I’ve seen the graphic below a few times over the last several weeks. I understand its message and have essentially tried to follow the hard decision path for most of my life, while imparting the same advice to my three sons. I’m sure they got sick of me telling them that no matter what amount you make, if you spend less than that amount, you will get ahead in life financially. Of course, this graphic is too simplistic to describe the real world, where medical misfortune, bad luck, bad investments, or bad people running the country can and do prevent many hard working honest families from ever achieving the “easy life”.
We all know life is never easy, but it can potentially be easier if you make enough right decisions along the way. The graphic reminds me of a quote sometimes attributed to John Wayne, “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.” I think that captures the truth better than hard decisions lead to an easy life. It does seem the level of stupidity across the general populace has risen to astounding levels over the last couple decades.
I was lucky enough to join the full-time work force in 1986, when the country still had a growing economy and short-term hard decisions would usually lead to an easier life over the long-term. Neither of my parents graduated high school, but a father driving a gasoline truck for 40 years and a stay at home mom, could raise three kids in a 900 square foot row home in the suburbs outside Philadelphia, and they could all graduate college with little or no debt. Those days are long gone. My parents made hard decisions their entire lives, to make their kids lives better than theirs.
I think another name for “hard decisions” are decisions to delay gratification. For me, decisions about my career, kids, real estate, and not keeping up with the Joneses, constituted my hard decisions. Out of college, I put in two years at an accounting firm, even though I hated every minute, because I needed two years of CPA experience to get my CPA license. I didn’t want a CPA license other than to put it on my resume to get a good job with a corporation. I was 23 years old and wanting to have fun every weekend with my buddies, but I made the hard decision to spend 10 weeks totally dedicated to passing the CPA exam, and I did.
I knew an MBA was another stepping stone to a better paying job, so when the corporation I had joined made it clear an MBA was not valued there, I left and went somewhere it was valued. I then proceeded to work my full-time job, including many weekends, and get my MBA at night at Villanova. It was hard and it took three and a half years, but it was worth it, as the Treasurer position at IKEA came available, and my CPA and MBA allowed me to get the job.
Just as I got the MBA and the new job, our first child was born. My wife had a good job at a social services organization, but we made the hard decision for her to stay at home and raise our kids, as two more sons were born over the next six years. Our overall family income was lower after my wife left the workforce, so we delayed buying a single family home, took vacations with our parents, drove used cars until they died, and rarely went out to restaurants. We managed to live beneath our means, contribute to my 401k, put the kids through Catholic school, and spent quite a bit on hockey equipment, because the boys loved hockey.
Many of my hard decisions when it came to my career most certainly did not lead to an easier life financially. I refused to lie or shade the truth at IKEA, resulting in my termination, because the unqualified female diversity CEO was too stupid to grasp the facts I presented. I realized the willful ignorance to my projections of the CFO at Toll Brothers in 2006 made my position untenable, so I took a substantial pay cut to move to Wharton. After 13 years of dedicated service, the new CFO turned out to be a despicable human being, and I took another pay cut to come to my current, and hopefully last employer.
So, from my perspective, not all hard decisions lead to an easier life financially. But the hard decisions I’ve made have kept my integrity intact. I’ve never lied, cheated, or done anything I considered unethical in my entire career. I also choose to no longer become friends with co-workers outside of work, because I’ve been stabbed in the back too frequently by people I thought were friends. My blog is my outlet for my anger, depression, and desire to tear off the veil hiding the treasonous, evil, corrupt, and psychotic actions of the government, media, banks, and Deep State.
I see what my kids and honest hard working people across the land are up against at this point in history, and I know hard decisions today are not likely to lead to an easy life ever again. At least, not until we go through a horrific and catastrophic financial collapse, with a civil and global war thrown in for good measure. Talk about hard decisions. How about life and death decisions on a daily basis for several years? We have no chance at a better future without the collapse of the present day dystopian debt empire.
My kids are all hard working, have decent jobs, have no debt, and still have absolutely no pathway to owning a home, without being strangled by debt to do so. Even rent for modest apartments, is a huge burden. Life is now hard for everyone, not only the stupid. We aren’t in Kansas or the 1980’s anymore. The people who did this to America and the American people have names and addresses. Many of the people they have screwed over are the ones with the 300 million guns they want to confiscate. At some point, those guns will need to be used. Then we’ll see whose life gets hard.
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The Grapes Of Wrath , grow heavy. Heavy for the vintage. – Steinbeck
You know , I had completely forgotten that I had actually read most of Steinbeck’s work so long ago , and actually lived on the hill directly above “Cannery Row”with “Tortilla Flats “off just to the right during part of my extremely misspent yute. Fuck guess I’m just gettin old ,but thanks for that Anon .
Steinbeck was required reading in my 1967 “Summer of Love” Sophomore Literature class at Monterey High School. As was Orwell, Huxley, Hugo, Dostoevsky, Heinlein, and a host of other luminaries. Our teacher was a lovely, statuesque brunette with a great, frequently-flashed smile. When she had us discussing Robert Rimmer’s near pornographic, ‘free-sex’ novels, hormones drove many of us to the last stall in the boys room for a rub-out during class.
I’ll always remember a late night of prowling Cannery Row with my best friend, having snuck out after our parents were asleep. We walked out on a pier to watch a toothless old man in shabby cloths gig his dinner out of boils of squid that periodically swelled up under a light pole. He would cast his very long barbed pole into the middle of the swarm where it would disappear into the inky depths, then resurface, backing out of the water on the same angle it entered, into the weathered grip of the wharf’s lone habitué .
He would sometimes have more than one on the end of his pole but dispatched them quickly. His filleting knife worked in a blur, gutting them, milking out their ink, flensing their skin and removing their cuttle bone before he immediately gulped them down without chewing.
It was a hypnotic performance and he was unaffected by our presence, happy for his slimy bounty.
Generally speaking, the easy path is the wrong path.
We are here to face a life of uncertainty an usually hardship.
Pressure makes change, Great pressure makes diamonds.
We are here for a reason. None of this is an accident.
Seek God. Seek the infinite. The answer to all of this is there.
Self-immolation is the correct path. This is a simple linear abstraction that is optimized at one end of the spectrum. One day only Jews will not believe that. Way to go!
Dude that was awesome ,I wish I could write like that , somewhere John Steinbeck himself may be impressed . Yeah, we called em “wharf rats “in my time ( mid seventies ) , worked as a dishwasher at an Italian Seafood restaurant on the wharf , Geno’s , don’t know if it had been there under that name going back to the sixties . Went to Monterey High but do to my misspent yute can remember much of it as I was always baked from smoking too much Big Sur Holy or whatever . I was a delinquent .
Anyway I only lived there for four years as I had moved down to live there from up here in the Puget Sound area to live with my father and his wife at 14, to see if they could get me squared away and headed on an academic trajectory ( Dad was a professor at the Naval Post Graduate School ) They weren’t in fact able to get me squared away and on their Idea of the best track ( academic ) so from there I went up to the AFEES station and joined the Navy and was steaming around the south pacific and all for another four years after that .
But Still , I loved living in Monterey and have fond memories of it , the sailing , the people , The Bearded Woman and the Organ Grinder and His Monkey ( his son and I smoked a lot of pot together )on the wharf , the Italian community ,the sound of Mile Bouy and the Sea Lions barking on the Coastguard pier from my bedroom window and on and on . Dad is now retired obviously and living a ways up the Carmel Valley with like his fourth and final wife who is a dear woman and He is well taken care of . Again nice writing and thank you for that.
What does ‘yute’ mean and why is everyone using this?
It’s negro for “youth”
It’s a mockery of ebonics.
No. It’s fucking Italian New Yorker for “Youths”. Watch a god dammed movie once in your life.
Joe Pesci? Marisa Tomei? Ralph Macchio?
My Cousin Vinny ?
I’m more impressed that he didn’t watch enough TV to know what yutes were.
Easy there Francis.
Oh damn , you actually beat me to it . Was gonna say ” lighten up Francis ” .
Seriously, Scrote, STFU.
You are correct, unhinged triggered spook.
I meant to say it is the description of young negro criminals used by the news when they don’t want you see truth of who is committing all that crime.
I conflated “yutes” with “yuffs”.
You could have found a friendly way to say that. Why do you always go the extra mile to show what a fucking prick you are?
“youth”
Except if you are from down under where “Yute” is short for utility ….as in leetle pickup truck.
A pleasure. The only bit of ‘community service’ I’ve offered here recently.
But wait, there’s more!
I only attended Monterey High for two years for because my dad was in the International Relations Program at the Monterey Postgraduate School. A brilliant Gemini and wanna be Perry Mason, he taught me to argue about everything.
I moved to the Navy housing on Farragut Road the week of the Monterey Pop Festival.
From Meridian, Mississippi.
Talk about culture shock. I’d never heard of a hippie. Took me half a day to stop saying “Aw, shucks.” It to a week to morph from “Life is about hunt’n, fish’n, football ’n chasing girls!” into a degenerate, dope-smoking daughter-spoiler. I bought my very excellent weed from the son of Carmel’s Mayor.
My parents, a union of Center, Alabama and Little Rock, were terrified to let me out of the house. Now, my wife is.
But wait, there’s more!
I wound up in Seattle for 30 years raising two daughters before yanking on the bail-out chute and landing in Mexico.
Thank you for the barking sea lion override on my tinnitus. Maybe they’ll Aark me to sleep tonight.
I am in Carmel faily often.
I have a dear, lifelong friend there.
I had a gallery there for many years, but the art
scene went to shit for years. Really bad art everywhere.
I was there in mid-Jan. and was pleased to see the return
of some actual good art. I may investigate representation there again.
Dads(4th) wife is an artist , she paints mostly abstract stuff . She really is a dear woman . She asked me what I thought about a particular painting of hers , I told her, I told her it simultaniously evoked the image of a fish tank that was in serious need of cleaning ( algea ?)while at the same time being actually quite interesting and beautiful . She laughed . I don’t think she’s ever had a real job while I on the other hand am the poster boy for ” real job ” from my amazingly old man muscular build to my calloused up catchers mitt size hands and yet she is the closet conservative while Dad still likes to swell around with his neighbor Leon who’s son , the congressional representative for that area has a very famous Dad ( political nepotism anyone ?) Yeah , Dad may have been a brilliant electrical engineer with a genius level IQ and all but when it comes to understanding political science , yeah dont quit yer day job dude ( kidding , he’s long since retired and creeping into a very and amenable pleasant state of dementia , unlike Creepy Joe the crooked pedo and bully with the extremely limited intellect ) Thats all gotta go to work .
All art is “abstract” by definition.
I chose to make mine in a way that the viewer
is communicated with in a way that we both understand what I am trying to say. Art is a language that hopfully,
when spoken well, is universal.
Who the fuck down voted these words?! PETA?!
The perspective and shading of your prose rivals that of HF…
Would love to read some lengthier stories of yours…
Keep that keyboard close!
PETA folks only yank their wattles when they hear my balls slappin’.
good memory
Lead
I read all his books…my Father recommended them.
This surprised me I read it about a decade ago.
He greatly misjudged Lyndon Johnson.
https://www.npr.org/2012/04/21/150012711/steinbeck-in-vietnam-a-great-writers-last-reports
I live in a small rural place in Idaho, watching prices for everything going up by at least 10 -300 percent in the last 24 months. Our local hardware store had a sign on their door that the shelf prices were no longer being honored and you had to scan at the register to get the new price. The clerk told me that they were in the process of marking out all the shelf prices, could not keep up with the price hikes on their deliveries. Good advice to stay debt free, store food, get somewhere rural, home school your kids suspect 2024 will be a game changer.
Hyper inflation collapse anarchy dead ahead
If “maff “and the physical laws that govern the universe are actually ” a thing ” yeah . According to the brain dead ,useful idiot , DEI , CRT , MMT crowd its maybe just a construct of the white patriarchy er something . We shall see . Have faith, everything will go completely to hell in a hand basket sooner or later . Aint that just terrible ? I mean who wants that ? Nevertheless it be necessary and then if we are still alive we can tell em “I fuckin told you so “…… and they still wont see the truth .
regarding “its maybe just a construct of the white patriarchy er something”
Yeah, sure. Newton’s Laws of Motion, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity – all just white supremicist propaganda. Let’s see who has the best chance for survival in the chaos to come: those who rationally evaluate theories and proposals on the basis of hard evidence and scientific method; or those for whom the epitome of conscious “thought” is rank superstition and herd instinct. I know where my bets lie. I’m also quite prepared to provide education on the physics of ballistics, as applied to small, dense objects, moving at high speed, should anyone come begging for such a lesson during that chaos.
Official definition is 50% increases EVERY month. We can only lie on CPI bullshit so long. Also published here:
https://worldyturnings.wordpress.com/2023/05/09/another-big-lie-part-2/
I wonder how many people on this path of deferred gratification got the shots and died suddenly?
Too many.
Invest shrewdly?
That would be solely in your self.
Yeah I did all of those things, eventually ,after some detours ,and of course it did work , along with some luck. I’m not complainin for myself . Now may be the time to invest in different things that are counter intuitive to the normalcy bias’s borne of things going on as they had for as long as they had . Things will and have gone on like that up until that point where they don’t anymore . I think we are getting very close to that sudden change period where what seemed to have worked for so long no longer will in the conventional sense that we think about them as a result of our normalcy bias’s . But at the basic principle level Mr Munger’s advice will still hold true , just with a little creative thinking to rejigger creating value via investment strategy . Real and immediate instead of” derived “value will be king .
