by Ibon » Fri 11 Jan 2019, 19:40:03
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We don’t need everyone to survive, and not everyone is as you describe. For instance you and I. We are both citizens, neither of us afraid to work, some our children would be similar. I know of others, not a lot, but enough. Some others will adapt. Frankly I think there are folks in our ghettos who would meet your criteria. They may not be picking beans, but they have a hard scrabble life and find ways to make money. May not be legal, but it’s survival. Lots of “illegal” will happen by the survivors.
I am by no means suggesting all Americans are like the caricature I described in my last post. But enough are as I described and then you have to consider the huge percentage dependent on service industry jobs around consumerism that offers next to zero skill set in surviving hard times.
1% of Americans today are farmers and that 1% are mainly in mega industrial farms. A fraction of that 1% know how to work fields using mostly human labor.
A few Amish and Mennonites and then who? The main demographic in the USA that actually knows how to grow food using physical labor are 1st generation immigrants, legal or illegal, documented or undocumented. They would be hugely valued in teaching Americans how to learn skills to get through the bottleneck.
The vast majority of Americans are woefully unprepared to function in any kind of survival mode. They would be so grateful for a few Mexicans or Hondurans to show them how to do it.
Patiently awaiting the pathogens. Our resiliency resembles an invasive weed. We are the Kudzu Ape
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