a cratering stock
market, a housing meltdown that has devalued everything in sight, and
skyrocketing prices for food, gas and pretty much everything else,
survivalists are preparing for - and are prepared for - the rerun. In
fact, they may be the only people in America feeling good about the
prospects of a major crash.

And the interesting thing about the once-fringe movement at this moment
in history is that survivalism has now gone green - at least in theory.