More and more people are relying on the gov for handouts unemployment/welfare/food stamps) and eventually these will be cut
or stop all together. What do you think will happen then?? We are stocking up on food storage to prepare for what is surely to come. Check out ShelfRelianceSanAntonio.com The food is fantastic and the prices low (… for now). I’ve got car insurance, and home insurance…. food insurance is the logical next step. Even if things are getting better, which I doubt, we can always eat the food!

More and more people are relying on the gov for handouts unemployment/welfare/food stamps) and eventually these will be cut
or stop all together. What do you think will happen then?? We are stocking up on food storage to prepare for what is surely to come. Check out ShelfRelianceSanAntonio.com The food is fantastic and the prices low (… for now). I’ve got car insurance, and home insurance…. food insurance is the logical next step. Even if things are getting better, which I doubt, we can always eat the food!

If I stop to think about this, it does make sense. The U.S. government has the FBI off taking video of peace groups while BP, supposedly on probation for criminal negligence, is being neglected by what should be its parole officers.

Given that pipes blow up all the time, going reported only in the local press where the blows happen, how could it be expected that the U.S. government would be tracking or care about energy use?

I’m not trying to be impertinent here, I am truly curious about where substantive issues would actually be reported and talked about.

Precisely.

Read his article in FULL. The money you in gold will not return or grow. It will only own that particular amount of gold. Never more, never less. It’s cost of acquiring will go up and down but you will only own exactly what you buy.

But years before that, I beat the credit card companies at their own game. Here’s how.

Remember all those 0% balance transfer deals years ago? Of course they wanted you to load up the cards with existing debt to the max with the 0% deal, but over the course of several months, I systematically transferred the debt from each card to others, leaving the balance at 0. Then I transferred money from the other cards back to that card at 0%, filled to the brim.

After several months, about 80% of our $50K in CC debt was at 0%, so of the ~$1,200 – $1,300 per month in CC payments, only about $100 was interest and the rest was principal reduction! And all the other cards had interest rates between 3% – 12%. This went on for a couple of years. I could feel them squirming! I also routinely called them to push them to reduce the existing rates, which worked quite a few times.

Then, as we all know, they started raising the rates to 30% without any recourse, so I opted out and closed the cards and kept paying for a while since my existing rates were so low. But again, loss of work forced us into bankruptcy. Luckily, we had previously refinanced our home a few times to pull out the equity and even had a $200K HELOC, so although our home was underwater at the time of BK, we had taken our equity before.

We considered our bankruptcy and foreclosure to be a ‘strategic default’ and we ended up f’ing the banks for around $900K, plus around $80K in CC debt. F*ck the banksters! We have zero remorse for doing this. To the contrary, we laughed our asses off repeatedly and lived mortgage free for almost 2 years!

It’s war against the banksters and that was the only way we could stick it to them. I encourage others to do the same. Moral obligations/considerations are off the table under the current circumstances. There is no bad karma for screwing cheaters who cheated you.