Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
In This Issue:
1.
Real
Sources of Extra Income
2.
Finding affordable health care
3.
Self Sufficiency-finding homestead land
4.
The future of money-Part II
The system of banking [is] a blot left in all our Constitutions,
which, if not covered, will end in their destruction...
I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous
than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to
be paid by posterity... is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Real Sources of Extra Income
We live in tough times. Those who are not unemployed are
under-employed. Many people agonize between taking a second job and family
time.
I want to introduce to you a few reputable work-from-home companies
that will pay you for your work. All of these will send 1099’s for tax
purposes.
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If you are looking to find your own freelance writing jobs sites like Elance and Odesk have thousands
of writing jobs posted. Or if you decide to stick with the corporate world,
here are some job
sites to help you find a job
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They have many different employment opportunities that range from
Writers, Editors, Title Editors, Filmmakers, and more. They are usually hiring
for certain positions at certain times so you have to keep your eyes peeled. I
have made several thousand dollars in article writing and title editing. I even
got my wife into doing title editing and earning
extra spending money. As a writer you can make between $7.50-$20.00 per 150-500 word
article. I usually write about two articles an hour (that’s $30.00 an hour at
$15.00 an article). You do not have to be a prolific writer or have a
background in writing to get accepted. Most articles are in a “How to” format.
So, if you are the type that enjoys learning something new and then explaining
it to someone else then this could be a fun work for you. Most of their content
goes on eHow.com or LiveStrong.com.
This is mostly like a running projects board for a company called
LiveOps (which I will discuss later on). Live Work has many different projects
that you can bid on. Many are data entry and task-oriented. You work as much as
you want. I once worked on a Dictonary.com project and was paid for every
definition and source that I put in the system. There really is a wide-variety
of work available there.
They are a vendor for Google. Once you are accepted in the program you
log-in to the Google interface and rate websites. Google wants their searches
to be relevant. They use human raters to rate whether the content is worthy or
spam. At the time of this writing, they pay $11.50 an hour
This is a great place to earn extra income if you want to write on
simple projects. They pay is much less, but the projects are easy to write on.
If you want more human interaction, then you might want to consider
LiveOps. LiveOps is an at home call service that you dial into while in the
comfort of your own home. You will have to make a weekly schedule, but you will
never have to commute anywhere. All calls are inbound from people responding to
infomercials and you basically take their ordering information while being
logged into the LiveOps system. They pay is around $9.50 but you do earn
commission for different products sold.
Find more extra income sources at PoorManSurvival.com - click on Boot Strap Biz.
Why not you?
CashCrate! You can start making money right away by completing
offers, taking surveys, and shopping online using the sections below. You can also
check out our video tutorial for a quick introduction to our program.
offers, taking surveys, and shopping online using the sections below. You can also
check out our video tutorial for a quick introduction to our program.
I use vinegar and
water for windshields. Have used it in Florida and Arizona and it works fine.
For clothes, I use vinegar, baking soda and lemon juice. Same for dishes. Toothpaste I use baking soda on
brush. Cleaning toilets, showers, tubs, sinks…I use baking soda, vinegar, lemon
juice and water.
Self Sufficient Living - a free toolbar to find State Land Sales and
Auctions, to be upgraded with Low Cost private sales over the next year. The
focus is on land between $65 to $1000 an acre. Find cheap land for your remote
retreat dream. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
http://download.cnet.com/Self-Sufficient-Living/3000-2370_4-10833666.html
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Find Affordable Health Care
No healthcare? Go to this site
to find federally funded health centers that provide medical and dental care
with sliding scale fees based on your ability to pay.
Findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov
Making jam - High quality
jam made from local fruit costs $5 for an 8 ounce jar at the farmers' market. I
can make jam from fruit seconds for as low as $2 per jar, including the cost of the
jar.
The Nanny State Updates…
Gestapo tactics are being used against homeowners that just want to be
left alone. Anyone that has ever dealt with a "compliance officer" or a
"nuisance abatement team" knows what I am talking about. But if we have
so very little "freedom" on our own properties, then how in the world
can we continue to call this country "the land of the free"?
Thug Wakes Woman Up And Yells At Her In Bed For Letting Her Grass Grow
Too Long
Down in Georgia recently, a huge male "compliance officer"
let himself into a woman's home, marched into her bedroom and started yelling
at her for letting her grass grow too long while
she was still in bed....
A woman got the
shock of her life when she woke up to find a stranger in her bedroom, yelling
at her to wake up because her grass was too long.
Erica Masters was
asleep when Columbia County Code Compliance Officer Jimmy Vowell entered her
Martinez, Georgia, home without permission to serve a violation notice for her
overgrown lawn.
After knocking on the woman's door a few times, Vowell let himself and
made his way into her bedroom, which was captured on surveillance video.
The Parting Thought – Will there be any?
I am often asked what will come next after the present system
collapsed? Will we have to go back to barter? -- No. Obviously, a modern
capitalist economy needs a functioning monetary system.
Most informed individuals understand that out of control spending
fueled by trillions of dollars in debt, unprecedented monetary expansion and
ever increasing dependence on a government social safety net overburdened by
millions of people in need of essential services can not be sustained forever.
When the government of a nation can no longer
borrow-and-spend-and-redistribute as before, when financial institutions reach
the point of insolvency, when the consumer economy falls apart and when the
people can no longer find jobs, very bad things will happen.
How will it look when it happens?
Looking at such a collapse we’ll have seen food supplies diminish and
potentially disappear. The power infrastructure will be so strained by
individuals and companies alike not being able to pay their bills that
electricity, gas and clean water will simply stop being delivered. Emergency
services personnel including health care workers, police, and firefighters will
not be getting paid by a government too overwhelmed by debt, leaving many to
first act as volunteers. Eventually, they will simply stop coming to work, at
which point law, order, and normalcy will go out the window.
All government services will be strained, leaving those who depended on
the government for their backup plan with nothing. They will either stop
issuing food assistance, or it will be such a paltry amount with respect to the
price of food that it will barely feed your family. Medical
care will simply become unavailable, and that includes life saving drugs like
antibiotics. Violence and crime will undoubtedly rise and there
will be blood in the streets, as the general unprepared
population struggles to cope with the new paradigm.
For those who think it
can’t happen here – simply take a look around. Just about every measure of
economic, financial and social health in the United States is indicating that
we are reaching a breaking point. It’s
happening in Europe.
US on Unsustainable Path
US on Unsustainable Path
Everyone except the government seems to know we cannot continue spending
the way our nation does. Even the US GAO
admits we’re on an unsustainable growth curve, yet Congress fiddles while the
country burns.
“Until the next revolution”, the Poor Man
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