Is it Congress that “controls the purse”. I know that is what it SAYS but how long now has there “been no budget”. No one cares.
Now that leaving home for a job in that factory up North is no longer an option we must learn to do more with less and less with more.
During the depression one rural family could easily make a living tending 15 acres of cropland with a good half acre family garden. Dig a root cellar cut some firewood and brew some moonshine and brush your tooth before you went to bed and keep the Churches open and full.
I like having my grown children living underfoot. One schoolteacher, a doctor, a medical student, an engineering student, a business major, a stay at home son who likes video gaming, and two high schoolers who like to fight and make loud noises on the floor above my living quarters.
I am happy. I have 330 acres of cropland and by my calculations enough to let each child farm about 40 acres and still keep a little for myself. We also have 120 acres of pasture land with a 40 cow calf operation. Did I mention we have chickens?
Looking for some mules for when the oil runs out. The horse drawn stuff may make a come back.
Stocked up on guns and ammo when Bill Clinton was fresh enjoying tumescence
without pharmaceutical help back in the early 90’s.
We are woefully unprepared for lights out. Look at Katrina and Sandy.