Why don’t we close down the power plants and have everyone put out “We Believe in Windmills” yard signs?
In terms of financial matters, what is very interesting to me is how financially illiterate most people are and combined with literally no intellectual curiosity, is a recipe for disaster.
I realize I’m on the fringe of things, as a kid I was fascinated by the business page of newspapers, especially the stock and mutual funds numbers. I remember getting to college and getting really excited taking a business finance class and learning how to read the stock page of the newspaper and what the numbers meant.
Basic things I think everyone should know like how interest rates work when taking out a loan to buy a car or house, how interest rates work on credit card balances, taxes of all kinds, the vast majority of people have no idea about any of this and have no curiosity to find out, basically going thru like as a financial illiterate is not a good idea.
The government may not be but we are.
Anyone who depends on the government to be ready for any kind of disaster is a fool.
I’ve got 8 cords split and stacked and another 14 cords coming in logs next month to cut, split, and stack.
Always be a year ahead in the wood heating business.
“The point is that it’s human nature not to look ahead, not to prepare.”
I really HOPE that American Thinker Jeffrey Folks is saying this tongue in cheek!
Stupid humans ACT this way - it’s not in our collective ‘nature.’ It’s been bred OUT of the vast majority of the population by now via Mother Government.
Winters are generally cold from where I come from.
Bookmark for January 2024.
No need to prepare for winter ... Global warming, y’know.
They preparing by shutting down fossil fuels, ending burning coal to make electricity, creating a highly unstable power grid, depending on expensive and high priced intermittent power supplies, and generally making life miserable for the proles. You know, just “breaking a few eggs.”
southern Arizona had a very long and cold winter 22-23. It ruined a bunch of fruit crops.