Ann Barnhardt has been extolling at length about "starving the Beast". This is the same as what KD is discussing above.
I have been looking for work these past three years, but at age 61 it obviously is not in my future. I support myself by selling odds and ends on Ebay and Craigslist, never earning more that $450 a month. The house is paid for in full as is the 17-year old vehicle on the driveway out front. Lawn and planting beds around the property are being converted into edible vegetables plantings. I only spend $10 a week on food.
I am a producer only for my own survival.
All of you should think hard about an alternative to feeding the Beast.
“All of you should think hard about an alternative to feeding the Beast.”
Oh, Sweetheart, I am SO with you on this! Been planning my escape for quite some time. Got side-tracked due to a divorce and a scumbag ex who used all of our retirement savings for wine, women and song before I could stop it.
These past few years have been both a political and personal hell for so many of us. I know many others who are well past the point of no return.
I’m right behind you!
BTTTTTT
In all due respect, this article reminded me of Bernie de la Rionda’s closing argument the other day. It was all over the place.
And America is a full-on fascist tyranny now.
That's not true at all. The prosecution gets to go last because it has the burden of proof. That's true in Federal courts and I don't know of a single state where it's not true also. Karl doesn't know what he's talking about here.
“F*ed”
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Feed?
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Foed?
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The blood of an Irishman?
I believe the end has already been written and I agree with much of what Karl says.
However, my life remains full and I work hard at my job, enjoy, love, and cherish my family, and help others as I see fit. I won’t “withdraw from the system” because the system is simply the landscape in which I live - no different than the mountains I look at now outside the window.
I am angry at what our nation is doing to my young children and their futures. However, I will still teach them to love, live, and enjoy life for what it is - a short moment in time. In an effort to be wise, I also devote some of my time and energy to preparing to care for my family and others if the need arises. We already provide much of the food we grow and produce to help others.
I will continue to be a producer because that is what God demands of me. I can’t control the rest of the landscape or story beyond trying to do the right thing. My kids will grow up and hopefully understand their father was a producer who provided a good life for them and others. I hope they follow my example and provide for those around them after I am gone.
Withdrawal for the sake of political argument places politics above the moral obligations of God. I can’t do it and respectfully submit that your path is not the answer. Furthermore, I would respectfully submit that the system will collapse of it’s own weight, through no fault of either of us. The government is already borrowing and printing money far beyond what is being produced and the math is impossible no matter how much they tax us.
Good Lord, this is good!
I think you are suggesting the producers should ‘shrug’. A great concept but there will be much pain for everyone before the system corrects itself. Many, including, the good folks, would not survive...
I knew two inventors who were initially drinking the Kool-aid (They said they felt “Sorry” for me when I didn’t want to give The Won a “chance”) right up to the point when Obama spoke with Joe the Plumber and mentioned that he believed in redistribution of wealth. My friends were then 100% against him -they couldn’t understand why the proceeds from their cutting edge technology which they worked to develop just about 7 days a week should be redistributed to someone else.
The husband would be accepted in more boardrooms if he had credentials to match his expertise so he had been contemplating a Phd - which was not something he wanted but seemed to need to get in the door at some fortune 500 type businesses.
They ended up campaigning against the ‘One’ and when he was elected, sat back in shock and then developed “Plan B” because it was no longer “worth it” to pursue “Plan A” (bring cutting edge technology to market) during a time that the government had a stated intention of making sure they redistributed proceeds.
They moved out of state and went to live in the sticks and home schooled so that hubby could pursue the PhD for 4 years (Obama’s) term. They continued working on their patents etc. but had no intention of bringing anything new and profitable to market until the government was reconstituted or realized that no one wanted to produce if it was to be taken from them. Both husband and wife took up part-time, lesser-skilled technical labor on the side to put the macaroni on the table and they began gardening etc. Since he was re-elected I really doubt they have changed course but are probably amassing a stockpile of patents and ideas for development which they will share with no one until it benefits them to do so. So full-time, top-tier technology intellect dropped down to part-time low tier tech.
And as some have said on this thread, skilled laborers in their upper years are currently excluded from the workplace. Again, top tier skills exit the marketplace.
PS: I believe the term for producers who don’t produce will become “Refuseniks” in the new regime.
O.M.G..... I can't take it anymore. The word "shenanigans" needs to be furthermore stricken from all conservative discussions of the Left. If any word conveys a less serious, less dire, less criminal intent than "shenanigans" I don't know what it is.
Shenanigans are something 8-yr-old children engage in when they put a whoopie cushion on dad's chair. The hard-core American Commie Left does not engage in "shenanigans."
While I sympathize with his goals, a general strike would be extremely hard to organize, it would have to last for weeks if not months to be effective, & it directly punishes the best part of this nation - the producers, even as the corruptocrats continue to live lavishly on the public teat. After month of strikes, many businesses will be out of business. Financial ruin & chaos for this country & the world is a possibility.
I think there is a better way. It has worked many times before in numerous countries: Massive, peaceful, long term demonstrations in Washington DC & every bastion of the welfare state.
Take the fight to the steps of the houses of tyranny. Fill WDC streets with protests, such that just getting to work is near impossible for the corruptocrats. Let the ruling class taste our anger EVERY DAY for as long as it takes to force mass resignations from them. Single out individual corruptocrats for scorn. Take it to their homes, their boat slips, everywhere they go they are accompanied by truckloads of peaceful, but determined protesters. Make these people so uncomfortable they don't want to be in WDC anymore.
If you are gonna quit your job or close your business to protest the growing tyranny, why sit at home & hope for the best, which may never occur? Why severely weaken the country, perhaps enabling even more tyranny?
Get in their faces in all their places until they squeal like the pigs they are. Fancy dinners in fancy restaurants are not so great when there are 1000 demonstrators just outside cursing your name. The restaurant owner might just ask you not to come back - you ruin his business.
It is better to take the fight directly to the enemy - the ruling class of Washington, DC. Make their lives so miserable for so long that they either resign or change their evil ways.
Patriots don't have to impoverish themselves, nor do they have to be violent; just determined & rock stubborn. Oh, & willing to spend months in WDC, though I think the pigs will start squealing almost immediately. Being uncomfortable is the thing they hate most. Sweat rings look especially bad on an expensive suit.
A million people protesting in front of the Capitol for weeks will get their attention - I guarantee it.
Starve the beast. We need a clean sheet of paper. The current gov’t is dysfunctional and unexecutable.
Don’t be distracted. The Federal government is going to use sleight of hand, to keep our attention focussed on riots and demonstrations like the ones in Oakland, San Francisco and elsewhere, to try and give Boehner and Cantor breathing room to force amnesty for illegal aliens down our throats. DON’T LET THEM DO THIS!!