tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post7849002140158077102..comments2009-07-10T15:53:09.952-04:00CaptiousNuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14440029537418230507CaptiousNut@gmail.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-64036747044589100982009-07-10T15:53:09.952-04:002009-07-10T15:53:09.952-04:00C,<br /><br />Did you compost?<br /><br />I&#39;m not an expert farmer but my guess is &quot;you&#39;re doing it wrong.&quot;<br /><br />Agree with anon and considering doing the same myself, at least as a side-project in learning how to be a rugged individualist in my spare time.<br /><br />Ayn Rand predicted all of this, and the solution...TAYLORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18270678440957992085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-1526107081518006512009-07-10T14:24:02.391-04:002009-07-10T14:24:02.391-04:00I tried a tomato garden last year.<br /><br />Spend $60, plenty of energy, and yet only havested 2 tomatoes.<br /><br />Going to stick with *outsourcing* my grub.CaptiousNuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14440029537418230507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-81445995090614315672009-07-10T14:08:52.152-04:002009-07-10T14:08:52.152-04:00Maybe its time to go completely underground and get yourself some cows, pigs, and chickens. Plant yourself a garden. Start a completely cash business. Like recycling Busch cans or selling manure. Get some calluses on those milky soft white hands C-Nut and report nothing to the feds...eventually the system will buckle from its own weight and you and your family will be one step ahead of everyone else...<br /><br />In case your site is monitored, I will leave it to your imagination who wrote this post...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-25538399816721973332009-07-10T13:25:47.797-04:002009-07-10T13:25:47.797-04:00I will be most pleased to be dead wrong on the math!<br /><br />I seriously got depressed thinking about how much that would cost me yesterday.<br /><br />Once it&#39;s started, though, you can bank on the percentage forever increasing, right?CaptiousNuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14440029537418230507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-63880045487822065942009-07-10T13:03:50.562-04:002009-07-10T13:03:50.562-04:00A small comment on your math... while I&#39;m not a big fan about what they are thinking of doing (I would start much higher maybe 250k individuals and 350-400k couples) they are talking about income only above that level like the graduated income tax rates<br />ie for a couple earning 300 k, they would be hit by 3.5% of the 50k above 250k or $1750 (not $10,000)Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11361532786079278759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-48256740193010863772009-07-10T09:46:43.730-04:002009-07-10T09:46:43.730-04:00China also won the first bid to drill for oil in Iraq. Funny. We fight a war to get it and China gets the oil. I mean the least we could have gotten from that debacle was the oil, right?<br /><br />As you know, 250K per year in many areas of the country is not &quot;rich&quot;. It is not poor, by any means, but it is not rich. Sure, it is rich if you live in Nebraska or Alabama, but in the northeast corridor or California, it is far from &quot;rich&quot;. <br /><br />-OrionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-20358845712817485042009-07-10T09:18:29.861-04:002009-07-10T09:18:29.861-04:00Copper, however, is easily recyclable - and in many apps, replaceable by synthetics.<br /><br />China&#39;s geniuses also loaded up on US Treasuries....how&#39;s that going to turn out?<br /><br />I agree though. If I were them today I&#39;d be stockpiling commodities hand over fist.CaptiousNuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14440029537418230507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-71728354602728657202009-07-10T09:10:39.036-04:002009-07-10T09:10:39.036-04:00Very interesting post today. Hmm, maybe I can make brass currency and distribute it. I have the metal. I have presses. It is not illegal. Orion&#39;s brass bank. Then when I get real big I can start using brass plated steel and sell it for the same. Thereby removing myself from restrictions of my own brass standard. I could be my own reserve bank. <br /><br />Brass and copper might be a better metal play. China just bought a huge amount of copper-enough to move the market significantly upward when it was announced (You can Google it to find what they did if you want). They are hoarding. Copper usage is a good gauge of industrial activity and is a needed metal with a finite though large supply. It is widely needed for construction, electronics, autos, etc. <br /><br />Anyway.<br /><br />-OrionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-20790122815327295612009-07-09T18:39:21.331-04:002009-07-09T18:39:21.331-04:00OSR,<br /><br />Lead, huh?<br /><br />Not so easy to hoard.<br /><br />Jim Rogers has liked lead for a while now.<br /><br />Or do you mean lead as in *bullets*?<br /><br />I agree 100% about the 401k.CaptiousNuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14440029537418230507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-34632094563488217512009-07-09T18:25:15.517-04:002009-07-09T18:25:15.517-04:00Unfortunately, I believe that the metal that may prove most valuable will be lead. Healthcare reform is just a blatant subsidy for the insurance industry, much like the 401(k) is for Wall Street.OSRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454944574511999653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-70686576638744242652009-07-09T18:11:02.921-04:002009-07-09T18:11:02.921-04:00It reverse split?<br /><br />Shoot I thought it skyrocketed. Treated myself to a fancy lunch on that mis-diagnosis!<br /><br />I think nothing of it. It&#39;s purely a mathematical event.<br /><br />One has to PRODUCE something of real economic VALUE. This way, no matter how a currency resets, the product will retain its usefulness. It is a currency in and of itself.<br /><br />Otherwise, hoard metals, swap paper for art and collectibles, and figure out a cash business that&#39;ll allow for some mattress stuffing.CaptiousNuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14440029537418230507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-61036737786298890042009-07-09T18:00:01.027-04:002009-07-09T18:00:01.027-04:00C,<br /><br />&#39;Ey, Ton-ay!<br /><br />Umm, sorry.<br /><br />Okay, so did you see FAZ got reverse-splitted 1:10? What do you think about THAT?<br /><br />And if earning fiat currency isn&#39;t enough... what is? What are our other options? You got a get-rich-quick scheme you&#39;ve been holding out on us?TAYLORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18270678440957992085noreply@blogger.com