are we there yet?

ARE WE THERE YET?


A minion recounted his experiences with me. He wanted to go out into the dry rocky waste of Utah and set up a trailer on a lot of land. Previously in Utah, any travel trailer could be used as a home in a county with proper zoning by keeping it registered and tagged. Now it seems that anyone that has the audacity to be poor is not welcome in Utah ( I thought the LDS owned the place. Where’s that Christian charity? ). You can’t live on your own land without a septic system ( and I think a well, but I don’t remember that part for sure ). You buy a $500 lot of land, and pull in a $1k trailer, and they think you can afford three to five grand ( back hoe, perk test, permits, tank, labor ) for a septic? This is pure insanity. Utah is another high desert butt cold wasteland that has nothing going for it other than a nice stretch of watered valley on the east end of the Great Basin. But don’t you dare move there if you don’t have the bucks. Screw ‘em. Not a great place to be anyway come the collapse since all non-Mormons are a minority and likely to be “purged”. It is easy to find junk land. A lot harder to live on it cheaply legally. As more and more poor folks are created every hour from the shrinking middle class, counties and states are making it harder and harder for them to live, other than trapped in the urban reservations begging for government hand-outs ( one thing to keep in mind is that currently, being grandfathered in on your land it is a lot easier to escape the new mandates ). It isn’t entirely malicious. It is mostly naked fear on their part. Their pensions are in danger, and every tax, fee, and license is getting jacked up to protect themselves. They WILL destroy your life to prolong their comfort. Just remember the culprits come collapse time. You can provide a nice warm stewpot for them.

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A hearty high ho and Big Hugs Little Kisses for Idaho Homesteader for that great batch of article ideas. Here’s one. Where is the economic collapse? And why is it taking so long? Or, as I prefer to whine gratingly, Are We There Yet? Are We There Yet? Well, despite a less than long build up as is usual around here, let me just blurt it out. We are already there. Economic collapses are identified in hindsight. Obviously, you first have to make sure you aren’t just in a recession. That is, that would be the usual method if we had a functioning economy and you had the luxury of waiting for some pointy head professor to stop trying to diddle his undergraduates ( I’m sure the thought of some fat bald liver spotted comb over trying to paw you for an increase in your grade point average is revolting to you females- let me tell you sister, I’m offended also, just from the mental imagery ) and do a little numbers crunching. But you don’t need a professor to tell you we are in a permanent economic decline. You have the last five plus years of energy decline to tell you that. So simple, even I can figure it out. Energy decline equals economic decline. But I’ve harped enough on that before. Here is today’s big and exciting revelation. You can’t tell when you are in an economic collapse if you’re in a permanent decline. There is no line in the sand, that side peaches and cream, this side despair and discomfort. A permanent decline is what you will see, not a economic collapse. Think about it for a second. Let’s go on over to any of a dozen of craphole African nations. Like Zimbabwe. They have out of control hyper inflation. The kind where they cancel last months currency, drop a dozen zeros, start over until at the end of the new month the darn thing is toilet paper again. That is real inflation, not the pretend kind we have here. And yet, folks over there are still getting along. They aren’t dying in the street of famine. I wouldn’t want to be there, worried that in a mere fifty three minutes my One Gabizillion Zimbo-Bucks will only be worth a half gabizillion bucks, but there is a somewhat normal life going on there despite that.

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I think we are all focusing on an economic collapse with the basic thought, not “are we in an economic collapse?” but “are my welfare benefits going to end?”. Because isn’t that what most of you are thinking? Will my Social Security benefits continue? Will I still get Food Stamps? Is my 401k still worth anything? Hey, how about that pension? I’m not being judgmental here. I accept that the majority of us, myself included, depend on a government check to survive. The old, capitalist, rugged individual died a long time ago here in the US. About the time of FDR. It has been a slow but steady nationalization ever since. Almost all of us need Uncle Obammy to feed us. Your concerns about this are easy to address. All benefits WILL be paid. With inflated dollars. The only thing you should be worried about is the declining purchasing power of your benefits. The checks will be mailed, the question is if they will buy enough. Economic collapse is nothing. It just means a decline in the standard of living. You can deal with that. No one likes going from beef on the BBQ to chicken in a stew, to once a week baloney to beans. But it can be done. The major concern for you should be when we don’t get to eat. That is the point where you go from economic collapse to civilization collapse. That is what should concern you. It is a given that we are in a decline. We have been for years. We will be for…I don’t know how long. Hopefully a long time. Because the alternative is worse.

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Everything will continue to get worse, and you are going to have a hard time anticipating how. That is just the nature of the beast. But I’ll try to put your mind at rest. Don’t worry about an economic collapse. You are already in it.

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