I have been heavy metal (as in heavily into PM) since 1999. Over the years, I have accumulated defensive tools, medical and food resources, critical books, communications gear.
I shake my head at those debating whether it makes more sense to hold Bitcoin or gold. It makes sense, at this late stage of the empire’s rot, to hold what you need to stay alive for the next three days. Bitcoin is a great product for a system that remains intact. Ours won’t. Gold is an asset that has managed to maintain wealth for those who held it for 6000 years. It will be useless when the food trucks don’t arrive and the water that trickles out of your tap is one step away from untreated sewage.
When the gears finally grind to a halt, it will be enough to drive the unprepared mad, before they die of starvation, disease or violence at the hands of savage people as unprepared as they are. We who have been blessed to live in America cannot begin to grasp the level of fear and depravity that can be loosed on us when the lifestyle we have taken for granted goes poof.
When will that happen? No one knows. But when it does, no preparation will be enough, but one who has not prepared will be immediately thrust into extremis, with no prior thought or planning. Let me know how that turns out. Watch a good zombie film if you need motivation.
The materials to survive are what everyone should be accumulating at this juncture. If you think this will be bad, like 1933 Depression Bad, you are underestimating how hollowed out we have become. The pendulum has swung so far to “majorly fucked up” that the corresponding balancing of accounts will be more epic than epic.
I neither welcome it nor dread it. I expect it.
“1933 Depression Bad” will be baby shit compared to what we are headed into …
Although certainly not a perfect world back then, there was immensely more morality exhibited by the Common Folk, as well as simple things like planting gardens, fixing your own stuff, etc.
The shitstorm ahead is going to unleash some reprehensible stuff to say the least.
Exactly
And the hoards of 3rd world invaders
Jackson, some of these(100,000)are absolutely not 3rd world…their weapons are temporarily hidden…. sub-stations and poisoning of reservoirs are in the offing… Also, the 200 million vaxxed will soon be receiving pulsed code via 5G, which will activate the nanosized Graphine Hydroxide , which was placed within a third of the vaccinated. Still, others received placebos. The takedown of America required that we first had to be compromised. Watch Iran, the A/C gave the Persians(150 ‘B’)pallets and pallet’s and pallets of Benjamins… not the lie of only 15 billion. So, the draft will be initiated this year, as the Middle East Muslims will go nuts over what the Israelis are doing with the genocide in Gaza. Biden(Ted Baxter)has done a thorough treasonous job. He will be replaced with giggles, who will keep on doing what O’bama calls for, as Benedict Biden has don. The U.S. will be deystroyed (earthquakes/tsunamis E. coast 150 miles inland) over-run this summer. Jesus will remove his own during this time. The A/C will confirm the covenant(7 yrs.) which he presided over last Nov.(23) at the WEF, where there was a separate private coronation(A/C)way, way down below in a D.U.M.B. located under the Swiss Alps. JESUS is the one who will rescue His own.
I show my kids posts like this to prove I’m not that paranoid compared to other people. Thanks.
Very dark my friend. Try not to visit too long there.
Nobody gave the Iranians anything. The pallets of cash flown to Iran were the Iranian’s own stolen money being returned to them. That money was stolen, of course, by the “rules-based” Washington empire (follow my rules or else). Washington destroyed Venezuela financially using the same “rules-based” crimes.
Most Arab/Muslim people in the middle east are relatively silent on the mass murder of non-combatant men, women, children and babies in Gaza. The Yemeni government and Hezbollah are notable exceptions. I am profoundly ashamed that Muslims and TPTB worldwide are allowing this. I am outraged that Washington is providing the weapons, ammo, intelligence and back-up military muscle for this genocide.
This is overt insanity and no one on this entire freakin’ planet can claim this is legitimate.
hordes
That’s another reason we’ve started doing a lot of our shopping at garage and estate sales.
Started? Been doing it all my life. One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.
It is costing more to make stuff yourself than it did 2-3 years ago to have somebody else do it.
The creator is done with this modern day Sodom & Gomorrah…2024 is the year of the beginning of the end for America… by the way, your vid was excellent!!!
I think God’s judgement is the removal of His protection.
God didn’t have *anything* to do with what’s happening. This clusterphuck is the handiwork of very evil men.
But those very evil men could not have accomplished what they are doing without weak lawless men totally unaware of the criminal moves of those evil men. The weak lawless men have been unaware of the criminal men’s moves because they ignore the law. The lawless, those who ignore law, are the one’s who have lost the protections of divine law. Now the tyrants will be the teachers to teach the price of ignoring the law. Judgement is intrinsic in the laws of creation, ignore the law and pay the price. God is grace and wrath because God is law.
What the fuck?
Perhaps my best years are gone, but I would not want them back, not with the fire in me now- Beckett
I truly enjoyed the personal history, Jim. I started my career working at my father’s construction company in the late 1960s. It was a family business with my 2 uncles and my grandfather. They were all WW2 tough but really decent men. I remember them taking pay cuts around Christmas so as not to lay off any of their workers until after the holidays. If one of their employees had family health problems they got all the time off they needed without a cent cut from their pay. Now my kids work for soulless public companies. So fuck Wall Street and that fucking darkie who bailed them all out in 09.
Wall street =the total centralization of profit (vs Main Street ). People don’t / cant get it cuz they largely seem just along for the ride NPC’s .
Surprise! The oracle of Omaha didn’t know his investments in a financial racketeer had derivatives. And now for the question of the day. Does anyone on the platform think he’s past delayed gratification? I tell ya folks, the impotent financial press, who worships him will never ask, investigate or corroborate. And we’ll never know. We the Poor, tired, over worked and weary. We the people who played by the rules and sacrificed deserve to know!
You’ll never know because you do not belong to the class that deserves the truth. The disgusting, entitled, evil scum who run the system bought it, you, and me a long time ago.
What made you think I’d know my Berskhire Hathaway from my Warren Buffet from a hole in the wall ? I dont . Damnit cant you see I’m only a carpenter ? Perhaps I should look at whats going on with my Merrill Lynch stuff ? I hardly look , not into it , I’d rather own dirt or something I can get my hands on . Alright I’ll look . )-:
Wall Street is built on *fraud*.
ETF manipulated markets, suicidal derivatives, high speed trading where microseconds are factored into market manipulation, major mega-banks colluding to manipulate markets.
The financial system is smoke and mirrors. Total bullshit.
Bush bailed out the banks.
This is only known case where the Bushes hid inside the criminals.
[Bankers=criminals]
Yeah he did , I remember that day vividly : ” we’ve got to suspend the free market in order to save it ” . They say ” too big to fail ” I think ” too big not to fail” ‘member? I’m the” sweetspot “guy . So what is your point ?
Obama signed it into law…
No.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ring your bell?
Trump pardoned 5 Wall Street megabanks for fraud. Look it up. Truth. 100%. At least one of those banks was carrying Trump loans worth millions.
Trump is also acting as an unregistered foreign agent for that genocidal shithole Israel. Trump is not what he appears to be. We need an honest MAGA politician to rally behind.
Barry Soetoro might take offense at being called a “fucking darkie”. The correct terms are “Bathhouse Barry” and his drag queen boyfriend is properly tagged as “Swinging Meat Michael”.
Magic Negroe is another good term.
Remember winnie the pooh?
The tiger. – Tigger
T-I- double Guh – Rrrrr
swap the first letter, you get the idea.
Too old to know anything about Winnie and Tigger.
Don’t know jack about Winnie but Tar Baby was required reading.
Uncle Remus stories for the win.
The great robbery of a civilization – https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-two-causes-of-coming-great.html?m=0 – as Charles Hugh Smith explains it.
“We have no chance at a better future without the collapse of the present day dystopian debt empire.”
Well said.
The guy’s lying or uninformed:
https://www.zillow.com/west-frankfort-il/?searchQueryState=%7B%22pagination%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22isMapVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22mapBounds%22%3A%7B%22west%22%3A-89.17407615283201%2C%22east%22%3A-88.63231284716795%2C%22south%22%3A37.79672725931129%2C%22north%22%3A37.99504462615954%7D%2C%22regionSelection%22%3A%5B%7B%22regionId%22%3A27859%2C%22regionType%22%3A6%7D%5D%2C%22filterState%22%3A%7B%22sort%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22globalrelevanceex%22%7D%2C%22ah%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%7D%2C%22isListVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22mapZoom%22%3A11%7D
In the corporate world, honesty and integrity as not a virtue seems to be the theme of your life. But, it did lead to a higher calling of pursing the truth and making the truth available to others. I find the understanding of cause and effect, karma, as the only path to freedom in this life. Everyone needs to find it for himself.
This life?
How many evil, despicable people enjoy undiluted success until their dying day?
As in, FJB. Where is his karmic payback? Not in this life. There isn’t enough time for him to endure the consequences of the darkness he has spawned that will last generations. It will take many lifetimes of suffering for him to pay off his debt to this world.
Everybody understands the concept of karma, but only 20% of the world considers reincarnation an essential aspect of karma’s kinetic trajectory:
“..the sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.”
The idea that naturally fallible people get only one chance, one life, to “get it right” is antithetical to the idea that God gives a shit about anyone.
You point out a serious issue in the USA today- ethics. I assume it’s been the failure of our educational system, but it’s hard to pin down the origin of this general loss of serious , honest people.
The seemingly easier it became to borrow and acrue debt via funny money . Remember ” Whimpy ” ?
It was a failure of parenting. Parents pawning off THEIR sole responsibility onto schools and then blaming the schools. It was never the schools’ job to instill morality and integrity.
While that is true , making it possible for the great mass of mid wits to spend themselves or an entire freakin nation for that matter into an unfathomable oblivion of debt is like leaving a loaded glass dick pipe full a meth on the coffee at the house of a recovering tweaker wouldn’t you say ?
The origin originated with the church. John Wesley said it best…
“What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.”
It is a direct result of nobody ever accepting fault. It is always someone else’s fault for their failure.
Take responsibility for yourself
I have all of my life.
Education starts at home.
When mommy and daddy yuppie had to keep up with the jones’ and both working 80 hours a week to afford their mcmansion that neither of them need, but wow does it look impressive to their friends!!, who’s left to raise the kiddies?
Oh that’s right, just set them in front of the computer and let AOL raise them, it’s a cheap babysitter and there are adults there so all is good right?
The internet and rise of feminazi-ism is about the time it all started to really kick off, mid 80s ish.
Not that hard to pin down some of it. I was a HS sophomore in 1964. Up to that point, all of my teachers afaik had been hard working and dedicated. Some of them were pricks or bitches with a side of sadism, mind you, but all or nearly all seemed to want their charges to know more at the and of the term than they knew coming in, and took pride in the accomplishment when that happened. First day of sophomore English class, this new and newly graduated young woman teacher starts prostelyzing the class on the benefits of a teaching career. Did she mention the satisfaction of helping a child to learn? Hell, no, that wasn’t worth the slightest mention. She did tell the class about good pay, medical coverage, light workload, tenure, and 3 months off in the Summer to do as she pleased. That same year I had a Biology teacher who bragged about creating the grade curve for term papers by dropping the entire stack from the class down his home stairway; the papers that went the furthest got the highest grades (and yes, he was 100% serious). That was the tipping point for me: it quickly became obvious that those two schmucks typified the prevailing attitude among younger teachers, and public education began a long but steady descent into the toilet.
Nailed it. I went to a middle school awards ceremony recently to watch a friend’s daughter in a science fair project, and how she fared in the competition. The science teacher conducting the ceremony in the crowded auditorium announced winners like a cross between a drug addled DJ at a rave up and someone who wanted to be this generation’s Bob Barker.
In my day, the principal would have walked up on stage and fired this dipshit on the spot. What was supposed to be an encouragement to effort, creativity and ingenuity in STEM subjects turned out to be a carefully apportioned (by race) shout-out to the submorons in the audience who loved every minute of the spectacle.
America is no longer. There are only Irish monks scattered throughout a darkening landscape, determined to hold the lamp of wisdom aloft, out of the mire of shit we have sunk into. Inspire–truly inspire–one child before you leave this world. If humanity is to ever again be worthy of the name, we are going to need champions.
I could tell a different but similar story here. School, college, a lot of hard work, changing jobs over time, save money, invest money, retire at 65 (no pension) and move to a rural low cost of living red state. Not so sure it is an “easy life” but some might call it a “decent life”. And I agree with the author. There is some bad stuff coming to America. There should not be but there is – it is coming. We have been prep’ing since Obama was re-elected. Good thing we did. The history of the left is once they seize power (2020 election) they never voluntarily relinquish it. Many examples in history – China, Cambodia (Pol Pot), Cuba, North Korea, USSR, etc.. The people who frequent this site know the story. It will be no different this time. The 2024 election will be the turning point. Anyone who believes at this point that the left/deep state is going to allow Trump to win the election then go home and wait for the investigations, arrests, and prosecutions to start is sadly mistaken. Anyone who believes the Davos crowd is going to get in their jets and fly home to their mansions to pout is sadly mistaken. I do not believe it is going to go down that way. Do you ?
That last bit , another un avoidable hard choice leading to an exceptable future somewhere out there in the future ? Its really the only way forward for a decent person with moral integrity and a little courage . So be it . There has to be a showdown , the alternative is to ” go quietly into the dark night “. Err sumptin like dat ?
