Well, you just knew I had to say something about the widespread angst and shock over the Social Security non-COLA announcement. Ready? Here goes. DUUUUUHHHHHH!!!!! This is older news than the Soviet Union collapse, the fact that dinosaurs are extinct or JFK was assassinated by the Federal Reserve Bank ( Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
). Why is this even being covered by the news? We knew months ago, if not a year-sorry, I lose track of time- that the next two years there was going to officially be zero inflation. So why is anyone surprised here? Certainly the old bastards should have already been alerted since they wake up at 5 AM to read the paper and drink a glass of prune juice so that by next Christmas their decrepit bowels can finally shoot out the Early Bird special ( Beyond The Early Bird Special: Deals & Steals For People Over 50
). We already heard how badly they are being treated. I have to watch the Re-elect Harry Reid commercials every time I turn on the TV, how his opponent Sharon Angle is a horrible person for wanting to privatize Social Security and how he alone cares and then you see a crowd shot of geriatrics all with worried looks on their tired faces. Look at us, the ONLY generation ( screw our grandkids, we are going to get ours ), and we will die terrible deaths if you don’t do your part as a patriotic American and pay 100% of your paycheck to us so we can live forever on a golf course in Arizona ( where we insist on washing our Cadillac’s and our lawn even as the shrinking water table swallows Phoenix skyscrapers ) or Florida ( where we get to screw anyone under 62 further by causing the car insurance rates to be one of the highest in the nation so we can squint through our cataracts at the hazy road ahead as we stretch to see over the dashboard, or drive our electric golf carts [ PowaKaddy Classic Legend Electric Powered Golf Cart
] across the regular roads ). My friggin heart is bleeding here. I don’t get COLA raises either, you douches.*
Well, I have to apologize for being a stupid ass. I was called out in the comments section for my article title. “Cockles, it is cockles you stupid fuck. Cackles are noises. Cockles refers to the valves of the heart. That is why the saying is "warm the cockles of my heart". What is more disappointing is that none of your readers are literate enough to know that you are totally ignorant of your and their language and culture.” I full well understand the difference; this was an unfortunate spelling malfunction on my part. I take full responsibility, but with an explanation rather than an excuse. I am under a bit of time pressure every lunch hour to complete writing the next day’s article. These things will happen from time to time. But it was an idiotic mistake, and I acknowledge that had someone else done it I would have been just as unforgiving. While we are reviewing dumbass doings on my part, here’s another story to enjoy. For months I’m stressing over getting my headlight on the truck fixed. Is it the wiring, or is it the bulb? I need to get it fixed before I need to drive it this winter as it is darker and I don’t want a ticket. The wife finally says, just hook up the other one to test and see what the problem is. And finally, that clicked as two neurons fired. I took a bulb off the permanently parked Hippie Bread Van and replaced the truck bulb. It fit, and worked. A simple solution but I was focused on worrying about a non-existent problem. I can be just as obtuse ( The Obtuse Experiment (Adlib)
) as the rest of you at times. There, you now have another reason to ignore all my warnings. God forbid you spend a few hundred bucks in life insurance just in case the worse happens. You wouldn’t want to endanger your cell phone, cable package with 24 hour sports or filling up your SUV.*
You know what happens to a one year old toddler when they touch a hot stove? They don’t do it again. You know what a thirty year old college educated professional does when they get burned by the Axis Of Evil ( central bank, central government and corporations )? They go back for more. Oh, that hurt. Let me touch it again. And you think I’m a dumbass ( T-shirt "Dumbass" Green 100% Cotton Fishing T-shirt (Medium)
). All I hear is excuses and evasions whenever I bring up anything past the comfort zone of “two week disaster” survivalists. You react with anger as if I’m the one wanting to take away your comforts and luxuries. I’m simply pointing out the obvious, which you treat as voodoo paranoia ramblings of a discontented mind. I’m not saying I guarantee disaster and calamity are assured, only that the odds highly favor their occurrence by now. Happy to be wrong, but pretty darn sure I’m right. I won’t go through the whole thing about how cheap it is to prepare and if nothing happens you are out almost nothing. Instead, I’m saying you should look back a few years. Look at the mind numbing shocks to our system. The deficit doubles in a few months. Global grain shortages. Global drought. Your house loses half its value. Unemployment triples, if not quadruples. If one percent of the derivatives market fails it will wipe out 25% of global GDP. Grocery prices double. This is far more traumatic than first or second degree burns to a very small skin surface, yet everyone reaches for the stove again. You make excuses, stay living in high crime urban areas, trust in future retirement, don’t stockpile enough food ( a years supply is a start, not the finish line ). *
Wishful thinking is not an adequate plan for the future. Recognizing you got burned and taking pains to avoid a reoccurrence, that is a good future plan. Do you think the government is going to be able to afford to bail out your pension system like they did GM’s? Is denying Peak Oil ( Peak Oil and the Second Great Depression (2010-2030): A Survival Guide for Investors and Savers After Peak Oil
) going to fill up the depleted wells ( in 1950 we exported half the global oil supply, today we can’t produce half our own needs and that is after adding Alaska and the Gulf Of Mexico )? Genetically modified foods, with all its problems, has been going strong for almost twenty years, just to keep up with population increases. Do you really think that is going to be the next Green Revolution as population grows further? We have ALREADY seen grain shortages, systematic economic collapses, oil shortages. You are betting your life they were one time events rather than a warning of the future. Yes, I understand we must stay in the system to survive. That doesn’t mean you must keep a mortgage or a pension or any other long term bet on the systems survival. Don’t keep getting burned.END
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And for a change it wasn't me. I"m no longer complaining about your horrible spelling, questionable grammar, fuzzy thinking, wandering, or lousy writing in general. I've seen what happens with the opposite. Mimi's Dream, one of your guest articles, immediately showed up on Another Large Peak Oil Site That's Now Rawles's, and the person who cut and pasted it didn't quite take credit for it, but close. It was annoying because I know who sent it, he's an excellent writer, and he's NOT one of the crowd on that site. I know this because he got kicked off for helping someone out, and in general doing various good things in The Real World(tm) a place that scares the Latoc crowd shitless.
