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  • From: "Wendy" <crazygardens AT verizon.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Short-term versus long-term
  • Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:33:26 -0400

I personally do not want my fish dipped in melamine or anyother non-fishy substance. The fault is not in the regulations, but in that they were not applied across the board. And.... I do not think hunger or destitution will have anything to do with the remaking of our economy. The same force that caused this mess will pull us out of it..... greed. Nature abhors a vacuum and so does the free market. If there is a market niche, it will be filled. I am just hoping that there are still enough old machinists around to run the old machine shops.

Wendy
who is hoping this collapse is total and absolute.




>I think is time to dig out my old aquaponics notes. What has Tom and
Paula
been up lately?

Wendy, I think you are absolutely right about this .... with a couple of
provisos.

It is quite true that what will happen is that soon there will be no Chinese
imports and the fish aisle will be empty. Then there will be expensive US
fish there.

And by all means dust off the aquaculture notes, even if you don't sell fish,
you'd have fish to eat.

But one of the main reasons that US fish is scarce and expensive is the
moronic and laconic regulations. The Chinese can dip fish in vats of melamine and
sell them to us, but if we don't pay obeisance to the fascist Agribusiness, we
are enjoined by law not to traffic in fish.

I hope hunger will change that.

Not just fish, but as soon as bolts and fittings can' t be imported, people
will dust off the numerous machine shops, .... then sewing shops, carpentry
shops, injection molding businesses, etc. etc. As I have often opined, in this
new way of things emerging, it is only the those who expect to sit by the
computer and watch their annuities amass that are going to hurt. It will take
some time to get there, but hunger and destitution are great motivators. </HTML>
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