I don’t really expect it to go down that way, either. What I expect is a doubling down effort by panicked “elites” who see what I see and come to an entirely different conclusion. No good can come of what is happening now.
Graduated High School at the beginning of the Arab oil embargo. I enrolled in college and worked any part time job I could find. I was very determined to make it on my own.
I had the good fortune of finding a job as a janitor for one of the Big Three. It was hard, dirty work but paid well with health insurance. One of the best benefits was tuition refund. I kept taking college classes.
I had an opportunity for a couple other positions with the Company. I became a trucker,, also hard work and long hours. I took the apprenticeship test and sat on the list for a couple years. When the company decided to take apprentices they did not want who was on the top of the list, (white males). They tried to sneak in a provision, to pick and choose who they wanted, into the local contract. We found out about it and decided to make it an issue. They ended up offering apprenticeships to all the people on the list to get who they wanted. Many of those who were so desired never completed the program.
I became an electrical apprentice. the day I walked into the department, the superintendent came up to us (three white males) and told us he did not really want us but was forced to take us! Nice way to start a career!
We worked so many hours, 3000+ per year that I completed the schooling and work hours in just under three years.
Kept going to school, completed two Associates Degrees , and my Bachelors. After twenty years in the trades I had the opportunity to become the Skilled Trades Training Coordinator . Worked in training for eleven years. Spent 34 years with the company before I retired.
Looking back, I was fortunate enough to have a job that provided well for my family. I liked having a trade that was always in demand. On the other hand it was long hours and hard work. Had to work afternoons and midnights for many years.
In retirement I have worked in training and part time a a couple electrical contractors.
My electrician is in his early 80s still working side gigs.
He told me there is no retirement in the Bible. Very inspiring to say the least.
I was just going through some old records looking for my DD 214 and stumbled across the mortgage note that belonged to my grandparents on the first home they ever bought, in 1948. They purchased the property and built a somewhat smallish single story three bedroom one bath home in Hopewell NJ for the cost of $3,800. Their monthly mortgage payment was just under $28 with a 5% rate that they paid off in the 1960’s
We eventually purchased the house from their heirs (my father and his brother and sister) after the passing of my grandmother for the assessed tax value of $138,000. We built two additions to the house in the time we owned it, one a second story while my grandmother was still alive so my wife and our then only son could care for her until her demise in 2002, and the second a kitchen and pantry/mudroom in 2003. The cost for both of those, excluding our labor (we built both additions ourselves) was approximately $150,000, or 30 times as much as the original property/construction cost.
We eventually sold the house a few years after we moved to New Hampshire for just under $700,000.
I checked the current property tax rate this year and discovered that the new owners are now paying $20,000 annually, or 500% more than the original cost of the property and construction cost of the home combined.
I’m not sure why I felt compelled to add this, but it was a bit jarring to see just how much the value of the dollar has declined against something that pretty much served the exact same purpose, providing shelter for a family. We were fortunate to have five generations of our family live there for 60 years, but clearly if trends continue, the cost of such a simple home in the same amount of time will be in the millions with property taxes in the hundreds of thousands, even if it is passed down to another generation .
Where does all of this end?
In blood and revolution if you believe that history repeats, or at least, rhymes.
For me anyway ,you don’t have a name ( comment section handle )HSF ?
Your point is extremely salient . Where does all this end ? Weimar wheel barrels for a loaf a bread ?
I’ve seen that on a couple of recent threads.
No idea why.
look closer, the name is a punctuation mark of sort s. a comma a period, a comma etc.
Nope, digital currency where the numbers no longer matter and it can be turned off any time the government wants.
I’ll never forget the first time I ever even thought about these things….I had a friend I’d spend time with and she commented on every time they sold their houses, the asking price was so much more than the price they paid…..I never thought at the time, but did going home, did she not realize the same thing for what she was buying?? Those folks paid far less than what they were selling to her??
I just think….DUH!!
to add a bit more reality to that, don’t forget if you took that 30 year mortgage, you probably paid double and a half for it after you throw in all the interest accumulated over the 3 decades. so your 50k house cost you upwards of 100k.
My first “house was a used 1973 super single wide on five acres.
Bought it for 18k all set up.
The property had a three bedroom septic in ground. It was a package deal. The land had already had any valuable timber logged off.
A few small Douglas firs some Madrona and a lot of scotch broom & blackberry vines.
I kept it for three years until I met my future wife . It was pretty far drive to town, jobs .
I decided to sell it and find something in town. I got 22k for it & thought I was a real-estate genius lol. After all thr fees I ended up behind 1900$
The only thing we could afford was a one bath three bedroom just under 1 thousand square feet. It was as is. Over the years we completely remodeled it.plumbing wiring kitchen bath literally every. We raish ed our four kids in that house. Oh hell nobody cares.
Just as a frame of reference, it isn’t so much as the house(s) appreciating over time as it is the dollar depreciating due to inflation.
There you have it Will
I have a copy of my parent’s 1951 income tax return. For a family of 5, my Dad made $4323.63 as a lineman for the electric utility. They paid $182 in federal taxes and $2.50 in state taxes. We lived in a 2 BR, 1 Bath 780 sq ft house with an attached 1-car garage that he later converted into a den/BR/utility room. We were not rich, but none of us knew it because all of our friends came from similar families.
And how many of today’s young would do that – live in a 780 sq ft house?
Not many. I told my wife that her youngest daughter and SIL would need to set their sights a little lower when they were looking for their first house and she assured me that they deserved better. Fortunately, they found a decent house in a good neighborhood and 20 years later are still there. Her sister was the agent and helped negotiate a good price and helped them get a really good mortgage rate that they could afford.
20 years ago
None, at least in my world. They’d rather live in their nana’s much bigger house.
Oh shut up. Re-read what he said about his kids. Lots of kids today working their ass off for No future at all.
The house that my Dad grew up in and sheltered in the basement from the bombs in Germany was built for $12K Mark and was sold in 2015 for $130K Euros. It is now worth over $250K Euros.
That house has survived 3 or 4 different currencies. THAT is where this is going, not an increase in numerical US dollars but a whole new currency or two, in rapid succession.
Very astute comment, Svarga.
Thank you for the illustration of Leave it to Beaver America vs Today.
That’s why Leave it to Beaver was so popular, everyone could relate.
I could never relate to “Leave it to Beaver”. My dad didn’t work in an office and his punishments weren’t anywhere in the realm of “yelling at” the rest of us. Beaver lived in some fantasy land that I couldn’t even imagine. Maybe my family was some kind of weird outlier class that everyone I knew belonged to: people whose parents actually worked and who used a belt to punish those of us who fucked up in some easily recognized way.
I was speaking more from the Mom who stayed at home and took care of the kids and house while Dad was working. Everyone knew a Wally, Beaver, Eddie and Lumpy. I, too, felt the working end of a belt and if it was an especially egregious violation of the rules, an Elm switch.
Using gold terms always shows the dollars destruction.
By your numbers, the initial cost was 108.5 ounces of gold and the monetary payment was .8 ounces.
At today’s gold values (which are artificially suppressed) that equates to a $222,000 purchase price and a payment of ~$1640.
Inflation robs everyone through nominal confusion and by stealing the natural price deflation of everything through technological advancement.
Briefly, I went to Salt Lake City for graduate school and arrived in 2007. The modest (1400 sq ft) house I picked went for ~$175,000. I immediately bought a new roof, water softener and indoor carpet (along with a radon treatment system). Over the years I’ve revamped a lot of the plumbing, put in an attic fan and vents, replaced the furnace, water heater (twice) and dishwasher (twice) while going through about three refrigerator / stove combinations, put in electrical outlets, currently trying to finish remodeling the downstairs bathroom. Oh, and two washing machines / dryers as well.
Two weeks ago the heat exchanger on the furnace went out, and the replacement should arrive this week for about $1700 total. But then, rents in this town run $1000 – $1500 a month for a crappy little apartment, and this place is apparently worth nearly $500,000 now. I want a rural place with some acres (grew up on a 30 ac. farm in middle TN). The city has more minorities weekly and the character is changing, not for the better.
I’ve never heard it put better in a concise article.
Really a down vote ? I must have a Jew stalker.praise an article get a down vote .
Down votes are a lot like Army Achievement Awards. Hang around long enough and they’ll make sure you get one regardless of anything you may or may not have done to deserve it.
I down voted you just to prove your point.
The above average guys are often the last to get them.
Anyone who tells a truth that others don’t want to hear gets them.
I meant who the achievement medals go to. The DVs are like what Apostrophe said. It was a dumb comment, but I remember getting a couple of those, because it was difficult to justify giving them to other people who didn’t do anything and not to myself.
especially if you are one of the coveted classes of people, to prove they ain’t raysuss, gist, tist, ist, phobic or probic.
fixed it
It’s been like this for generations, it’s just now on a larger scale so it can’t be ignored. Growing up from the often forgotten Gen X generation and having lived through countless recessions, lay offs and the corporate culture of temporary workers; home ownership or any sort or financial security was completely out of reach.
I’m GenX born in 1969. The idea of owning a home and receiving a pension was completely foreign to me. By the time I entered the work force, almost all companies shifted retirement onto their employees and the whims of the Fed and Wall St. Homes were expensive to me back then and paying property taxes meant you never really own your home. Retirement is a mirage. I’ll work until I pass out or can’t. I like what I do so that helps. I’m not complaining. My wife and I live a good life and we enjoy ourselves. The old American dream of buying a home and retiring at 65 is long gone.
All true. But, that dream didn’t just blow away like a dry leaf; it was taken while everyone was distracted. Everyone was distracted by working so hard to achieve the dream that just got stolen. Some sort of weird paradox in that.
Same here; my retirement plan is death. Lucky you still have a job, I was one of the 400,000+ tech workers that lost their job in the last year. Unfortunately for me I’m a White male which according to the DEI corp culture means I’m unwanted and better off dead.
Hang in there!
You had a job that Americans just won’t do.
At least, they won’t do them after “based” Mike Lee (R) UT hands out H1b visas to a gazillion Indians at the behest of his Big Tech donors.
In 2016-2017, Trump properties handed out jobs to 143 H2B workers and hired one American.
Seems to me that undercutting the US workforce (temp or tech workers) using cheap foreign labor is suicidal. It’s counter to supply and demand. Batsh*t crazy.
“I see what my kids and honest hard working people across the land are up against at this point in history, and I know hard decisions today are not likely to lead to an easy life ever again.”
Sadly, I agree.
It’s true🥺
We The (older) People and our children are going to have to risk our lives in a revolution to fix this, so our grandchildren and great-grandchildren won’t have to. Either that or they will all be enslaved or murdered. There is no walking away from that fact.
Look around at what has already happened. Criminals stole our elections and are replacing us with 3rd world soldiers.
Buy more guns and buy LOTS more ammo. We The People are the largest army in the history of the world, 150 million of us. And we have 400 million guns and 20 billion rounds of ammunition. We The People are unstoppable if we simply refuse to comply.
Train yourseves to be agents of chaos against Leviathan. Use Irish Democracy until
Leviathan makes that impossible.
Read Sun Tzu, read military tactics, learn to be effective any way you can.
A deadly storm is coming and it’s planned. Learn anything to defeat that plan.
Nice try, but this country doesn’t have the backbone for a fight.
Always looking for the Easy Button (voting or donating money to their favorite special interest group) even among the tough guy crowd. Opening a wallet is a lot easier than getting a rifle dirty.
Right on, CA. On balance, my life has been great; no complaints. I can’t, however, leave this mess to my grandsons. I know there are a lot of keyboard mobsters out there that think they can handle the tough times that are coming. I very much doubt that. I put my trust in the Lord, but I’m ready for whatever is next. I’m no hero, but I’ve had my time and now I am beyond pissed. I am a very reluctant victim.
How the CIA Destabilizes the World | Common Dreams
Institutional evil for profit. “Absolute Power corrupts absolutely.”
Afghan debacle for TWENTY YEARS to run the Heroin business.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/cia-destablizes-the-world
Isn’t trusting the system…like at all… literally placing ones faith in the “nobles and sons of man”?
Isn’t trusting the system wrong?
Trusting is the system.
Trust is oversold. The fractured reserve of central mountebanks. Fee/ought accrue, & boy, it do.
Because demand for word/s (march!) that feels better than better words like…
… “personal responsibility” delegation (as if that is even actually possible) … in a “political” (criminal) drawn&quartered division of labor caste system…
… “cowardice” of the go along get along (incl not facing, putting down, the cogdis drug addiction) … to live as “prosperously” (“Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything” … or, hive up & never die) long as possible (have you seen the latest Kurzweil synthesizer? Flashy-the-cash Bryan Johnson says, “Don’t die.” …
… the static line (rope-a-dope) denial that is “hopium” …
… “acquiescence” …
is enormous & insatiable. “Trust” is that word.
“I *trusted* you!” Ok. And? Did you learn anything? Or has that ability been trussed up in a blind trust, too?
Losses hurt more than gains feel good is catch-22 double bind that makes the takeaway close work so much more often than not.
A-B-C, Alec Baldwin Closer. “1st place is a Cadillac(ack-ack ~ Billy Joel). 2nd place? Set of steak knives.”
Some politician is reputed to have said “Trust, but verify.”
But its not even ironic that nobody in public coffers (“office”) is trustworthy – it is truism.
Nobody who pursues public coffers is trustworthy.
