Guest Post by Doug Casey
Prediction 1: The End of Retirement
The average American can forget about retirement. We’ve all heard these stories about how the average American couldn’t lay his hands on $1,000 to save his life. His expenses aren’t going away, however, even if his income does.
It seems like things have reached a critical mass. And if the economy slows down there are going to be a lot of people losing their homes again. They’ll be unable to pay their credit card bills, their car payments, their student loans, or anything else. They aren’t going to be able to buy anything. They wound up in breadlines in the ’30s. But today 40 million Americans have SNAP cards to take away the hunger pains and embarrassment of being penniless. There could be 100 million in a few years.
I know this sounds outrageous because right now everything is running fairly smoothly. The standard of living of the average middle-class American has degraded slowly over decades but hasn’t yet totally collapsed. But that’s the way it is a day before a volcano explodes, or a day before an earthquake, or minutes before an avalanche starts coming down.
This isn’t a theoretical discussion. Most retirement plans are in serious jeopardy. Many pension funds are already seriously underwater, even after a very long boom.
The situation is likely to deteriorate. The stock market is in a bubble. The bond market is in a hyper bubble. A lot of value could disappear very quickly. By the time this depression bottoms, in today’s dollars – I don’t know what the dollars are going to be worth – the Dow could trade at 5,000, or less. We’re going to see interest rates exceed what we saw in the early 1980s, when the U.S. government was paying 15%.
From a retiree’s point of view, things are not going to improve. It’s going to get worse, not better. His savings, if he has any, are going to be attacked from several angles. I don’t see any way out of this. Unless friendly aliens land on the roof of the White House and present Trump with some kind of magic technology.
Prediction 2: A White Male Privilege Tax, and Other Radical Tax Hikes
You’ve got to remember that the prime directive of any organism, whether it’s an amoeba, a person, a corporation, or a government, is to survive. Bankrupt governments – and they’re all bankrupt because of welfare state policies – are going to fight to survive. The only way that they can survive is to tax more and print more money. And that’s exactly what they’re going to do. Of course, don’t discount a war; these fools actually believe that would stimulate the economy – the way only turning lots of cities into smoking ruins can.
I suspect they’ll try to make white males bear most of the burden. That’s partly because they still have most of the money. And partly because it’s become fashionable to hate white males in particular. It’s natural to want to hurt people that they think are the problem – what Marxists would say are the “class enemy.”
We’re going to see much higher taxes, among other unsavory things. There’s no other way to pay for welfare state programs, except sell more debt to the Fed – which they’ll also do, by necessity. Inflation will get out of control as a result.
Of course, you’ve got to remember that as recently as the Eisenhower administration the top marginal tax rate was theoretically 91%. The average person didn’t pay anywhere remotely near that because it was a steeply progressive tax rate. Nobody did, frankly, especially the rich, because there were loads of tax shelters, which no longer exist. Hiding money offshore, among other things, was easy. Now these things are out of the question.
Now there’s no place to hide from the State. And envy is rampant. How bad could it get? In Sweden during the 1970s, the marginal tax rate, including their wealth tax, was something like 102%. So, almost anything is possible.
Of course they’ll raise taxes radically. It’s time to eat the rich.
Prediction 3: Like Venezuela, Socialism Will Conquer the U.S.
Its ideas already have. First, we should define what socialism is: it’s State ownership of the means of production. It was supposed to be a passing stage on the road to communism. Communism is communal ownership of private goods – houses, cars, shops, and consumer items – as well as capital goods. Nobody even talks about that anymore, since capitalism has given most people so much stuff that they don’t even have room to store it all.
Socialism in the U.S. is unlikely. Governments have found it’s much more efficient to simply have the State control capital, as opposed to owning and operating it. It’s so much easier to just take as much as they want of the profits, then blame the capitalists if something goes wrong with delivery of the goods.
Forgetting about North Korea and Cuba, there are no socialist states anywhere in the world. What we have instead are welfare states – where the government provides some degree of free schooling, free medical care, free housing, free food, and so forth. If not free, then subsidized. The next step is a guaranteed annual income.
The word “socialism” today is actually just shorthand for a welfare state, which is what Boobus americanus, the hoi polloi, really want. They don’t really care who owns the factories, the fields, and the mines. What they care about is that somebody gives them a soft life.
When you give people the ability to vote themselves free stuff at somebody else’s expense they’ll do it. But – much worse – they now actually think it’s the right thing to do. Why? Mainly because of the propaganda that they’ve absorbed through college, and the media, the entertainment world, and numerous other places. There’s no question about the fact that the U.S. will turn into a full-fledged welfare state.
Socialism is basically about the forceful control of other people’s lives and property. It isn’t just an intellectual failing. It’s actually a moral failing. Although – perversely – it’s sold as being moral. People buy it because they like to believe they’re doing the right thing.
It will end with an economic collapse. Then a political and – most importantly – a cultural collapse.
Prediction 4: A New 9/11-Type Event – Real or a Contrived False Flag
It’s entirely possible. It’s still completely undetermined what actually happened on 9/11, and who was actually behind it. Notwithstanding that, considering how the U.S. government continues to provoke people all over the world, there’s certainly some group, most likely Mohammedans, who’ll decide to strike out against the great Satan.
And as 9/11 showed, regardless of who was actually responsible, a very small number of people can have a very large effect on things. Especially when the system itself is critically unstable, which it is today.
They might do something like Mumbai in 2008. It took only two dozen fanatics with ordinary guns. They turned the whole city totally on its head for days. That was extremely cheap, low-tech, and easy. Warfare has always been a matter of economics; cheap trumps expensive. There are scores of ways to severely disrupt an advanced society for a trivial investment. On the other hand, it’s extremely expensive to disrupt a primitive society, as the U.S. is discovering in Afghanistan.
Anyway, “terrorism” is an extremely low-cost method of warfare. It will have a gigantic effect, when someone decides to use it in the U.S. 9/11 was just an amuse bouche. You can plan your life around something like that happening again.
The world is evolving at the rate of Moore’s Law in many regards. Let me emphasize that military technology is changing too. Aircraft carriers, B2s, F35s, M1 tanks, and so forth are basically junk. Great for fighting the Soviet Union, which no longer exists. They serve no useful purpose in the kind of battles that are likely in the future.
If someone wants to attack the U.S., they’re not going to use an ICBM; they’re extremely expensive, clunky, and you can see where they come from, guaranteeing retaliation. It’s total idiocy that even a maniac wouldn’t bother with. Not when you can deliver a backpack nuke by FedEx, cheap and on time. Or you could use any commercial aircraft, container ship, or truck.
