Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
In This Issue:
1.
Reviews
of cheap products
2.
1 in 7 on food stamps
3.
Why should cops have all the fun-reusable
flash grenades
4.
The Big Lie(s)-What government is known for
5.
Jack Knife Cookery. eBay Cash System-Free
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"Talk is cheap... except when
Congress does it." —
Cullen Hightower
Here’s a fairly well-known fact: One in seven Americans is on food stamps.
Here is a lesser-known fact: Food stamps account for 25-40% of the monthly revenue at certain Wal-Mart locations, according to New York University nutrition professor Marion Nestle.
Indeed, Wal-Mart collected nearly half of the total $1.2 billion in food stamp spending in Oklahoma between 2009-11, according to the Tulsa World.
Here is a lesser-known fact: Food stamps account for 25-40% of the monthly revenue at certain Wal-Mart locations, according to New York University nutrition professor Marion Nestle.
Indeed, Wal-Mart collected nearly half of the total $1.2 billion in food stamp spending in Oklahoma between 2009-11, according to the Tulsa World.
Spending in 2011 totaled $78 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The agency says spending grew faster than the number of recipients for two reasons: First, benefit amounts were increased 15% under the 2009 “stimulus” bill.
Second, as you know all too well... food prices have gone up…
“A vast percentage of food stamps’ money goes into the pockets of soda
companies and snack food companies,” says the aforementioned professor Nestle.
“In Florida, a proposal to ban food stamp purchases for soda and junk
food was killed with the help of Coca-Cola, the Corn Refiners Association and
Kraft Foods,” according to a report from Eat
Drink Politics, which describes itself as a “watchdog consulting group.”
Many people turn to frugality in response to economic bad times. That
is, they view it as a necessary, but bitter pill they are forced to swallow,
but would rather spit out. Viewing frugality as a form of poverty, they are
driven to it through desperation, rather than a desire to increase control over
their lives.
Also, for the political reasons I’ve mentioned so often, I no longer
believe the American dream is functioning for most citizens.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
Apple Cider Vinegar
Dilute one part to five parts to use as an effective antiseptic wash to
heal sores. For bad wounds, soak a gauze bandage in the solution and leave
overnight
Potatoes
Grate up a raw potato and apply the juice to soothe sunburn, cysts,
inflammation, and swellings.
Honey Spread a small amount of honey on a little piece of bread and put
'honey side down' onto an infected wound, ulcer or a boil. The honey acts as a
drawing ointment helping to clean it out.
Honey is good for your skin (especially your neck area) when it becomes
dry. Apply, leave for half an hour, and then rinse off in the shower
White Vinegar
White Vinegar is another one of those products that has many different
uses. One use is helping to heal the pain of a burn. Put some white vinegar
liberally on a piece of cotton wool and dab the burnt area. The same can be
done for sunburn
Reviews of Cheap Products - tons of categories + useful budget links.
Why should cops have all the fun? Make your own reuseable flash grenade
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The Nanny State Updates…
From children's lemonade stands to sneaky new speed traps, bureaucrats
are getting in our faces, big-time.
Another reminder of the need to stay vigilant and defend your
independence and self-reliance.
Look at these related eating
trends (all done for your own "protection"):
Armed FDA agents raid dairy farms and shut them down to prevent you
from buying unpasteurized milk;
As recently discovered by a Michigan housewife who faces 93 days in
jail, local laws can even prohibit you from growing vegetables on your own
property;
All-knowing school health officials inspect your child's sack lunch
brought from home – if they disapprove, your child is forbidden from eating it
and forced to buy and eat the cafeteria food;
Feds fine a Utah high school $15,000 because it accidentally violated a
federal law, failing to power off a soda vending machine during lunch period.
Now the school will have less money for enrichment programs;
To one-up New York City, Illinois is proposing a "Fat Tax" to
protect adults from the ravages of eating too many calories, hamburgers, and
fast food;
It's not just health care. The bureaucrats have their sights set on the
whole of life as we know it. They want to wreck every convenience, every
exercise of choice. Nothing is too small, too petty, too irrelevant to be
crushed. As a general rule, if you like something, the government hates it.
The Parting Thought – What does it take to start a revolt?
The BIG LIE - What government is known for…
Do you trust the
government? While growing up and under
public school indoctrination, I did. I
swallowed just about everything I was told, hook, line and sinker.
Over the years I've watched time and time again as the US Government
passed laws that reduced personal liberty, violated the constitution, or
blatantly transferred more wealth to the already wealthy.
The income tax. When it was introduced, the
public was told “This will not affect anyone other than the top one-percent of
income earners.” We all know where that
went. In the beginning, all it took was
a postcard to file your returns. Now,
just about everyone needs a CPA and/or accounting software…don’t forget about
the little government brothers which stepped in to grab money from your
pocket. And by the way, witholding of
taxes from your paycheck was a TEMPORARY measure to pay for WWII. We’re still waiting for that to go away.
The Great Tobacco Lawsuit. All
50 states joined in with the promise the money would go to help educate
children and provide free smoking cessation programs. Only one state lived up to that promise; most
of that cash went into the general fund and within a few years, all those
states were broke again. Of course, the
lawyers for suit all became very wealthy.
RICO & Asset Forfeiture Laws.
The public was told these laws were needed to go after the Big Drug
Dealers. Guess what? They use it more on the little guy and the
mules. All law enforcement agencies
drool over the prospect of seizing goods and cash to fund their ‘militarized’
ventures and coffers…but the always want more.
The Patriot Act. The gorilla on
our collective backs. We were told it
was needed to ‘guarantee our freedom.’
Instead, the government uses it for unwarranted wiretaps, no-knock
searches, illegal detentions and of course, to invade your financial
privacy. Do you feel any safer?
ObamaCare. This one is in
the pipeline but in addition to more taxes, more invasion of privacy, lower
medical standards, more government controls I predict it will need to a
National ID system with the IRS in control.
Your ‘socialist slave number’ will be used, perhaps tattooed onto your
hand as some predict.
I ran across an article in MIT's Technology Review where researchers at
the Institute of Complex Systems published their results on the question; what
is the cause of riots? The study was headed up by Marco Lagi and his
associates. Lagi and his associates were
surprised when it turned out the cause boils down to one thing:
The price of food.
Note that the price of food is not necessarily the reason for the riots - but it does create the conditions when rioting will break out.
Note that the price of food is not necessarily the reason for the riots - but it does create the conditions when rioting will break out.
As you know, the cost of food is steadily increasing. And this increase is going up faster than the usual few percentage points we've all come to accept. The most profound thing about Lagi's work is that he plotted out the current trends in food prices and his model predicts that by August 2013, if food prices continue to rise at the pace we've seen in recent years, THE ENTIRE WORLD will be in civil unrest.
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