[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

We’re going to need two things to get through this communist takeover until patriots can reestablish liberty:

1. A good black market
2. An underground economy

[wku man]

The black market is how average, every-day Cubans survive. When I was TDY at Gitmo a few years back, one of them told me it took about two months' salary from their government-approved job to buy the equivalent of a pair of Converse Chuck Taylors. He said everyone survived by selling black market fish or "other" meat (iguana and banana rat mostly), fixing cars or motorcycles, making clothes, distilling hooch, etc.

Everyone is going to need a black market skill in the future, I'm afraid.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[tbpiper]

3. Plenty of fresh ammunition.

[Errant]

All,

I believe the states must re-exert their rights just as we are beginning to see. Of course this was attempted around 1860 with disastrous results. Perhaps this time the rebels will be on God’s side and it doesn’t have to be a shooting war.

No one person or special interest groups of people have a chance in hell of going up against the Feds. Our only chance now is through state and local governments.

At least a dozen state assemblies have already taken the first step. I have an ideal of how we can build on this initiative in a way that will bring the federal government back into the corral the founding fathers built around it – and quickly!

[redhead]

"We’re going to need two things to get through this communist takeover until patriots can reestablish liberty:

1. A good black market
2. An underground economy

SMOOCH! Thank you. I have been saying this all along. During the Carter years, there were barter networks set up everywhere, but it doesn't have to be formal. Trade your barbering abilities for somebody else's bookkeeping abilities, for instance. Yard care for car care. and so on.