Now here's my precious metals sales pitch:
Dear Friends,
The metal to invest in is not gold. It's lead, along with some copper and brass in preformatted assemblies known as cartridges. That is the metal to invest in. Lead, my friends! Number #6 12 gauge shotshells for small game, #1 buckshot and up for other situations. And some 230 grain hardball for the Sig P220 for those of you fortunate enough to own the world's best handgun. Lead! Beautiful, copper-jacketed lead! And ten'll get ya twenty that one good .30 caliber semi-jacketed softpoint will put meat in your hide-away while the rest of the poor saps are wheelbarrowing gold coins down to hopefully buy the last loaf of Wonderbread for $968.65 after society does its best impression of Somalia circa 1990s.
My dear friends, lead won't let you down. It only increases in value, especially when you really need it. When you need lead, gold just won't do. Imagine those poor suckers that socked away all those gold coins when the signs at the last remaining markets say "BARTER ONLY---NO CURRENCY---LOOTERS WILL BE SHOT!" Indeed, those poor souls will find it hard to eat gold and, what's more, gold is rather hard to chamber in a Remington 870. But lead! Ah, my friends, that's the stuff dreams are made of! If not dreams, then certainly meat---provided you're any kind of a shot.
You see, my friends, others will not have the foresight to have invested in lead. They'll think that the dollar does a belly-flop on a Thursday and by Friday, everyone will be politely queueing in line to inquire as to where they might obtain some food, perchance, without any rude shoving or waving about of various and sundry forms of weaponry. They'll think that the rather helpful soldiers and mercenar---er, private military contractors---will dutifully arrive to ensure that no line-jumping or rude gestures occur and that said armed personnel will not use such a time to secure the foodstuffs for themselves. After all that has never happened before has---hey, no one brought up Somalia here! Oops, it appears I did. But I digress. Yes, indeed, these people will think after the dollar collapses they can continue to read People magazine and return to watch Seinfeld reruns on cable. But, I say unto you the wise will have invested in lead for such times.
One might even say that the miniseries "Jericho" gave an excellent picture indeed of precisely what might happen in a societal collapse. In fact, one might also say that's why that series got yanked right off television so quickly. A bit too realistic, what?, certain powers-that-be might have said. Especially the parts about what the government might do in such situations. Or, perhaps, what several armed entities each calling themselves the government might do. Indeed, just a bit TOO realistic. Can't afford to have people saying, "Hey...yeah....seems that's exactly what might happen..." and tuning in next week to see exactly what WOULD happen in such situations. Yep, ahem, cough, cough, nothing to see here folks, move along. And was gold worth anything in the fictional town of Jericho? No. Seems to me their big barter medium turned out to be salt.
So my friends, invest in lead. For less than the price of a few tarnished Kruggerands, you can purchase a Mosin Nagant 91/30 and enough LEAD to last you through whatever misfortunes ill winds carry our way. Or, for less than the price of some mini-ingots of gold, you could have a Remington 870 in your safe and a LTL delivery truck beep-beeping as it backs up to your garage to offload a pallet of 12 gauge shells. Yes, friends! Ask about the per-pallet prices!
LEAD! Real metal for real people!