If you want to blame Iran – and really whip up the U.S. population – there would be nothing like a small nuclear or radiological attack to do it. It’s a pity, since they’re a distant regional power with a failing economy, who present about zero threat to the U.S.
If I were to attempt putting my finger on exactly when the U.S. will go over the edge, I would think the real catalyst might be the next 9/11-type event. I don’t doubt it’s going to happen.
How are we any different than the Germans in the 1920s? They were one of the most civilized, best-educated countries in Europe and they fell into the abyss.
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Why 40% of Americans don’t have $400.00 in savings to pay an unexpected bill.
A 4 minute Non-PC Truth Bomb…many will hate…because truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.
The liberal application of lipstick on a pig.
I agree what O’Reilly is talking about is just a symptom of the disease but it’s still non PC truth, and as Pequiste said “A top priority target for Communism.”
A duel goal the sons of bitches and daughters of witches have had tremendous success with. Broken families and Americans who can’t support themselves.
we have killed communists all over the world because their idology destroys people and countries. now we need to do so here at home.
The destruction of the family was a top priority target for “Communism”. It is much too late to do anything about the next generation as the educational system in the U.S. is broken beyond redemption. Plus no one can compete with the Mass Media in the molding (warping) of kids’ minds.
As far as Mr Casey’s predictions….O.K., as good as any. Take them with a barrel of salt and semper paratus.
Spot on, Markus. 4 minutes of substance in that vid.
O’Reilly uses them to deliver a lean, mean msg. of truth.
Ironically, $400 is essentially nothing, either, in the grand scheme of things. A pittance.
Mark,
That’s only half of the problem. The other half is society/overpopulation and regulations. Hear me out.
1) there are kids/people who will never be able to climb the economic ladder the way it is now. For whatever reason. And the #s of these types of people are getting larger and larger. Only going to get worse.
2) regulations, monopolies and less freedom of choice and no freedom to disassociate. Everyone is forced to associate with everyone else. Bad.
3) laws against freedom to operate an enterprise the way you see fit. One day (that day is probably already upon us), NO ONE will have any other choice but to work for the government or a large corporation. BAD, VERY BAD.
4) there is no longer an opportunity to “go west, young man”. There is not a SINGLE unclaimed/controlled patch of dirt anywhere on the planet. EVERYONE is forced into the fiat monetary system. Wanna know what the mark of the Beast is? It’s $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
I could go on and on but bad parenting is NOT NEW. Bad parenting has been with us for forever.
Donkey,
You’re preaching to the choir with all four of your excellent points, especially No.4, one of the reasons I’m a self-sufficient homesteader/prepper getting ready to ‘be able to live completely off grid’ by the fall, will then be 95% out of the banking system, and I’m longtime stacker.
I’m doing everything possible to get out of the fiat system and to be able to live around it.
O’Rielly’s brief 4 minute rant was just covering one tiny slice, one result of the Communist’s mostly successful Long March on ripping apart the fabric of too many American families.
My Grandfather and Father sat me down as a boy and explained Communism, debt/interest on buying a home and Banker’s tactics to me (this was the early 60’s). My Grandpap put a list of Communism’s tactics he had cut out from a newspaper in my hand and I had it for about 15 years until it finally just crumbled apart.
Now, of course bad parenting is not new but what is new is its systematic spread like a masticating cancer fueled by the destruction of the family (of all races but especially the black family) for a host of reasons…but that’s a longer post.
mark,
just so ya know…
“masticating cancer” I get the mental image of Pac-Man chasing down healthy tissue.
masticate: to chew
masticating: gerund or present participle
In metastasis, cancer cells break away from the original (primary) tumor.
Grog…the hell with spell check…I need ‘meaning check’!
It’s actually a great blender description for smoothies.
Sure but 25 years ago a teacher could take a kid under their wing and tell them that Heather having two mommies or daddy being a butt popper dope addict male escort or whatever might be unusual and the child was not required to accept and celebrate the disgusting perversion around them. They wouldn’t get fired for telling Squantkisha that having six half brothers and sisters with no shared father is FUQUED UP. The teacher wouldn’t be fired for calling Christmas a Christian holiday. One could go on.
Almost every job in my town pays minimum wage. It takes almost your monthly income to pay rent. I bet its like that in a lot of places. The video wasn’t far off the mark though.
Millions and millions of college educated people will be making minimum wage. And they will be ridiculed because they aren’t trying hard enough.
How many of those millions should have never been in college in the first place?
If the market is efficient and their labors are accurately valued at minimum wage then whose fault it that?
I think it all started about the time the US economy transitioned from being manufacturing based to service based.
You don’t get it. People are burdened under the anti small business oligopoly and forced into the fiat monetary system. Think bigger.
Donkey – you do not get it. They can work more. They can work harder. They can work smarter. They can act better.
They can go door to door getting enough work to do bettr than minimum wage. I guarantee it. But that would mean they would have to actually work, think, act in ways they cannot get their minds around.
There is far too much red tape, etc. But that will not stop a determined person.
I went to a NOFA (organic farmers’ league) conference where a lady from the FAO was lecturing about food safety, and how all foods had to be kept at under 40° or over some infernal temp at all times. How can she go someplace like -say- Zimbabwe, and tell people with a straight face that they have to have refrigerators and expensive hand-washing stations on their food cart?
I had most recently lived in Europe, where it’s no big deal to have a quiche or a “torta salata” (veggie calzone-type thing) or some salami sitting out. People there are not dying like flies. Fresh eggs are all sold at room temperature, and nobody is dying from eating bad eggs. Think of all the fossil-fuel burned just to refrigerate eggs in the US. INSANE!
I went to the local farmers’ market and asked what kind of goods they needed (figuring I could do a part-time thing). They said “we really need prepared food”.. Well, if you look at the reg.s that allow you to prepare food for sale, and the costs (thousands) to comply with that.. it’s prohibitive for most people to undertake, and it’s especially prohibitive if you are thinking about doing it 1 or 2 days/week, 20 weeks out of the year. So there just won’t be prepared food at the farmers’ market, will there? I mean, there will always be someone who will try to undertake it, but they can’t hold out. Luckily I don’t need to throw myself on that pyre. I admit I would try to find a way around it if I were desperate.. but the point is, why are people made desperate in the first place?
–Suffice it to say that any energy I would have put into a commercial enterprise is now going to be concentrated in producing stuff just for me, that I can maybe barter with. (At least, until they come and effectively confiscate the means of production, which I can see happening.)
