Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
ISSN 2161-5543
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Free Press is the Guardian of a Free People
In This Issue:
1. When in doubt, sue
2. Free email encryption
3. Free legal,
medical, schooling resources
4. More,
Legitimate, Earn at home resources
5. Are you fed up
yet?
In my many
years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law
firm and three or more is a congress.
- John Adams
Honda Sued Over Hybrid Mileage Claims
When in doubt, sue - Sometimes a good thing…
She launched a website "Don'tSettleWithHonda.org" with the intention of taking her legal fight viral.
Use the court form
"Small Claims Writ and Notice of Suit,"
JD-CV-40. Type or neatly print your information on the forms. ... Where do I go
to file a small claims case? www.jud.ct.gov/faq/smallclaims.html
Free PDF
general guide to filing a small claims suit
http://www.courtclerk.org/forms/smallclaimsguide.pdf
http://www.courtclerk.org/forms/smallclaimsguide.pdf
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
CONSUMER ASSISTANCE
PROGRAM NEEDS ASSISTANCE- One of the
consequences of Congress's 2011 budget showdowns could be the end of state
consumer assistance programs: Texas is shuttering its one, The Washington Post
reports. Funded through grants from the ACA, the consumer assistance programs
need congress to fund future appropriations and "[w]hen the House and
Senate failed to pass a budget last year, operating instead on a short-term fix
that continued all existing appropriated programs, the consumer assistance
program was shut out." The Texas hotline was staffed by nine people and
received more than 6,000 calls from consumers needing help with insurance or
claims, and the employees were able to hold events to help the public become
more aware of their coverage options, WaPo reported. Thirty-four other states
received initial grants to help support their programs, and it's now unclear
how long they'll be able to operate them. The story: http://wapo.st/uLBcc3
Private email is sent
across the internet in plain text, readable by anyone who routes the message
and by dozens of other organizations. Email encryption is the only way to
secure your private messages and it is not as technical, time-consuming,
complicated or cumbersome as you might think. If you can use email you probably
have the skill to set up encrypted email in about 15 minutes. Check out these
simple steps to get email encryption.... and did I mention it is completely
FREE!
Find Discounts
on Car Rentals
Many major rental
firms, including Alamo, Budget and Hertz,
offer coupon discounts. Find them
at:
For just about
whatever challenge you might face, there seems to be a group willing to
help. Here are some resources to review.
Returning to
School - Get government grants
up to $4,000 a year at:
StudentAid.ed.gov
FastWeb.com
Medical Issues
- Find free or low-cost
health insurance via state social services.
--NeedHelpPayingBills.com
Legal Advice-Find free help if you’re low-income at Legal Services
Corp. at:
LSC.gov
Starting a New
Venture
Post a goal for
starting a new business, funding an adoption, etc. - friends and donors can
pitch in the help you become successful at:
KickStarter.com
Legit Ways to Make Money
Online With Free Startup
At no other time in history have there been so many options for the low-budget entrepreneur to build his own start-up business at very low or even no cost involved. The facilitator to this new business climate is the Internet. While scams and shady characters still inhabit this venue, there are several legitimate ways to make money online. Keep in mind that, generally speaking, the less money invested in the start-up, the more effort will be required to make it successful. Full story at:
http://www.ehow.com/list_7349222_legit-make-money-online-startup.html
At no other time in history have there been so many options for the low-budget entrepreneur to build his own start-up business at very low or even no cost involved. The facilitator to this new business climate is the Internet. While scams and shady characters still inhabit this venue, there are several legitimate ways to make money online. Keep in mind that, generally speaking, the less money invested in the start-up, the more effort will be required to make it successful. Full story at:
http://www.ehow.com/list_7349222_legit-make-money-online-startup.html
Why do about a third of all U.S. states allow borrowers
who don’t pay their bills to
be put in jail?
