I have silver stacked, and food in the cellar. I do not buy that reason, I also would have serious hardship if my bi monthly paycheck dried up forever, at 73 I cannot rely on this body to go and hustle making extra dollars cleaning or stacking shelves or be on my feet all day. I am so tired of the "living paycheck to paycheck" sad song. The average country Joe up here, some have never seen 40,000 a year in their lives, but have their own food, an acre or two, and means and skills, they log, they work on farms, fix small engines, know enough carpentry to hire themselves out as handymen, their wives work baking, sewing, seamstress work. Cut brush and make wreaths in the fall. I know the rest of the world does not function without computers but whose fault is that? I moved up here to escape all that, 35 years ago, and never looked back. I have no pity for a person whose lifestyle looks "better" than mine because everything they have is due to "good credit lines". No sympathy at all. Sure, being rich looks lovely, but I did not want to live a life where money and status rules. Instead of paying off credit charges for things I bought, I take that couple of hundred that would go in a bank and buy silver or cases of food for the cellar, if I need some equipment, I don't buy new, there are plenty of tinkerers who know how to fix things around here. We are supposed to live within our means. Not participate in usury, and toil for what we have. Enron happened how many years ago? If folks didn't learn then, maybe the whole system falling out from under them is what we need to wake people up.Small business people and good companies sold out to the highest bidder, their kids don't want to work,don't want to grow up, stay in college till they are 28 or 30, and can't get out of debt. I have no mercy for them, but when SHTF, we will survive, because a working man or woman knows how to. Debt is a form of slavery, but so many volunteer for that slavery.
I have silver stacked, and food in the cellar. I do not buy that reason, I also would have serious hardship if my bi monthly paycheck dried up forever, at 73 I cannot rely on this body to go and hustle making extra dollars cleaning or stacking shelves or be on my feet all day. I am so tired of the "living paycheck to paycheck" sad song. The average country Joe up here, some have never seen 40,000 a year in their lives, but have their own food, an acre or two, and means and skills, they log, they work on farms, fix small engines, know enough carpentry to hire themselves out as handymen, their wives work baking, sewing, seamstress work. Cut brush and make wreaths in the fall. I know the rest of the world does not function without computers but whose fault is that? I moved up here to escape all that, 35 years ago, and never looked back. I have no pity for a person whose lifestyle looks "better" than mine because everything they have is due to "good credit lines". No sympathy at all. Sure, being rich looks lovely, but I did not want to live a life where money and status rules. Instead of paying off credit charges for things I bought, I take that couple of hundred that would go in a bank and buy silver or cases of food for the cellar, if I need some equipment, I don't buy new, there are plenty of tinkerers who know how to fix things around here. We are supposed to live within our means. Not participate in usury, and toil for what we have. Enron happened how many years ago? If folks didn't learn then, maybe the whole system falling out from under them is what we need to wake people up.Small business people and good companies sold out to the highest bidder, their kids don't want to work,don't want to grow up, stay in college till they are 28 or 30, and can't get out of debt. I have no mercy for them, but when SHTF, we will survive, because a working man or woman knows how to. Debt is a form of slavery, but so many volunteer for that slavery.