Governments Should Be Supply Bottlenecks
Of the many major concerns I have with a general lack of preparedness in society, two stand out that can be jointly fixed:
- Lack of government preparedness – especially in the more major scenarios like the next Carrington Event
- Just in time delivery to stores and supermarkets, as well as just in time manufacturing – where very little inventory exists
Providing food for the starving masses is quite achievable if the government stores the items that preppers know are durable and cheap. Tinned beans and rice for example. But you can’t really trust a government that doesn’t really care about preparing to rotate supplies.
What if all the government needed to provide was secure warehouses? No purchases, no transport costs, no quality control, no rotating…
1. Identify the types of products our country would need a lot of in a massive catastrophe2. Create laws that stipulate they are essential supplies
3. Require manufacturers to deliver the products to government warehouses, where they must sit for a set period of time before being transported to distributors
Yes, it would cost the manufacturers a period of revenue – they could receive a one-time compensation.
Imagine that, in the case of an emergency, items such as these will be available in great quantities for government distribution:
- bottled water
- rice
- pasta
- tinned food
- batteries
