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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

And that's precisely where they want you, Bob.  Because, your flying monkey 
bankers wouldn't be there if it wasn't for your neighbor with too much debt.

We own all the toys that supposedly give you status.  Paid for, cash!  When 
we wanted something we saved for it.  We didn't make money for your fmbs. 
If your neighbor wasn't there, then the foundation would be yanked out from 
under those bankers.  Until people quit trying to get something for nothing, 
there is no hope in hell of the fmbs being made to pay.

I think that's the part you don't get.  *Everyone* who created the current 
economy have to pay and it has to start somewhere.  As long as folks keep 
propping up the house of cards so your neighbor won't feel the pain, then 
the bankers will keep getting their money.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bobf" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Sky-is-falling forecasts


> I hope it remains that way for you , Lynn.  But if any of the really 
> hysterical 'doom and gloom' folk who claim things will soon be so different 
> as to be unrecognizable, are right; it almost certainly will affect you, 
> since you do depend on income that is beyond the borders of your farm.
>
> Now, they could very well be wrong.  I don't listen to phrophets, ilisten 
> to educated rational men who know of the subject of which they write. 
> Even the most 'gloomy' of these (Peter Schiff, or Nouriel Roubini as 
> examples) think we will come back strong.  Now Rouibini thinks it will all 
> be over and back to normal within a couple of years at the most.  Schiff 
> believe that what the government is doing now could postpone the 
> ineveitable and cause the malaise to drag on for years.
>
> None, who are reasonable think that we will be going through anything akin 
> to the French Revolution of even the disintegration of the USSR (not to 
> say that a re-enactment of one or the other would 'necessarily be a bad 
> thing); but there are many who believe we could have terrible political 
> consequences to the economic recovery -- a government that represses and 
> oppresses even more than now, which is already bad enough.
>
> Things could go one of many different ways, and only charlatans and 
> blowhards pretend to know which way for sure.  With such knowledge, now, 
> even a working man could become rich, soon.
>
> The system no longer works for you , so you opt out as much as possible. 
> And, believe me, I try to learn from you just how best to do that, 
> gradually, and in smart ways, within the confines of my own life.  But, 
> even you can't opt out completely.  You have responsibilities of which the 
> 'system' has knowledge and 'some' control.  The same is with me.
>
> You and I agree on much.  But, I won't care that my neighbor used too much 
> debt to buy too big a boat, until after, the flying monkey bankers and 
> politicians are held accountable for their economic crimes.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> --- On Mon, 12/29/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > By the way, the 'economic crisis' hasn't affected my life yet. Not even a 
> > little. I'm still waiting. My income and expenses are the same as a year
> > ago, or four years ago, and aren't likely to change much in the next year 
> > or two.
> >
> > Lynn Wigglesworth
> > Tioga Co. PA
>
>
>
>
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