Excellent advice imho.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Since Christmas we have bought nothing but gas, food, and...defensive things.
I will not be a sucker any longer.
The problem with this thinking is you can end up shooting yourself in the foot just to kick dirt up in someone else’s face.
As soon as one of these people loses their OWN job due to their company’s sales revenues plummeting, their tune will change.
I don’t know if it’s resistance as much as good policy. The minute we got back from our yearlong retirement trip we pretty much ceased spending all together and we’ve been putting more and more money into assets that can survive a currency devaluation.
Anyone who spends with reckless abandon right now is a fool
Exactly, buy nothing!!
“Atlas Shrugs” or “Who is John Galt?”
Atlas has begun to shrug.
Soon, he’s going to have to pick up a gun.
There is no Galt’s Gulch. We’re already there. We just need to get rid of the vermin.
1. If you don't have a gun, get one,
2. If you have a gun, buy another,
3. Buy Spam and ammo (in sealed packs if you can get it),
4. Pay off your bills like your life depended on it,
5. Buy a truck, a Ford - nothing else,
6. If you need another car, buy a used one, if the owner you're buying it from voted for Obama, pass him by,
7. Don't do any business with Democrats, ever.
Perhaps he should have bought that Escalade in 2008 when spending by the wealthy was down ten percent.
These productive folks might also give employees walking papers. Like that idea of looking for employees’ vehicles with Obama stickers and firing them, works for me. Elections have consequences...
After not having a job for a little over a year and a half, and lucky enough to be starting one soon, there are some things I need. Like building a desk and bookcase so I can get rid of the boxes I used to move almost a year ago. Then there’s dental work I need done, more surgery, a car to get me to work in a half hour vs. 2 hours with public transport...
Join the underground economy, deal in cash, report nothing that doesnt have a paper trail attached to it. Starve the beast. Buy nothing that has sales tax on it, cash and barter defeats them right at the root. It stops their revenues.
Go to another country to purchase items...like Mexico help them block this Kenyan. If you need to lay off employees...lay off the ones that voted the Kenyan in. They wanted change give ‘em change.
WE don’t make that much $$ but we have cut back on spending. If I don’t need it I don’t buy it.
We are also avoiding buying from companies that are in bed with government or are Maobama cronies. For example, we had been thinking about getting a Hummer H3, but that's off the table since the auto takeover. I haven't bought any ammo at Walmart since they got on board with the healthcare bill.
Of course it takes a certain degree of sacrifice, but if enough of us do these things, we can cost our enemies countless billions and help to starve them out.
Maybe also put some cash in the mattress so you aren’t as “rich” on paper in case they find some way to work that against you.
For Christmas this year my wife is knitting me a scarf and I am making her a cutting board out of some hardwood scraps I’ve had hanging around for years. I’m putting up a couple of strands of outdoor lights to entertain the little kids in the neighborhood.
70% of the economy is consumer spending. The big profit month for most retailers is the Holiday Season. All the Hopey Changey folks better dump extra billions into the economy starting in November. But they won’t ‘cause they can’t.
Dan (if you used your real name), you just signed up for IRS audit; let us know how it goes.
I think a better way of putting this is “don’t invest where you will be punished”. This is far more to the point. For example, if Obama wants to jack up the capital gains tax, don’t invest where there are capital gains, instead invest in tax free investments, like (selected) municipal bonds.
Since the government has outlawed incandescent light bulbs, starting with 100W bulbs in January of 2012, that is, in just 28 months, invest heavily in 100W bulbs. Buy enough light bulbs to last you for 20 years. Figure 5 a year, that’s 100 bulbs, or 25 four-packs.
Because the government’s economic policies are so reckless and out of control, it would probably be a good idea to invest in some emergency food and other supplies, as well as health products.
But the all time best investment is always people. If you have a network of friends, and you all work for your mutual benefit, even in small ways, you cut the government out of a lot of the process.