Painful only for the unprepared.....we saw this post turtle coming. Home, vehicles and bills all paid in full, zero debt shy of some utilities and cash in the ball mason jar under the porch per se ! We garden, we hunt, we fish and cherish the harvest as the resource it is. As others have stated here......we will fix the old and save the gold ! As well we made every effort to shelter our fiscal resources from the tax man and wall street long ago.
.... Confidence is low....extremely low in goobermint right now. A congress and executive branch that is and will be heavy in socialist idealist’s is toxic for preserving the republic. Trying to keep their seditious agendas in check is gonna be right up there with herding cats. The next two years will require every real conservatives efforts on a daily basis to get the word out that the MSM squashed during the election about these domestic enemies writing laws and incrementally destroying this nation. We “must” retake congress in 2010.
If they censor the conservative message again we go old school with handouts, snail and e-mail, ad’s in small local advertisement papers, club bulletins, parties and other social events. But above all else the content must have FACTS vs opinion or rumor. Anything less is to become what we fight.
Just my opinion........and what I am doing NOW !
Semper Fi
An Old Man
"It would be irresponsible in the extreme for an individual to forestall a personal recession by taking out newer, bigger loans when the old loans can't be repaid. However, this is precisely what we are planning on a national level.
"I believe these ideas (Dr. Keynes' Olde Snakeoil Majik Elixer)hold sway largely because they promise happy, pain-free solutions. They are the economic equivalent of miracle weight-loss programs that require no dieting or exercise. The theories permit economists to claim mystic wisdom, governments to pretend that they have the power to dispel hardship with the whir of a printing press, and voters to believe that they can have recovery without sacrifice.
"As a follower of the Austrian School of economics I believe that market forces apply equally to people and nations. The problems we face collectively are no different from those we face individually. Belt tightening is required by all, including government."