Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
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Every increase in the size of government necessitates a decrease in
an individual's freedom. - Christian Harold Fletcher Riley
From The
Smiling Dog Saloon Files
In
This Issue:
1. Make
your own apple cider vinegar-the health benefits of cider vinegar
2. Meeting
your basic needs for off grid living
3. Life
After Doomsday & Other Free Downloads from the Poor Man
4. DIY
SHTF Battery Recharging how-to/Business
5. College
degrees, are they worth the cost?
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s
worth watching.
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Meeting Your Basic Needs for Living Off-the-Grid, Homesteading, Urban Living
The Poor Man devotes a lot of space to creating multiple sources of income,
sideline income strategies and so forth.
It is a part of our overall plan for assisting those ravaged by the
economy and lack of decent jobs.
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the many health benefits using apple cider vinegar
(NaturalNews) Apple cider vinegar has been used in folk medicine for hundreds of years. Apple cider vinegar has also been utilized to treat allergies, acne, flu, pets, and dermatitis. Apple cider elevates pH levels, increasing alkalinity in the body....
(NaturalNews) Apple cider vinegar has been used in folk medicine for hundreds of years. Apple cider vinegar has also been utilized to treat allergies, acne, flu, pets, and dermatitis. Apple cider elevates pH levels, increasing alkalinity in the body....
DIY Home
Apple Cider Vinegar
Did you know that you can make your own apple cider vinegar with just
some apple peels and cores, sugar, water...and a bit of patience? I didn't know
either until I started doing a bit of research.
Read more: http://www.grit.com/farm-and-garden/make-your-own-apple-cider-vinegar.aspx#ixzz2gNTr0z44
Read more: http://www.grit.com/farm-and-garden/make-your-own-apple-cider-vinegar.aspx#ixzz2gNTr0z44
The EPA Takes an Ax to Self-Sufficiency: Most Woodburning Stoves Will Soon Be Illegal
In the never-ending battle for total control, heating your home self-sufficiently with wood could soon become illegal - or at the very least, insanely expensive.
Years ago I took my first steps into creating my very own
off-grid solar power setup. Since then I’ve upgraded a bit by adding more solar
panels and deep cycle batteries and, honestly, I never feel like it’s enough. I
could, in fact, spend $20K and not have what I wanted!
Now, if you’ve never thought
about off-grid power there are plenty of resources available, from power-related videos I keep in the Video Vault to a variety of “how to” posts and even people
who know this stuff much better than I do. I’m sure there are plenty of other videos and
references I’ve found in the past if you wanted to search for them on my site.
And, of course, there’s all-knowing Google Search.
That said, having
some ability…
Continue reading How
to Create Your Own SHTF Battery Recharging Business People Will Beg You to Use!
Creating your very own compost pile isn’t that difficult,
it just takes dilligence and sometimes a strong stomach because of decomposing
food waste. Regardless, here’s some good thoughts on how to make a good compost
pile this fall if you’ve never done so before: “There is no better time to get
loads of compost materials…
Continue reading How
To Start A Great Compost Pile This Fall – For Free! (link)
The Nanny State-We love our government
Government
Shutdown – Another Fairy tale…
The stroke of midnight has just passed and the
US government has turned into a pumpkin. Well, we wish. In fact the
US government like some eternal zombie continues to walk the Earth even without
the souls of taxpayers upon which to feast. And, even that isn't totally
true. Like any zombie it still collects the blood of its victims (taxes)
even while most of its zombie army (federal government employees) sit at home
on a paid vacation... and most of their oppressive "services"
continue on, like the CIA, NSA, ATF, DEA, Executive branch, police and more.
Government,
in order to control its population uses three main areas…
- Enforcement of laws – the more laws a
society creates, the more controlling it is
- Creating what is used for money for their
own riches and to pay minions.
- Media propaganda to “cover” these crimes.
It’s pretty obvious the Washington-Wall Street Cartel
has been achieving their objectives, even during the fairy tale shutdown…
Who Buys Our Politicians?
If you want to see
who is funding your representatives, you can go to the following website: http://www.opensecrets.org
Click on the link
that says, "Who Funds Your Rep?" and you'll get a map of the country.
