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  • From: william Eggers <wce1482 AT yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore
  • Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 09:25:45 -0800 (PST)

First, we have not had a supply and demand type of market for a long, long
time.  Part of the reason is that the government has interfered or regulated
markets such as the agricultural market and the other reason is that as
companies get bigger, they distort the markets.  When they get so that only
one or two companies control a commodity or good, then there is no compition
at all and they control supply and thus also control demand.  As in the last
depression, so in this one, there will be a glut of products with no buyers. 
Goods will be cheap, but if you don't have anything to buy with, it doesn't
make any difference. As far as a time line.  I expect a minumin of 10 years
before we get back to where we were.  The last time it was sometime in the
50s before we got back.  At the worst, it could be the end of life as we know
it.

--- On Tue, 12/9/08, bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:

From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore
To: wce1482 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 10:00 AM

I agree with you bill. I think it will apply to other goods, materials,
commodoties, etc, too. I' just can't figure how long it will last.
With all of the government interference there is much that is artificial and
un-natural in many markets. True market 'Supply and demand' stops
working as an axiom as government increses or decreases one or the other
sides,
artificially.

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--- On Tue, 12/9/08, william Eggers <wce1482 AT yahoo.com> wrote:

Actually, I think it will be the other way around,  Because there will be so
little demand for oil and gasoline, there will be a surplus.  It will be
cheap,
but as most people will have no money or other means to get it, there will be
plenty
>








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Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
>
>>> Back in the day when that phrase was written, meek had a
>>> different
>> meaning. It meant 'well-disciplined', as in "the Roman soldier's
>> horse was meek and responded at the slightest touch". When looked
>> at from this perspective, the meek could very well inherit the
>> earth ;)
>
> Excellent point! When Jesus said "The meek shall inherit the
> Earth..." , the word used there is 'praus' which means 'easy going'.
> 'not given to being spooked or ruffled'.
>

Thanks Roxann and James for some thought provoking stuff on the word meek..
As I wrote that yesterday, in the quiet of the house, I was listening to
a mouse under the kitchen sink, and thinking about mice and how
ubiquitious they are in life and literature. They are meek, they are
bold, quiet, noisy,...etc. Our thinking on mice really reflects a
dichotomy...house mouse, field mouse...etc. etc.
So I was in this train of thought about mice when I thought of the word
meek and that quote free associated out of that. I wasn't really
thinking about Jesus at all(sorry), just wondering if the damn mice were
going to win the war I am waging on them and take over the freaking world.

You live in the country, you deal with mice..I don't know anyone who
doesn't...I usually catch a mouse or two when the seasons change, maybe
three a year..I keep mousetraps set all the time...one in the pantry,
one near the water heater, one under the sink. BUT just in the last
month, we have caught eight, two about a month ago, and 6 in the last 4
days. I am listening to another mouse as I type now. They are somehow
coming in under the kitchen sink, following the pipes through the
openings. The space under the house is less than a foot there, so it
would be an easy jump from the ground in the crawlspace to the pipes.
It is like a parade of mice..I have caught what I think is the entire
family..must be another juvenile in there, though..how many mice live in
a colony or mischief or whatever it is called? To fix the hole(s), we
will have to remove the plumbing and the cabinet...not an easy task, so
for now, at least until the weekend, I am dealing with freaking mice in
the house. There is nothing to eat under the sink, so I have no idea of
why they are there. I haven't found them anywhere else, but in looking
around for holes and poop, I did see a chewed phone line...no wonder the
damn bedroom phone was so staticy...(fixed now).

Bev


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hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yoda




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