Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
ISSN 2161-5543
In This Issue:
1.
What to
do with leftover produce
2.
Lessons from 9/11
3.
The growth of HomeShoring in the US
4.
Turning your ideas into cash
5.
Americans fed up with government waste
Lessons from 9/11
Long time consumer advocate Ralph Nader had a guest
editorial in USA Today last week regarding the lessons we should be
learning from the tragedy of 9/11. Most
of them focused on the need for our leaders to stop violating the rights of
American citizens.
Number four on his list of ten suggested we not
tolerate presidents who violate our Constitution (a direct jab at former Pres.
Bush). Number six asked that we not let
the executive branch engage in unconstitutional and illegal recurrent practices
such as wiretapping.
The other points were in regard to how Congress has
abdicated its role and responsibilities and given carte blanche to the
President in regard to war power authority and how the news media has become
the mouthpiece of the President.
There’s little doubt since the passage of the
so-called Patriot Act, much of our Constitution has become meaningless and the
rights of Americans are violated every day.
Leaders, far wiser than our current crop of
legislators, warned repeatedly against the folly of sacrificing freedom for
security. In many respects, terrorists
have already won due to the undermining of our freedoms at home and the
incredible (and often wasted) costs taxpayers have incurred in the name of
security.
The land of the free isn’t quite so free anymore and
we all pay the price.
Grill juicier skinless chicken breasts by placing a
banana peel on top of each breast while cooking…it creates a barrier that acts
like skin, helping the meat to retain juices.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
What to do
with your left over produce
We had a bumper crop
of cucumbers this season and diligently gave them to family and friends. During our family reunion one of the
pass-around dishes I made featured a large cucumber salad.
If you have an
abundance of extra garden goodies here are a few ways to use them up.
1. Donate them to a food pantry - many local
food banks will even make pickups if you have a sufficient quantity to donate.
2. Cook up batches of excess and freeze or can
them. Preserving includes pickling,
drying, canning and freezing. Prior to freezing, most vegetables need to be
blanched to preserve their taste. You
can lightly steam them or dip them briefly into boiling water. Let them cool and dry before freezing. Onions, peppers and herbs can be frozen raw.
3. Sell them at your local flea market.
4. Barter or swap them with others for items you
want.
5. Juice them.
Here is one resource I found offering healthy juicing recipes.
Fix the nicks on your sunglasses by moistening the
lenses with water, then add a pea-sized glob of white (non-gel) toothpaste onto
a cloth and rub gently all over. Rinse
the lenses, then dry with a lint-free cloth.
New-Experts Industry Association Launched
If you've ever wanted
to write a
book, get paid to speak, become a
life coach, or share you knowledge
and expertise online, then you
should take a serious look into
being part of this.
You can get training on how to
become an expert in your field
-- for no cost -- from me and
other high-level founders --
just for getting involved.
(You should check out the new
Code of Ethics we've defined for
our industry!)
Watch Brendon Burchard, one of
the founders of the association,
explain it all here:
http://expertsindustryassociation.com/go/allen
book, get paid to speak, become a
life coach, or share you knowledge
and expertise online, then you
should take a serious look into
being part of this.
You can get training on how to
become an expert in your field
-- for no cost -- from me and
other high-level founders --
just for getting involved.
(You should check out the new
Code of Ethics we've defined for
our industry!)
Watch Brendon Burchard, one of
the founders of the association,
explain it all here:
http://expertsindustryassociation.com/go/allen
Turn Your
Ideas into Cash
For assistance in
getting started with inventions, such as finding legitimate product agents and
useful information, go to:
Get a second opinion
through the forums (see if your idea has merit) and mentoring along with
evaluations of product at:
HOMESHORING GROWS AS COMPANIES ANNOUNCE RECRUITING
DRIVES
The trend of
home-based customer service agents, aka “homeshoring,” continues to grow, even
as the economy stagnates and unemployment overall remains high.
Just in the past few weeks, we’ve seen major recruiting announcements from Arise, Convergys and Alpine Access, involving thousands of openings.
We expect homeshoring to continue to expand as Fortune 500s increasingly see the advantages of having home-based US agents take care of US customers.
Just in the past few weeks, we’ve seen major recruiting announcements from Arise, Convergys and Alpine Access, involving thousands of openings.
We expect homeshoring to continue to expand as Fortune 500s increasingly see the advantages of having home-based US agents take care of US customers.
Run out of a dry mop cloth? Use dryer sheets attached to a sponge mop.
The Nanny
State Updates…
Few governments violently assault a majority of its
citizens simultaneously; instead, high-profile ‘examples’ are made of selected
citizens or groups. After watching a
neighbor be destroyed, few are willing to stand up to government authority.
Damn This Recession! The rise of the unemployees
When she was laid off from her position as a financial analyst in July 2008, Westminster, Colorado's Kelly Wiedemer expected the path back to her well-worn career track would be quick and easy. Now she's emerged as something of a full-time champion of the long-termed unemployed. This work includes reporting on unemployed issues and organizing a petition against the job site Monster.com that has more than 88,000 signatures. As Senior Editor Tim Cavanaugh observes, only in a leisure-hating country like this one could unemployment become as stressful and exhausting as a full-time job.
A new Gallup Poll says only 25% of Americans
DO NOT favor sacrificing their civil rights and privacy for security – down
from 47% two years ago.
Why Americans are fed up with government waste…the
Parting thought
Most know our
government wastes a lot of money. There
is way too much overlap and duplication. For example, there are almost 350
economic development programs within the government and many of them
essentially do the same things for the same groups of people.
Other examples... The
U.S. government has 15 different agencies overseeing food-safety laws, more
than 20 separate programs to help the homeless, and we could go on and on if we
included all of the state programs involved.
Department of
Transportation employees take a 17-day global junket to study billboards in
other countries. A ski museum receives a federal grant to create an exhibit
telling the story of skiing from the Stone Age!
Medicare
wastes MORE money than any other federal program... Paying as much as EIGHT
times more money for drugs and medical supplies than other government agencies
pay for the same items. It's reported that Medicare paid $8.26 for a liter of
saline solution, the same solution that the VA paid just $1.02 for!
All of this reminds me
of the $400 toilet seats and hammers the Pentagon paid for with your money or
how government employees splurge on pizza, gambling and hookers using
government issued Visa cards and virtually no one had to repay them!
Do you still wonder
why so many are fed up with our incompetent and corrupt government?
Three Reasons
the Next Recession will be different…
Skyrocketing oil
prices from instability in the Middle East cut into consumer spending, the
prolonged debt ceiling debate chipped away at business confidence and the
European debt crisis continues to enrage the stock market.
There are many obvious moves Washington could take to
foster job creation including working on our aging infrastructure and by
cutting the maddening slow and expensive spate of red tape businesses face.
That said, another
recession wouldn't be a walk in the park for U.S. businesses or consumers since
the country would experience a worsening of an economy that is still trying to
recover from the first downturn. Any new job cuts, mortgage delinquencies and
revenue loss — however mild — would effectively be piled on top of previous
losses, making it feel that much more severe…obviously, economists seem to feel
the odds of another recession are high.
Read more at:
It’s always amazed me
the federal and state legislators cannot see the obvious in the barriers
they’ve created to job creation, our idiotic tax system and massive bureaucracy
would top my list for reform.
That’s it for this
issue from your solution-oriented Poor Man!
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