Posted on 03/24/2010 5:29:57 AM PDT by CharlotteVRWC
I am at a loss... are there ways to 'come out ahead financially' in a Socialist country?
Silver, gold, canned food, dry food, farm land, bottled spirits.
It’s easy - just be part of the aristocracy.
No. You get the hell out, that’s what you do. It’s what I did.
lead, brass
yep, marry into the oligarchy
or the Clinton way- compile damaging and therefore valuable dossiers on them
Yup - get elected to Congress.
Well, I’m pretty well ‘stuck here’. How high is property tax on ‘farmland’?
How do you succeed in a socialist/fascist state?
Become a high level functionary and don’t say a word to anyone about anything. Stay low enough to avoid most of the purges and murders but get high enough to afford some of the nicer things. How you raise your children is tough. Do you tell them the truth about the system and life and God and risk them betraying you if they turn, or saying something they shouldn’t even if they are loyal and getting you all imprisoned or impoverished, or do you hide the truth and let them be used by the state? Let me know your call on that. Then if there is anywhere to escape to, do that, especially if you have enough valuable information to be paid for it.
Run for office and join the enemy.
Actually since that’s not an option for most, we must fight it with every fiber in our being. Just because there’s no other America to go to. This America was IT until the democrap cockroaches came along.
Join the Politburo.
There are lots of great overseas funds. Short treasuries. Large cap stocks may do ok (they are a part of the global economy). If you believe inflation will rear its ugly head, buy funds that invest in mining companies. Health care insurance funds will do ok for a few years (30M new customers just added to the rolls — I won’t do this on principle). Junk bonds will be OK, but after rates rise — there will so many companies whose bonds become junk. There will be some sectors that will be ok in the longer run, but those are unknown to me right now.
Sage advice. Now we have to kill you.
Create a bogus “clean energy research” company, suck up to ‘Rat party officials, then get a million dollar “stimulous” grant.
I think a killer investment would be in companies that produce automation equipment for retailers and fast food outlets. With Obamacare mandating that these companies provide full healthcare coverage to even part-time employees and their entire families, you are going to see a lot of them move to the automated self-checkout lines to reduce the number of employees.
Drugs and prostitution. And scam artistry.
Look at other Socialist lands. They are FULL of this. Crime crime crime. It’s the ONLY way to make money in those hell holes.
Well, not to make money.. but to keep money, certainly. To make LOTS of money, certainly. We have a low crime rate in the US because reasonable people want to work. Remove that and this place will become hell on earth.
If a woman knocks on your door late at night ... “I’ve run out of gas, can I come in?” You’ll greet her with a handgun pointed at her face .. “GO AWAY”.
If a child is looking for his lost puppy. You’ll ignore them and walk on.
If someone steps out in front of your car, you’ll aim to hit them and drive on (I’m reading the Argentina survivalist article until I memorise it.. it’s amazing)
Criminals will look you and me. There will be no way to tell them apart.
It won’t matter if you look like a poor person or a rich person. A criminal will bash you over the head for $20. They will know you have $20 on you not because you are dressed well or poorly - They will know you have $20 on you because you aren’t bashing someone over the head trying to take their money (Thus, you already have it)
Gangland “Shark Bumps” will be commonplace. People talking to you, scoping you out. Even bumping into your shoulder - just to see how you react. I am the pro at dealing with this now. (I was a white boy in a predominantly black neighborhood, now in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood)
Fake sneakers to fake pills. All of these collapsed economies are full of them. You’ll see a LOT more lead-laden copies of Toothpaste and fake jewelry. And a LOT of fake gold. Get very familiar with how to identify fake gold.
So the answer is sad. It’s crime. That’s what other countries have turned to when they go through similar events.
Sorry.
Easy: buy, lie, and scr*w yourself a way to the top. In the process, you must betray your nearest and dearest.
When you’ve arrived, keep the masses hungry and weak. Organize mass executions. Prohibit the internet. Shoot a failing moon rocket once in a few years. Let a nuclear power plant melt down every decade.
Success guaranteed.
How to survive socialized medicine
http://www.ehow.com/how_5789118_survive-socialized-medicine-_obamacare_.html?shared=true
Taxes aren’t too bad. Most counties provide a break on farm land.
However, the price of farm ground has skyrocketed.
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