Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

No, not intended for you (I'm sure you're not a slumlord) - I said *likely*
the road to ruin, but while we're on the subject what do you figure the
inflation rate to be? I mean the real inflation rate, not the Potemkin
Village. As for making a killing on your "investments", I don't even want
to know the results for those downriver financially. 

TANSTAFFL.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/2/2007 at 7:53 PM Dean wrote:

>Paul, if this was for my benefit you really need to reread the numbers
>and 
>check it out.  Our return is way over inflation.  As for the investments
>it 
>depends on what is invested in and what currency it is in.  Dean
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
>To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 6:59 PM
>Subject: [Livingontheland] Get on the inflation escalator/ New Farmers
>
>
>>
>> Well, how to save up and where to buy depends on  your situation,
doesn't
>> it. I suggest simply getting a home that comes with a few acres - not
>> buying land separately. Or a place nobody wants that you can fix up. 
>> More'n
>> one way to skin a cat. Or you can follow the crowd, keep working for
>> somebody else, go in debt and never get out. Savings accounts and
>> investments are likely the road to ruin right now, esp when inflation is
>> running higher than either one. Again, I just suggest self employment in
>a
>> field providing necessities of life that no one can do without. Get on
>the
>> inflation escalator - not under it. For me, that's food.  BTW my house
on
>> one acre is running us $360 mo, no water bill, including taxes and
>> insurance. Long story, but this isn't about me; it's about what we can
do
>> with what we have.
>>
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net