You’re right. It’s all a bunch of regulator nonsense to give city, county, state, federal
public sector union workers’ fat jobs with benefits and a retirement you and I can only dream of. And then THEY go vote for more of the same.
CHUBBLES—–
“.. but the point is, why are people made desperate in the first place?”
Most the majority – can’t or won’t – think for themselves and have been taught not to. Uncle Sugar will always come to the rescue….with free money…paid for by somebody else who worked hard to earn it.
Starting ones own small business is the key. One does not have to work for a “company” to make an above decent wage. Barter will be the necessity – and in some cases already is – to survive what is soon coming.
So very much ofALL of what is/has been taught, whether in public schools (liberal/leftists indoctrination centers); advertisements of every kind – especially any from big pharma – pharmaceuticals; news media reports – all; that very outdated “pyramid” food chart or….what food is “IN” today (good for us) from the “FOOD POLICE” and a year or solater….it’s “OUT” (bad for us). Could go on and on.
Anyone take notice to all the endless hype amped up about OMG!!! The Mueller Report!!! So everybody jumps on that bandwagon and the report sells like hotcakes and makes Mueller, etal, big $$$$$$$$$ for his illicit and endless B.S.!
Then there’s “imminent Domain” where “they” can take your property away from you for any reason that suits “their” fancy.
True Llpoh there are numerous obstacles thrown in th path of those endevouring to be successful . Most obstacles are from a paracites of or created by government .
However most step aside for the man or woman who actually know exactly where the hell they are going !
DB, I know quite a few successful small business people and find it especially gratifying the extent to which they barter amongst each other. No money changes hands, no income accrues, no sales tax is paid, no income tax is paid. To say they are fed up with excessive government interference is plainly obvious. It looks to me like some of the smarter people have a reduced need for the fiat monetary system.
How many of the millions of minimum wage future college graduates are needed in service economy versus a manufacturing economy? Answer: not so many.
Yes, there are only about 30% of jobs that need a college education. Everything else could be trade school or OJT…
IF the student/employee is SERIOUS about learning and has
a decent worth ethic. That means blacks are out of the equation.
If minimum wage kept up with real costs and inflation it would be $21 dollars per hour . I know it sounds idiotic but that’s the real math not circle jerk Washington figures . Consider a 1913 dollar now buys less than .03 cents of real world purchasing power in 2019 .
They will be ridiculed because largely it is true that they are not trying hard enough. Getting degrees in art history and women’s studies is the first step they took in not trying hard enough. When they are all working 80 hour weeks, then I will buy into that bullshit. If I could work 80 hour weeks in an effort to get ahead, get experience, and get skills, then the bastards sucking the teat of my tax dollars can, too.
Or they can fucking starve as far as I am concerned.
LLPOH,
I agree. The problem is college degrees are the new HS degrees which means minimum wage. Automation and software is going to kill…k.i.l.l. initiative. (Fuck every motherfucker who tries to kill initiative. Don’t tell me initiative is not being destroyed.) Not just automation and software. That’s why I mentioned red tape. A person can be red taped to death ya know. It is certainly possible for any small enterprise that cannot get off the ground because of all the lawyering, accounting, red taping, regulating ad nauseam JUST TO GET STARTED. There is a reason you will NEVER see another Henry Ford starting a car company again.
We are going to turn into a 3rd world country. We will become a caste system. A time will come when a person will have only 3 choices…work for government, work for a large corporation or starve/go on the UBI dole.
We are going to get UBI. We are going to get socialism. We are going to get “Kill the rich”. We are going to get warfare. It’s baked into the cake.
The funniest thing I hear is when people who have “things” and lots of “things”, say it won’t affect them. If that is true why all the…”better lock and load”. “Better stock up”. “Better arm up to the teeth”. “Better head to the hills” “Better blah, blah and blah”.
I’d call that being affected.
LLPOH, even you have been affected by seeing the need to defect.
DB, I agree. See above.
I live in a smaller town, hundreds of miles from a large town. Almost no jobs here are full time. I make a very good hourly wage but working less than 30 hours a week is a challenge.
That video hits the nail directly on the head. Just to add a little to it. The chaos was caused and can be fixed by simply eradicating Liberal/Progressive policies.
Bilco,
that’s too simplistic and only looks at half of the political/economic landscape
Simple is good.
Harrington – it sure as hell is. These problems ALL have simple answers. Want to stop illegal immigration? Shoot them at the border. How many would you have to shoot before they stopped coming? Not many. How many livs would be saved by so doing? Lots. That simple answer would almost certainly be a net benefit to the US and humanity as a whole. It is just that people object to the simple answers. So smple answers tend to get rejected.
Is that because you’re a simpleton?
Good luck getting your simple solutions going. Not too many are going to watch millions of people starve to death. It must be a slow roll toward a more just and meritocratic society giving society time to adjust otherwise, you ain’t seen shit when it comes to bad times.
I DO LIKE the simple “shoot them as they cross the border” solution though. Bingo bango!!
Oh, they’ll watch. It’ll just be later rather than sooner, and it will be members of their own families instead of some furriner.
Who had the “nip it in the bud” meme going earlier?
Chub – of course you are correct. By rejecting moderate amounts of short term pain, large amounts of pain is guaranteed later.
People have come to think, and are told, that every problem has a pain free solution. That is irrational, and guarantees a collapse, as the bill will eventually have to be paid.
Just imagine if LBJ’s Great Society had never been implemented with welfare (mainly to fund blacks, by percentage of their population). Blacks would be living
like they do in S. Africa– in corrugated tin/cinderblock huts and lean-tos
Llpoh I have had that argument with my Mrs. and my lawyer daughter. I stated that we should simply very publicly shoot anyone coming over the line, wall, fence etc. I believe the first day we do that will also be the last day we need to.
I also believe it is the humanitarian thing to do. With the drugs and possible terrorists and thousands of women and children being trafficked and dozens or hundreds abandoned by Coyotes left to die in the summer desert heat, it would stop it and save untold huge numbers from pimps and cartel bastards.
Har – imagine if they would not remove cancer because the operation causes pain. That is what is happening with immigration, and with almost every other societal problem these days. Pain is forbidden, no matter the consequence of not acting.
Phrase of the month: “derelict parents”.
Thanks Mr. O’reilly, you nailed it.
Just watched the video. Here are a few thoughts:
1) Never, and I mean never, has such an opportunity been available for the young who are prepared. Hard working, educated (in the correct fields), thrifty young people are absolutely going to excel. They are going to eat the rest. The lions will be few in number, and the lame sheep will be steadily available for harvest. What a glorious opportunity exists.
