Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
ISSN 2161-5543
In This Issue:
1.
Squanto’s Garden Secrets-Free Download
2.
Right Wing Handbook – Free ebook
3.
Safeguarding yourself on Black Friday
4.
New Urban Garden Resources
5.
More ways to earn extra holiday cash
My cooking is so bad my
kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. - Phyllis
Diller
Black Friday
BS – Safeguarding yourself
Even with the
continued bleakness of the economic picture, I suspect that we'll see record
crowds at stores and malls this year. People are desperate to make the holidays
a special time, and in many cases, that means spending money they don't have.
I don’t like crowds
and therefore, avoid shopping malls and the like (throughout the year, not just
during holidays). I make it
easy…everything is done online with notes to sellers to send the item to my
designated recipient and/or, I send the one gift all children enjoy - money!
What really astounds
me are the huge crowds, and accompanying mayhem/violence which seems to occur
each year…folks getting stampeded running through the doors at the appointed
hour like it was a horse race. I see this
all the time each time a new Ipad or other stupid gadget is announced.
If you feel
driven to the mall on Black Friday, keep these tips in mind:
While you're shopping,
remain aware of your space. Avoid bumping into people and be mindful of people
who are getting too close to you. It's unlikely they're making a move for your
wallet, but certainly possible, so it's better to be safe than sorry.
To avoid identity
theft, keep your credit cards and your check book put away until you reach the
cash register and the cashier has finished ringing you up. Re-check your
personal space before pulling out your payment information. If anyone is too
close, don't be afraid to ask him to move back a little.
Also, keep track of
your receipts during the shopping day. A dropped receipt can give identity
thieves some of your personal and financial information, as well as their own
"shopping list" of desirable items to pilfer from your vehicle. So,
make sure the cashier hands you the receipt and that you put it into your
wallet or into another safe place.
Stay aware of your
surroundings. Keep an eye on the people around you, especially the people that
are closer to you than you'd like. Know how many bags the cashier gave you and
keep track of those. If you have more packages from a single purchase than
you're able to easily keep track of or carry, ask the cashier to call someone
to help you out to your car.
Once at your
car, put your packages where they aren't easy to see.
At this time of Thanksgiving we pause to count our blessings.
We still live in a country that has opportunity for achievement. We’re grateful for the confidence you have shown in us during the past two years…
For all of these things we are deeply thankful. Our best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving!
We still live in a country that has opportunity for achievement. We’re grateful for the confidence you have shown in us during the past two years…
For all of these things we are deeply thankful. Our best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving!
Dry wet gloves in half
the time by placing one on each end of an paper towel tube and proper them up someplace warm.
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
Free Downloadable Book - Courtesy of the Washington Times
The time has come to the set the record straight. Conservatives have
the only real and lasting solutions to the 10 major problems facing our nation.
These solutions are clearly and persuasively explained in the all-new Right-Wing
Handbook: Demolishing Ten Lies of the Left!
This Right-Wing Handbook will help you understand and defend conservative positions on:
This Right-Wing Handbook will help you understand and defend conservative positions on:
How to Reduce Poverty & Homelessness without Taxes!
How to Improve Education & Cut Costs!
How to Improve Healthcare & Save Money!
How to End Racism & Give Everyone A Chance to Achieve the American Dream
Ending War For Good
Debunking The Fallacy of Corporate Greed Gun Ownership Abortion and
Other Hot-Button Social Issues
Freedom of Religion, Not Freedom From Religion
How to Harvest Natural Resources & Protect the Environment
Squanto’s
Garden Secrets - Free Report
If you’ve been gardening for years or are still just dreaming about being totally self-sufficient, "Squanto's Garden" will both educate and entertain while helping you plan for your family's food future.
In Squanto's Garden, you'll discover:
If you’ve been gardening for years or are still just dreaming about being totally self-sufficient, "Squanto's Garden" will both educate and entertain while helping you plan for your family's food future.
In Squanto's Garden, you'll discover:
The truth about
organic foods
How to assess your
soil quality
The best Ph value for
your soil...and how to fix it
The unlikely source
for the most effective fertilizer
How to design your
garden to work with nature
How to pair crops so
they will grow well together and actually benefit from one another
And even secret
recipes from the 17th century for preparing turkey, pumpkin and stew!
The Pilgrims were smart, tough, resourceful people, but they had to learn to adapt to a different, difficult environment. You can download this free report by going here.
The Pilgrims were smart, tough, resourceful people, but they had to learn to adapt to a different, difficult environment. You can download this free report by going here.
