Will America Survive and What Will You DO?
By Gill Rapoza
October 8, 2009
Here is a little piece based on some emailed questions I have gotten of late. I’ll sum up the questions into one, “Do you think we are near the end of America, what am I supposed to do and/or where do I go with my family?” A couple or so of you will recognize some of the following, as it comes directly from a reply I made to you directly. Seeing several have asked, I figure more will be interested.
First of all I wish to confirm that I am no type of prophet. I try to read the writing on the wall best I can, but I make no claims beyond that.
As an empire sized nation we have been around for a bit over 200 years. If you read the last Chuck Baldwin piece I posted, (“U.S. To Break Up Soon?” – http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2009/cbarchive_20090929.html) it had some good points. Part of it had a graph showing how empires have a habit of going from a little over 200 years until about 250 years. It is a fine chart and all, but it is not an absolute. Baldwin did not believe so either.
One thing to add to that. These United States have been a nation since 1776, when we declared ourselves free from British rule. And that makes it 233 years as a nation. However, we were a fledgling nation at best for a good part of those early years. We were self-supporting for many more of those, and did not become an international power until around WWI, about 100 years back. Our empire status may have been actually established at the end of WWII, 1945. That would be 64 years ago. After going that far, let us not depend on the stats of other nations or empires. Imperial China, which certainly was an empire of their own, lasted some 2,000 years. Hitler’s declared empire, the Third Reich, which was to have been 1,000 years, actually lasted a mere dozen. So history may provide good examples, but there are enough factors that it will not always accurately predict the future.
My personal belief if that we may fail as a nation. That possibility is certainly real. With the combination of the way we have behaved as a country of late, and the fact that most of America has turned their back on the God our founders believed in, we should not expect a lot of Divine protection or shielding. I am not for predicting a date, but why would God Almighty care to watch over us any longer?
Having said that, I also believe we are a teetering nation and have not yet reached the point of no return. We may be close, and I don’t know how close, and that is the problem. God was willing to spare Sodom for not so many righteous men, which it turned out in the end they did not have. And Abraham was going to bat for them, likely because he had family there, Lot and his own family. I don’t know about you, but I don’t see too many Abraham types on the horizon. But we still have a chance. God did not destroy Nineveh after Jonah preached to them. They repented, much to Jonah’s surprise.
Some think we will be broken into several smaller nations, and we better pick a place to go, just in case. Don’t expect things to be better if that becomes true and you moved to a new location.
There are some things to consider if that scenario runs. If it comes down to a terrible national break up there are several areas of the nation where those wanting to work hard have a good chance of coming out OK, even if the nation does not.
Much of the desert areas, some of the coastal areas and some of the nation now on the border with Mexico are going to have problems, at least at first. If you picked a big city and don’t have a tremendous amount of resources that you can protect, pick again.
Most of the northern wooded areas, many of the mountains areas, a lot of the US/Canadian border, many places in Texas and Oklahoma, even part of Northern California (which does not like the rest of the state anyhow), and I’m sure several other places will have hard working folks with a good attitude that will be OK. They key, I believe is that there has to be an area you can sustain yourself and family. This means you have water, a place to grow food, and/or hunt animals, and such. It would be real good if the area has like minded folks. Not too few or too many, and each area will be different. If you are firmly convinced things are going to fall apart you should live at or go to a place where you do not draw a lot of attention to yourself. Seems we can not even find bin Laden in his cave somewhere, and he is high profile. If you are low profile, chances are you won’t be of any great interest to others. At least for awhile.
If you do elect to relocate, or want to have an emergency home someplace, don’t look for it at the last second. You need to figure where you want to be in advance. You don’t want to be in or going to an area every one else wants to go to. Keep in mind that this may be a long time, maybe life long event if the worse case event comes to be true.
Let’s look at another side of this as well. I have no inside info we will make it OK for 100 more years or fall apart tomorrow, though I don’t see it that soon. Any place you are at needs to be a place you can make do. And this includes dealing with the government we have now.
While some are better places than others, moving out to someplace you are not ready for is a not so great option either. When the pilgrims left England and Holland, and ended up in Plymouth in 1620, half of those that survived the journey died that first winter. And not all the pilgrims even finished the trip to the New Land either. Some died on the Mayflower.
It is never wrong to have food and supplies, and what ever else you need to get along right where you are. These might be called life goods. And these life goods are things that are good to have anyplace and time. It does not mean the end of the nation as we know it, or the world either, but being ready is good. I’ll bet most folks don’t have more than a few days of food on hand, or perhaps a week or so.
Keep in mind that some government bodies in some areas will come and take what you have “for the good of the state” or some other nonsense under some conditions. These bodies may come from within or without.
Ø Will you hide stuff?
Ø What stuff will you hide?
Ø Will you give up your life goods?
Ø Are you willing risk injury or death for refusing the government?
Ø How about being locked up?
Ø Can you stand or tolerate a different or repressive authority?
Ø Can you figure out a way to live “outside the system”?
You might note I did not define the meaning of the life goods. If you have common sense you already have a good idea what those are for you and your family. For some it is food and water alone. For some it is good means of communicating with your family and other close ones. Some have gold or silver set aside. For some it is the biggest all out collections of weapons on earth. You do what works for where you are and what you plan on doing.
These things have to be thought about in advance before you go charging off someplace, or changing your life and your family’s. There is no telling what this or any other government is willing to do or how far they will go. The break-up of the nation may not be the worse thing that can happen, based on what I can see now. Still, I never want to see either take place.
The important thing is to be ready for what comes at you in life. I firmly believe that one of the ways, the best way, to ensure we not only survive as a nation but truly succeed is to return to the One True God America left behind. I’m not going to quote a lot of Scripture this time around. We ought to know by now what is right and what is not. We can not and should not depend on any government body to sustain us. You pray to the One God for guidance, follow that guidance the best you can and go to work. No one owes us anything on this earth. We, however, owe all we have to that One God.
I’ll never have everything I need for my family, but I will be better prepared than most I figure. Oh, and I’ll have a Bible in my life goods.
And while we are at it, here is a little something from Bocephus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4s0nzsU1Wg
Parts of the song goes like this:
We came from the West Virginia coalmines
And the Rocky Mountains and the and the western skies
…
We’re from North California and South Alabam
And little towns all around this land
And we can skin a buck; we can run a trot line
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive
…
And we say grace and we say Ma’am
And if you ain’t into that we don’t give a damn
The words are not all in order….
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