Ade McCormack, business and technology expert, wrote a month back that the world is in a crisis and with it the world of business and also stating that many of us have two plans. Plan A involves President Obama performing some economic magic and Plan B involving a revolver, a vegetable patch and a subscription to survivalists monthly.
And while McCormack was writing with a hint of jest, dissent over the president's trillion-dollar spending approach to the economy has left many average, everyday Americans considering something looking suspiciously like plan B.
Bill Heid of Survival Seeds, a company that sells high yielding vegetable seeds sealed for long term storage says that his business has skyrocketed. He further states that 90% of his business increase is new business which implies that his business is spreading and more and more people are getting inclined towards survivalists’ notion.
Lehman’s, an Ohio retailer of home self-sufficiency equipment, has recorded huge sales increases from across the preparedness spectrum.
Vic Rantala, founder of Minnesota-based Safecastle, which markets home shelters for protection against disasters such as hurricanes and chemical attacks, said that his company's revenues have more than doubled since 2007.
George C. Ball Jr., owner of the major seed and plant supplier W. Atlee Burpee Company, - sales shot up by 40 percent last year, double the annual growth for the last five years.
Newspapers from around the world reported last month on people facing the economic crisis with increased preparations for catastrophe.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports the story of Tony, a 44-year-old stockbroker who lives in a Sydney suburb with his wife and three children. Tony has been stockpiling supplies including rice, multivitamins, peanut butter, honey, soap and toilet paper.
So the bottom line is that people are anticipating a global catastrophe and with every passing day the picture gets clearer.
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