I’m Galt for sure and will not spend until this idiot has gone
forgot to add
a guy from MI who moved own here has been spending like crazy since bozo got in, course it’s all on credit cards, even yesterday he bought himself a steam cleaner and a power washer
yes he’s a left kook and believe me not all there in the head
SPEND LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW.........
Telemachus Sneezed ...
Yes the reports keep saying the economy is improving. and then on the Friday news dump a correction report adjsuts the numbers "unexpectedly." Just today there was an article posted on FR noting that the 99 weeks of unemployment was about to expire for a lot of people.
While I don't agree with paying people to not work for nearly 2 years, eventually many of those people are going to lose their homes and cars. A lot of people refer to the economy as a house of cards..... I think of it as a Jenga game..... take a block from Peter and you give it to Paul. Take more blocks from Peter and you give them to Tom, Dick, and Harry. Peter is running out of bloks and the tower is going to fall.
The philosophical soliloquies were the core of the book. The rest was just to provide setting for the speeches.
Several Russian aircraft designers did some of their best work while serving time during WW2 in Stalin's prisons. Don't be so sure that the State can't squeeze you for your intellectual property. I will admit that to many of those Russian engineers patriotism trumped any problems that they had with the Soviet regime.
Up until the past few weeks, we have not been spending more on retail/discretionary items, and do not anticipate doing so anytime soon. We have had to spend more money lately due to some events of our lives recently, but have not just “gone shopping” for the fun of it.
Only thing I spend money on was a car. Would have preferred not to, but the old one would never have made it till 2012. (plus his CAFE standards scared me about what my choices might be in a couple of years)
Spend as little as possible.
Stock up on food and ammo.
Only spending to stock up on those things I think will be necessary and less available, including homeschooling materials.
Going Galt? Well I’m already earning almost nothing at a brain dead job.. not quite an unskilled track laborer but close ,,, as far as feeding the beast I recently started a not-for-profit and am using that umbrella to run and host several businesses that will (while legitimately helping others) help my family... also it opens me up to the world of “grants” ... until the rules change I’m playing the game as it’s presented. And I already have my own “Galts Gulch” up and running in a free country. I need more but I’m pretty well situated.
I have property and a home in a state and location where, if things do fall apart, the entire local and State Government apparatus will fall apart and have no more effect on my life. Local resources will go away and the State will have to concentrate on the major urban areas far away.
I have the ability and resources to plant what I need to survive and can hunt and fish on my property and nearby on my neighbor's/friends property.
I have the ability to store and transport my own gas to get my family there when needed.
I have not worked since last July. Further, no employer hires employees over 60 (much less over 62), unless it is for very menial labor.
Therefore, I am living on SS, unemployment, and any other gummint handout I can find.
If that is "John Gault", then I'm a'doin' it!
I am still ‘going Galt.’ Other than absolute necessities, I buy nothing. Would love to get some new things but I just won’t do it.
We have lowered our federal tax liability by over 95%. Life is good. We’ll reconsider if and when the Socialists are out of power.
Going Galt, with a Henry Bowman chaser...
Pigs need feeding...
I have four years to pay off the house. Then I have low expenses.