We’re preparing too. We’re stocking lead, gold, silver and rope. The bankers are going to need more than a survival kit when the SHTF. There are a lot of lampposts and and a lot of rope.
Treasury Department Seeking Survival Kits For Bank Employees
Emergency masks, solar blankets to be delivered to every major bank in the U.S.
AP
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The Department of Treasury is seeking to order survival kits for all of its employees who oversee the federal banking system, according to a new solicitation.
The emergency supplies would be for every employee at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which conducts on-site reviews of banks throughout the country. The survival kit includes everything from water purification tablets to solar blankets.
The government is willing to spend up to $200,000 on the kits, according to the solicitation released on Dec. 4.
The survival kits must come in a fanny-pack or backpack that can fit all of the items, including a 33-piece personal first aid kit with “decongestant tablets,” a variety of bandages, and medicines.
The kits must also include a “reusable solar blanket” 52 by 84 inches long, a 2,400-calorie food bar, “50 water purification tablets,” a “dust mask,” “one-size fits all poncho with hood,” a rechargeable lantern with built-in radio, and an “Air-Aid emergency mask” for protection against airborne viruses.
Survival kits will be delivered to every major bank in the United States including Bank of America, American Express Bank, BMO Financial Corp., Capitol One Financial Corporation, Citigroup, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Company, and Wells Fargo.
Items will also be delivered to OCC offices across the country, from Champaign, Ill. to Billings, Mont. The agency also has offices in Sioux City, Iowa; Joplin, Mo.; and Fargo, N.D.
The mission of the OCC is to “ensure that national banks and federal savings associations operate in a safe and sound manner, provide fair access to financial services, treat customers fairly, and comply with applicable laws and regulations.”
The agency has roughly 3,814 employees, each of which would receive a survival kit. The staff includes “bank examiners” who provide “sustained supervision” of major banks in the United States.
“Examiners analyze loan and investment portfolios, funds management, capital, earnings, liquidity, sensitivity to market risk for all national banks and federal thrifts, and compliance with consumer banking laws for national banks and thrifts with less than $10 billion in assets,” the OCC website explains. “They review internal controls, internal and external audit, and compliance with law. They also evaluate management’s ability to identify and control risk.”
It is not clear why the Treasury Department is ordering the kits. Contracts for survival kits are usually made for the military, or law enforcement such as the FBI.
The OCC did not return request for comment before publication of this story.
The wrath approaches.
The kit should include a disguise and a good pair of sneakers.
Isn’t the OCC the group that closes down banks? That’s why they need a “dusk mask”, for when the rioters outside who want their money get tear-gassed by police, and the calorie bar for energy to run away or if they have to “shelter in place”. What a crock…
I bank at a local credit union. Don’t know if I will be better off than big bank depositors or not when the poo-poo hits the fan. We’ll see.
All those kits are missing is a cyanide pill for when the angry, newly destitute citizens finally overrun Johnny Law and are storming the bank. Better to go your own way than be torn limb from limb by a scared and hungry populace.
Yep, daydreaming again.
Sub-machine guns for USDA violations, bug in/out kits for regulators, tanks for Barney Fife, what a wonderful freaking country we live in and I haven’t even counted torture or drones, let alone bombs and international provocation.
*sigh*
I am not sure which is more disturbing, the perceived need or the outrageous price.
I kept looking for the “Onion” tagline but couldn’t find it. Can you help?
They lost me at “sustained supervision” of major banks……….what is this comedy hour? Best laugh I had all day. Actually I would dig having one of those kits with the lantern radio and solar blanket.
Wait…why are we tax payers paying for this shit anyway? That’s like the bank robbers asking me to pay for the get away car and I don’t even get a cut of the loot.
I can never consider myself a member of TBP’s inner circle until I get a wallet photo of TE. Unless that is a perk reserved for more deserving folks such as Mucky and Stucky. Is this a white privilege thing?
I would say they need a Blackwater style security team. But the team would see the angry masses and just leave. The world will be a small place when angry ex military Americans with no job and nothing to do, Go looking for these banker/wall street psychopaths.
they forgot to include the “secret decoder ring”
they ain’t gonna be able to do much without that !
IDIOTS
It should include the Vietnam era USAF pilot’s survival knife. The one with an orange handle, switchblade and parachute riser blade. This is to be used when the citizens start assembling outside the banks with ropes and scaffolding. Sounds like the piggies are getting a bit concerned.
TE nails it.