Posted on 02/25/2008 2:41:29 PM PST by Isara
Folks, whether you avoid thinking about it or not, we may be governed by socialists in all three branches of our government next year. We are going to get a Liberal administration one way or another. We already have Liberal judges all over the country. In the worst-case scenario, we would also get a bigger-margin Democratic congress with Liberals in the leadership positions. As conservatives we don't feel doom and gloom all the time as Liberals do (except now they have 'hope and change'). Lives go on. A good thing about being a conservative is that we prepare for a rainy day.
We can't do anything to change the mess that is going on in our country overnight. It is an accumulation of the ills in the society, planned or unplanned, from mal-education to entitlement mentality, Oprahfication, dishonest media, immorality, multi-culturalism, political correctness, motivations initiated by envy, fear and/or hatred and so on. It seems that all the fruits of these errors are going to ripen at the same time.
Let's brainstorm what may happen and prepare for it right now. We still have almost a year to do whatever necessary to protect our families and ourselves. Hopefully, we still have strength left afterwards to reclaim our country back to be a shining city upon the hill again.
Buy lots and lots and lots of ammo.
We have been thinking about subsistence farming. Maybe it’s time to do more research on it.
Its a fantastic measurement of poverty. The more people engaged in low productivity subsistence farming the lower the standard of living.
Check out a magazine called "Countryside & Small Stock Journal". Lots of good articles re: homesteading, living off the grid and just plain common sense advice on escaping the rat race. Lots of articles by those who have successfully done so.
"Mother Earth" is for the Yuppie wannabees, "Countryside" is for the dirt-on-the-overalls types.
Root crops: sweet potatoes, potatoes, carrots
Grass crops: corn, sorghum
Legumes: beans, peanuts
Leafy vegetables: cabbage, lettuce, spinach,
Fruits: tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers
I have been thinking about the possible coming socialism.
Certainly, get arms and ammo now, before any more restrictions are put on them, makes sense. Be willing to lie about ownership if the gov’ment wants to ‘register’ your weapons.
Pay down debt. They will be taxing you out the ying-yang. What little money you have left in your paycheck, you want to belong to you, not your creditors.
I agree w/the poster who said ‘get a government job.’ Tho it doesn’t need to be w/the government, you need some kind of job that is either recession or illegal alien proof.
Eat and live simply - Keep your money for buying private medical service (if it’s still available), ‘cause you will get effec at the state-run national healthcare.
Eat and live simply - Keep your money for gasoline, which they will tax so that it’s $10 a gallon so that people have an ‘incentive’ to take the bus.
Keep your mouth shut - I see a Hillary Clinton administration as one as close to a communist, informer regime as anything since Russia. Hillary has some severe personal issues with power and control. She doesn’t care if she’s liked, which means she’ll do anything to anybody. Bubba, tho he wants power, has a psychological need to be liked. He will compromise, he’ll look for the good time, and the smiling photo-op. Hillary is his polar opposite.
I expect to see kids in Red Pioneer kerchiefs - the Boy and Girl Scouts will be disbanded as too conservative or not diverse enough or some other BS. Kids will rat on parents for not recycling or for smoking.
It ain’t pretty.
How do you protect the crops from the creatures?
I occasionally put "Native American" on forms. After all I WAS born here. Another approach is to check the "Other" box and leave the space blank. :^)
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True, but during the Great Depression, other than those who lost their farms due to early "bad choices", farmers didn't go hungry, and had a place to live out of the weather. They might have had to burn corn cobs(when the cob pile wasn't frozen) or even cow chips, but they got by. Folks in the cities didn't fare as well. My mother's family was the one burning corn cobs. My father's mother had it rougher, but she had brothers who were farmers, and had a land of her own that one of them farmed. She, my Dad, my Aunt and my Uncle didn't starve, but she did other peoples laundry and cleaned other people's houses to get by, and there weren't many folks in her part of town that needed and could afford those services, so she had to take the street car across town to where the "big houses" were. My Dad did too, to shovel the walks of the people who lived in those big houses. He also pen raised quail and pheasants for a little extra cash, and also bantam chickens for fun, and for eggs. The culls became chicken soup.
Copper, lead, brass, bronze, nickel, titanium, magnesium, zinc, aluminum, carbides, etc. would seem nearly as negotiable in a barter economy, and much less likely to draw unwanted attention.
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I gave a bottle of that to my brother in law. He made margaritas with it. I never talked to him again. Fortunately my sister got rid of his pathetic a$$.
Think of a pendulum swinging on a ship that is listing heavily to port (left). With the ship (America) as the reference, it looks like it is only moving farther left. With respect to the earth (God's universe) the swing of the pendulum hasn't changed at all, it must swing about the gravity vector. The only thing that changes is the perspective of the observer, (at least that's what I tell myself when I thing about the phenomenon you point out). If you're going to start a ping list for this thread, please count me in.
Even if our standard of living fell 5X we would not reduced to a position where subsistence farming would be a net improvement.
Just for the record, I don’t expect American’s standard of living to fall anymore than 3X.
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