I came up with the lyrics, and Sarah did her thing to make it jive with the melody. She is a very talented artist. (Check her out on YouTube). Consequently, I owe her a lot. She has done a ton of work to help me out.
Furthermore, beside her musical abilities, Sarah has many talents. She is an author, and has illustrated a couple of my books. She manages a Tattoo Studio in Mississippi, and manages to bring culture to a small rural town in the deep south.
My idea is to use different verses to setup the various themes of a video. As an example, the badguys and zombies verse would work for any defense video, and the bees in the cities would work for livestock and gardening.
Feel free to give me any ideas for other verses.
Here are the Lyrics:
If it ain’t one thing then its another,
That’s why I prepare like no other
You don’t have to be scared if you’re prepared
Tornadoes, Wildfires, floods and earthquakes,
Think of all the plans you need to make
You don’t have to be scared if you’re prepared
Badmen, boogy men, zombies too,
We all know what they want to do,
I bought a rifle to help me through
You don’t have to be scared if you’re prepared
Lying politicians and economic disaster,
They all make me prep a little faster
You don’t have to be scared if you’re prepared
Boxes of beans, bullets and bandaids
It feels good to have a full pantry to raid
You don’t have to be scared if you’re prepared
Raising rabbits, chickens and bees
You can even do it the big cities
You don’t have to be scared if you’re prepared
I have a plan that fits my point of view,
I’m getting ready, so how ‘bough you,
You don’t have to be scared if you’re prepare
*Update
Finally, after a few hundred videos, I decided that I just don’t care about YouTube video Intro music. Consequently, I have begun making much shorter videos.
Similarly, I decided to just get into shooting the video and getting on with the projects. Certainly, I find it interesting how things change and adapt as time goes by. That should not surprise anyone, as this entire website grew from my desire to stop reading and start doing the things I was reading about. Above all, it seems like I should be thankful I was reading books on survival and not serial killers….
Certainly, It is not easy for hourly individuals that deal in tens and hundreds to visualize spending billions and trillions.
Consequently, so I quickly did some math to break it down and give some perspective on National Debt
Here is our problem:
$113,000,000,000,000 Unfunded Liabilities
$14,000,000,000,000 National Debt
That is:
$1,000,000 Unfunded Liabilities per Taxpayer
$128,000 National Debt per Taxpayer
Our government has to pay that with:
$2,000,000,000,000 Annual Tax Revenue
Loans cost money, so we pay:
$3,500,000,000,000 Annually on Interest
Which is $1,500,000,000,000 more than our Countries annual tax receipts, so we have to borrow that each year to pay interest (Which increases our debt, which increases our interest, which increases how much we have to borrow to pay interest)
Even Dropping off 6 Zeros Still show as heck of a problem.
$113,000,000 Unfunded Liabilities
$14,000,000 National Debt
That is:
$1 Unfunded Liabilities per Taxpayer
0.19 National Debt per Taxpayer
Our government has to pay that with:
$2,000,000 Annual Tax Revenue
Loans cost money, so we pay:
$3,500,000 Annually on Interest
Which is $1,500,000 more than our Countries annual tax receipts, so we have to borrow that each year to pay interest (Which increases our debt, which increases our interest, which increases how much we have to borrow to pay interest)
For Perspective
If a two income family brought home $80,000 a year, and the Government took the entire amount, it would take 25 Million families to equal the total amount of tax revenues that the US Federal Government receives in taxes….
However, it would take 42 Million, 750 thousand such $80,000 Families taxed at 100% just to pay the interest on the 14 trillion dollar debt.
It would take 175 Million Families with an income of $80,000,000 to pay off the debt, (or 350 million individuals with a $40,000 dollar a year income. That is 50 million more individuals than the total US population.)
A families share of those mandates is 1 billion, 412 million, and 500 thousand dollars with a $80,000 a year income as a family. If you made $80,000 a year, and owed over 1,412,500,000 and had to borrow money just to pay the interest, what kind of promises would you have to make to get someone to give you more money?
Add in Unfunded Mandates
Say you think its unfair to add in unfunded mandates (say you don’t want to pay for Granny’s medicare, or Mom’s social insecurity) We can just look at the national debt.
Similarly, for a family with an $80,000 a year income you would have to owe 175 Million dollars to owe the same ratio as what the US Federal Government owes in relationship to its income…
Finally, the Fed says the combined housing market value is 10 Trillion, since we owe 14 Trillion in National Dept and another 100 Trillion in unfunded mandates, it seems like I am not the only one upside down on my mortgage. The difference is, I like what I spent my money on, and no one forced me to take out my mortgage.
I DO NOT like what my tax dollars are being spent on, and I have long begged them to stop mortgaging my future.
The music is about to stop on our Countries game of hot potato, and those in Washington still refuse to stop playing games…
Note:
This is a low estimate, as the numbers keep growing as Congress keeps spends, and the President keeps starting wars….
Source US Census, and the US National Debt Clock
I recently took some courses on Public Safety Response classes from LSU and the Homeland Security Consortium, This one is was this on Sampling techniques and guidelines.
Awesome Class
It was an awesome class, as are most of the consortium classes. You see my head a couple of times in the video. However, many of my coworkers at my day job were featured. If you are a first responder, I would recommend looking into this kind of DHS training. It is federally funded and does not cost your agency anything. It greatly increases your response capabilities.
They Made This Video During My Course, But I Was Deemed Too Ugly to Participate
I post it here because the video was taken from the actual class I was in. Many of my co-workers were selected to be interviewed on it. I am too ugly to be on video that is not produced by me. So I was not selected to Participate. If you pay close attention you may see me running around in a hazardous material suit. I really do justice to a full Level A suit.
The class was very helpful to me as a hazmat technician, but also in my role as a resource coordinator for emergency response. By knowing what can be done, the better I am able to get what is needed.
I know a lot of preppers are concerned with the government, and are afraid of the department of homeland security. While I understand (and occasionally share) those feelings, not all of the programs are intrusive. the public safety response classes are geared toward providing life saving training to local first responders to make them more capable of saving lives.