Nobody who takes bribes from, or in any way-shape-form enables/apologists public coffers offers is trustworthy.
Every bit of that taken cut is “30 pieces of silver.”
(“Social” Silver … Hi-Ho! Away! Who was that masked man, Tonto? Why that’s your Social Silver savior, son!)
(Is there a 30POS detox?)
Trust – conditionally – the verification.
Then verify again.
Verify continuously.
And if ever verification fails, waste no more energy scrutinizing 2nd, 3rd, on & on, “chances.” Sink that cost. Mark it to market. Move on.
Those who do continue on in that disposable/“subscription” fakeconomy are Guess Who what American Wo/man?
Situational relativist-ethics ethosses … Trojan ethosses … a 30-pieces “gift” that opened the gates (that, in actual truth, were mostly never closed: “open for ‘business’”) is what.
Was this “posiwid” inherited? Yes. By every generation & its under/overlaps.
Does that relieve the posterity of responsibility if/when all it seeks to do is kick the tradition-can its bit of the way down the road too?
To the extent answerers select “yes” note the 1st 3 letters of “posterity.”
Point Of Sale displays are for those impulsive kids that couldn’t resist the compulsion to gobble the marshmallow immediately, rather than wait a bit to double the … bait.
POS refers to something else, too.
And that large segment of rolling-posterity is then therefore overfond of another better-than-the-truer alternatives word:
“Tradition.”
That ashes/fire meme that pops up here … is elevator pitch … straight out of the pitch book that none who read-gurgitate it wrote; that is rote memorization/internalization; POS terminal-diagnosis spark-arc fed by NEG terminal-diagnosis.
Cue that good scene from The Paper Chase – the “law” student with the photographic memory being eviscerated by imperious Houseman.
(Pneumonia-onic devices, like Donner Party shortcuts, are traditions.)
Cue House, M.D. : “Everybody lies.”
(Hugh Laurie took the OBE take, too. Jagger took the knighthood take. Brian May, too. Etc.)
Cue Creasy drill-train-saying it into the little girl’s head: “There’s trained & there’s untrained.” Creasy showed the Post Trained Stress Disorder, too (“bad primer” indeed).
That’s entertrainment. Cue Tull, Locomotive Breath.
But don’t cue “regulatory capture” because that’s training wheels bs.
Who watches the watchmen? Who trains the trainers who trellis-train the Scarlett tomatoes/tomahtoes g.i. jo/sephine citizens of tomorrow?
“I’ll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”
Tradition hand-me-downs is tie-me-kangaroo-pouch-down self-sedition Santa traducing self-actualization. Didn’t Maslow blow on that to make it feel all better?
T(radition)SA goes through all your bags, incl your meatbag, at its discretion, for reasons not yours, starting well before even rudimentary reason is yours.
Gradually, by graduation time, the wheels on those shortbus suitcases have been weld-bolted on & dragging that wheels-go-round-&-round weight along has become the easiest thing to do.
It’s a stealth holofaustian bargain alright.
Literacy is fundamental & the double-sliteracy ’spar(the rod & spoil the child)iment alt-demonstrates that the American pie particles (& all the other nouns nouns Nanette! too) waves bye-bye at the incongruous exact same simultaneous time.
1st rule of particles & waves fight club is … well, you know.
A few, proud, jarheads always get around to unpacking the wadding. And then the projectile ceases to vomit. Smedley (the) Butler (did it) wrote a book of words (in the library), too, but that didn’t even dent the vomitorium, did it?
Ain’t that yet another Clue?
But “we” comes before the “wolves” it produces (& that caninely produce welves by the litter despite all ‘do not litter’ exhortations to the contrary) & dictionaries is werewolves have their way with wobbling weebles.
Maths & letters symboleer Lewis Carroll was right:
“When I use a word,’ (or tell a pleasant tradition-story-of-words-concoction) Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
The medium (not the transmission pipe or gun barrel it’s pumped through) is the message. Circular firing squads be most the messenger-medium.
Easiest thing to do. Convenience. “Progress.”
Last roost came with an old Roper washer. Had a repairman out for it once or twice. He counseled never to get rid of it so long as parts were available to keep it running.
Current perch has a new LG. No agitator. Low water consumption. Doesn’t clean clothes – proof is in the whites. My white cotton socks have gone mulatto; not gold toe socks, mulattoe-socks. Also its an “internet of things” node.
Convenience progress ease (& gee-whiz!) is the roper-doper noose round necks.
Who is interested?:
https://www.lehmans.com/product/lehmans-own-laundry-hand-washer-with-wringer/
Those amish & luddites & such were onto something.
The machine codes for ruinous ease, then takes the ease away once there’s lots of ruin(in a n)ation. Which ain’t no coincidence. Nations & nationalists synonym ruin.
But no matter how often, “Let’s do it again!” ~ Frampton Comes Alive (what was he before?)
Tradition, saith the post-war anomaly/vacuum-bubble gum blowers, that didn’t exist pre-war & doesn’t exist now – for a long time now – is the norm Rockwell hallmarked card deck to get back to.
& the cardsharps love it.
(Well, go ahead & blow the world up again, see can the costs-conveniently-not-counted anomaly-bubble be reproduced.)
And the parched desert-traverser says the oasis-mirage is real.
Or that retreating from fire to frying pan to sous vide frog-“boil” is worthy endeavor.
Hoary, hardwired “tradition,” that.
Is the why of the funny in “Opposite George.”
& the tragedy the trusting never saw coming in Opposite George Washington.
Or can’t see now in DJTrumpposite.
(There is even gushing on about the “beautiful Melania” ffs. Mel is f’ing trump the same way trump is f’ing what’s left of American Pie … which had a conjugal pie scene in it, too.)
(The latest trucker plan has me flashing on Smokey & the Bandit. The Coor-sicans gonna git there.)
It merely is.
It is not OK … (Pangloss comes in any color you want – so long as its black.)
Unless maybe that Corral is what is meant.
Spell-say it this way, that way The other Way “Back.” Doesn’t matter.
Either much more than just “political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind” – Orwell – or what drips from too many-most pens & mouths is merely political.
Say it again: nuthin’ “social” about politics/practitioners.
Socio/psychos commandeered “social” same way homosexuals did “gay.” “Contracts” too.
Rousseau Bolton was a Game of Thrones traitor-character. And trust begat The Red Wedding.
(It’s all)Related: been reading Caligula & Three Other Plays. The State of Siege is one of them. Allegorliteral.
“Prescient” loses its Twilight Zone Outer Limits tingle after a certain number of looped All Work & No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy repetitions.
“Prescient” is more like honestly not pretending time isn’t a flat disc jockeyed by timelessly flat people. Flat Frampton Comes Alive!
Search didn’t turn it up for to share the read, but that Sisyphus-disc has never stopped turnin’. Turn it up.
Wiki butcher/apologists it from the get, “corrects” it to “state of emergency” (hover the link, you’ll see) …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_State_of_Siege
And folks don’t forget that the vast majority of site owners would’ve turtled at the first advertiser pulling
ads, and ended up going woke, shutting off free speech.
Who tf downvotes that?
Don’t know. But their name starts with an A and ends with Hole.
Probably so. I just refer to them as anonyhole.
No doubt you’ve seen that graphic a lot since most of the interwebz is nothing but mind control. Most people never take the first step and ask themselves “why is this news while so many things are not?”.
Same reason they are pushing christianity… because it is dying and people are waking up. you can only say “my church follow christ” while never doing ANYTHING about the kosher wars, genocide, THEFT (usury and taxes) etc etc in greater Orwellia.
Look, save all you want and on your death bed you will say you wasted your life… and I don’t care what you do – your kids will never have freedom as long as there is a central bank and tax slavery.
The Modern human is livestock.
And the earth couldA shoulda EASILY provided for all.
Don’t let them frame your thinking into a false morality.
No tax slavery for me. I have learned after reading « Cracking the Code » by Peter Hendrickson that most income is not legally taxable according to the statutes. The IRS code tricks us into believing that « all that comes in » is taxable income. The income tax is actually an excise tax that only applies to federal employees, military personnel, a government official or a federal instrumentality such as a national bank’s interest payments. See 26 USC 3401(a) and 3121(a). Also see examples of refunds posted at losthorizons.com
Lots of people in jail who have believed it. If you hit their radar, you are toast. Both Peter and his wife Doreen have gone to prison for this stuff. Don’t say I have not warned you. The iRS doesn’t mess around when it decides to go after someone.
+1000 regardless what self-righteous asshats like a cruel accountant and Loopy spew , kids today have a rougher row to hoe than the the boomer generation, mostly because we still had a nation we could call our own and enjoyed the fruits of a freedom not totally encumbered by debt and corporate/gov. slavery .
But .. but … pay for your worthwhile and valuable (due to rarity) bachelor’s degree by delivering pizza.
All success takes is working more than 100 hours per week (20 hr days) for many years followed by 80 hour weeks for many more.
If they can do it, anyone can do it.
It’s why I always say, kidz theze dayz are just lazy and don’t want to work hard and save.
And there is the mistake. Paying for a degree is stupid. Pay for an education. And yes, you have to work hard. And 100 hr weeks don’t require twenty hr days. It requires more days.
Love it when losers squeal that it can’t be done, when I know it can. Losers always want things easy.
You forgot the 4th Commandment.
Not my kids. My kids are hoeing a very easy row. As are all their friends. Envious much, flash? How are your kids doing?
Ah, lazy and don’t want to work hard and save, eh?
Amazing how the row is easy when you work hard, are prepared, are educated, are thrifty, and make good decisions. The row is hard otherwise.
I have no concerns for their general future. They are well prepared and chose wisely. Unlike what so many have said on this thread, it is not impossible for the young to do well. It just depends on the young person. The path is narrow, and it requires a set of good decisions be made and early sacrifice.
I totally hate boards like these because it always attracts the smug condescending old boomers who stocked away money when everything cost nothing. They only come here to fluff their feathers. Talk about losers……
Don’t you guys have a bingo game to go to?
I’m an old boomer who didn’t do everything right. Lots of self righteousness in this conversation. Still, we had a shot. It really sucks today for young white men especially, and to all young to a certain degree.
And most pay was nothing. Go fucking watch Tik Tok videos you whining crybaby piece of dog shit!
Very old here and I have to say, I enjoy hearing from young folks, and especially the derision. My favorite is still DIE BOOMER! You’ve got to love that passion.
For me, the truth is more on the side of the young than on old timers who want to pretend it’s 1962 in America. Kids today were sent to warehouses called school and while there, did not even have the advantage of being taught how to think, or to encourage lifelong learning. They are competing against a couple of billion Indians and Chinese who, when I was their age, not only had no industry but actually stayed in their own fucking country. Not so now. They’re coming in through the windows like Night of the Living Dead, and kids get to frolic with the effects.
The biggest thing I think kids get wrong about Boomers is…they would have done EXACTLY the same thing we did, if they had been born in those circumstances. Likewise, we would be complaining EXACTLY as many of them do if we had been born 40 or 50 years later. Boomers are a mentality that was farmed in specific times and places that are no more. The soil is depleted, the wells are nearly dry, and the farm hands want to necklace the owner.
So, don’t be too hard on the old folks, or too critical of the young folks. Fate played the biggest role, and we do a disservice to others and ourselves if we don’t acknowledge that the environment we were dropped into permitted hard work and honesty to be rewarded much more easily than today. As the saying goes, “Be understanding, as best you can. You never know what struggles others are facing.”
Yes, indeed. The sad fact is that humanity is remarkably cruel to itself. Time has zero to do with that. The craziest part of it is that we could stop any time we wanted to. We just don’t want to. Individuals will, from time to time. The best of us, anyway. The rest of us? Full time hateful shits.
It’s enough to give a fellow a bad attitude.
Bill Hicks. Not true, but that was his riff, too.
Addicted compulsion-wiring cannot stop any time it wants to, but it sure likes to say it can.
What came first, scorpion or frog?
Ok flush
Every generation has whiny ass Faggots like you. I have them in my generation my parents had them grandparents ect.
You scream and blame others. Guess what nobody fucking cares. No one is coming to your rescue. Everyone gets fucked. Your kids get screwed over. Life’s a bitch and then you die.
The question is what are you or they going to do about it. You can blame the government the media. Maybe your kids blame you. The problem is blame doesn’t fix shit.
Buckle up bitch the ride is just getting
started.
Fuckin’ A, cruel. (an upvote wasn’t enough to express my agreement)
Cruel – flash whines more than just about anyone on this site. His life must be a disaster, and his children must be floundering. Everything is impossible and someone else’s fault. And when those that have chosen differently he gets all butthurt when they point out different decisions and different paths lead to better outcomes.
I keep pointing out that I know a lot of young people and have followed their progress throughout many years. They are a select group, of course. They are friends of my children. And without exception they have done very well and are progressing very well in their careers and financially. The least successful financially of them is still quite successful – a nurse. It was a calling. But that person will never struggle for employment, but it is not a really lucrative career. Every single one of of them is doing well. Every single one of them at age 30 is earning in excess of six figures.
There are doctors and lawyers and scientists and engineers and managers. Perhaps the one I am most proud of is a young person with modest gifts that has worked up from the bottom (think mailroom type job) to be now running the company’s second largest facility. The hours were long, but the attitude was positive, and nothing was ever too hard, and no work or opportunity to learn and advance was ever turned down. Weekly hours worked are still long. But attitude is still great and positive. Next step up is just around the corner.