2) My home has literally thousands of books in it. My kids were readers. They were not allowed igizmos. They had to study in an open area, not shut behind bedroom doors. There were expectations that they did their best. They had to also be involved in a sport. They were not allowed endless time to screw around. They had responsibilities. And they each are now thriving, with advanced degrees in STEM fields. They are now well established in their careers, are frugal, and seem unlikely to ever have financial issues. They are mowing down their competition. Sheep are meant to be sheared. My kids are shearers. They learned to shear from a young age. And have worked and practiced religiously ever since, while the sheep have grazed.
3) We were active in schools. If a teacher was incompetent, or if there were disruptive kids, we were vocal and aggressive in getting the issue resolved. We sacrificed to send them to better schools.
4) We taught them at home to supplement what they were taught at school.
5) We all know what the issues are. The video is quite accurate. I have abandoned hope it will change. But I revel in the knowledge that the opportunities for the prepared are going to be enormous and many. The blind are many, the visioned few.
People here on TBP as a rule have children that will see. That is heartening. I do recommend that a good dose of aggression re shearing the unprepared be part of the training that they receive. It is the way of the world – the strong survive, to the victors go the spoils.
Teach them to be victors. It is not shameful to compete. It is not disgraceful to win. It is not unfair to take advantage of the wilful ignorance of others. They are reaping what they have sown, and it is right that those that have been responsible, hard-working, thrifty should reap what they have sown as well.
Teach your children well.
LLPOH,
I’m all in on what you’re saying. I just had a conversation with my 19 year old daughter. I told her to hit the starting line and never look back.
DB – hope she runs them into the ground. I am sure she will. Good job.
Tell her it is ok to be a bit greedy! 🙂
Haha, I will.
“How are we any different than the Germans in the 1920s? They were one of the most civilized, best-educated countries in Europe and they fell into the abyss.”
That’s a question that cannot be answered. Not in today’s climate.
We are different than the Germans in that we are mostly poorly educated and barely civilized.
They were pushed into the abyss… by international Jewry.
HSF, Germany went into WWI believing they would easily win and control all of Europe, if not the world. They came out defeated and then were humiliated with war reparations they could in no way pay.
We, otoh, have a fractured political system void of leadership and that refuses to put the country first. The stronger the government gets the weaker the country gets. Unlike Germany of old, our enemy is not external, it is internal.
How many times have I said it? Bend over, it’s coming and you conservative white males are going to feel the pain. It will be the haves versus the have nots or the freebies whatever you want to call them. Be smart go to low dollars in cash, get protection items, plant what you can, and stay away from social media. Or just bend over and let it happen to you!
Boy does doom sell. What bullshit.
So, we’re going to get 15% interest rates, print to oblivion, stock market crashes and tax white males?
Government is going to pay 15% on it’s own debt? White males are going to keep working with no benefit from a white male tax? The elite are going to allow the market to fall to 5,000?
I love the smell of doom in the morning.
The most correct sentence…
“The word “socialism” today is actually just shorthand for a welfare state, which is what Boobus americanus, the hoi polloi, really want. They don’t really care who owns the factories, the fields, and the mines. What they care about is that somebody gives them a soft life.”
Oh, and attend my conference on March 27th.
Another great sentence…
“There are scores of ways to severely disrupt an advanced society for a trivial investment. On the other hand, it’s extremely expensive to disrupt a primitive society, as the U.S. is discovering in Afghanistan.”
I find Casey to be filled with shit. He’s been selling the same shit for 40 years that I have been aware of it. Just like Porter Stansberry and all those other shitheads.
Doug is unfortunately correct. I don’t presume to be as good as predicting what will happen as he is. He is truly wrong when he predicts cultural collapse. It has already happened.
You and I know that the culture has collapsed. 90% of the country hasn’t figured it out yet (maybe 80%). Just wait until the rest figure it out. Wait until they realize that they will NEVER get out of debt. Wait until the giant jaws of the socialism trap slams shut on them. The Biblical term is “wailing and gnashing of teeth”.
Oh yeah, above all else be armed.
To the teeth…geared up…plenty of ammo/magazines …affordable night vision etc. etc. etc.
https://www.survivalfrog.com/apps/omega-search/?type=product&q=night+vision#type=product&q=night%20vision
Tis reasons like this that folks prep,so,keep at it or get started,you can do it till it all falls,and remember,the smalls add up!
Mark,have you used either of the inexpensive night vision shown from your link,and,did you feel it worth it?
Anyhow,enjoy the weekend and remember to BLOAT.
The name brand IR and thermal vision stuff is now in the range of possible for many and will keep getting better and cheaper. While that is nice it also means that the opposition whoever they may be will have it too. It is revolutionizing night time feral hog hunting.
Been eye balling some gen 2+ and 3 for a bit(for rifle)but am also thinking just for s&g’s a hand held unit,more for nature walks ect.I am easily at moment looking 2 thou plus why I am taking time and doing a lot of research before lightning bank account that much.
James,
If you find any bargains let us know.
Yes, you need a handheld unit ($2,600) AND a good rifle scope ($3,700). You don’t want to have to peer through a scope while holding a heavy rifle all the time. They may go down in price, but you don’t want to be left holding nothing but your pud
Anonymous,
I agree but that will price most/many out of the game.
There are less expensive options. Yes, you get what you pay for, but low end is far better then nothing.
Mark,
This is why a team is a greater force. Pull resources. But, you already knew that. Yep, gets expensive fo sho
$3,700 for a “good” scope? Whaaaaat? At that price it had better be The Best One.
Donkey,
Once upon a time I was hitting bulls with an M-14’s iron sight offhand at 500 yards…50 years later at 500 yards for me to hit it the target would have to be a real bull…and a big one!
But for $3,700 I would expect a ‘happy ending’ every time I used it…just saying.
Anon,the rifle tis going on pretty lightweight,and rested on a say tree limb/stump/pack would leave me other hand to well……,you get idea!
Seriously,really will go no higher then the 2 mark on scope,am researching and talking with others but not much in way of night hunting my neck of the woods.
In the past year there was a big article in the American Rifleman showing all the commercially available stuff and there were first rate night vision scopes for $1,200 on up. They covered all the different ones and how they worked and the plus and minuses of the various types. Some are hard to believe in terms of clarity and range. They took them hog hunting in pitch dark. They were able to clearly see hogs in fields a couple of hundred yards away in complete, no moon darkness.
Harrington, yeah, I guess that would come in real handy. Could you reach out touch someone a mile away?
