Not a roll on the floor and plan to keep my a**, but that is funny. The only thing . . . the soil is probably radioactive and will produce radioactive turnips. Lame, I know, but it's late.
I come from a long line on all sides of generations of American yeomen (farmers), and they were self-sufficient. Paid everything in cash. If they didn't have the cash, they improvised and used scraps for writing paper. They weren't poor, just thrifty. It wasn't quite all that neat and tidy for all of them, but that was a way of life. Still have the receipts for the farmhouse materials they bought and paid cash for in the first decade of the 1900's. If you owned your own land free and clear, that was your security. The house was built by a Swede with hand tools. Sister has those. The house still stands and is in good condition after three generations of renters.
My father paid cash for everything except half the house mortgage. We became citified. But the call of the land runs deep.
I finally broke down and got a credit card when I got on the internet; the isp I wanted wouldn't let you pay monthly by check (think they do now if you pay more) and aol still sucks.
I'll read that other link tomorrow. I have to confess I'm not into time travel; I think some people may have a gift of seeing glimpses of the future, and life has taught me to read invisible writing on walls because sometimes you just know given x and y odds are you will get z.
Wish I had a better handle on world economics which are very complicated. Government used to encourage us to save and buy bonds, now they love it when we spend and go into debt because it's good for the economy.
