The current economic crisis has spawned a whole new breed of survivalists.  Rather than holing up in a bunker, living off the land and waiting for  “the end of the world as we know it” these new survivalists are average Americans who see the chaos going on around them and who believe that they won't be able to depend on the government to take care of them.

In a recent article, the Houston Chronicle reported on this new breed of survivalists.  One survivalist they featured is named Jack Spirko.  Jack owns his own media company, he is married to a successful nurse and he has a son in college. He also has two dogs and lives in a beautiful house with a pool in Arlington, Texas.

That sounds like a very normal guy, right?

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