MONEY FOR NOTHING
First off, thank you Sam and Gene for your very generous donations by snail mail. I'm having visions of an extra water filter and some more cold weather gear. Every day I show up for work a little early and drink coffee and get on the InterWeb for what I call Happy Financial News. I jot down the headlines with the most shock value and try to share them with everyone. I'm all about the sharing. Of course I get no love for my efforts but everyone needs a hobby. It certainly seems like WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE, but I could be wrong. One thing that does seem certain is that there is no way in hell we are ever going to get out of this mess and return to normal. I wonder if our masters think the same thing? You create enough trillions and soon you don't have to worry about paying it back.
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When you take two hundred years which include a War Of Federal Usurpation Of States Rights, two World Wars To Save Central Bankers Investments, a Great Depression Caused By Money Creation And An Effort To Replace Gold With Fiat Currency, a Cold War To Keep Military Spending At Wartime Levels and a few other fun times like creating a Social Welfare State, add them all together to equal a years GDP in debt, then equal that total amount in only a few months with socialization/bailouts/corporate welfare/combating the derivatives implosion, one might see were that could lead to a few problems down the road. Like being unable to ever pay it back. Ever. Not without Zimbabwe style inflation, which even then is kind of like killing the patient to get the cancer. Perhaps no one cares how unhealthy this is for the economy because it is akin to keeping alive just a little bit longer. If the borrowed or created amounts are impossible to pay back ( the amount is too big with a shrinking tax base due to nationalization ), the money is basically free. Might as well just make as much as you think you need.
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Since we longer manufacture much, and the retail sector is in the toilet, and the financial system is on trillion (s) dollar life support, what makes you think any of societies safety nets are going to be around to help you? Prep now. Prep hard, prep deep. Even a hundred dollar shotgun, three hundred pounds of corn and a grinder for $100, plus a $50 home made water filter for a grand total of $250 is far better than nothing and more than most people have. You should be able to pick up cheap camping gear as folks desperately garage sale themselves to the next mortgage payment. If you can't afford $250 you are in some sorry ass shape. By all means, don't stop there. You would be better off with much more. But it is what you can do now, this weekend. Order the grinder from my Amazon page at www.bisonpress.com . Go to the feed store for the grain. Order the filter unit from Lehman's. You won't miss the money. You'll get more next payday. But you will gain an immense sense of security, peace of mind, better sleep and less hair loss.
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there is no such thing as a free lunch or free money. You did forget to mention the myriad of environmental issues that seem to be cast upon us. The tipping points of so many things have been reached and we are totally screwed.
Nice post by the way.
No Name
For a better price on filters check this out
http://shop.monolithic.com/products/just-water-ceramic-drip-filter
I have two sealed in plastic for backups, and one in a ceramic counter top water dispenser, it works very well as far as I can tell, and I love the savings,
Tip in lost wages
Anon is right: we have raped the environment for immediate gain at the expense of tomorrow. For example, the ocean fisheries.
When TSHTF, we are in for a massive drop in population. The carrying capacity of the earth is nearing its limit.
The survivors will be those who prepared to meet the crisis head on.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
USDA Nutrient lab gives much useful info, so long as you ask the right questions. Want to know about pinto beans? Lots of info.
want to know about nutrient content of mesquite beans or rattlesnake? sorry. wrong number.
google has info on mesquite beans. http://www.spmesquite.com/articles/ancientfoods.html
even google has nothing on rattlesnake meat nutrients. I found it here http://www.palateworks.com/q&a.htm
Q34: Our resort serves game meats. Do you have nutrition information for rattlesnake?
A: Rattlesnake is not in the USDA nutrient database, but the Cooperative Extension Service at the University of Georgia has forwarded us the following data "supposedly from the Pacific Island Food Composition table... for 3.5 oz. raw rattlesnake: 92 calories, 18 g protein, 2 g fat, 1 g carbohydrate, 0 fiber, 0 calcium." As a percentage of total calories, this meat is about 72% protein and 20% fat.
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In August I killed at rattler near Ely NV (elev 6800 or so). Gave the skin to a pal. Two days later the snake was still there, dehydrated by sun and wind and as light as a potato chip. The diehard survivor will learn that food is where he finds it. I have never eaten rattlesnake jerky. After you miss fourteen meals it'll taste wonderful.
BTW in West Texas the rattlesnake roundup is an annual event. I have eaten rattlesnake rolled in batter and deep fried. Tastes like fish. My wife and kids liked it too.
"Money for nothing"...and your chics for free. All I want is my MTV. Sorry, first thing that popped into my head when I saw the headline.
I did notice Wal-mart was selling 25 lb sacks of flour. Buying a couple of those may be a good first step to take. At least take those first steps.
Alligator tastes like fishy chicken. Rattlesnake can't be that far off. Deep fry ANYTHING and it tastes good.
