Termyn8or -> RE: Wealthy? Hide Your Ass(ets) (10/21/2008 8:47:28 AM)
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My assets are so well hidden even I can't find them ! Was considering a Canadian bank account actually but I'm not sure how effective of a solution that would be. Our clan tends to put money into three things. Property, tools and weapons. Actually maybe that's only two because weapons are tools. In fact given a bit of time, weapons might become the most important tools. Food, beside the canned goods got two refrigerators and a deep freeze. Water shouldn't be a problem with the snow and rainfall around here. Around Y2K time generators hit an all time high, but maybe now is the time to get one, as well as some tanks of propane etc., I know how to rejet a furnace or hot water tank for propane, aaaa, should get some of those jets. While the upstairs furnace is induced draft, there is no way to run it without electricity, but the downstairs furnace is thermopile operated so it will work with nothing but gas. Totally gravity and 80% efficient. The new furnace upstairs might be more efficient with power, but it is 0% effcient without power. Not that I think interruptions of public utilities is imminent, but it is possuble, and it is also possible that people will not be able to afford to pay the bills. That is a concern of course. Interruptions that are caused naturally, like the delivery mechanism breaking down, might take a bit longer to repair in tough times. Those guys who go out there in inclement weather and repair the infrastructure make quite a bit of money. What happens when the utility companies can't pay ? I don't think anyone could be completely prepared. Know your neighbors, you might barter some meat for a tank of propane or something like that. That's the silver lining of the dark cloud, people will unglue themselves from the TV or video game and actually talk to one another, and when they start, there is no telling what might happen. That revolution might just come within our grasp and we can then actually throw the bums out. The bums that caused this problem. It has been argued to me thayt the fed did not cause the current financial crisis, but it did. Once this country started continually operating in debt it set forth a series of reactions and now the results are in. We have a huge shit sandwich and no ketchup. T
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