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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Time to buy land and hone homesteading skills
  • Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 20:10:29 EST

Don,

Your concerns and conclusions are correct. But Bush is only the poster boy
for the problem and not the problem itself.

Many have pointed out the financial house of cards we have been building for
some time now. A very large percent of our population expects to use goods
and services for the rest of their lives without producing any of them -
those
on disability, SS, pensions, and those banking on the profits of stock
portfolios. The rest of the people in the country have over the past few
decades
abandoned doing any work that actually accomplishes anything and instead do
no
more than shuffle papers onto and each other's desks yet in real terms they
are
much like endowed in that they use real goods and commodities while not
contributing to their production. That is, our motor companies are failing
while
foreign built vehicles do a thriving business. Try to find clothing,
electronics, hardware, tools, etc. which are made in the US. Now a
frightening percent
of our food is of foreign origin.

It is the 'oil only in USD' schemes that have persuaded the rest of the
world to send us its oil, its natural resources, its manufactured goods, and
finally its food .... and for what? What do we send them? Our exported
lifestyle
and our debt and little else.

When the world calls back in its markers, as Iran is about to do, we are
screwed. You've heard the blather that the US has always made good on its
debt
and it will now, the Congress won't let it do otherwise. But if every
country
holding US debt dumps it (or even a sizeable percent of it) there is NOTHING
Congress can do. Nothing. Whatever claim any of us have to US dollars
simply
won't buy much any more. Doesn't matter if the Government or a pension plan
or
a stock portfolio promises to pay you $XXX, when we aren't making anything
and other countries no longer extend us credit, it won't buy anything.

Don's right. It's time to hone homesteading skills because if you put that
spinach seed in the ground the odds are very much in your favor that you will
get some spinach to eat. All other prospects are iffy compared to that.




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