Nothing that I am aware of will reach out a mile that a civilian can buy. I bought a Sitemark for hog hunting. Less than 200 bucks and works well out to 300 yards or so. Better than the starlight scopes we had back in the day.
Fido, because of gun or scope? 50cal will reach that far, correct?
Night vision. Unless you want to use a huge IR spotlight like they had on the M60 tanks night vision is about 300 yards max on average and a lot of them are less.
50 cal can go farther than a mile. Accuracy at that range is the problem, not reach.
Sitemarks are affordable, I love mine. My area is all woods and pastures, 300 yards will be the max line of sight.
Starlite scopes! Ha…had to wear a back belt to use it to see all the little green men…
James,
I bought the less expensive one for my pocket when I travel…its a little smaller, but a little thicker then a pack of cigerates.
My wife and I tried it in the wodds a couple of weeks ago. It worked well…the range is limited, but it could come in realy handy at night in appropiate situations. However, the red glow from it is a dead give away close up.
I have two others, one on my M1A and a Russian made 3rd generation hand held much stronger then this one (paid about $300 for it four years ago) but much bulker.
It was worth it, now both my wife and I have a night vision hand held and I have a rife equipped with a night vision scope I can cover my farm with.
So total I have over $1,200.00 sunk into low end night vision tech, but if your not prepared to fight at night…your not prepared to fight.
Mark,doubt I will get bargain but as far as rifle goes will when purchased/tried out give a average citizens review,like I said unless lucky looking at 2000 plus a couple probably.
Thanks for thoughts on lower end stuff,do want a hand held to get used to using the stuff without bothering me buddy(yet again) and just also want a critter viewer.
I will say got some good ideas from one of Brackens articles in regards to night vision.He said start walking known ares at night with full or close to full moon,walk your woods/fields ect. and keep doing it as the moon fades and you are more used to it and feel comfortable,tis a great way to build some personal night vision(and also bark your shin on tall stump/but i digress!),really did find this helpful though and really need to get back into doing it more.You also develop a more quite walkabout as you hear the different critters and such out and about and felt I started to relearn how to listen,even with only one decent hearing ear!
Yea, I enjoy Bracken too.
I put on my snake boots occasionally and wander around at night (14 acres).
I have also put in multiple spider holes in key positions laying logs, tree limbs, and dragging fallen trees around the rims. Invisible fighting positions. I’ve hacked/cut paths in-between some of them with white ribbons on some trees to be able to move quickly through the paths at night.
I have posted this before, but I also have dozens of 2 X 6’s & 2 X 4’s with nails hammered through, serious punji boards, flipped over to be able to deploy in minutes. Enough to cover all the approaches to my home at night. Going to put more near the spider holes to deploy if ever needed.
I’m building a house that will be in deep woods on three sides and will then be behind two gates. I’m also a big fan of railroad ties and have well over a hundred nailed together and double stacked, also held in place with rebar pounded in the ground…on my road frontage discouraging most vehicles from ever attempting to go off road.
Rolls of razor wire can be deployed after TSHTF forcing bad guys to be funneled to areas with other surprises…barbed wire tangle foot, fishing line and fish hooks are invisible and effective. Beer cans filled with small rocks on fishing line are good noise makers. Lines of barbed wire taunt between some trees is another barrier, funnel.
Everyone around me has from 11 to 40 acres and I’m isolated from all of my immediate neighbors (I love the privacy quiet aspect).
However, this happened right up the road from us:
https://www.wral.com/father-son-accused-of-killing-granville-couple-in-cross-country-crime-spree/14323497/
If my neighbors would have had one of these under each of their door knobs they would be alive today. I have been using them for 20 years at every door.
Wow,sad tale,I use 2×4’s to block up the sliders,yes,they can be smashed in but would hopefully hear the entrance at that point!For the home have a few mobile screechers units that let out a huge decibel yell if triggered,as sleep at moment 2nd floor buys me some wake up time/get it together moment.
You and many others including me have hardened our homes(and hearts I guess),sucks we even have to think/live this way.
Would be nice to live and feel a stranger comes to your door they need directions/help with a car/accident ect.,and,if I was able to trust them more then willing to help out any way I could,sadly,that is not reality a lot of the time.
James,
Besides having fought in a war as a grunt, I’ve had a car stolen out of my driveway (I was home), a house broken into and ransacked (I wasn’t home both happened in NJ), I’ve personally apprehended over 400 shoplifters – about 50 to 60 of them were bad dudes with knockdown dragging them back-in street fights involved (I was always unarmed and not a single one every got away – sent two to the hospital and choked out at least a dirty dozen), worked countless hundreds and hundreds of business fraud investigations involving Behavior Analysis Fact Finding Interviews and Accusatory Interrogations face to face and knee to knee, received death threats regularly, had a Police Detective in Texas once tell me through a snitch a gang whose leader I had apprehended and roughed up was plotting my murder (I got word to the leader I was waiting and I was laughing – drove around with my Mini-14 in the front seat with two 20 round mags taped together with a towel drapped over it and my 911). I think they found out, they never showed up.
I am just like countless millions of other Americans and from what I can tell more than a few on TBP…Nobody’s victem and BEST LEFT ALONE.
I have two professionally made large signs on my homestead:
First:
WARNING NO TRESPASSING
You have been Video Taped
And will be CONFRONTED!
Further in my property:
WARNING NO TRESPASSING
Is there Life After Death?
Keep TRESPASSING…
And You Will Find Out
I wish those two had tried to smash in my front door instead of that poor couple down the road, their children live in two houses just down the road from their parents, I really do. I have 8 different guns in the house, and because of the door jamb I use they would have been met with a hail of bullets.
By the way, I was told as they were coming onto their property they shot the couple’s two big guard dogs with cross bows and once they easily smashed in the front door…that is what they used to kill the couple once inside. I don’t think either one of them died right away.
The father hung himself in prison and the son showed up to his trial looking and sounding like an innocent choir boy who did nothing.
Once TSHTF that type of crime will explode. A major Prep should be Home invasion defense and a reaction plan everyone in the house understands.
get rid of the life after death sign–if you ever have to explain why you shot someone you do not want there to even be a hint that you had pre planned the shooting–
Tampa,
I’m aware of that risk…I was waiting…that was Marsh Rabbit lawyer bait….
It’s just past the second gate 100 yards in…Anyone not invited who gets that far has serious bad intent.
I’m a cool cucumber…I won’t shoot anyone I don’t have to…and If I have to…the sign will be long gone…it takes a Deputy a minimum of 22 minutes to get here after a call.
Tis sad,and hate to say it,seems they psychos had a plan considering the silent killing of the dogs.