Meanwhile, your, er, you're, hehe, writing will never be plagiarized. Or not quite plagiarized but kinda sorta taken an awful lot of credit for. Meanwhile, your basic idea, CHEAP land, CHEAP preps, get prepped NOW, is so utterly foreign to the yups and the armchair commandos, that the one idea you'd LIKE to see spread far'n'wide, is unfortunately not spreading around much at all. I know these ideas ultimately go back, in modern times, to Kurt Saxon, but you're the one guy I know of who is implementing them.
Saxon of course learned them through going through the kind of trial by fire many Americans are looking at. In short, he became injured, lost his job and ability to work, and of course his friends and family all turned their backs on him, quickly. So he was on his own and had to live on very little money. He had to learn what you can call Militant Thrift.
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OK I meant NOT Rewles's site not "now Rawles's"
In other news, if you follow such things, the site HalfPastHuman, dealing with, apparently, the prediction of future events through semantic analysis, has been taken down and is being kept down. It Never Existed sort of taken down. This is a site talked about for years by one George Ure, a yuppie survivalist type but a pretty decent guy, who's been running a doomer page for years, in anticipation of financial doom.
It's sickly fascinating watching the Internet degrade from an actual net, to something like the tatters of a net after a large shark or two has passed through. Large holes, a single strand where there was redundancy, then it goes - snap. From being able to treat censorship as a network degradation and routing around it, it now has maybe 5-7 pinch points with a gov't finger on 'em, that can be shut down any time.
This is why I advocate, whatever subject you find yourself searching on the net, obtain books on that subject and on anticipated future searches and start hoarding 'em now. And of course buy them through Bison's Amazon link here.
You convinced me O owner of a desert fortress, Blago grade hair, and a pair of stainless steel clangers! Tomorrow I am driving over to pickup 700 pounds of wheat. The little woman and other family will take this as confirmation that I have flipped, since I have 300 pounds of wheat already. I have decided to prep and be damned. I would rather be divorced and well fed than married and starving. You can waste your life listening to other fuckers tell you what you "should" do.
"Militant Thrift" I like it much better than "prepper".
The reason people keep coming back to TPTB is because they have hope. Just like when you talk nice to a dog as you kick it. They get confused, can't believe what just happened and come back for more because, you know, they're SPECIAL.
Actually, the biggest problem I see is that most people think the good ole USA is special and immune from the "what goes up must come down" scenario.
Side note--James, have you read Buckshots blovel, Grid Down? It's really good and well worth the money. I just read in his book about refugees and hand-outs. That would be worth an article--how do you harden yourself to not help the golden horde esp. children. With your supplies you COULD feed everyone (for a day) but you'll starve later. I think this is a topic that people should think about and come to a decision on before something happens.
Anon 1:45--good for you!!!
Idaho Homesteader
"I don’t get COLA raises either, you douches."
Some times yer sech a dumb ass...I'm sure you turned down the last min. wage increase...sheessssh some times methinks you simply don't put yer brain in gear...:-)
It is difficult to say what everybody thinks because I don't know everybody. I don't trust surveys either when they say" the majority of those surveyed".
All you have to do to gain a majority is concentrate on the weak minded,
easily manipulated.(Democratic Party)
Here's what I think: I think "the vast majority of" people are greedy and out to get all they can for themselves.There would be no successful con jobs without greedy suckers.
I also think that the "vast majority of people" have to have something to whine and bitch about in order to feel normal.
I don't drink prune juice. I get up, read the bison blog,vomit and start my day.
the rat
rayj- I don't compare COLA to min. wage increases. Before, seniors got a COLA nearly every year. Min. wage increases were once a decade, now about once every three years. Plus, old bastards got free drugs. But now they are just starting to feel the pain financially the rest of us live with every paycheck when 14% of our paycheck is sucked down to Florida to support retirees. They scream, "I paid into it my whole life". Good for you, gramps. I've been paying into it my whole life too, and I won't see crap. But then, I guess you are more special. You deserve it and I don't. Sorry, I shouldn't have gotten started.
Hehehehehe! Ya but min wage increases are SOOOooooo much bigger than colas..
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