Author Topic: How I Hope To Survive 2010 (Read 2266 times)

littlerose · « **on:** January 13, 2010, 06:18:26 PM »

As an artist, I have always patched together a bunch of service jobs and sales and so far have managed to keep body and soul within hollerin' distance. It gets harder all the time, mostly because of all the red tape involved.

For example, once upon a time you could fix up a batch of home-made jelly and sell it for $3 a jar and as long as you weren't doing it more than once or twice a year, nobody cared. :chef:

Then they decided health departments had to inspect kitchens, and at that point you could get a certificate in most counties showing that your kitchen was ok even if it was still just your home. :drillsergeant:

Then they decided that only commercial kitchens unattached to houses could get that kind of thing, so people began to pool rents for time in an inspected kitchen.

Then they decided the people had to be inspected and so you had to show you took a course to become a certified "food handler". :reading:

Enough people did that so that then they decided you have to take that course every year! :cussing:

I have thought about going to a foreign country and sneaking back into the USA without papers, pretending I don't speak English, so that I wouldn't be required to get all the certificates that regular Americans are required to have. :jumping2:

But I don't think I would be able to keep up the act very long and my blue eyes would make people suspicious. :cool:

So there is still art s and crafts, but then they started to zero in on that, too. In many communities the liberals report artists for "manufacturing" in "residential areas" if the artists don't pay into the right political purses, and then they have recently started going after people who make home-made toys to require them to have safety certificates. :faint:

Gee.... I started out saying how I was going to do some kind of personal free market thing in 2010 and now all of a sudden I forgot what I was gonna say.....:idea:

Well, I do have this little shop called "The Teapot Co-op" and a few friends and I have some things in the Ruby Lane marketplace:

http://theteapotcoop.rubylane.com
:cheers: :wave: :alcohol:

PM me with questions.

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 14, 2010, 12:32:54 AM »

2010 will be the year that most American will walk away
from their mortgages because they will have no jobs,
and the banks will not dare to foreclose.

littlerose · « **Reply #2 on:** January 14, 2010, 12:36:17 AM »

Will they "walk away" or just stay and become squatters in their own homes? As a renter, for the first time I see myself at a disadvantage *lol*..

Of course the banks will try to evict them just for the sake of it, but all they have to do is trade houses with each other, so that on paper it looks like they got evicted and the new people living there are not in the picture.

All those McMansions look alike, anyway.....

Iuvenalis · « **Reply #3 on:** January 14, 2010, 01:36:46 AM »

Quote from: RomanCatholic1953

2010 will be the year that most American will walk away
from their mortgages because they will have no jobs,
and the banks will not dare to foreclose.

I do believe you're right.

I also think this 'recession' is about to double dip into a bigger 'recession' (depression).

People forget that the depression went the same way. Big dip for a couple years, then a huge rally in the markets for a year-ish, then HUGE dip into the depression.

I'm quite sure you know that.

littlerose · « **Reply #4 on:** January 14, 2010, 01:38:32 AM »

I think we are already there but the stats don't show it because the fools who collect them don't count several strata of unemployed or underemployed.

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 14, 2010, 06:44:35 PM »

The government is hiding the true unemployment statistics.
According to more informed Economists such as John Williams
of Shadowstats.com, the true figure is over 21%.
In the Consumer price index, the government conveniently
removes the cost rise of foods, and fuel., so inflation
figures would appeared low. Cheating Social Security
recipients of their cost of living adjustments. What gets me,
the government is bringing in 1.5 million immigrants
yearly, and there is so much unemployment among the
native born Americans.

littlerose · « **Reply #6 on:** January 14, 2010, 07:32:57 PM »

Quote from: RomanCatholic1953

The government is hiding the true unemployment statistics.
According to more informed Economists such as John Williams
of Shadowstats.com, the true figure is over 21%.
In the Consumer price index, the government conveniently
removes the cost rise of foods, and fuel., so inflation
figures would appeared low. Cheating Social Security
recipients of their cost of living adjustments. What gets me,
the government is bringing in 1.5 million immigrants
yearly, and there is so much unemployment among the
native born Americans.

They did that so that soc security payments would not rise because those payments are pegged to inflation. They certainly would not have risked public wrath over that denial of money if they are not expecting extreme inflation to kick in soon.

Certainly, if you look at basic commodities like bread, eggs, etc inflation is easily 20% over the past 2 years.

Petertherock · « **Reply #7 on:** January 14, 2010, 08:58:41 PM »

If President Bush and the Republicans had pulled this tactic they would have been impeached.

littlerose · « **Reply #8 on:** January 14, 2010, 09:10:09 PM »

I'm seriously considering my pantry shelves as my savings account. Buying canned goods and other imperishables ahead makes more sense than trying to trust the banks.

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 15, 2010, 11:08:21 PM »

The recent stock market rise is being fueled by the TARP
money that our government has borrowed from your
children , and future generations.
Have you ever heard of the plunge protection team
that was set up during the Reagan Administration to
prevent an another stock market crash in 1988.
Do not be fooled by a rising Dow. The stock market is
not the economy. The true state of the economy is
only found on Main Street.

Raoul76 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 15, 2010, 11:30:05 PM »

Petertherock, do you think Democrats and Republicans are two separate parties? Of course you aren't seeing this post...

Clovis · « **Reply #11 on:** January 15, 2010, 11:34:35 PM »

Quote from: Raoul76

Petertherock, do you think Democrats and Republicans are two separate parties? Of course you aren't seeing this post...

And of course they are two seperate parties.

Both right and wrong on different issues but it is impossible for a Christian to vote for either given the serious nature of the things they are wrong about.

littlerose · « **Reply #12 on:** January 15, 2010, 11:43:57 PM »

:sign-thread-hijacked:

Ah yes, the sedes and the bombers....

what a bunch!

Iuvenalis · « **Reply #13 on:** January 17, 2010, 04:09:33 AM »

Quote from: RomanCatholic1953

The recent stock market rise is being fueled by the TARP
money that our government has borrowed from your
children , and future generations.

Small detail: It's not TARP money actually, they'll have to pay that back at some point, and it was 'only' 800 billion, not quite enough to affect the market cap of the stock market this much. It's just plain low-interest 'liquidity' from the incredible short-term rates. But in principle, you're correct. Institutions are having a field day swiping up the 'bargains'

Quote from: RomanCatholic1953

Have you ever heard of the plunge protection team
that was set up during the Reagan Administration to
prevent an another stock market crash in 1988.
Do not be fooled by a rising Dow. The stock market is
not the economy. The true state of the economy is
only found on Main Street.

This is very, very true.

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #14 on:** January 18, 2010, 07:35:35 PM »

Quote from: littlerose

I'm seriously considering my pantry shelves as my savings account. Buying canned goods and other imperishables ahead makes more sense than trying to trust the banks.

I dont think the question is how much food can you stockpile, but where and how do you obtain food when your store runs out? :detective: A pantry only lasts a short time and it's not like you can just eat one year and hibernate the next.