I do not know your neighbors but also wish it had been my home they hit at also,feel would have ended differently for those two.
I will say while the shtf will bring out the worst in many,it also brings out the best in some,hopefully enough to see folks through the dark times to the other side.
Get 2 Fila Brasilieros instead. You can sleep well until they start barking.
Go thermal. It costs more, but it’s worth it. Like ATN or Pulsar.
It’s easy for me because I’m old and have reached expectancy. My children are in their mid 30s with lives of their own and I have successfully cared for my loved ones and kept them from physical, financial harm. I’m spiritually and psychologically prepared to lay my life down on a second’s notice. As I look back it strikes me that I watched America become a land of pretense. IMO it started during the Reagan years. I remember thinking how queer it was that the people would elect an actor as POTUS, a man who made his living “pretending”. I feel badly for those younger and have to face what will probably be years, decades, maybe a lifetime of hardship. I used to blame it on my generation, the boomers. But looking back I don’t think anything could have prevented our current position. Politicians always take the most expedient course, the path of least resistance, hoping the S doesn’t HTF on their watch. And the rest of us, the American People were just caught up in the rip tide of events, powerless to extricate ourselves.
Reagan was a vet, had a number of jobs. He knew which end of the shovel you hold. He was a union president and had his life threatened by the commies. He had an economics degree. How does that stack up against Slick Willie, Bath House Barry, Bernie, “Beto”, Corey (I swear I’m not a fruit) Booker et al?
Who can forget Jimmy Peanut, lusting in his heart, and driving interest rates up into the stratosphere? That was territory our country had never been in before.
Prior to Carter we had old school politicians for president; after we got something all together different.
Were you AWARE they were all l linked to english royalty? Even oblama. Your presidential (that’s a laugh) candidates have always been pre-selected. The notion of …. for the people … is a joke. We have had owners since time memorial. This notion of ‘freedom’ has been an illusion.
Mostly crime families and Bankster Game of Thrones puppets from 1913 on…some more then others but the lidless eye watching them all…bullets for the wayward with Kennedy and Reagan.
Yes, some people think president candidates are picked and groomed 20 years before. Clinton and Obama particularly seem to fit that mold. Empty suits with very vague backgrounds.
I believe Reagan was the only President who was not related to other Presidents. Bath House Barry is related to the Bushes and Dick Cheney. Don’t know about Trump.
Part of it goes back to Pocahontas being the mother of the American “royalty.” Her only child who was the Royal Governor of Virginia had a shit load of kids who became the early plantation owners etc. The Rolfes just about single handedly populated 17th century Virginia. People always talk about the Indians being screwed over but they were screwed over by people with Indian blood.
Carter knew the score on energy. We’re only enjoying what we have here because of the “Carter Doctrine”, really (that being: our oil is under their soil).
Old Shoe,
Good observations. I miss the freedoms we had in the past along with the excitement of exploring the country; even the world, because there was so many different places and customs to see. Now everything is the same and all the beautiful places have been covered with gated communities and shopping centers. If I were young the current situation would be depressing. Being old I just look at it and feel glad I didn’t have to experience this in my young age.
I have been reading about global cooling and watching the changing weather patterns around the globe. This last winter was particularly bad for the US. It is my opinion that the fall of the world economy along with the US economy; and government control, will be be directly related to the changing weather.
Why do you think we have so little information about past civilizations beyond 6000 years ago? It is because of shifting weather patterns. In each civilization governments grow strong, and the fruit of their strength is military dominance and corrupt leadership subverting the people and taking their productions. Civilizations grow during mild weather conditions. Then comes climate change; cooling, then comes revolutions and at the same time crop failures. Then comes population reduction.
So Old Shoe we are watching the end of our era. We won’t see the suffering of what is to come and hopefully in our recurrence back to this world in a new life the coming period our recurrence is occasioned will be a period of great learning and evolution for the human species.
Our current world is going to be destroyed. There are already great cracks in it. Remember the story in the Bible about Noah and the flood? Well along with the literal account there is also a metaphysical take on this story for our current time. We are currently experiencing a flood of information coming to us through the internet and social Medea. Much of this information is useless to us but it keeps our minds busy trying to sort out fact from fiction. At the same time all this info is interfering with our moral standards, values and actions. And at the same time AI is taking over running our society where humans are being strip mined of all their learning of the past 70 years. This is leading humanity to be drowned in a sea of information which is leading to the loss of our potentiality, subsistence and relatedness. This is leading many into a primitive way of life which in the end of this cycle will lead to many deaths.
Conversely, some who are Noah are listening to their spiritual inner voice and withdrawing from this insane period. They are storing certain information in the form of books that contain knowledge of mathematics, science, philosophy,arts, and much more that will be useful to future generations when humanity is again ready for the spiritual life.
I would like to point out one current instance that shows me how far down the latter of degeneration we have come when it comes to the organizations we have relied on to protect us and our way of life.
This is the story we are now being told about the 737 Max aircraft. Are we that are learned about aerodynamics supposed to swallow the story that we are to accept computer program fixes to a flawed design of an aircraft? Do you really think people can be hoodwinked into accepting such BS because the FAA says so? Using software programs to correct mechanical flaws is like driving down the road in a vehicle out of alignment and constantly keeping the wheel from turning left. It gets old fast. But if we design a computer program to take over keeping the wheels strait the tires will prematurely wear out and we art put into a dangerous situation.
And how about all our energy efficient appliances that seem to wear out years faster than our old energy hog products? Almost nothing is engineered today that is built for durability. There is no cushion for temporary severe conditions. In effect from this departure of engineering standards of old that made products durable we are living in a time when profit supersedes safety and quality.
In the few remaining years I have left in this world I will be grateful for the time I lived in a more sane world and take advantage of the positive outcomes computers & the internet have given us.
Reagan was also once, believe it or not, governor of California, and the left HATED him. So much so, they decided to ruin the state after he left office by opening the border. His only flaw was he didn’t realize his opponents weren’t simply misguided but were evil.
I see a number of responders thought I was slamming Reagan. On a comparative basis Reagan was head and shoulders above the other President’s of my lifetime. My point about him being an “actor” was that was what the people wanted. I thought it was odd. But as they say, “the show must go on”.
Yep, and he ushered in the era of gun control, because he and his cohort were afraid of the Black Panthers.
So I guess it’s a bad time to buy a 3000 sq. ft. McMansion with a Jacuzzi bath tub and security……might even have to turn the lease in on my Government Motors ( damn socialists )2018 Chevy Silverado HD with heated learther seats while Wall street banks socialize risk and privatize profits.
