Are We Doing Everything We Can?

Here is an Excellent Post by Gary from West Virginia Preppers Network

There have been a couple of things running around in my head for several weeks and it has taken me a bit to get my mind wrapped around these ideas in a coherent fashion. At first it didn’t hit me and then, bingo, I got it. Things in this country today are as bad or worse than most of us have ever experienced, and it has the potential to become much worse under the current regime in Washington. For one of the first times in my lifetime the large majority of people in this country are affected and getting more upset about the way things are coming together. Hence my question, are we doing everything we can , to help ourselves as well as others. I think people in general, judging by the ones I talk to, are more receptive to our message today than ever before. The way I look at things is, the more people we can teach or help them get better prepared is that many we will not have to make a decision about when they come knocking on our door if things get bad. And we all know this will happen if things get to the point of shortages or something similar. Are you interacting and getting to know your neighbors and other people that we will have to deal with? Do we even know what their needs are? Are we pointing people to the resources available here with these prepper family of networks and other places that are available to all. Another question that could be asked of all the people that contribute here on these networks, whether it be a state network, the APN main page or any of the other places that are a part of this network. I mean are we putting good solid information out as often as possible or are we using them for friendly get togethers or as personal blogs? I know we all have a life with lots of things to do besides post on blogs or forums, but if we are posting I think we need to do the best job we can of teaching and helping the people that visit our house here looking for help. I know I’m guilty of letting other things get in the way of posting here on WV at times, but I promise you I am trying my best to make changes to prevent that from continuing to be the case. Hopefully you will start to see better and more regular post here in the very near future. I think everyone here has good things to offer or we wouldn’t be preppers ourselves and now we need to help the new people that are just waking up so they do not have to learn everything the hard way like some of us did. I think this network of sites is one of the best chances to have so much information all in one place that has ever been on the Internet, we just need to make the information available. We do not want to get to the point of doing nothing but preaching to the choir. Okay, pep talk over. Everyone have a nice day, Gary