With a one and a two and a three...
Please consider this our weekly Preppers’ Thread to post progress, good buys, DIY projects, questions, advice and ideas....
So who are the creditors when the rest of the world is broke as well? Who can physically collect what is owed on the debt? An internationally agreed upon debt jubilee where all debt everywhere owed to everyone is summarily cancelled is probably the way to go! Unfortunately, a very evil person will probably be at the helm of it all and certain economic and biometric controls will be imposed on folks in order for anyone to take part in the debt relief revolution!
Everyone should see the movie, Too Big To Fail. Or read the book.
POP!
and we all fall down.
So who are the creditors when the rest of the world is broke as well? Who can physically collect what is owed on the debt? An internationally agreed upon debt jubilee where all debt everywhere owed to everyone is summarily cancelled is probably the way to go! Unfortunately, a very evil person will probably be at the helm of it all and certain economic and biometric controls will be imposed on folks in order for anyone to take part in the debt relief revolution!
The creditors are the US taxpayers until the tree of liberty is refreshed.
Sams (online) has $300 off their Food Storage Kit. Item #484863. Offer good from May15 - June 9. If you’re a Sams Club member.
Pop goes the weasel-ers: i.e., the lion’s share of the Western worlds aristocrates. Unfortunately, the weasel-ees will (in general) pay more dearly for this MOOTA scam (Money-Out-Of-Thin-Air); the crime of world history...
Posts like this inspire me to buy more stocks. The market climbs a wall of worry.
Maybe Gorebull Warming will get us first (snort).
Anyone got any suggestions on non-chemical (doesn’t have to be reapplied after rain) means of keeping mosquitos away?
mREIT’s will be the first to fall.
And, I kept putting off buying Dak ham and bought two cans recently and need to buy a bunch more. There is no meat in the professionally packed long term food, so have been buying canned meat in various forms for a long time but need to add the ham.
I have store bought food that will last, plus canned meat, and when all the store bought food is gone, then the long term food will start with canned meat to add to it.
If my effort to grow food in my garden works, there will be fresh plant food to add to the grocery store food and the long term food on a ongoing basis.
All I can do is control what I can to prepare for whatever may happen and that's what I do. My immediate interest in the future is whether or not a hurricane will come my way this summer/fall. If it does, I'm ready right now.
Where can a guy buy lime from?
Well, I knew as soon as the oil prices spiked as well as the 2008 collapse that food prices would be going up. So I went out and bought all the necessities and things we like that I could pay for.
Then I started planning how I would provide if inflation got so bad that I wouldn’t be able to afford the things we need for a nutritious diet. That’s when the gardening hobby turned into a focus on becoming self sufficient in growing food, and other things, like beer, wine, and fuel.
I was fortunate to have moved half of my measly amount of stocks/mutual funds into treasuries in november of 2007. Have been withdrawing some of that and buying silver coins on the dips.
While bartering with your stash of stuff is probably going to be the main way to obtain whatever you need, I am thinking some silver and cash is necessary - especially for people who are making payments on their home.
Inflation will be reflected in Real Estate Taxes, Insurance, etc. Silver helps to hedge against that. When the shtf, silver can have a place too.
At some point the finanacial institutions will be looking for payments, so I am thinking some cash on hand for that to last as long as your prepping supplies. Then enough silver for a year’s worth of payments.
Also, you will be needing to pay your real estate taxes. So stash cash for the first year and then some silver. Whatever the inflation rate is, the silver should keep the pace so that you will be able to make the house payment and pay taxes.
We have a house on 2 acres fully paid for, but it’s about a 3 hour drive from where we are living. If it looks like we won’t be able to hang onto this place, for good we should be able to stay for a year or two and that gives us time to get new gardens and fruits going there if we have to.
We also have 22 acres about 20 minutes away with a stream, so that’s another fall back that we could get ready during the first year or so.
But we’ll be better off if we can just hang on where we are, so I continue to focus on that.
I have some very long term supplies like wheat, rice, beans, flour, oats, powdered milk etc. that is supposed to be good for 30 years, so I don’t really have to rotate it, just check it. If canned veggies go on sale, I buy 2 or 3 cases. If meat goes on sale, I buy extra and can it in my pressure cooker. I have a big stash of sugar, and a recipe to make sugar from beets. In addition I have plenty of honey and syrup. I am also growing sorgham this year to experiment with making sorgham syrup.
I am gradually building up those supplies to a goal of 1 year for 10 people. I have a long ways to go. But I do have 3 months for everyone of the most stable and necessary food items. Three months gets me to the next planting season, so that relieves the pressure a bit.
Next month, I will begin to add some things such as battery operated fans, extra batteries for it and a way to recharge them, as I continue to concentrate on building up the food supplies, and medical stuff.
QE is accomplishing the debauchment of the US Dollar. The IRS takes in $2.5 Trillion and the Federal Budget spends $3.75Trillion per year.Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency.
By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become 'profiteers,' who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat.
As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.
Lenin was certainly right.
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
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