The Nanny State Updates…
Folk singer Vance
Gilbert says he was pulled off a
flight from Boston to Washington by Transportation Security Administration
agents and officers from the Massachusetts State Police and questioned about
his reading habits. They apparently found it suspicious that he was reading a
book about vintage aircraft while flying.
The government’s unconstitutional restrictions on our freedom to travel
Steve Bierfeldt,
director of development for Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty, thought he was having a good day. At a regional Campaign for Liberty
event in Missouri, Bierfeldt had sold thousands of dollars worth of conference
tickets, bumper stickers, T-shirts, and books, and was now in the security line
at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, waiting to catch a flight back to
Washington, D.C. But the federal government had other ideas.
After discovering a
metal box with more than $4,700 in cash and checks inside Bierfeldt’s luggage, officials from the
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) detained him for further
screening.
TSA agents
interrogated him for more than a half hour with a series of intrusive
questions: “Where do you work?” “What are you planning to do with the money?”
“Where did you acquire the money?” More
at:
Appears to be another example of abusive police – what
do you think?
The Parting Thought – Are you fed up with government?
It’s a
terrible thing to have to fear your own government…
Are you fed up
yet? The voracious appetite of the
government…
The National Defense
Authorization Act has been signed by the president. I imagine it will only be a
matter of time before complaining about the tax burden becomes classified as an
act of sedition...and punishable by seizure of all property and indefinite
military detention.
As
a candidate, Obama criticized the last administration for holding Americans as
enemy combatants without trial. He faulted it for wiretapping citizens without
a warrant. He rejected the Republican claim that the president has the
"inherent power" to go to war without congressional consent…now look
at him!
While the middle class
continues to struggle on the crumbs left over in their paychecks, the
government continues to grow and it continues to suck money from the public and
from the future of our children in order to pay for “protecting” us from our
enemies and to provide us with the basic services we all want.
As we all know, there
are dozens of hidden taxes and fees each of are required to cough up into
government coffers each day. One look at
your utility bills, property taxes, fuel bills and so on will convince you. Despite a never ending gluttony for your
money, government services have eroded over the years. In most cities, roads and bridges are in
desperate need of repair, while public transportation services in most cities
are seeing cutbacks.
The creation of our so-called
Homeland Security Agency saw more costs foisted on the public, especially in
the area of transportation fees (have you looked at the fees tacked onto your
airline ticket recently, for instance)?
I feel so more secure
now, don’t you?
The self-employed get
to see all the money they've earned in their hot little hands...before the
government holds out one of its own hands in expectation and with a gun firmly
held in the other.
An Internet search
took us to a government website that warned that the self-employed have to foot
the entire Social Security tax themselves. That's 13.3% up to $106,800. (And
then there's the 2.9% or so for Medicare.) Employees see only half that tax
because employers quietly pay the other half. The self-employed, however, see
yet a bit more of their potential quality of life and future security stolen
away.
That money isn't being
put away for us by the feds after all. It's being used to pay current
recipients of Social Security and Medicare, among other things. Social Security
and Medicare represents nearly 75% of the total taxes actually collected by the
U.S. government.
The rest of the
government's expenses -- including protecting us from the enemies it creates --
is funded by deficit spending. That is to say the money was borrowed, adding to
the already impressive $33 trillion in government liability. In its
never-ending search for more revenue, the Fed and states have been looking to
internet sales to grab your cash as described below…
Like a drug
addict, tax collectors are always seeking their next fix
How The New
IRS Form 1099K Impacts Your Tax Return
Online merchants will soon begin receiving new 1099-K forms from
Amazon, PayPal, Google and credit card merchant account providers.
What do you do with these forms, which are being forward to the IRS?
Tax guru Barbara Weltman explains.
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y12/m01/i02/s02
Online merchants will soon begin receiving new 1099-K forms from
Amazon, PayPal, Google and credit card merchant account providers.
What do you do with these forms, which are being forward to the IRS?
Tax guru Barbara Weltman explains.
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y12/m01/i02/s02
“Until the next revolution”, the Poor Man
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