Remember the story and the thread from a couple days ago? Police seize 10 Children from Homeschooled family living off the grid. Well there is more to the story. Look how they were living.
In huts, with no running water, open fires for cooking and trash all over. Sure it'd be fun for a month. I know we all hate the state and government. But you know, it's also not the 20th century anymore. About half way down is a video.
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Quoting: deanoZXT Maybe I'm deluded, but I really do not see any problem with a family living like pioneers.
The children are full of smiles, appear to be happy, are clean...as is their clothing. And...they are truly loved.
Think back to how many of OUR ancestors lived when they first stepped upon the shores of this new world. They had nothing, but made do with what they had.
The one thing that helped them survive was will; they were determined to BEAT THE ODDS, no matter how little they had, no matter how harsh the environment. And...a Nation was built upon the sweat of their backs.
Oh. I almost forgot perhaps the most important aspect of this: they had native peoples to offer them whatever help and advice they needed.
Why should it be so different today?
Think of a parent with children who has lost everything in this day and age. It's possible the best help our modern day governmental system can offer is a bed or two in a squalid shelter, where watching your back -and that of your children- compounds the problems you'd hope to avoid.
And then there's this family.
Just as our ancestors did, they are happy to make do. Is it a crime NOT to have electricity? Or a house made of stone? The 'system' allows hoarders to live in filth, the homeless to live in boxes under bridges, EVEN WHEN they are toting children with them.
People live in cars, and vans 'down by the river'...and NO ONE seems to give a rat's ass of interest in the well-being of any of them.
If TSHTF tonight, this family would survive better than most...without feeling ANY loss.
The people in their community who have allowed this travesty to happen are far more needy than the family they've torn asunder.
That's my opinion.
p.s.: I've been here long enough to have imagined in my mind JUST HOW I would make do if everything around me was failing. IN FACT, I've been living on the brink long enough to know that if all hell broke loose, I'd be fortunate to have that family provide me shelter. And, love.
For I'm certain they have more love than many people I meet every day.
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