Msg. 29079 of 47202 (This msg. is a reply to
29020 by
Decomposed)
Jump:
Decomposed,
You are obviously retiring very early - and my
congratulations to you sir.
It is also obvious that you have made a lot of money
and, again, I would say more power to you.
But I am pretty sure I have not made nearly as much
money as you have. I feel I am modestly successful
with my investing - but not extravagantly so.
Which leaves me with a choice. Do I expend my standard
of living and resources to buy and build a 'homestead'
guaranteeing that eventually I will be old and living
a homesteader standard of living . . .
Or do I continue the path I am on and hope that things
do not fall apart too badly while I live an enjoyable
long life.
And then there are the possibilities of con men 'selling' me
the same homestead land they've already sold to six other people. Or
lying thieving politicians stealing my property through taxes
or regulations . . .
I dunno.
Maybe the TEOTWAWKI will be as bad as you think and
I'll regret it . . . or maybe it won't. Or maybe
Trump will turn things around and it won't come till
after I've passed. Or maybe it'll come next week.
I'm thinking that when jimmy carter was bequeathing
U.S. with stagflation there were probably people who
thought TEOTWAWKI was upon U.S. . . . and it didn't happen.
I used to have an Uncle in El Paso who was certain the
Mexicans were going to invade . . . didn't happen
either.
In the meantime, how many more years is it going to
take for Venezuala to finish its financial collapse?
Post WWI Germany suffered a total financial collapse . . .
They survived it.
Not saying it won't be ugly or painful . . .
A goodly supply of guns and ammunition and a willingness
to go cannibal would definitely improve ones odds.
Did I fail to mention that I'm RETIRING? If that's not enough of a hint then the fact that I'm sending my son off to college in a few weeks and the various aches and pains I keep griping about ought to be clue enough that I'm no spring chicken either. Not that I'm over SIXTY (wow, that really does sound old!) but I'm gettin' there. I'm definitely over 35. Yup, yup, yup.... shoulda had my son at an earlier age. Then I'd be younger now.
Re: ”Do I really want a 'second career' that has me working from sunup till sundown just to have food on the table?“
Who does? But it beats going hungry.
re: "Ground zero for any nuclear armed adversary which will NOT want to have those carriers running around loose."
Do you remember the map I posted a while back showing the comparative survivability of the various states in the aftermath of a nuclear war? New Hampshire was red from end to end. All-out nuclear war is one of the TEOTWAWKI scenarios that I'm not spending any time on. It's probably not survivable by most people regardless of their preparations, and those that do would probably live through it mostly out of luck.
In fact, the only situation I'm focusing on is monetary collapse - both because it IS survivable and because it is certain to occur. If our doom instead comes from plague, supervolcano, sudden ice age, limited military engagement (say, a North Korean e.m.p. over Nebraska), or any of a hundred other not-totally-impossible disasters, they might be survivable too, but I'm not going to waste my time worrying about the once-every-sixty-million-years things. I just want to live through what's going to happen when Americans suddenly realize that the country is dead broke and nobody is going to be feeding the masses for free.
I've been in Norfolk and Virginia Beach. There are a lot of masses there. If what I've described happens in your lifetime, you're going to be hurting bad. That doesn't matter to you?
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