Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
"[O]ne
who values his life and takes seriously his responsibilities to his family and
community will possess and cultivate the means of fighting back, and will
retaliate when threatened with death or grievous bodily injury to himself or a
loved one. He will never be content to rely solely on others for his
safety...."
-- Jeffrey R. Snyder
American attorney, author
Source: A Nation of Cowards
-- Jeffrey R. Snyder
American attorney, author
Source: A Nation of Cowards
In
This Issue:
1. What do you want from life?
2.
Could MOOCS solve our
education problems?
3.
US top terrorist state-are
all our conversations recorded?
4.
Doublespeak – the favored
language of government types
Most people want to feel appreciated and important. How you feel appreciated, only you can answer for yourself. If you don’t know what would make you feel important, loved and appreciated, you might seek this out in another person, event or situation.
Most people want to escape boredom
Another most powerful desire that people have is to have fun, excitement, and escape boredom. Yes, people are always searching for best life and excitement in life.
If you don't have enough money, you are probably concerned with survival and the problems you face in life. Most of us want to either AVOID or GAIN something. We want to avoid bad health and poverty. We want love and riches. We want to be loved and wish to avoid pain and confrontation.
>>Reach a fabled level of success that makes you untouchable
>>Create
a positive work/life balance
>>Feel
as capable as others think you are
>>Be more productive with each minute
of the day
>>Be
recognized as talented or even brilliant
>>Pursue your calling while
supporting your family financially
Find meaningful work:
To find a way to earn a living doing
something that contributes to others, yet doesn’t rob my soul;
To find a passion and stick with it;
To find a way to pursue a calling while
also supporting my family financially.
To be able to find fulfillment in a
career.
A question I asked all potential employees, If you had all the money you ever needed, never needed to worry about bills again…what would you do with your life?
Some answers I got were mundane, others surprising, others delightful and altruistic. What would you do with your life?
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EDUCATION: The average cost of a private college tuition is now a staggering
$42,224 per year… a nearly 100% increase in the last decade. With these surging
prices you’d expect Americans to be smarter… but that’s simply not the case…
One recent report found that compared to other countries:
- America is #14 in Reading
- America is #25 in Math
- America is #17 in Science
From Kindergarten to College Our Education System Has Failed…
Research
shows that as recently as 2007, we spend $12,463 per student, per year in our
public education system. More than double the $5,593 we paid in 1970.
But
what do we get in return?
Not much when you consider in the early-1900s only 8.8% of the population completed high school… yet it was one of the most productive times in our country’s history.
Think about the innovations our grandparents saw in their lifetimes… from planes to cars… electricity to lights… indoor plumbing to the radio… they witnessed new industries that drastically changed the way the entire world lives.
Not much when you consider in the early-1900s only 8.8% of the population completed high school… yet it was one of the most productive times in our country’s history.
Think about the innovations our grandparents saw in their lifetimes… from planes to cars… electricity to lights… indoor plumbing to the radio… they witnessed new industries that drastically changed the way the entire world lives.
A
report by College Board lists the 2011–2012 academic year average price for a
college budget at an in-state public, 4 year college at $21,447… and at a
private college it averaged $42,224.But here’s what shocking…
A recent study of undergraduate learning called Academically Adrift revealed that at least 45% of students in their sample gained no measurable skills during their four years in college.
And since 2000, the average income of college grads aged 25-34, has dropped – dropped – from $74,767 to $64,060 per year.
A recent study of undergraduate learning called Academically Adrift revealed that at least 45% of students in their sample gained no measurable skills during their four years in college.
And since 2000, the average income of college grads aged 25-34, has dropped – dropped – from $74,767 to $64,060 per year.
A
potential solution…
Massive
Open Online Courses, MOOCS for short, and the online learning platform EDx,
which was co-founded by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is
the wave of the future. http://www.massiveopenonlinecourses.com/
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The
Nanny State-We
love our government
The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance
state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most
things of significance done by the US government, it operates behind an
impenetrable wall of secrecy. But a seemingly … Continue reading
Renowned American academic Noam Chomsky says the
United States would be recognized as a leading terrorist state if international
law is applied. This documentary conducts an in-depth interview with Noam
Chomsky in which the double standards of the Western states with regard to the
issue of nuclear Watch
now...
The US Government has fulfilled the dream of 1984 & the Communist
Manifesto
From Revenue Enhancement to Terminal Living, Government
Drivel Makes Words Meaningless…Why most of us need someone to interpret their
gibberish they use to deceive the public.
Doublespeak
is language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning
of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs, "servicing the target" for bombing), in
which case it is primarily meant to make the truth sound more palatable. It may
also refer to intentional ambiguity in language
or to actual inversions of meaning (for example, naming a state of war
"peace"). In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the
truth. Doublespeak is most closely associated with political language.
Actual
Translation, 'Oops we screwed up. Here's what you should learn from this
screw up.'
Bailout
- This is the process of helping out large corporations with money until it can
be repaid by the company.
Actual
Translation, 'In return for this loan we are taking an equity position in
your company even if you pay back all the money, we are now part owners.' Of
course the ramifications of this are that the government that can pass laws
that effect companies now owns one of these companies. Now private companies
must compete with the very same entity that passes laws that govern how that
company can do business, pay taxes, etc. Not a good thing.
Reform - Changing
the law to ostensibly improve something or correct wrongs of the past. Think health care reform,
financial reform, campaign finance reform, immigration reform... the list goes
on.
Actual
Translation - 'The government is going to take this over so we can control
it and decide who gets what and how much of it. We need to add more regulation
and complicate it more so only a bureaucrat can understand it and you need an accountant
or lawyer to figure it out. ' Nothing the government 'reforms' actually
gets simpler or better, it just gets regulated more.
Citizen
- Person who lives in a country or region.
Actual
Translation - Taxpayer, Voter
Public
Servant - One whose job it is to
serve the public. Usually, in reference to an elected
politician, certainly not bureaucrats.
Actual
Translation - 'Fooled you into electing me so now I can do what I really
wanted to do all along.' Okay, that's a little sarcastic but it is closer
to the truth than it may sound. Name one politician that serves their
constituency and not their political party. The list is very short. Once a
politician gets elected, they become focused on getting re-elected so they can
maintain their power. Very few actually serve their public and I'll leave it at
that.
Actual
Translation - 'Those people being exploited by the rich that need the
government to come in and tax the rich so they can make it fair.'
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