Rich,
And don’t forget the Time Share!
(Who downvotes good snark…identify yourself asshat!)
Asshat strikes again…
An asshat trifecta
This whole “$1000” a month idea is really just an attempt at institutionalizing welfare dependency on even more people. There are plenty of people who refuse to go on the dole, as they still have pride in their selves, and hope for a better tomorrow. The folks who are on the dole now, will never rise above their current condition, they are hopeless, they have no chance at a better tomorrow (unless they win the lottery).
The lunatics who are preaching this free shit have two agendas, both are pure evil.
1. create a population dependent on big brother
2. increase the velocity of money, to give the illusion that there is growth in the system.
I guarantee that this free money will come with many strings attached, and there will be little incentive to not take it.
It would probably also mean the end of Social Security, so, kiss all your contributions goodbye,
they will probably steal it all to cover the cost, and print the rest, turning your savings into worthless wallpaper.
there, now hows that for some doom porn.
Anonymous,
We don’t need a UBI to institute government control of people. It’s going to happen no matter what. Book it.
They already stole social(ism) ( lack of) security. Back when Clinton was president and they started using it in the general fund. Taking what had been a collection of at first, real money and then debt bucks and replacing it with fedgov IOUs.
I’ve seen arguments that Yang in particular is trolling with this.
Here is a blackswan he doesn’t mention and there is not very much coverage on this at all. Drudge had nothing this morning. I went to CNN and one 3 minute video interview with one Iowa farmer almost at the bottom of their page.
Prices for corn and beans will be real good this year. There are these new tractor trailer size white polymer bags that have shown up the last few years that let a guy harvest and bag it, leaving it in the fields and when it is sold or needed they pick it up and haul it away. Based on what I see around here with water in some places a mile or two from the rivers, I would guess that an awful lot of people could have last years’ crop bagged in the field which is now under water and might float away or be destroyed by the water and ice. One might consider buying one of the ag etf’s.
Go long polenta…
And beef. Almost a million calves lost in Nebraska alone, not to mention the cows that birthed them.
There was a report on ZH a day or two ago:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-21/catastrophic-flooding-midwest-could-last-months-threatens-us-food-production
[re-posted from Michael Snyder]
No one I have talked to in the last few days has ANY idea how widespread the damage is, nor the implications of it; facebook, facebook, netflix, cnn, what? What flooding?
We obviously need to import more stupid brown people to pay for our pensions, by going on welfare.
At least they make up for their incomprehensible financial drain on society by being socially beneficial right?
Oh. Crap.
Why the fuck would anybody sane tolerate these people in their society?
Who but a Dhimmicrat is so stupid as to go out in public and proclaim we need these people to help pay for stuff when each of these fuqueres is costing us something like $70-80k per year which is more than the median family of five has for their total income. You make $80k so Hitlary thinks we should bring in a family of five that costs $350-400k per year in damage and expenses to help you? She is on the tube right now with her bull shit that “OMG, HALF of illegals pay some taxes!” OK. Uhh, ten dollars subtracted from $80k sounds like a winner to me. If you disagree, you are of course worse than Hitler.
Love him or hate him, Trump is the better solution up to this point. Build the wall! Deport all these f’ers.
AC, your data neglects the onslaught of the muslims. Their bar would make the orange and red bars look pretty small.
“The word “socialism” today is actually just shorthand for a welfare state, which is what Boobus americanus, the hoi polloi, really want. They don’t really care who owns the factories, the fields, and the mines. What they care about is that somebody gives them a soft life.” Casey is an idiot. If that were the case, Trump would not have been elected.
Star, I’m pretty sure he’s talking about the 1%. Why would the 1% care who owns the means of production if they are guaranteed the soft life? Especially if all their progeny can join/stay in the club also? That’s what royalty does. Isn’t that how it works in Suadi Arabia?
Pretty sure he is talking about the welfare parasites, many of whom are too stupid to know who they are.
Yes, it looks as though I did not know what the term hoi polloi meant. I stand corrected.
LLPOH, you get half of it right. Always. But you leave out the other half. The fact that there are so many grifters at the top plotting on how to extract ever more, more more.
Mammon to the moon.
When the corporations are lobbying for increased welfare benefits, they are externalizing some portion of their labor cost – onto the backs of tax payers.
North Korea and Cuba are not socialist, they are communist. Socialism does not require the state to own the means of production.
Otherwise true, because they’ve all been destroyed by the banker-communist duopoly. Both systems seek to concentrate capital in the hands of the few. The few are the elite. The elite banksters’ version of the commune is the Federal Reserve. In communism, the elite is the Politburo. Both are globalist by design.
Here’s what real socialists oppose: free trade, which includes no tariffs that transfers taxation from imports to income; open borders; mass immigration; multiculturalism; massive wage disparity between the highest and lowest; privatization of currency; degradation of the environment without remediation, and commodification of education.
Contrary to popular belief, there is no free ride in socialism. They expect people to work, which is why low or no immigration is their mantra. Immigration is the reserve army of capital, used to distort the labor market, while driving up housing costs specifically and other costs, from groceries, to schools, to hospitals generally. When it comes to immigration, cui bono? I know it’s not me, my family, or my neighborhood.
The textbook definition of Socialism is the state owning the means of production.
Think 1950s-1960s Europe. Most major industries in many countries were nationalized, from what I understand. Strong support for unions, the media all state-subsidized.. Thatcher and Goldman-Sachs-ers like Prodi in Italy started selling off these assets for a song in the 1980s. Remember the whole wave of “privatization”?
You are right to point out other aspects of old-school socialism. Now we’re so politically illiterate that we don’t even know whose bread we are buttering and on what side.
Still, I’m not sure that low immigration was ever a conceit because I don’t think they could have fathomed at the time the tech-aided rapidity, force, or numbers that would be involved.
Which is to say that socialism is, essentially, monopolistic (i.e. crony) capitalism.
But the gravitational force behind the “tide that lifts all boats” within free-market capitalism, is individualism regulated by natural law.
Once collectivist cronyism subverts the legal code, however, centralization and unnatural regulation bring about a tidal drawback to feed, via fluid dynamics, the inevitable incoming tsunamis of economic destruction.
Slowly at first, and then suddenly.
Awash in an ocean of worthless green paper, the indebted will drown; first by deflation, then by inflation. By then the lenders will own the high ground, the remaining boats and life preservers, as well as the bloated corpses of the borrowers, that for which they borrowed, all they thought they owned, and all they owed.
