Posted on 11/14/2008 10:07:38 AM PST by Dr. Marten
I’ve been buying the flats too. I remember the rubber rings, but only because my mom used them.
LOL! You’re being disenfranchised!
I also have four or five of the large bricks (ten bars each) of soap.
If somebody wants to give me five gallons of gas for a bar of soap so they can have a bath, I’m game.
You are quite right. Think barter.
Limit power to generate electricity and your plumbing won’t work. Tax fuel so it stays high and transport will diminish, even with reasonable roads, and the cost of everything will become unaffordable. Hire the unskilled because they belong to the protected classes and infrastructure repair will suffer. Limit non-metallic mining and push the cost of asphalt higher with direct and indirect (carbon tax) taxation and the roads will be unsafe or will not be cost-effective to repair. Import low quality steel and low quality pumps, pipes, rebar, etc and nothing will be built and what is built will not function as it should.
I have no fancy track record, but these are exactly the future scenarios that have worried me.
My nearest little town is going ahead with a $60k engineering project so tht when grant money for roads happens, they ae ahead of the game. No one will listen to anyone who says we should be cautious because we don’t know if the money will materialize or if we will be eligible.
LOL The Obamas don't give Christmas gifts either. (Muslims don't celebrate Christmas.)
“If you think your taxes are high now, just wait til states are on their own!”
How so?
You best be prepared to defend your cache.
Just click this google image page. I googled homeless tent city California and had no trouble finding countless pictures of existing tent cities.
I think most of us here know what we will need to be doing to take care of ourselves and our families. Like newhouse I live in the old family home. I'm not on an acre but we have enough space for a nice garden and we have lots of fruit trees. We have not got laying hens yet because nobody wants to deal with the poop but that may come soon. Many of our friends and neighbors have hens. We are also able to live without many frills. No fancy pants types in our brood so we will acclimate to tough times with relative ease. I am a dust bowl descendant. I know the drill.
Balderdash. 'Twas democrats that took over Washington.
Sorry, I got here late and didn't read all the comments, so if anyone already pointed this out, my apologies!
Foolishly, I hold out hope that the birth issue will prevail and the electoral college won't elect obama. What'll happen then, I don't know. (Biden?) No matter what, we're due for some measure of chaos.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
My major question about gold is what will people do when the world governments agree on a set low price for it. What if they enact limits on the amount one individual is allowed to own or how much can be exchanged for cash? How do you then use it for currency? And just what do you buy in a scenario where nothing works, everything is imported and we are told to exist with no choices? What will she do when her apartment building is overtaken with squatters? How will she grow anything in the winter without heat and lights if electricity is limited?
Might as well barter bullets, lead, black powder, seeds or tobacco and invest in some land with a woodlot and a spring.
That’s because they need us to fund their little utopian fantasy; while we, on the other hand, have no need for them at all.
Not saying they don't exist, but is there any evidence that there are more of them now than, say, in 1998? Remember, stories about the homeless become more popular with the media when a Republican is in the White House.
Food isn’t the only thing I’ve been stocking up on.
Driving across the southwest rural areas a few weeks ago, I was amazed at how many abandoned buildings there already are. Nasty looking structures with walls knocked out, etc.. Apparently that is natural for the desert southwest. Boom and bust cycles. Heck, back in the 80-90's parts of Detroit City looked like a war had taken place there. Our infrastructure is already falling apart due to neglect and lack of maintenance caused by deficit spending (too much money servicing the debt).
A big division between Dem and GOP is between city and country, remember the 2004 election county map? It was red all over the map, outside of cities. There is no way for the country to secede from the cities.
Can we get the tax rebellion started now?
It did die. Wont be back. What came out of hibernation was the Russian Federation. A wounded smaller bear, still armed with nuclear weapons. The question is what will come out of the fall of the American Union ? An American Federation ?
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