Posted on 06/25/2013 3:02:39 PM PDT by Kartographer
#1 According to a survey that was just released, 76 percent of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. But most Americans are acting as if their jobs will always be there. But the truth is that mass layoffs can occur at any time. In fact, it just happened at one of the largest law firms in New York City.
#2 27 percent of all Americans do not have even a single pennysaved up.
#3 46 percent of all Americans have $800 or less saved up.
#4 Less than one out of every four Americans has enough money stored away to cover six months of expenses.
#5 Wages continue to fall even as the cost of living continues to go up. Today, the average income for the bottom 90 percent of all income earners in America is just $31,244. An increasing percentage of American families are just trying to find a way to survive from month to month.
#6 62 percent of all middle class Americans say that they have had to reduce household spending over the past year.
#7 Small business is becoming an endangered species in America. In fact, only about 7 percent of all non-farm workers in the United States are self-employed at this point. That means that the vast majority of Americans are depending on someone else to provide them with an income. But what is going to happen as those jobs disappear?
#8 In 1989, the debt to income ratio of the average American family was about 58 percent. Today it is up to 154 percent.
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If I’m going to eat a hog, I want to pretty much know what goes in it. And a parasite is off my menu.
Sorry to hear that you are having any problems. I hope that things improve for you soon.
It’s a real problem if you don’t have any fuel for the backhoe. I’m thinking scarecrows. A little twine and a couple of crossbeams and you could have a marionette show for the kiddies. Some strings of lights and you have tasteful holiday decorations. After that, it’s tough.
Use the dead bodies to keep the zombies at bay.
Seriously, I’ve thought of hot composting, but you need a lot of “hot” manure, like chicken.
I once buried a freshly dead skunk in the middle of my compost heap, and at 165 F, it was un-findable after a couple of weeks. No bones or anything.
Just adjust for scale, and I can see this as viable.
I was told one time that the Turks use to hang bodies of dead thieves in trees around their supply depots in Korean and after which they didn’t have to worry much about other thieves from then on out.
I knew there was a reason I liked you. ;)
/johnny
Anybody in the neighborhood own a backhoe?
I say feed them to the hogs or anyway other way to completely get rid of the body otherwise they will keep voting ‘DemomRATS’!
When it falls, game on.
Time to get basic.
No electric. Check.
No fuel. Check.
No food. Check.
No Water. Check.
Bic lighters. Check. Tires for necklaces. Check.
Snow tries for ballistic protection. check
I have the tools and the skills and faith in God. It just don't work without those things.
/johnny
two cases of the cheapest whiskey in half pints will make you rich.
Add half pints of liquor and tampons to that list. Sounds funny but both those items will trade easily.
/johnny
Item #1 contradicts item #3.
If 75% of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck then their effective rate of savings is zero. Then how can 46% save less than $800 because then at least that 46% is not living paycheck-to-paycheck.
If you have $800.00 in the bank and your next paycheck is say $1200.00 but your bills dues when you get that check are $1500.00. What would you call that?
You have tobacco, I have cases and cases of wine (along with all our other Prepper supplies)
They will both be very valuable for bartering. I recently had a neighbor who traded me five free-range chickens for two bottles of wine. I froze the chickens, they got drunk. Guess who was happier the next day?
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