As usual, you blame everything on a generation of people who were no less cruelly used than your generation has been. You should probably stop reading articles by Andrew Anglin at the stinkbait site known as UR.
I have noticed many on blogs are searching for another homeowner ins. carrier since theirs has increased, some doubling or tripling.
Here we go again and I was just told the busted water pipes last December and blown away shingles last March has put me in a position many carriers don’t want my business.
The weather is out of my control.
But, I have found a premium I have to live with and had to cancel car insurance to afford it. So, now, I just have liability.
This is anecdotal evidence but within my own social circle it’s getting bad for the stupid, average, and over-achievers. I’ve seen so many of the over-achieving honor roll types of people crash and burn lately. Most of them bought houses and had kids during the Trump economy. Now they can’t afford the rise in cost of living which is leading to divorce, job loss, childcare loss, depression and turning to drugs. The ones that are hanging on are socially isolated because all they do is work all the time.
I’m so glad I went through the tough times in the 2008/2009 crash that a lot of my friends didn’t experience because their parents could bail them out. It snapped me out of the delusion early on.
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I went through it in ’82-’83 and ended up bailing myself out, as usual.
Me too, but Mom and Dad watched the kid while I was in night school and picked him up afterwards to go home to our apartment.
ExWife found greener pastures in Phoenix with a guy named Grant.
At least we had an economy that supported our recovery during that time. I could find a new job that paid more than the one I had in about 8 hours…so…not all that bad. Then Clintons showed up to wreck what little of that prosperity was left after the Bush clown show. The rest is history.
I was in OK and the oil based economy went into the shitter in a hurry. There were no jobs, interest rates were sky high, houses decreased in value by 30% or more and layoffs were happening almost every payday.
Can you imagine where we’d be today if fracking had begun under Reagan’s first term? I think they wouldn’t have stopped at Hinkley had that been the case. Can’t have the plebs TOO happy, now can we?
” The ones that are still hanging on are socially isolated because all they do is work all the time ” Thats me !!!, except I’m sixty effin years old and probably financially don’t really need to work any more ( luck and hard work ) . So why do I do it ? Its like a bad habit/ addiction I’ve been at all my life and it now seems near impossible to quit ? I guess its my life . I’ll probably croak on the jobsite lol. Oh well no big deal we’re all gonna croak no exceptions . Whaddya gonna do( Italian accent ) ?
Simplicus I’ve said for years, I’ll rest when the Lord brings me home. Work isn’t work, its what we’re supposed to do.
Yes, Steph, exactly right. The stupid and average benefitted greatly from low skill high paying manufacturing jobs. Those are gone. Stupid and average don’t do well unless they get skills and work hard, generally speaking. And that doesn’t happen often.
Way to completely miss what I said about the over-achievers. Good job!
Didn’t miss it. Just had nothing to say about it. And as I previously have said, I am not going to say anything bad to you.
I’m not in the over-achiever category so you failed.
I don’t get it. Are you saying that you are stupid or average? I would not say that about you. If I knew you were talking about yourself, I would not have commented at all. And as I said, I have no comment re over-achievers.
I’m an under-achiever. I may have reached my full potential if it weren’t for the excessive criticism. Alas, we’ll never really know…
Always someone else’s fault, ain’t it? Funny how it always works out that way.
90% of humanity is stupid or average so if overachievers stupid people and average people are all failing then who the fuck is winning?
Answer: Banks
Ops
Pay off all your debts then you will never have to worry about them taking all your money.
I did
Sorry bro, but that’s simply not true. “Your” money is actually “their” money. “Their” name is even printed all over it! When they come for it, you’ll give it to them, or you’ll die in either remarkable or unremarkable fashion…and they still take it.
Fortunately, wallets and bank accounts are not part of the kit issued when we got deployed here, so we won’t have to account for any of it once we are recalled to HQ.
Seems like she’s trying VERY hard not to be liked by you.
I’d chime in Steph but you seem to handle ” Mr. Glorious” lots better than I.
Excellent observation btw.
Mr. Glorious owes Jim a huge apology. He thinks pleasantries can undo the damage he’s done, but what he doesn’t realize is he fucked over Jim when he heavily criticized my writings. Jim lost out on cultivating me as a writer for TBP because of his actions. I had to go to other publications because of his criticisms. Jim is the one who gave me a chance as a writer and he ruined it with his excessive criticism. Jim isn’t perfect but he earned my loyalty a long time ago by giving me a chance and he’ll always have my gratitude for it. Again, I’m not the person he screwed over. He has no clue how much of an asset I could’ve been for the TBP.
A decade later he likes to pretend it’s not a big deal. Nope. His behavior had permanent consequences. He got what he wanted. I’m no longer a writer for TBP and I’m just a commentator like everybody else. I have no problem publishing other people’s content on TBP but I’ll never go back to being a writer for TBP. That was ruined for me a long time ago.
Your only use is as a shitstirrer. If it’s not something feminist, you can’t remember from week to week what your previous stance was.
I’ve never been a feminist. Try again, Anon.
anyone who has been around knows otherwise
it’s topic number one of shit that triggers you
When a feminist says she’s not a feminist ……
You are aware that people can change, right ? 10 years ago, I was a pro- Israel, jewish, feminist liberal. Now, I am none of those things.
Now you’re an anti-zionist jew who defends feminists… big change.
” I’m just a commentator like everybody else.”
Just a bit of constructive criticism: the writers are the commentators. The rest of us are commenters. No offense intended.
I only speak for myself, but the critiques of commenters should have no bearing on what you write.
Always write for yourself, so as to improve your ability to state a position clearly and succinctly in the most precise way possible. There will always be people who will say something crappy about your writing. If that’s all it takes to run you off, it isn’t them, it’s you.
Sometimes you say some pretty insightful things and your perspective is so different from my own that I almost always learn something new from you, but you have a really thin skin. I don’t know where that comes from, but it’s definitely correctable.
Or I’m a real person and the constant stream of hateful and ugly comments had a negative impact on me. It wasn’t one or two bad comments. He was completely nasty towards me and I didn’t deserve it. From the very first article I posted he did everything within his ability to tear me down.
Additionally, it wasn’t just him. He was the ringleader of multiple “big dogs” who would gang up on me to pick apart every article I wrote regardless of the subject matter and pile on with their own nasty comments. They intentionally drove me off the site.
The harassment was so bad at one point that Admin had to remove an entire tranche of article history of mine from the TBP website. None of my early articles are archived on TBP.
Llpoh got what he wanted and I no longer write for TBP. His apology is too late and meaningless. The damage has already been done and now he can leave me alone.
this explains a lot
Holy shit! Someone is all puffed up on themselves!
Yeah. I’m SURE Jim sits up nights crying over THAT “lost opportunity”!
Bwahaha!
My experience is identical to yours, Steph. The super achievers I know outside of tradies are all either blowing up or burning out.
Ok, I have now given the over-achiever stuff some thought. I have considered the young folks I know re this over-achiever thing. And here is what I have concluded.
Every single young person I know is an over-achiever. And many started from a very high base to begin with. They were smart as a group, and some were extraordinarily smart. They then took that natural advantage, those that had it, and augmented it with hard work, focus, drive, good attitudes, and good decision making. Those not quite so naturally gifted did the same.
And those over-achievers are successful without a single exception. Will they burn out? They haven’t yet, into their late twenties and early thirties. And they are on trajectories that will see that within a few years that their financial futures are solidified, with some already in that situation. The doctors are solid already. The scientist is sought after internationally already – smartest young person I have perhaps ever run into. One of the lawyers has made partner at a big firm, and another is close. A couple more are medical professionals and are partners in their own clinics. Another is a rich techie. A couple are hitting senior manager with very large firms. One is a nurse and will never struggle for work. They have chosen partners well – lawyers and doctors etc. Even the modestly talented over-achievers are doing extremely well. So far. Time will tell.
What I see is that those that take what they have and make the most of it by “over-achieving” are doing very well indeed. Again, because the competition is so weak, and because attitudes in general are so poor, and because good work ethics are so hard to find, those that over-achieve shine bright.
At least that is my experience so far. And what I do not see is any “woe is me, it is all too hard, boomers had it so good, sucks to be me”. Nope, the young I know don’t waste their time on such. They are too busy getting things done and reaping the rewards. When they gather, it is uplifting to see such positive successful young people, in a world where often there is so much going wrong.
They sound like capable System functionaries and members of the new priesthood.
So, asshat anon disparages hard working successful young people. What a fucking surprise. The envy and jealousy runs deep with this one. I suppose the only valuable are the non-achievers and poverty stricken. How quaint.
No envy or jealousy. I was an ‘overachiever’ when young and made my own decisions about that.
But you emphasised their professions, which pretty much fit a certain category and class to a tee.
SS, There will be people who are coddled (my late dad’s words) through it all. My sister has not had an easy life. One thing is for certain, though is that she has never had to pay for a roof to cover where she sleeps. When our mom dies, sis found a way to lead mom to sign over a 2k place to stay until she dies. Then, everyone, including her kids can have the remnants. I have started calling her the coddled one. She hates it. She is 53 years old.
Because so Many Americans are Moronic Douchebags I Stopped worrying about The Disunited States of UnAmerica a long time ago. I wouldn’t lift a finger to save these Useless Pieces of Shit. I now focus Only on things I can change. My priorities revolve around My Family, Friends, Neighbors, Co-workers, my City, County & State. As far as other States I only care if the conditions in those places affect a Family member or Friend or some Necessity I Need. I can’t save the World so I Never Worry about Major “Issues” in the World. Having said that I do keep up on what is going on so as Better to Prepare for the Shitstorm that is coming to All of Us. I am not opposed to helping a homeless person with food, clothes or money since that is a Direct Action I can take to help another Human Being in Need Today. I Pray Every Day to Jesus for those in my sphere & others around me for their Health & Sustenance, however when it becomes necessary to switch gears to a more Vigilant & Action oriented stance then I will Pray for my Family & Friends & the Strength of Will to do those things that will be Necessary to Survive regardless of what that means. Those who become Obstacles or Threats to Me or My Family & Friends will have to Move or Cease to Exist. I Never claimed to be a Christian just another Human Being. Cheers!
“I pray everyday to Jesus / I never claimed to be a Christian ” ?
My Grandma had a saying:
“Poor people make poor decisions and poor decisions make poor people”
Here is the HARD decision. WHO WILL FIRE THE FIRST SHOT to get it started? Me, you, then WHO?
Only a hard decision if YOU fire the first shot Dokie. And the next hardest decision will be for the Patriots to decide if they’re going to follow. That’s where you winnow the chaff from the seed.
It’s already been fired long ago.
Ashly Babbit is the most prominent one to die in their war.
All the ‘mostly peaceful’ riots.
I could go on but if you have to ask that question then it’s a waste of my time to answer in any great detail.
A ‘hard’ decision for one person is an easy one for another. It all comes down to personality type and the chief feature of the personality type. Some people are neat and well organised because that’s what reduces their anxiety. Some people naturally want to save because they are anxious for the future. Being neat and well organised can help you get ahead at school and get a job with higher pay. But just because these characteristics are rewarded by society doesn’t mean they are objectively better behaviours or morally superior.
A delinquent father who has children with a dozen women all of whose kids are supported by government handouts is objectively doing better than a ‘responsible’ father with 2 kids, a mortgage and a dead-end job.
The quote “Life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid” is from The Friends of Eddie Coyle…great movie! It’s spoken by the gun runner, Jackie Brown I think..
It’s not true though. “Smart” people are more prone to depression and anxiety. It may be harder to make money if you’re stupid but that doesn’t mean stupid people are less happy or fulfilled than smart people.
To quote the lyrics of an old James Taylor song: “…let it fall down, let it fall down, let it all fall down.” The trouble is, no one can say when it will turn turtle. And, when it does, how will the great unwashed react? Since most of the sheeple, normies, cucks and the shambling, texting, slack-jawed, mouth-breathing, vaping, brain-dead, Net Flix-watching zombies do not have a clue, they will obediently bow to ANY edict by the Leviathan which will keep them in their bread and circuses environment.
For those of you educated enough to see through the lies, Frank the Cripple and his Marxist minions took control in 1932 and right away, the MSM and Hollywood were crowing about: “Happy Days Are Here Again”, and the movie moguls were producing propaganda tripe such as THE GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933. No one paid much attention to gold confiscation and other draconian measures. The masses had no hope and FDR and his propaganda machine gave them hope and kept that crook in office for years. Do not think for ONE MINUTE that the cabal running Mordor-On-The Potomac have not, with diabolical cunning, gamed the impending Weimar festivities? FDR pulled us into WWII, and the Pedophile-In-Chief will pull us into a shooting war with the Chinamen, to keep his stolen office. Plan accordingly. Bleib ubrig.
Dweez,
just had another history lesson earlier today with some friends about how our Zionist bankers /US gov’t supported the overthrow of the Czar in 1917. Large amounts of US cash went to Russia with Lenin and the US Red Cross (early version of CIA advisors).
Americans don’t like to hear about our own Bolshevik roots over 100 yrs ago like the unions and the FedResAct of 1913.
The situation is so rigged now that it doesn’t matter whether you work hard or sit on your ass. If you are white the outcome is the same: Crushed. A college degree and a work ethic cannot save you from tyranny, DEI and economic corruption.
Boohoo. So sad for you.
Pussy.
