"preppers"

[Victor Steinbok]

Not necessarily--they are the people who buy full-year dehydrated food
supplies advertized by and with the help of Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity
. There are several companies that sprung up in the last five years or
so that cater to this "need". These also tend to be Ron Paul
supporters--at least for his demand to the "gold standard". I am not
sure there is a term yet for those demanding such a prudent economic
move, but it has a long history. Bomb shelter? Meh!

     VS-)

On 1/21/2012 1:42 PM, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
> Don't they have bomb shelters left over from the 50s?
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jan 21, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Ben Zimmer<bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>  wrote:
>
>> It's the latest (or is it the last?) of the paranoid "-er" groups:
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>> http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/21/us-usa-civilization-collapse-idUSTRE80K0LA20120121
>> When Patty Tegeler looks out the window of her home overlooking the
>> Appalachian Mountains in southwestern Virginia, she sees trouble on
>> the horizon.
>> "In an instant, anything can happen," she told Reuters. "And I firmly
>> believe that you have to be prepared."
>> Tegeler is among a growing subculture of Americans who refer to
>> themselves informally as "preppers." Some are driven by a fear of
>> imminent societal collapse, others are worried about terrorism, and
>> many have a vague concern that an escalating series of natural
>> disasters is leading to some type of environmental cataclysm.
>> ---
>>
>> --bgz
>>
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>> Ben Zimmer
>> http://benzimmer.com/
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