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Federal News Radio
Shutdown
preppers update
By Mike Causey
October 8, 2015
This is something that even the GS 13 who has everything will
appreciate.
What is it? How about food? Money, maybe?
If money is too impersonal, get him or her one of those prepper kits.
You know, packages containing a week, month or year” supply of
delicious all-you-add-is-water meals. Something to get someone through
hard times, whether that’s an asteroid strike, an EMP shutdown, major
flooding, or if you are a fed, enforced idleness. That’s a real
possibility; a shutdown like the one in 2013.
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