Admin- these are the type articles that brought me to TBP originally. Thank you.
I have always admired your work ethic, ethics, integrity, dedication to family. I note above that your children have no pathway to home ownership. I am surprised by that. I hope that changes. My experience with my children is far different.
My kids are doing extremely well, have chosen good partners, own homes, are in very high paying or exceedingly high paying professions, and continue to progress rapidly. The reason for this is simply because the competition is so weak, for the most part, and hard working, well educated, well-reared individuals stand out like they are under the bright noonday sun while all around them are in darkness.
There have been massive mistakes, if you can call intentional bad decisions mistakes, by many in power. You are far more qualified to speak to that than I, and I hope you do more of it. That goes without saying. But let’s not forget the bad decision that have been made by the majority of the American people.
No one made them buy foreign made goods. No one made them buy cars on credit, first with three year loans, then four, then five, six, seven even eight years. No one made them go into debt for igizmos, big screen TVs, pay TV, worthless student loans from diploma mills. No one made parents start demanding their kids get participation trophy’s or medals for finishing last in the race. No one made parents give their pre-teens mobile phones, or made them allow their kids to play video games instead of read and study. No one made parents stop teaching their kids how to work and do manual labor. My eldest recently thanked me for teaching hard manual labour, and said it has made a tremendous difference in their lives, albeit it was hated at the time.
The fact is, yes, those in power have hit the country hard. But the majority of the populace was in collusion. Not by their voting patterns, which didn’t help all those years ago (but which most likely no longer matter), but with their actions – debt, sloth, lack of thrift, lack of meaningful education, reduced work ethic, lack of family values, etc.
The US is what, $200 trillion in total debt. That is like 10 years GDP. I have previously run the numbers. The US is/has been living around 40% above its means. That chicken must come home to roost. It simply must. The average American can expect a 40% fall in their standard of living. There simply is no choice. People cannot live beyond their means forever. That $200 trillion was wasted. If it had been invested in the future, rather than squandered as it was, things would be different. But it is now what it is.
I have said that the middle class lifestyle was a mirage, and it was. It was based on the US coming out of WW2 as the only intact nation, and it was funded by high paying manufacturing jobs held by people who were generally unskilled and poorly educated and talented. That was not going to last, and it didn’t. Those jobs were automated away. And so what are the “middle class” to do, with poor education, and low skills? Well, that would be service jobs. And services jobs don’t pay well or generate wealth. And those jobs are also easily automated, and they are also easily taken by lower paid, higher skilled types in India, China, etc.
It is what it is.
But here is the thing. I still believe that opportunity exists for young, hard-working, skilled young people. And I see it and hear it every day. Every single friend of my children are doing well. Every one. No exceptions. My kids chose their friends well, and we wouldn’t allow them to associate with dirtbag types, of course. Those kids are doctors, lawyers, managers, scientists, engineers, etc. All of them. And they are crushing it. They are killing the competition. Because there virtually is no competition.
In times of strife, and we are in it, great opportunity arises for the prepared. It is easy to despair at such times. But those people who are prepared, with good character, and an understanding of the historic fundamentals of family, education, thrift, hard work will generally do well.
I think your children and family will come out of this in great shape. Because when the rest of the world is sheep, and you have raised eagles, opportunities will come along.
My oldest is married and bought a home in Colorado right before mortgage rates soared. They both have good jobs and they don’t have kids, so they are doing well financially. The younger two aren’t married and with the average price of a home at $400k with over 6% mortgage rates, it isn’t feasible on one income. A good old housing market crash would make it feasible.
Faster, please,Admin!!!
Don’t count on a housing market collapse in average price areas. Cost to build is too high and will in my humble opinion generally prevent it from happening.
Housing crash won’t happen in isolation. And cost of goods and labor currently underpin house prices in areas outside the places with totally ridiculous house prices like San Fran, etc. Ie the cost to buy land and build is such that it underpins house prices overall. So I don’t expect to see house prices fall in areas where average is $400k. Add in inflation as a driver of house prices via materials, and I just don’t see it happening. In areas where land costs are enormous compared to build costs, yes it may well happen. But not in areas where the cost to build is a significant portion of a cost of a new home.
For a single person to buy a $400k home, they will need a deposit of $80k. So that leaves a mortgage of $320k. A repayment will be around $25k on that. So at a guess, allowing for interest deductions, taxes, other expenditures a single person needs an income somewhere around $80k a year to buy a $400k house. Or around the median household income. But it has to be earned by a single person. It isn’t easy. But it isn’t impossible either. It will take a number of years to save the deposit.
The key is don’t earn the median wage. Many people make a lot of money. Best to be in that group.
Looking at the distribution curves, you want to be in the top 25%. Below that, things are going to be hard. And given what Carlin said about imagining how stupid is the average person, then realize that half are even stupider than that, the real competition is significantly reduced. The reality is you only have to out compete a relatively small percentage of the population to make it into the top 25%, because over half will self-select out of the competition, and a lot of the rest will pursue Black and Women’s studies, etc. Hell, just look at all the people here saying it impossible. That just makes it all the easier for those that don’t buy into that. Just gotta get into that top 25%. .
And here is another little tidbit – those that are in the top 25% will have some really good years, statistically. They will for some portion of their working lives do much better than top 25%. That will help significantly grow their asset base.
A young neighbor of mine brought a house near me. Single could barely afford it. 3 bedroom house. He had three other guys move in. One of them lived in the finished basement.
He told me he never had to make a payment because his roommates covered it.
Got a girlfriend got married sold his house.
Ran into him a few years later. He said he would have been 10 Times wealthier if he had waited 10 years to get married and bought more houses
After reading the post and the comments, I am running a very hot bath and looking for that box of razor blades I bought. Nah, actually I am going to clean my guns. If you gonna die, take as many asshole with you as possible. Clean guns are less likly to jam.
Marcus Chapman,
LUBE…LUBE…LUBE…
(Old school LSA still works)
Dirty guns that you don’t have time to clean will fire with plenty of LUBE…LUBE…LUBE.
If most of us do what we have to do when we have to do it…they will be running a very hot bath and looking for that box of razor blades…not any of us.
But I get it…no matter what happens I intend to be expensive too.
Bad advice, you talk about lube too much. It’s like seasoning food, just the right amount is best.
Dude,
I’m talking during TSHTF combat…when you have no time to clean…running and gunning and rolling around in the mud and the blood…for hours on end…dry dirty guns jam…lubed dirty guns keep firing. A well known fact by those who have experienced it.
You always keep a simple cleaning kit and plenty of LUBE ON YOU…and a clean wipe down cloth ON YOU…of a dark color…never white.
You don’t know what you don’t know.
Great advice in context.
I will admit it is a lot tougher than even 15-20 years ago. But I see so many young people essentially doing nothing. It makes no sense to stumble through life or spending most or your twenties diddling around in school.
Learn and pick a career in your twenties, earn in your thirties, invest and save in your forties and fifties.
One of the guys I volunteer with was complaining that his grandson was working for Amazon and that they were not paying him enough. I told him that I ran into a lady who had retired from Detroit Edison she said they were hiring in many different classifications. She mentioned they were looking for apprentice linemen . The lady had worked in HR at DTE and said that so many applicants could not pass the background check or drug screening. She also mentioned that with OT apprentice linemen wore making six figures!
I mentioned this to my friend thinking that his grandson may be interested. He replied, ” You have to work and go to school ? , my grandson really does not want to work that hard”! I walked away shaking my head.
Get up, go to work everyday, hustle, make yourself valuable to your employer. Live within your means, save money, invest, prep, and you will be better off than most.
Hard people, Hard Principles, and Hard Assets – stack them broad and deep!
Great mini-bio with a sound point.
My kids alert, well mannered and working and it thoroughly pisses me off he hasn’t a chance of buying a home. At the very least!!!
I want Kennedy Jr in 2024 just to stir the pot for the mere sake of it.
Admin and others have come at this from their greatly appreciated revealing and unique personal angle…this is mine.
My parents, Father Navy WW2 Vet – coal miner/factory worker, Saint Mom always there never worked, lived the 50’s/60’s lower end blue collar American dream (under the mass Levittown builds).
They bought a small unfinished Cape Cod house in NJ in 1955 (I was 6) for $13,500 through the GI Bill and the hair of their chinny chin chins.
My Mom sold the house just before she went home after my Dad for $315,000 in 2011. It was finished by my Dad over many years, well kept, immaculate, bought by a 60 something Chinese couple (who didn’t speak a single word of English) who came to the closing with a suitcase of CASH.
Stunned silence on my Mom’s end in the room…but evidently it was becoming common from many Chinese in the area. Their youngest son who spoke perfect English, was a real estate agent, had handled the deal from the start…with local lawyers/agents on both sides who had gleaming eyes. I found out later the son had already bought the house across the street with cash. The house was bought at the asking price…zero counter…on the market for two days.
Cash was King…and Chinese cash was talking loud!
It was one of the events (I had almost nothing to do with the deal being six states away and a sister who was clueless (long story) handled it. That convinced me going rural and building a modest working farm was a good idea. I had long been ahead of the curve on the controlled demolition…this was close and personal on what was coming.
The other event was the Petulant One getting reelected. That told me it was time to ‘Go to the mattresses’…so to speak.
Been Prepping on our rural mattress ever since.
Back Flash:
I went to a Vocational Technical HS from 65 to 67 (blackboard jungle – the blacks called me ‘Chiclet’ cuz I be small, white, and tough to chew) with no desire or intent to go to college…just looking for a blue collar skilled advantage when I graduated.
I had a decent starting paycheck to mark time before my long announced 18 year old move. Having graduated in 1967 at 17 and landing a PRIME apprenticeship as a Union Pressman running a Multi 1250 (I had run one for most of my senior year common technology in 67) making $125.00 for a 40 hour week.
I was living the post H.S. American dream!
This was in Plainfield NJ – spent some time there…could have even crossed paths with Stucky…he is a couple three years younger, but we were two ships in the night.
I had a 1960 Chevy Impala with a back seat like a couch…a draft deferment…amazing $$$$ for that time and age…and some serious NIGHT MOVES going on.
Another Back Flash:
At 13 I watched the movie, staring Jack Webb, the DI. Then soon after I read a book about Chesty Puller one of the greatest fighting Marines ever…I was enthralled, hooked, and became was is know as a military romantic…also know as cannon fodder.
I had announced I was joing the Marines after H.S. and everyone knew I meant it…it was ok then…none of us ever heard of Vietnam then…but boyhood romances are hard to break up…my Father tried…but I wouldn’t listen.
But it took me many years after I became a wounded Marine to find out what the greatest fighting and THINKING MARINE…Smedley Butler knew…WAR IS A RACKET.
If you have not read WAR IS A RACKET…no matter your background…you are missing a massive piece in the historical puzzle explained in a booklet.
https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket
The last Back Flash:
I approached my Father to sign the paper so I could enlist at 17 in the Marines right after H.S. and he was adamant…If I would go into the Navy or Airforce he would sign…the Marines or Army he would not…then he went on and on and on about what ‘human cannon fodder’ is.
But I was 17…and wanted to get into the Arena…I wanted to test myself…I wanted to live my boyhood fantasies…it is an old story.
My Dad kept me away from it as long as he could…and then I enlisted to become cannon fodder…and found out the difference in-between Chesty Puller killing and Smedley Butler thinking…and got to experience both…eventually.
Now, I couldn’t tie either one of their bootlaces…but even when you survive being Cannon fodder…it is expensive…for the rest of your survival…in ways that turn the American Dream…into the American M.I.C. Nightmare.
Quentin Tarantino…Non-Linear Storytelling posting style…just saying…call it American neo-noir:
NAM DOGS.
No government, indeed, no polity has ever survived a credit-currency collapse in the recorded history of man. The results are uniformly disastrous for all, every time. So, why do the zio-weasels believe that they will be the first ?
I am now convinced that they have a death wish.
Dagobaz,
“I am now convinced that they have a death wish”.
‘Demonic wish’…same thing…but it is the second death to fear…the first death is dew on the grass.
The doomed little g gods real enemy are just dragging as many with them as possible…all these known and behind the scenes lost humans and their deceived dupes…no matter how angry at God, bribed, wealthy, seduced or powerful here are going to hell…and eternity is a long time.
It will be a harsh “Reality”.
you would know
Why ? Why would I know, particularly? Many things change in life. Once upon a time, I was quite different.
leopard, spots
You underestimate or I overestimate. Your crisis is not my crisis. Thesis, antithesis,
crisissynthesis.In America, we have buses and hellfire missiles
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C5%BEane_bus_bombing
This is the funny part, calling this a bombing. If the day comes that this happens in America, the only people that will be happy are all certifiable. The only Americans that know what this stuff looks like were eighter there or did it. Reality is beyond ugly. Always remember, these are the kind of mistakes that our military leads are ultimately responsible for. Sane people do not want this.
We are moving from:
hard decisions -> easy life; easy decisions -> hard life
to
hard decisions -> free-ish life; easy decisions -> slavery and death
“The people who did this to America and the American people have names and addresses. Many of the people they have screwed over are the ones with the 300 million guns they want to confiscate. At some point, those guns will need to be used. Then we’ll see whose life gets hard.”
Amen.
