Poor Man
Survival
Self
Reliance tools for independent minded people…
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
As a
long time muckraker and protester, I’ve been asked why I didn’t just leave the
United States?
The answer is simple: if your child was sick would you throw it
away? Of course not. The goal has always been to heal the child. ~ the Poor Man
SeaSteading: a New Way to reclaim freedom?
An exciting new way to reclaim your freedom and create societies
that respect and protect individual rights…
The
number one question I’ve received since the 1990s is “How can I start my own
country? All the land on the planet has
been claimed?’ As our politically elite
continue their efforts at regulating, spying and taxing every element of our
lives, it’s only natural, like the Pilgrims who escaped from England to start
new lives, for people to seek freedom.
The
Poor Man has explored many options over the years. Now, new overreaching US banking laws have
many foreign banks refusing to accept US depositors as customers making it
difficult for those with assets to escape the clutches of US tax authorities.
This and NSA snooping, a poor economy and other factors have people seeking new
ways to of getting some of their assets offshore and/or to find freedom again.
Not
rocking the boat, not disrupting the natural order or things, maintaining the
status quo is how governments want citizens to behave…
But
that's no way to make the world a better place. One where your children and
grandchildren can live a better life than the one you lived.
These
ideas, however, face an uphill struggle. For many of them, they're met with
ridicule. Especially when they threaten the power structure and the government
that maintain it.
Take,
for example, seasteading. Ambitious entrepreneurs want to build floating islands
that can exist outside of the U.S. and can create their own laws.
Years
ago when this idea was first proposed, reporters and journalists ridiculed the
idea. These artificial islands were things ripped out of a science fiction
novel, or where a James Bond villain set up his hideout. They weren't something
you should take seriously.
But
a strange thing happened since the idea first popped onto the scene...
technology got better. In fact, there's been so much progress there are
actually small examples of floating man made islands in different parts of the
world. Following this trajectory, it's only a matter of time before a large
enough platform finds its way into the open waters.
Entrepreneurs
have researched buying used cruise ships or even aircraft carriers in order to
rebuild freedom. We’ve written about
living on a houseboat to cut such expenses as property taxes. Others had hoped space travel would have
become sophisticated enough to explore new worlds like in Star Trek…
Call it an experiment in governance, call it a way to live under a
new set of rules of your own creation, maybe even a way to start your life
over. You may one day be setting up your own sovereign nation.
In
a way, this is just a continuation of the spirit that founded this country. The
dream: If you don't like what's going
on around you, you can pack up, move out, and reclaim your freedom.
The
Pilgrims and other early colonists grew tired of the stagnant political systems
of their home countries and came to America to find a better life. After the
colonies won their independence, settlers always had the option of moving out
west whenever they wanted to reclaim their freedom. That idea persisted all the
way to the west coast.
Want
a better life on board one of these floating islands?
That's exactly what Rod Sweet of Global Construction Review did recently. He wrote:
"[T]he
real answers to the world's problems are far duller and more difficult than the
backers of seasteading are likely to have the stomach for: negotiated settlements,
enlightened governance, strong civil society and political will.
"Politics
is messy, boring and a blunt instrument, but it's all we've got, and if we want
a better world, business elites should have to muck in with their time, effort
-- and, yes, taxes -- like the rest of us."
So
his solution is sticking around, sending 30% (or more) of your income to Uncle
Sam, lining up every four years at the voting booth, and pulling the lever,
while hoping for a better tomorrow. And if you think this system is broken,
then too bad. Suck it up and deal with it.
Regardless
of what you think about seasteading, whether you think it's a pie- in- the- sky
fantasy or a viable alternative to the mess we're currently in, you can't fault
the spirit behind it. The idea that a person is free to find something
better. The concept that you're not
indebted to the financial and political mistakes of the past or the eroding
civil rights seen in the United States and elsewhere.
Find
more information about this concept here:
The Seasteading Institute is a nonprofit 501(c)(3),
working to enable seasteading communities - floating cities - which will allow
the next generation of pioneers to test new ideas for government. The most
successful can then inspire change in governments around the world.
Yours in freedom,
Bruce ‘the Poor Man’
The Middle Class Is Dying
If you make more than $27,520 a
year at your job, you are doing better than half the country is. But you
don’t have to take my word for it, you can check out the latest wage statistics
from the Social Security administration right here.
But of course $27,520 a year will not allow you to live “the American Dream” in
this day and age. After taxes, that breaks down to a good bit less than
$2,000 a month.
You can’t realistically pay a mortgage, make a
car payment, afford health insurance and provide food, clothing and everything
else your family needs for that much money.
That is one of the reasons why both parents are working in most families
today. In fact, sometimes both parents are working multiple jobs in a
desperate attempt to make ends meet. Over the years, the cost of living
has risen steadily but our paychecks have not. This has resulted in a
steady erosion of
the middle class.
The solutions to
surviving the war on the Middle Class can be found in our new e-book.
Discover life-saving ways in which you can survive and
prosper during The End of the
Monetary System As We Know It. This is the information that your financial advisor, your
doctor, your police precinct and your government hope you never discover…plus
learn how food is your best investment!
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