From there you can click on your state and look up the
contributions going to your representatives. When I searched our reps I found
that sugar companies give them a lot of money. In fact, sugar growers have
spent $3.6 million in campaign contributions for this election cycle, hoping to
maintain price supports that inflate the cost of our foods (of course they
portray it as an effort to preserve jobs, not to make bigger profits). Democrat
Bill Nelson received $42,000 in contributions, the largest amount so far, but
looking at the data from over the years, Republicans have received almost twice
as much as Democrats from the sugar industry. Apparently sugar company
executives are confident that Republicans are not really against corporate
welfare.
The
Parting Thought – Not to worry in the land of the free!
College Degrees – Are they worth the cost? You Decide!
Student debt is now twice
what it was in 2007 at just over a trillion dollars, surpassing credit card and
auto loan debt.
The college debt fiasco we are currently in has nothing to do with the free market and everything to do with government meddling. No one in their right mind would loan money at 2-3% interest to an 18-year-old with no collateral or experience to pursue their education in whatever they choose, unless of course you could just create the money out of thin air and had some friends in the university cartel. The GI Bill, federal grants, state grants and government guaranteed student loans have made university tuition prices go into the stratosphere. The once romantic idea of putting yourself through college by waiting tables is now just a memory from decades past.
Reminiscent of the housing bubble in which there was an underlying societal myth that everyone should own a home and that all houses were good investments, this bubble is fueled by the myth that everyone should go to college and that all college is a good investment. Just like the housing bubble this is believed by just about everyone until it’s not - and then it’s too late.
The culture, and of course government schools, tell the youth (and older displaced workers) that in order to get a good job one only needs to go to college. Colleges, much like the National Association of Realtors during the housing boom, take advantage of this combination of government subsidies, cheap credit and free marketing (propaganda) to fuel a speculative bubble. In the past decade college debt as a percentage of household debt has exploded becoming the second biggest form of household debt outpacing credit card and auto loan debt
As with any time that market forces are absent we see not only the price climbing but the quality of the degrees themselves diminishing. The quality of most of the degrees today are so removed from any type of marketable skills that in many cases it could be seen as a negative for someone to have wasted so much time and money to have gone to university at all. This hilarious video by Peter Schiff (Preview)
Play
demonstrates
perfectly how utterly worthless most degrees have been to obtain the high
paying job that was said to come about by possessing one of these sacred
documents.
There have been many factors that have been at play to cause this market to be perverted in such a way. You could more accurately call most degrees “Union cards” as they act as a state-sanctioned conditioning seal of approval for the union leader of the specific field the student is entering. Although there are great classes online for free, in order to get an accredited degree you must attend one of the approved Universities. Getting a degree from one of these accredited schools is of course a prerequisite for the next hoop you must jump through; getting a license to practice.
Once the university cartel has been established the only thing left to do is to hand out cheap money. This has been done through a variety of ways but mostly through federally guaranteed or directly issued student loans. Under the old federal lending program loans were made by private banks with federally backed guarantees. Many financial institutions wanted out of the market so in 2010 President Obama attached an overhaul of the student loan program to the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act. This overhaul was in essence a takeover of the student loan market by the federal government by stopping the subsidies given to the banks to make the “private” loans and instead have the government lend the money to the student directly. Along with this they increased Pell Grants and allowed students to only be liable to pay 10% of discretionary income for loan repayment, the loans could then be forgiven after 20 years of timely payments. This excess of cheap credit in this specific market has caused college tuition to rise dramatically faster than the rate of inflation.
As the fundamental economic
conditions have not improved and with youth unemployment at 20+ percent the
delinquency rate of these loans have been on the rise. Some state the rate of
loans that are behind 90 plus days are reported as 13% while the Federal
Reserve itself admits that the actual number is probably more than double that.
Ben Vincent www.fiatvigilantes.com Gold and silver commodity and
mining investor, energy analyst, economic and financial commentator and student
of Austrian economics. As a graduate of Indiana University in business,
economics and public policy and of the Ludwig von Mises institute and former
communications analyst for the Economic Freedom Project he advocates free
markets, free people and free minds.
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1 comment:
Love it let's hope the gov't stays closed awhile. At least fewer new freedom choking laws will be passed. Always makes me wonder how so many laws do get passed when 80% of the time Congress Critters are out of town?
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