The battle to possible save the U.S., was lost(2016) when the 20 million vote count for Biden, was changed overnight to 81 million… The Lord _”Those who think their bunkers will save them, will feel the Tectonic Plates move and thereby end up sealed inside, that is, until the lava flows enter… deep- fried humans anyone? The smart money, was placed on one of the off-planet bases… the Moon or Mars and oh, yes, the moon Titan. “Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord Obadiah 1:4 KJV Matthew 24 :37-41 Everything from Noah’s day, would also be in play at the arrival(coming) of Jesus at 1 Thess 4:16-18. The “falling away” from 2 Thess.2:3, is ‘APOSTASIA’ which means ‘DEPARTURE’, as per the 1st seven English translations from Greek had ‘THE DEPARTURE’ not ‘falling away’…otherwise, the expositors would have inserted ‘PIPTO’ which is the Greek word ‘to fall’. One expositor from the KJV of 1611 decided to change ‘The Departure’ to ‘a falling away’. The definite article preceded ‘APOSTASIA, so we would know that it is speaking of a ‘definite event’, whereas, ‘a falling away’ is impossible to quantify…and yet, people refuse to do the research…. verses 1-8 obviously signify the ‘the 5 wise virgins(faithwise)are removed to heaven for ‘The Marriage Supper of The Lamb’, provided they have on their Is. 61:10 wedding garments…. otherwise, ‘left behind’ for Rev. 13:7. The R.S.V.P. was sent out written in blood. Our white robes signify readiness.
Proverbs 14:12 KJV — There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Every biological or ‘earthly’ end is death. What a meaningful prediction!
Thank you. I think that’s why most of us are here. No one we know personally understands this as well as Admin. I don’t suffer from anger or depression because I have an outlet before it gets to that point.
Every time there is a high profile shooting that’s all they talk about. Never the root problems, it’s the gun’s fault.
Bracken tweeted out your article. The reply under it is probably something that will spread to other states.
I tell people to learn a trade and then when they know enough to start their own business. I always hated sitting in school so college and debt while listening to dumbass liberal professors wasn’t for me. Being out of debt staying away from cities and growing your own food would be my recommendation now. There’s some serious shit on the horizon with life changing decisions to be made about whether to knuckle under to CBDCs and the coming authoritarian state. Most will join the collective.
I agree with but also don’t agree.
Being debt free is great but when starting out you have nothing to lose. Leverage is still a thing you know. You will have to be smart and work hard. This, especially if you need a base for starting your own business- usually while working out, too.
I’m always amazed that so many parents steer their kids into college for medical, engineering, law etc.. These are the exact technocratic jobs that are screwing us. Of course the money is good and of course they end up in corporate world. Duh.
Prices are horrible now but commiserate with the old days of minimum wage being 1.50-5.00/hour. I know personally. It still depends on where you live and what you want. For now anyway and that’s all anyone has.
Jim wants to eventually make an income off this blog. Is he following the business plans of the ones who make really good money blogging? If not, why not?
Also the paradigm of saving up a huge nest egg (in 401k etc) is dubious and only seemed to work for a few decades. It’s that old curse- safety and security.
I know 2 people whose kids recently graduated in ‘Environmental Engineering’ starting out at $80,000. Right.
You paid for your kids to ram climate change … but they’re doing great.
An incredibly smart young man I know started down that path. Learned enough to know it was all fake. Switched gears and is a doctor now. Have to hand it to him for being awake, as opposed to woke, and able to see through all the deception.
Yes medicine is an up and coming career trajectory isn’t it. However Medical engineer is the real future- no doctors needed.
REAL environmental engineering would detail things like recycling processes, revitalization / reforesting land practices, HAZMAT cleanup, waste water cleanup, etc. All of those are worthwhile / useful knowledge and skills, especially in terms of reclaiming contaminated land / water. I have no idea what your kids studied, but no intelligent engineer believes in climate change – you learn too much to be fooled by empty slogans and false dogma unsupported by mathematics and rigorous experimentation.
A real engineer can learn and PRACTICE knowledge that is inaccessible to those who quit early saying “math is hard” and “science is too tough”. When you can build your own distillation column and MAKE IT WORK, start with salt and finish up with sodium chemicals and chlorine gas, use fermentation and aptitude to make GOOD wine and beer then you have valuable skills that can keep you fed.
To finish, every chemical manufacturing facility I worked at over 25 years had at least one environmental engineer on staff. Some were quite good, a few were adequate and one was depressed because the owner (small chemical company) only cared about money and screw the environment. He eventually quit, the dissonance between what he knew was right and what he was called upon to do was too great. Management waited three months after he left to hire a new dupe, and shortly after that the company was bought by a conglomerate who spent the money to right the shop. I was relieved to learn that they quit discharging semi-treated waste into the river and started meeting emission targets for real.
Proving my point.
How can a 22 year old turn down $80000, most likely ever from now on. Even if she must get a kill shot. I’m sure it will lead to government or corporate bliss. She’ll just do as she’s told and hope for good bosses.
Just as I’ve never said most of the doctors and nurses were evil- they just do as the protocols say.
It would be silly for her to homestead her own stuff for instance. As her mom told me when I suggested she might want to use her education on their acreage.
People are so risk averse now. ‘Losing their job’ was the main reason so many took the kill shot (or tested, or masked). It’s a huge thing, of course, but not having any debt didn’t seem to even matter did it? It’s not a money thing.
We screwed ourselves. We allowed teachers to eliminate grades and accepted pass/fail, we failed to keep score in games so that everyone could get a participation trophy, we sacrificed so that our kids had the best of everything. And what do we have? Kids that lack mental toughness, failing to cope with hard work, unable t0 process the criteria of a decision (i.e. budgeting, personal work attributes for success, and accountability). America is in trouble and the remedy is to repeatedly fail to return the nation to common sense. The only other solution is to break America into separate countries populated with like minded thinkers.
On that note.
Hohmann: The Second American Civil War Is Starting
I only read the first part. Being the weirdo outsider, I thought other people would value competency like I did. You don’t have a great country without prizing competency. You knew to get certification. I did not. I did not have the social skills to get an engineer to sponsor me for an engineering license. I was too much of a misfit even for engineering. I never developed into an engineer, but I am acutely aware of the social engineering, which goes back to and even before 1986.
Our 30-yr-old is hard working and got 2 degrees so that they could eventually have more opportunities and a good salary in their profession. Their hard work has been recognized and rewarded with beginning promotions and pay increases at their company. They’ve recently been told that they will be promoted again soon with a nice pay increase. Their spouse works at a university and after five plus years being grossly underpaid, was given a 50 cent an hour raise. They want to move to a better paying job, but are scared to make the jump. If they would switch jobs, they would easily increase their salary by 2-3 times. They live very frugally and have saved up a good sized nest egg and contribute to 401k’s. But even with their combined increased salaries, it would still be a major stretch to get into a house. My husband and I worked our butts off, lived on tuna fish, beans, homemade soups, and casseroles for about five years just to save a little to put into a 401k and towards a down payment on a house. It was easier then, but now it’s almost impossible. I worry about our kids and how they will survive in the future. All we can do is hope that we taught them enough to power through truly hard times.
Too bad the people who did this to America are all Jews. Otherwise you might be able to respond. But alas, you might be called anti semetic. So go ahead and believe it’s the chi-coms or the deep state, and go back to sleep, back to church bowing to the god of Israel and the son of David, blessing those chosenites, sending them aid and ignoring it coming back though aipac who buys every last politician and every last mind.
Anna,
Pack a lunch…
Revelation 2:9 “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and [I know] the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but [are] the synagogue of Satan.”
Revelation 3:9 “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”
Dee…deep…deep Fake Loo rabbit hole/tunnel…pack a flashlight and .45…just saying…
Bloodlines matter…this backs up the first link from many different sources.
http://www.khazaria.com/khazar-history.html
Read this:
TRUMP’s KABBALAH Background
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More on Trump’s teacher:
https://my.kabbalah.com/images/placeholders/logos/kabbalah-logo-en.svg
Trump’s Teacher’s…Teacher…
https://www.kabbalah.com/en/people/rav-berg/
CHUTZPAH—Nerve, extreme arrogance, brazen presumption, confidence, as in “It took real chutzpah for them to pretend to be HEBREWS”.
(But…the Goys – even those grafted in-are not the brightest lights on the CHRIST-mas tree.
Get it Trump poured over the ZOHAR.
But St. Paul we trust implicitly. He is our singular Apostle. It’s not like Apollos was trying to dupe anyone before he was ‘corrected’.
dougie…You said…”He is our singular Apostle”.
You have a mouse in your pocket?
Dude…stay on point…not talking about Ephesus or Corinth…just ‘REAL’ MODERN DAY ‘Fake Jews’…one of who seems to be playing the double agent ROLE of his life.
TRUMP MEETS WITH CHABAD RABBIS IN OVAL OFFICE
President issues proclamation in honor of Education and Sharing Day, marking anniversary of the birth of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-meets-with-chabad-rabbis-in-oval-office/
WHAT IS CHABAD?
This once small Hasidic group has grown to unparalleled GLOBAL INFLUENCE!.
History and Philosophy
Chabad was established in 1775 in what is now Belarus by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (also known as the Alter Rebbe), who also authored the Tanya, the principal work of Chabad philosophy, first published in 1796. Shneur Zalman was a disciple of Dov Ber of Mezeritch (also known as the Maggid of Mezeritch), who was in turn the chief disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Hasidic movement.
KABBALAH is CHABAD and CHABAD is KABBALAH and TRUMP is a KABBALIST.
KABBALAH: A BRIEF DEFINITION
Kabbala is an ancient Jewish tradition integral to the Torah
By Baruch Emanuel Erdstein
Often referred to as the “soul” of the Torah, the Kabbalah is an ancient Jewish tradition which teaches the deepest insights into the essence of G d, His interaction with the world, and the purpose of Creation. Kabbalah teaches the essential Jewish cosmology, integral to all other Torah disciplines. Sometimes called “the Inner Torah” or the “Wisdom of Truth”, it offers a comprehensive overall structure and plan for the universe, as well as a detailed understanding of the particulars of our lives. The student of Kabbalah is made aware of the personal as well as the collective rectification process and is encouraged to play an active part in it.
https://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380617/jewish/Kabbalah-A-Brief-Definition.htm
dougie KNOW YOUR REAL ENEMY…understand the difference from the Hebrews of the Bible and the Kabbalist Fake Jews currently running the world under the little g gods.
Here is what Jesus (your creator) thinks about the Fake Jew pretenders…and I’m saying it looks to me like Trump is one of them…and he gets a free pass on it???
The only person I know of who needs a COME TO JESUS MEETING mour then you is him!
At least you seem over your SHAME ‘cucked’ routine recently…I appreciate that.
lil’l markie, stop projecting your mental neediness like you own everyone. There is a mouse in your ‘pocket’, but never in mine. I know you can’t understand your mental betters, living like you do in the hubris of your subhuman mind.
And the Jews have always been the Jews. They tried to conquer the Roman Empire, and sorta did with your foolish religion. The Khazarian hypothesis is Christian hopium. Blank your fictitious savior, erudite fool. You been conned and like it. I will continue to point out the contradictions of your subhuman convictions.
You can ignore God, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring God.
The consequences of my unbelief are very good. My soul can breathe. You would die if you were so intellectually naked, but that’s how subs are.
Bob Marley loves you and will torture you forever if you don’t reciprocate.
How can they be fake jews when all jews are like this?
All Jews are not Kabbalists…I suspect it is just a small number, and you don’t have to be a Jew to be a Kabbalist…you just have to be ‘LOST’.
TLPTB (L=Luciferian – there is not a J there for a reason) structure is represented by multiple pyramids, and there are plenty of non-Jews in it…and even more Dupes then Jews!
Read John Coleman’s book The Committee of 300 (first edition came out in 93) or at least watch his vid, still on You Tube hidden in plain sight.
This is a condensed version:
https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/4A/4A92FD2FB4DAE3F773DB0B7742CF0F65_Coleman.-.CONSPIRATORS.HIERARCHY.-.THE.STORY.OF.THE.COMMITTEE.OF.300.R.pdf
Plenty of names…named.
small number of kabbalists, or small number of jews who aren’t?
Have no idea No Name…I can’t get them to take a poll or a census.
But I believe its a small number of Kabbalists…with a massive payroll!
So you think most jews are ok or are you just talking out of your ass.
Go away simplistic bumper sticker butt hurt…read for comprehension.
You’re the one who said you have no idea.
why would you link to the cianiggers?
You keep this up Shame and you are going to hurt my feelings…just saying…
BIG PICTURE trip through history…interesting story:
About 1,200 AD, the Russians led a group of nations surrounding Khazaria and invaded it, in order to stop the Khazarian crimes against their people.
The Khazarian leaders had a well-developed spy network through which they obtained prior warning and escaped from Khazaria to European nations to the west, taking their vast fortune with them in gold and silver.
The Khazarian king and his court Mafia plotted eternal revenge against the Russians and the surrounding nations that invaded Khazaria and drove them from power.
The Khazarian Mafia invades England.
This is how the City of London was set up as the banking capital of Europe and launched the beginning of the British Empire.
How did England deal with a corrupt puritan government/parliament?
When King Charles I was executed by Oliver Cromwell his son King Charles II made it his mission to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years.
Men who had once been among the most powerful figures in England ended up on the scaffold, on the run, or in fear of the assassin’s bullet.
