Back in the days before plumbing and electricity, people had to work for a living in any way that they could find. And I mean work! Not play employment games. Many people died from various forms of what I will call exposure.

When people can no longer afford electricity so that the big generators are shut down, when the pipes corrode and decay and nobody can afford new ones, then we will go back to carrying buckets of water and using candles for light.

The point is, the knowledge of how to make electricity and how to make new pipes probably won't be lost. But what good is the knowledge when Government regulation and taxation keeps people from using the knowledge?

Government understands the bind that they have pushed people into. And Gov realizes that the people will wake up if they haven't already. Hence, DHS buying of something like 1.3 bill rounds of hollow point bullets. They need their protection - FROM US!