This is when the real fun will begin. Especially for those who think they’re going to win. Even for those who didn’t drown and the others still stumbling around. Soon they’ll know what they never wanted to learn:
Time is the fire in which we burn.
In the meantime, have a great week everyone.
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Uncola, good comment.
Just wondering Unc, do you think we will see hyper-inflation here in the US?
The indebted will be bailed out, while the lenders will be bailed in.
“Time is the fire in which we burn.”
I like that.
” The End of Retirement” – no, something new is coming. All the things described are engineered. Assuming false flag staged terror is done, but “don’t see any way out of this”? It is set up, Hegelian dialectic.
That something new is their ” New World Order ” which will be Satanic to the core .They( The Central Banking Luciferian types ) are planning mass Murder as we speak. This is some scary wicked shit heading our way And they really mean what they say about killing.
I think I’ll head on down to Big Injun Chiefs place. I heard he has a guest house.
Or maybe I could hide somewhere in the Appalachian mountains. Just don’t know !
I belong to the few seeing these things, most people I know are clueless. The question is, if there will be a big move, or if things are changed slowly like the past 18 years.
Now they started talking about the next POTUS, if there is the mentioned big move, I would expect they stage it with the man prepared for decades.
Only if by “engineered” you mean biology has set us up on a crash course between increasing population and diminishing resources and “ecosystem services”.
Socialism , the prerequisite or stepping stone to communism has been hard at it for decades converting and subverting American society from within . It’s working , working fine for government employees who generally suffer little effects compared to the great unwashed fleaced Of their wealth to support the government employee . I am referring to all levels of government employees . The very people that were the tax base to support these government people from school teacher to policeman and fireman to any service or paper pusher employees have been wiped out yet government continues to demand its pound of flesh .
Then came QE & TARP we must rescue the finincal circle jerk that crashed the US Economy by privitizing profits and publicizing the debt . Then all the debt was passed to the already crushed average taxpayer , nice move !
So the circle jerk of Wall Street to K-Street to Capitol Street are doing fine as those young people clamoring for social justice by forcing socialism . It’s.no wonder when you really examine what they have been taught . Taught not just by leftist professors but by life’s lessons . This generation moving to seats of political power witnessed elderly cast aside with unaffordable healthcare or they can finance their health and living expenses with the only asset they own their home . Their parents both working their ass off to maintain a middle class life only to be kicked in the teeth at a point where they are to old to restart . Let’s not forget the college administrators and loan offices that place young gullible young people in debt beyond belief where living with mom and dad is not an option but a necessity .
To wrap this up , socialism has worked well for wealthy connected people and those in government paid to maintain that connection since 1913 . Engorging themselves on the backs of average Americans thru bubble , burst , war , rebuild and the beat goes on . Remember Vietnam , Nike shoes and seafood products flooding our stores . Paid for by 58 thousand young men and women who earned space on a wall , they deserved better . Now we have Middle East nonsense continuing for who and for what ? Don’t give me that freedom bullshit try and sell it to someone that has not seen behind the curtain !
First, as the Federal Reserve began tightening stimulus policies by raising interest rates and cutting assets from their balance sheet, the global economy began to return to steep declines not seen since the credit crisis. I predicted this outcome in my article ‘Party While You Can – Central Bank Ready To Pop The Everything Bubble’, published in January of 2018. The plunge has started in almost every sector of the economy, from housing, to autos to credit markets to retail. Now, even jobs, numbers which are highly manipulated to the upside, are beginning to falter.
The assertion in the mainstream media is that this recessionary downturn is new. This is not the case. What began in 2008 was an epic implosion of multiple national economies, and what we are seeing in 2019 is the final culmination of that process – The end game.
I predicted both the success of the Brexit vote as well as Trump’s win in 2016 based on the theory that the globalists would allow or even help populists to gain a political foothold, only to crash the economic system on their heads and then blame them for the disaster. So far my theory is proving correct. It is important to remind the public that this narrative is entirely false. The economy has been in a state of animated death since 2008.
The Fed started the tightening process for a reason; the establishment is ready to start the “global economic reset”, and they have their populist scapegoats in place. The best option at this time is to continuously force the issue of central bank culpability. Liberty activists have to keep the focus on them and their criminal participation in economic sabotage, and we cannot assume that any government or political leader will be friendly to our cause. The globalists have started the crisis, and we must finish it by making sure they are held accountable. http://www.alt-market.com/articles/3686-the-global-economic-reset-begins-with-an-engineered-crash
Everyone cannot be self employed. In order to build a business one has the have employees or become a one man band. Can a one man run Microsoft? The facts seem to be that if people are not kept hungry they won’t work for min wage and if they don’t work for min wage a business will likely not make a good profit. of course a business cannot share all of its profits with the employees because that is socialism.
So here we are. Uneducated people who can’t meet a $400 bill because we need Iphones and toilet paper to lift us all out of the stone age.
Anyone can be self-employed. However, without division of labor, it would be impossible to make many of the goods currently produced – cars, trucks, ships, etc.
Americans are not making things especially ships to a level needed to supply the nations needs and the domino effect is in full play
Boat – you are slightly mistaken. Maybe not re ships. But the US is a mighty manufacturer, and has more than enough capacity to supply the nations needs. It is just that its wants surpass its needs.
LLPOH,
America wants to suppress or surpass it’s needs?
I would think, America and it’s corporations want to offshore for 3 reasons…1) greenies, 2) resource conservation and 3) profit.
America wins if we can trade paper for everyone else’s resources. It seems, to me, it is stupid for a country to sell another country all of their resources. Will China wise up?
which is why we need to QUIT exporting oil —
fracking & gaia ain’t gonna heat the house–
The Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto
1. “Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.”
2. “A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.”
3. “Abolition of all rights of inheritance.”
4. “Confiscation of the property of emigrants and rebels.”
5. “Centralization of credit in the hands of the state . . . .”
6. “Centralization of the means of communications and transport in the hands of the state.”
7. “Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state . . . .”
8. “Equal obligation to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.”
9. “Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of distinction between town and country.”
10. “Free education of all children in public schools. Abolition of child factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.”
Mr. Casey seems to be touching on several of these in one way or another (1-3, primarily, because, without a handful of useful dollars, or with a handful of useless dollars, we will discover exactly what we do not really own) , and of course, several of the others are DONE; we (as a nation) just have no idea where we have been headed for the last hundred years . . . excluding, of course, most readers here.
White male privilege is not really privilege. Most people simply prefer being with others of their own kind. This fact is not white. It is true of many groups.
Robert,
Yep, people have been self segregating since from the beginning.