After Cromwell Beheaded King Charles I, he became the ‘dictator’ of England. This Puritan Parliament also murdered Guy Fawkes in 1606 [Father Of Anonymous], the Puritans were ultimately executed by the returning King Charles II in 1660, for regicide (the killing of a King) & usurping the laws of England ~ The Magna Carta which is similar to our U.S. Constitution.
Cromwell’s severed head was displayed on a pole outside Westminster Hall From 1661 until 1685.
The English Puritans under Cromwell engaged in pure and simple genocide Of Roman Catholics in Ireland – 40,000 victims killed or sold as slaves in 1649 in the Oradours of Drogheda and Wexford alone.
The KM used their vast fortune to enter into a new system of banking, based on secret Babylonian black-magic money-magic that they claimed to have learned from the evil spirits of Baal, in return for their many child sacrifices to him.
This Babylonian money-magick involved the substitution of paper credit certificates for gold and silver deposits, which allowed travelers to travel with their money in a form that offered easy replacement should they lose the certificates or have them stolen.
Interesting how the very problem that was started by the Khazarians also had a solution provided by them. Eventually the Khazarian king and his small surrounding court infiltrated Germany with a group that chose the name “the Bauers” of Germany to represent them and carry on their Baal-powered system of evil. The Bauers of the Red Shield, changed their name to Rothschild (aka “child of the rock, Satan”).
1743: Mayer Amschel Bauer, an Ashkenazi Jew, is born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of Moses Amschel Bauer, a money lender and the proprietor of a counting house.
Moses Amschel Bauer places a red sign above the entrance door to his counting house. This sign is a red hexagram (which geometrically and numerically translates into the number 666) which under Rothschild instruction will end up on the Israeli flag some two centuries later.
1753: Gutle Schnaper, an Ashkenazi Jew (future wife of Mayer Amschel Bauer), born to respected merchant, Wolf Salomon Schnaper.
1760: During this decade Mayer Amschel Bauer works for a bank owned by the Oppenheimers’ in Hanover, Germany. He is highly successful and becomes a junior partner. Whilst working at the bank he becomes acquainted with General von Estorff.
Following his father’s death, Bauer returns to Frankfurt to take over his father’s business. Bauer recognizes the significance of the red hexagram and changes his name from Bauer to Rothschild, after the red hexagram or sign signifying 666 hanging over the entrance door (“Rot,” is German for, “Red,” “Schild,” is German for, “Sign”).
The Rothschilds as the front Men for the Khazarian Mafia (KM) infiltrate and Hijack British Banking and then hijack the whole nation of England:
Bauer/Rothschild had five sons who infiltrated and took over European banking and the City of London Central Banking System through various crafty covert operations, including a false report of Napoleon winning against the British, when actually he lost. This allowed the Rothschilds to use fraud and deception to steal the wealth of the English nobility and the landed gentry, who had made business investments with the City of London Banking institutions.
The Rothschilds set up a private Fiat banking system that specialized in making counterfeit money from nothing — charging pernicious usury for the British people, using what should have been their own money.
Once they had infiltrated and hijacked the British banking system, they interbred with the British Royals and infiltrated and completely hijacked all of England and all its major institutions.
The Rothschilds create international narcotics trafficking on behalf of the KM:
The Rothschilds then covertly ran the British Empire and crafted an evil plan to recover the vast amounts of gold and silver the British had been paying to China for its high-quality silk and spices that were unavailable anywhere else.
The Rothschilds, through their international spy network, had heard of Turkish opium and its habit-forming characteristics. They deployed a covert operation to buy Turkish opium and sell it in China, infecting millions with a bad opium habit that brought back gold and silver into the Rothschild coffers, but not to the British People.
The opium addictions created by Rothschild opium sales to China harmed China so much that China went to war on two occasions to stop it. These wars were known as the Boxer Rebellions or the Opium Wars.
The money the Rothschilds gained from the sale of opium was so vast that they became even more addicted to the easy money than the opiate addicts were to the opium.
The Rothschilds were the funding source behind the establishment of the American Colonies, by incorporating the Hudson Bay Company and other trading companies to exploit the New World of the Americas.
The Rothschild’s also followed the same business template in the Caribbean and in the Asian sub-continent of India, resulting in the murder of millions of innocent people.
The Rothschilds start the international slave trade, an enterprise that viewed these kidnapped humans as mere animals — a view that the Khazarians would impose on all the people of the world who were not part of their evil circle, which some called the “Old Black Nobility”:
• Most Slaves In America Were White
The Rothschild’s next big project was to start the worldwide slave trade, buying slaves from crooked tribal chiefs in Africa who worked with them to kidnap members of competing tribes for sale as slaves.
The Rothschild slave traders then took these kidnapped slaves on their ships in cramped cells to America and the Caribbean where they were sold. Many died at sea due to bad conditions.
The Rothschild bankers learned early on that war was a great way to double their money in a short time by lending money to both warring sides. But in order to be guaranteed collections, they had to get taxation laws passed, which could be used to force payment.
The KM Rothschild private Fiat Counterfeit Banksters plot eternal revenge against the American Colonists and Russia who assisted them for losing the Revolutionary War:
When the Rothschilds lost the American Revolution, they blamed the Russian czar and the Russians for assisting the colonists by blockading British Ships.
They swore eternal revenge on the American colonists, just as they had when the Russians and their allies crushed Khazaria in 1,000 AD.
The Rothschilds and their English oligarchy that surrounded them plotted ways to retake America, and this became their main obsession.
Their favored plan is to set up an American central bank, featuring Babylonian money magic and secret counterfeiting.
The Rothschild KM attempts to retake America in 1812 on behalf of the Khazarian Mafia but fails, once again because of Russian interference:
This failure enraged the Rothschild KM, and they once again plot eternal revenge against both the Russians and the American colonists and plan to infiltrate and hijack both nations and asset strip, tyrannize and then mass-murder both nations and their populace.
The KM’s attempts to set up a private American central bank are blocked by President Andrew Jackson, who called them Satanic and vowed to route them out by the grace and power of Almighty God.
The Rothschild banksters regroup and continue their covert attempts to install their own Babylonian money-magick bank inside America.
In 1913, the Rothschild KM was able to establish a beachhead by bribing crooked, treasonous members of Congress to pass the illegal, Unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act on Christmas Eve without a required quorum. The Act was then signed by a crooked, bought off President, who was a traitor to America, like the members of Congress who voted for it.
The Rothschild KM then create an illegal taxation System in America:
The KM put an illegal, Unconstitutional tax system in place, in order to make sure that Americans would have to pay for high-level USG spending, approved by a bought-off, crooked Congress and Presidential puppets, put in place by corrupt KM campaign finance.
It is easy for the KM to garner enough money to elect anyone they want, because when you control a bank that is a secret major counterfeiter, you have all the money made for you that you desire. At about the same time that they created their illegal tax system in America, they also bribed members of Congress to approve the Internal Revenue Service, which is their private collection agency incorporated in Puerto Rico.
The Rothschild KM deployed the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia to extract incredibly savage, bloody revenge on innocent Russians, which they had plotted for many years, ever since Khazaria was destroyed:
The Rothschild KM pre-staged and engineered the Russian Revolution by using its central banks to pay for the Bolshevik infiltration of Russia and their Revolution on behalf of the Khazarian Mafia (KM).
The Bolsheviks were actually created and deployed by the Khazarian Mafia (KM) as the essential part of their long planned revenge on the Russian Czar and the innocent Russian people for breaking up Khazaria in about 1,000 AD for its repeated robbery, murder and identity theft of travelers from countries surrounding Khazaria. This little known fact explains the extreme violence taken out on Russia as long standing revenge by the Rothschild controlled Khazarian Mafia (KM).
I did not read your fantastic blather, mark. Why don’t you ask admin if he would make a post of it, then peeps might respond to your nonsense. Many here would approve no doubt. Your literally rendered query strings are annoying, but at least you can add pictures at all.
Phhhhttttt…We’re done…ignore me I’ll ignore you…I don’t have time for foot notes or you.
I will continue to highlight all of your pet logical fallacies, but geez, if you are spreading gospel, that is, why would you not do it right with a polished piece, heh. Maybe you think repetition makes your false arguments true? If you really have a great message, express it well and have admin put it front and center. You won’t convert me, but maybe you could do your record best. I understand this is a blog not a chat room. I would even support your piece being ‘featured’ here, for whatever it’s worth.
I, the Reality messenger, hereby support having several featured posts, without too much temporal cramming, by my crazy buddy mark.
Dougie…you you said you wouldn’t even read my “subhuman” posts…WTF dude???
Half the time all you do is insult…
So you an’t gonna read my “subhuman” well researched historical fact based debate points with zero come back…why would you expect more than a Phhhhttttt???
I submit threads all the time…never seen one from you?
Matter of fact I submitted a thread on the very subject (that you wouldn’t read) that backs up my point on the Fake Khazarian Jews, Loos, Boos and who they are today earlier today.
If Admin puts it up, it will be probably out tomorrow.
As far as converting…I once knew a hopeless, miserable, filthy, living in the gutter, in and out of jail, grim, lost, heading for D.O.D. OD land heroin addict named Louie…he would wander into a pool hall I use to play 9 ball in for paychecks back in the day, panhandling and begging cigarettes.
Somehow he found Jesus…and opened the door.
Then he would come in the pool hall all cleaned up, dressed up, working steady, happy-laughing all the time, handing out Christian tracts, and telling everyone how Christ took his addiction away in an instant once he cried out! Last I heard he opened his own successful business, got married, had three kids and was living large and praising God…
Do what you will with your free will…the heart door is always locked on the inside…mine was.
Alright buddy…I’m hitting the hay zzzzzz.
mark, you don’t have time for footnotes. If you did, maybe you would drop some of your nonsense. Putting you ideas to a better challenge than mere repetitive assertion would force you to have better ideas. Teaching is a learning experience. You just want to be right and a beacon of humanity. I want the truth. I don’t think you can handle the truth. Truth does not mind scrutiny. The Bible is errant, etc. Christianity of your persuasion works for you because of what you are mentally, your brain design. It does not work for me.
Just because there were Khazars and Rothschilds does not mean your version of Christianity is correct. Jews were trying to conquer from within since the Babylonian Captivity if not before. Deuteronomy looks like an attempt to conquer the kingdom of Judah from within to me. Even St. Paul was conquering from within, in a very circumspect way because seizing government power in Rome was not working. That is history.
You presume historical implications left and right. Most of all you presume supernatural agency that you somehow know like the back of your hand. If supernatural truth comes from a person’s heart, that’s all the proof you need. You got feelzzz. So do women about hypergamy.
Every fucking religion is like that. ARILT. I don’t care if dumbasses find Jesus and turn their lives around. Did anyone ever quit Christianity entirely and turn his life around? I’m confident it has happened.
Idiots need fixed guard rails and training wheels forever. That’s why you are no good to me in a fox hole. I am not a narrative-minded person like almost everyone is. Please try to understand that! I do NOT ‘think’ in narratives! By attacking my sanity you are working for the Jews. You are certainly working against me, but now that I am hardened by life and assured by personal study, I can make sport with you and of you.
As a child I accepted your delusions in various approximate forms because all the adults were doing it, but I am a seasoned adult now. Why you gotta convert the whole world? It’s really asinine. It flys in the face of ecological selection and the history of humans since forever. You are a political agent, nothing more when you work tangentially for the Jews. Global politics is the future, but universal harmony is totally unnatural and ridiculous. You sorta crazy, and this world is so fucked up you function better than me.
I try to get things done in meatspace. I am here as little as I can manage. There is really nothing most of you can teach me. You so far off the deep end with herd integrity n sheet. I’ve looked into the Khazar history. The picture is hazy to history. The leaders converted to Judaism. So what? Did they kill all the other Jews in the world to replace them? I think the synagogue of Satan was supposed in the writing of Revelation not later than the 3rd century AD/CE. Are those Jews still around? Are Jews like Apollos and St. Paul still around? And what was St. Paul like, telling people what to believe? To forsake this world. Fucking capitulation pure and simple. You just gloss over what you don’t like. Your assertions about the slave trade are so tidy and simplistic and absurd. Yes, Jews were in the slave trade, and they castrated black Africans for the Muslims to buy, but that’s not close to what you said. You just spin whatever without whatever else you don’t like. You don’t scrutinize your understanding and try to disprove it before someone else does because your feelz and narrative are superfuckingnaturalalphansheet.
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All those alphabet agencies that have no business using guns and ammunition for enforcement reportedly purchased vast stockpiles of weapons and ammo. What’s that all about? Doubtful some accountant from the IRS is going to show up with a SWAT team of bean counters turned soldiers, to collect from someone who didn’t file their return for the last 3 years, and gun them down if they don’t cough up a sizable check on the spot.
The Bureau of Land Management? The FDA? What’s the idea?
One possibility.
If / when martial law becomes necessary, + confiscation is attempted, and the resistance rises up, maybe the jackboots will distribute weapons and ammo to all of the fighting age migrant hordes that have stormed across the border the last 3 years. The illegals. The drug cartel & gang members. With incentives of some kind, and deputy status to those who enlist in the mayhem and neutralization against those 300 million guns in the hands of private citizens.
Lots of people are going to go to their graves needlessly, if that’s the plan.
Open to alternate possible explanations, but the legal gun owners of the U.S. are the last great obstacle, before the UN, NWO, WEF, CDC, WHO & others can ramp up their plans to take control & set things up advantageously for them.
As directed by a select few.
The mega wealth orchestrators have been mentioned before.