Social Car
Sharing Site
New site that enables
car owners to make money by renting their underused vehicles to other drivers
via Smart Phones. More cities are being
added. Learn more at:
New Urban
Farming Resources
A ‘growing’ trend in
America…learn more at these resources:
Food Sprout - CA-based site shares the impact on the environment of
where your food comes from. FoodSprout.com
Guerilla
Gardening Site - GreenAid.co…designs
vending machines which dispense compost, clay and seed balls which can be
thrown into derelict urban sites for reclamation purposes.
Urbio - Offers
a magnetic planting
system which can transform any wall into a vertical urban garden. MyUrbio.com
Earn Extra
Holiday Cash
Become a merchandiser
with firms such as Hallmark and Mattel.
Requires anywhere from 5-20 hours a week and reliable
transportation. Learn more at:
National Association
for Retail Marketing Services - search the job bank tab.
If you enjoy
TV - Make money by watching commercials
New site has you view
different commercials based on your interests and provide feedback. In return, you’re entered into a weekly
jackpot; get friends to join and you’ll earn money for each commercial they
watch.
Santa
would have to visit 822 homes per second to deliver all the world’s presents on
Christmas Eve.
The Nanny State Updates…
Income
inequality is rising to very dangerous levels. According to a joint House and Senate report entitled "Income Inequality and the Great Recession", the top one percent of all income earners in
the United States brought in a total of 10.0 percent of all income in 1980, but
by the time 2008 had rolled around that figure had skyrocketed to 21.0 percent
In the midst of
everything else, the United States is bleeding national wealth like crazy. Tens
of billions of dollars more goes out of this country each month than comes into
it. Instead of improving, our trade deficit just keeps getting worse. For
example, the U.S. trade deficit with China in 2010 was 27 times larger than it was back in 1990.
Today, the Fed
has $52.5 billion of capital backing a $2.7 trillion balance sheet.
Prior to the
bursting of the credit bubble, the public was shocked to learn that our biggest
investment banks were levered 30-to-1. When asset values fell, those banks were
quickly wiped out. But now the Fed is holding many of the same types of assets
and is levered 51-to-1! If the value of their portfolio were to fall by just
2%, the Fed itself would be wiped out.
County Sheriffs
Push Back Against Feds
Special report: Gary Franchi is joined by Former Graham County
Sheriff Richard Mack. They discuss the County Sheriff Project, a movement that
will compound the effort to push back against an over reaching Federal
Government…
The Parting Thought – Where’s my piece of the pie?
I believe that if the people of this nation fully
understood what
Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on
Washington; they would not wait for an election... It adds up to a
preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the
United States!"
-- George W. Malone
(1890-1961) U.S. Senator (Nevada)
Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on
Washington; they would not wait for an election... It adds up to a
preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the
United States!"
-- George W. Malone
(1890-1961) U.S. Senator (Nevada)
Less of the
pie to go around for most Americans…thanks to government policy
A recent USA Today
story revealed how our sluggish economy has impacted families and communities.
"Across the nation, the middle class share of the nation's income is
shrinking," the article stated. "The vast middle class has less of
the pie than it had before," it continued, quoting Pew Research Center
Executive Vice President Paul Taylor.
USA TODAY also
mentioned New Bern, North Carolina, where most middle class residents are
retirees living on investments and fixed incomes. Plummeting portfolio values
have forced many of them to look for work in an market where the trucking and
boat and appliance manufacturing base has been battered.
The share of families
living in middle-income neighborhoods has dropped to 44 percent in 2007 from 65
percent in 1970, the Stanford University study showed.
The study sponsored by
the Sage Foundation and Brown University covered the country's major 117
metropolitan areas.
It supports views that
the income inequality gap is widening.
The ongoing
legislative and regulatory binge has kept businesses and investors on the
sidelines, stifling economic recovery. Actions on energy have been especially
damaging, because reliable, affordable energy is the key to living standards,
jobs, and everything we make, ship, eat and do.
Yet, the Interior
Department and Environmental Protection Agency are locking up more oil, gas and
coal prospects; delaying or denying onshore and offshore drilling permits; and
imposing countless costly regulations on electricity generation that is the
backbone of affordable energy for factories, workers and families. Despite the
Solyndra, SunPower and Fisker scandals, the Energy Department spent billions
more to subsidize expensive, intermittent green energy.
Read more at NetRightDaily.com: http://netrightdaily.com/2011/11/real-monsters-didn%e2%80%99t-disappear-after-halloween/#ixzz1dxNYJUKm
Yours for “what
happened to my country”, the Poor Man
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