Government is corrupt. government is rife with crony insiders from wall street and the casino banks who rotate in and out of government and are in the positions of ultimate economic authority, including at the Fed. All policies come from there. They also lobby/bribe off other government employees..politicians and 'regulators", to look the other way or to sponsor new legislation or remove old legislation that gets in the way of their skimming con games.

Government is 100% at fault, being so corrupt. Corporations are *corrupt by design*, the nature of the beast, it is the government's job to regulate them. None of those entities could do squat unless they were allowed to do it. They couldn't come up with toxic waste derivatives and sell them, or nuthin. the government should have said "WTF are these CDOs and so on? Are you crazy, this is bullshit, these are not "products", GTFO of here right now". These corporations couldn't manipulate the (now scam and counterfeit since 1913) money supply, manipulate the markets, without government lack of oversight, no matter how much tax money is stolen from the "people" for them to do their jobs correctly. Oh, but they are well paid, now government employees at the Fed level make way more than most non government workers and have carved in stone pensions and health insurance and other sorts of goodies.

    These are corporations and receive government charters to function as corporations.. they have to "incorporate", the government could say "no", and either not grant the corporate charters for scam businesses like these, or actually remove them if malfeasance is found, but they do neither, they just steal tax payer money and re-allocate it further upstream to those guys, and let them continue with their mass thievery. It's a mostly closed good ole boy loop, with "government" being the enforcer, the entity with dudes with guns who tell people what they can and can't do. Now, they tell the "people" to always support those billionaires and make them even richer.

  That's all they do, make already rich corporations richer, and get everyone else to believe they are "in debt" to them via constant mass brainwashing.

And so on, and man am I disappointed, it's like all those articles I did, all the typing..gone, worthless, waste of time.

Anyway, thanks for making me realize this, how much of a waste of time and effort it is here.

...is that stupid looking. Government sure does come up with some harebrained excuses to drop tons of cash on fatcats all the time...

Hey, here's a thought....don't invade other nations where the locals don't like you and resort to any weapon they can come up with to stop you. Of course I know this doesn't make the fatcats any *more* money, but really....

Look at those pics....geez....the "insurgents" will enjoy their skeet shooting. And the oil companies will enjoy their profits, after first having to transit five other fatcat DOD "contractors" pockets first. What is it in ashcanistan now, 400 bucks a gallon for fuel delivered, something like that? Can you imagine the fuel an even slightly armored flying dork mobile like that will need to burn to get off the ground and stay aloft?

Can't have PETA showing up (unless it is those nekkid gurl protesters all decked out in animal body paint...)

Helium balloon for the GPS bug tracker spoofing win!

..and here I thought they just liked the taste of my corn, squash and tomatoes..learn new stuff ever' day.... /me heads to the farm n feed for USB spray.....

I could have saved confederate money and old stocks from the great depression blowout. They sold a bundled thick stack of either for ten cents at the five and dime back then.

Coulda woulda shoulda

Army surplus rifles and pistols were wicked cheap back then as well.

I have no idea what is worth saving today, but I have hung on to my old first computer, a mac 512k, and then a few more very slightly newer like an LC and some others I forget now.

Scrounger's guide to Sat TV

http://www.nmia.com/~roberts/scrounge

Free to air Sat receivers

http://www.tech-faq.com/free-to-air-receivers.html

If you don't want to go TV, you can make spiffy outdoor table canopies from them, or use them for home solar thermal alt energy projects, once you have a tracker. I've seen them used for the tops/roofs on backyard small buildings as well.

I was thinking stray cats or pigeons would be more fun.

The entire loanshark banking creating poof "credit" then "taxes" system is the flawed "trickle down" theory of economics. Works swell for the top 1% and paid off politicians then hired on government workers, for everyone else it is a life long economic serfdom experience. And people go way out of their way to get entrenched into that system, they work on improving their "credit score", whereas if they just thought about it, it is a long term debt score. Why the heck do people want to go out of their way to go into debt forever??

Why more progessives don't understand this yet is beyond me, they stay fixated on keeping that system completely intact, then just wanting to tax everything more. That's just plain illogical nutz...in meat space I have yet to meet a democrat or "progressive" who understands this *at all*, they just can't conceive of anything but increasing income taxes on everyone and expanding government more. That's their solution to everything.

As to mortgages..30 years only if you go through a bank, which is not absolutely required.. The nation is awash in owner financed homes now, and you can negotiate more there, with the added benefit you aren't contributing to this fiat currency/credit bubble mess and no "new debt" is being created, just transferred on time payments. The money supply isn't being overly inflated with owner financed or owner built/restored (sweat equity).

With that said, I lived four years and change in my RV... it was OK. You get used to it quickly. Those things are cheap now, used. The only furniture you need is folding lawn furniture for sitting outside, all the rest is built in.

Oh, boomers dropping housing..I doubt it, a paid off house with just taxes and maintenance is cheap compared to anything else, and the older you get the more you want security and some way to drop expenses. Plus it would be psychologically hard and stressful to go back to renting when you have been a home owner for so long.

I think a better alternative is to go back to the most common way humans lived for millenia, the multi generational home/farm stead. With many adults working, stuff gets a lot more affordable, especially if the property itself makes an income.

You always have a job, and a place to live, if you farm, or market garden, always, even if it is just a side job. Cuts down on the worry factor.

The generations right before me went through the great depression, renters and city people suffered a lot more than rural people with the tight money supply and jobs, etc. It was only in the limited dust bowl areas where it got bad enough for people to want to move. The ones who managed to stay put on the multi generational farms rode it out.

All my toys from the early 50s, expensive collector items. All my baseball cards from then, I could pay cash for a new sportscar. All my *comic books* from then, and sci fi and fantasy books..cash for a new house. All chucked out/given away, "no room" "don't want to pay freight hauling it to the new house" etc. Heck, even my old themed lunchboxes are worth some decent loot today.