If you're hungry enough, rattesnake road jerky tastes good.
I'm about to eat some mudbugs myself. Leave it to the Cajuns to eat whatever's available and make it taste good! (with enough salt and cayenne pepper, anything tastes good)
Learn to like it. If you're hungry it'll be the best thing ever.
I'm off to suck head. Cheers!
Man, I love that rattlesnake idea. I started buying wheat berries. I have fifty pounds. This is the best price I could find:
1 x Organic Wheat Berries Hard Red, 50 lb, Item #B8019400 (000080194002) = $38.00
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Sub-Total: $38.00
United Parcel Service (1 x 52.5lbs) (Ground): $21.12
Total: $59.12
BulkWholeFoods.com
But I don't have a grinder yet. I may buy one of those cheapies from your amazon page. But I want one of those big montana monsters when I can afford it:
http://www.grainmaker.com/
So far I just have the big ass paper bag they came in stashed in my freezer. That kills the bugs, but do I still need to use the Diatomaceous earth to pack it if I want to store long term outside the freezer? I'm trying to store up a bunch of food that we will eat anyway. If I had a lot of discretionary income to throw around, I might buy a bunch of stuff that I might never use. But I can't afford that.
-Humongous
James, great Blog. A better phrase than "you won't miss the money", might be "you'll just piss it away on something else anyway"!
You're a curmudgeonly bastard. I love it!
I'd love to have you at a dinner party to scare away the PC liberal hyper-puritan women.
"I wonder if our masters think the same thing."
That's the big consideration for me as well. What I mean by that is - what Jim and others are saying about the danger of taking on so much debt just seeems so... sensible...to me. Yet persons in positions of responsibilty seem to have the idea that the "patient be stabilised" first...and we'll worry about the complications of that later.
I'm not expressing myself well but - without meaning to sound too crazy - could it be that our elected representatives are downplaying the consequences to avoid a panic?
It's always fun to speculate what the "masters" think. My theory is that they are running scared, beefing up the plans for Marshall Law using the military (all nations,) and preparing for the worse with their own form of "survivalism". Exec types are buying 6 pound gold bars (about 100,000 dollars worth at today's prices) and burying them in their back yards or hiding them in their house. Some of the rich people I know own a lot of guns, and pretty sophisticated ones at that.
Some CEOs and rich people have "Fortress" Islands and various redoubts through out the world, probably well supplied with wine and a variety of foods and a virtual slave staff.
The philosophy of the rich is that the "poor will die, and the rich will live". As the rich garner large piles of goods, I would think they would want to placate the populations of the world as long as possible while they finalize their escape plans.
Of course, some will begrudge the poor for buying grains and beans and arranging for their own defense and survival.
Very much enjoy this blog, been reading for a while. Keep up the great work!
But I have to ask...where on earth do I find a shotgun for $100? I see these kinds of low prices on "used guns" kicked around on various survival blogs/boards, but every gun show, gun store, and even big box places like Dick's/Walmart either don't stock used guns or the prices start at more like $250. Same goes for online auction sites that deal in used firearms where a decent bolt action or lever action 30-30 (something else I've been trying to pick up) can't be gotten for less than $300. I don't even live in a very "expensive" area either (Ohio). I guess I'm just wondering if I'm having terrible luck finding these hidden caches of inexpensive firearms or what.
Suggestions welcome? I'm not looking for a silver-etched Winchester here, just a dependable 12ga and a reasonable bolt/lever rifle so that I CAN be prepared for defense and hunting.
Do you have single shot Baikal in USA ? Here they sell it new in box for 120 to 150 euros ...
This is the most reliable firearm you will ever have !
JMN
To 11:54 PM
The cheap guns are disappearing, probably because people perceive that restrictions on gun acquisition are soon to be tighter. Still, used guns are available at gun shops, pawn shops, and sporting goods stores (like Cabelas) and are sometimes reasonable. If you go to a sporting store and you don't know much about guns, talk it up with other people looking who often know a lot more about guns than you do. Also, the store people seem pretty open about looking over the used gun and giving you a fairly reasoned opinion about the quality and useability of the arm you are thinking of purchasing.
Thanks for the quick responses and suggestions.
- I haven't seen a Baikal anywhere, but the ones I saw on online auction sites seemed to be fairly pricey over here, sadly.
- Maybe I'll look for a Cabela's. I haven't seen any used gun sections at sporting goods stores so far, but perhaps Cabela's is an exception and will have a better stock. Frankly I'm just hoping to find just a decent Mossberg pump, as I think Bison's recommended before, and maybe a Marlin lever. Nothing spectacularly rare...merely serviceable.
China "warned" Washington today about currency inflation--precisely what's ahead--so I'm getting concerned and anxious to have something in hand.
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