10 Reasons NOT to Prep.

1) Nothing is going to happen.
Uhhhh, yeah, nothing happened during Katrina. Nothing happened during the Quebec ice storm. Nothing happened during the Indonesian tsunami ect ect. Nope nothing at all.

2) It’s the government’s job to keep us safe. That’s what we pay taxes for.

We also pay taxes for them to run an efficient health care system, balance the budget, remove snow from the streets and keep murderers behind bars. How well are they doing?

3) All preppers are paranoid gun nuts.
Yep and all girls who take women’s self defense courses are potentially violent bully wanna-bes. All people who join the military or police want to carry a firearm and are potential homicidal psychotics. All people with fire escape ladders and extinguishers in their homes are timid, gutless, pyrophobics who are terrified of fire.

4) We’ve lived through hard times before without prepping.
You did. Some didn’t. Maybe those who didn’t might have made it if they were prepared.

5) All this Mayan 2012 stuff is stupid nonsense.
Yes, it is. Is unemployment during an economic slowdown nonsense too? Is an EI cheque that won’t cover the mortgage nonsense too? Is your car breaking down when you are without a job and unable to pay for expensive repairs all nonsense as well? I guess the Mayans left out some details.

6) This is Canada, not some backward hellhole like Somalia where societal breakdown is likely. It won’t happen here.
I’m sure people in Bosnia said that too or Greece or Russia or New Orleans or……….

7) If I prepare I’ll look silly to other people.
You already look silly to other people, just for different reasons. If people want to gossip they will search until they find an excuse.

8) If I prepare I’ll look crazy.
Yeah, and if they see you sitting in a refugee shelter with your hands out for food like the Japanese after the earthquake or the Quebecers after the ice storm you’ll look like a needy bum. Make your choice. You can be a sane, run-of-the-mill bum I’ll be a comfortable, self sufficient lunatic.

9) It’s too expensive.
So is making your mortgage payment with your VISA when you’re out of a job. So is losing all the food in your freezer because you don’t have a generator.

10) It’s too much work.
Damn, you’re right! You got me there. I guess you had better go back to playing HALO and watching American Idol.