survival hermitage 14

SURVIVAL HERMITAGE 14

Shelter

Most of this book has been about the philosophy of Survival Hermitage.  The reason the majority was dedicated to that was because I’ve covered most of this practical instruction ground before, in my other books and blog articles.  RV living, practical alternate shelters ( and yes, certain unnamed loyal minions, you are indeed correct.  Alternate shelters have none of the advantages of sturdy long lasting conventional structures.  So, this article is dedicated to you ).  Frugal off grid living.  Apologies to long time readers if this last section of the book become repetitious.  New readers, permission given to glory in my greatness.

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Okay, let me get this out of the way.  Most of you if not poor have very little disposable income.  If you are normal and want the basics, you are punished.  Want access to what is now laughingly referred to as The Best Medical Care Capitalism Can Provide?  Your medical insurance is now more than a mortgage was a mere decade ago.  Want even the most modest automobile?  They cost more than a mortgage did just thirty years ago.  None of which would be too bad, except wages haven’t increased for FIFTY years.

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That right there is why frugal survivalism should be the only type of prepping.  Only the 9% overseer, straw boss types have seen any wage growth in real terms.  The 1% are now the equivalent of hacienda owners in Central America, untouchables leering and crapping on the Deplorable 90%.  For all my readers, and 90% of all preppers, high dollar preps are if not impossible, rather unrealistic.  And this isn’t something that can be cured by voting, because the 1% pick who we can vote for ( that is, assuming the votes even count ).  This is New Normal.

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To survive in this brave new world, we must do certain things differently.  Nothing terribly foreign, we just need to forget the last 90 years and get our minds right that we are back in the Robber Baron era of no rights and starvation wages.  The sad thing is, THAT was an improvement for all those old timey immigrants! J You have to accept that what were once requirements ( in our lifetime ) are swiftly becoming luxuries.  And one of those luxuries were conventionally built sturdy and safe houses designed to be gifted down to our descendants. 

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The new reality is cheaper and more temporary ( and in cases of natural disaster, probably less safe to a certain degree ).  I’m not claiming that this kind of shelter is better.  It is just more in your price range.  The serfs are being gang banged in the cities, the only places there are jobs, and lucky to have anything left over to save to escape from the cities.  If you set your sights too high, such as Yuppie Scum Survivalists do, you’ll never escape.  That is why someone from, say, Idaho, gets to be a Survivalist Guru with conventional media supporting them. 

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Their message poses no threat at all because the readers will stay trapped in the debt based Ponzi scheme.  It is a testament to how effective the propaganda has been that I’m actually paid by readers to say, in effect, escape is easy if you only change your expectations.  Now I feel like that blaspheming bald bastard selling the hideously overpriced program that is just “spend less than you make”.  Talking to you, Dave, you twat.  I don’t blame your gullible readers, who are blinded by desperation.  It is all on you, buddy.

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Just another huckster profiting off the collapse.  Anyway, I’m here to tell you to downgrade what you think of as the American Dream.  Debt does not make for nice dreams but rather nightmares.  And since nobody can time the collapse, you need to be ready sooner rather than later.  Which means you don’t have the time to save up for a conventional shelter.  Which means you accept alternate shelters with all their drawbacks.  It is what you can afford.  Now, let us discuss False Economics.  Buying twenty pairs of $10 shoes instead of one pair of $50 shoes.

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I hear you now.  But Jim, if I build a crappy structure it falls down in a stiff breeze and I’d be better off building once with high quality.  Ah, if only it were that simple.  Number one, if the money isn’t there, it doesn’t just fall out of your ass on demand.  And no, all the tricks you used to use getting more money are breaking down with the economy.  And the economy IS breaking down, quickly.  It isn’t political. It is economic.  I keep telling you and you keep covering your ears and yammering “Fracking Forever, Fracking Forever”.

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As each country pulls out of the PetroDollar system, our economy gets weaker.  Because one less country is buying our debt in the form of Treasury Bonds ( which were used to buy oil ).  Many times lately, we are buying our own bonds as no foreign buyers are interested.  This isn’t new, it has been going on for some time.  Accept that the economy is shrinking and you do NOT have to wait for a stock market crash.  You must Think Poor prior to actually becoming poor.  Or all your options vanish quicker than campaign promises.

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Second there is the matter of mobility.  As the economy collapses as do all our institutions ( the FBI was always Stasi Lite, or KeyStone Kop KGB, but it is even worse now for the simple fact of Collapse ), you may have no choice but to move/rebuild again.  Against all your wishes.  Say, the county stops maintaining the road, or fighting fires.  Say that the county won’t kick out squatters right next to you ( but will have no problem arresting you when that “accidental” fire rages through their camp ).  Say that the county raises property tax indexed to inflation.

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“But, but…they CAN’T do that!”.  Sure they can.  If a state can openly defy the federal government ( “Sanctuary State”, unconstitutional gun control ), and hump over its own workers ( pensions only 10% covered ), then a county can and will raise property tax above and beyond what state law allows.  They are already doing it.  They just levy “fees” on top of the allowable tax.  I used to work with a volunteer who sold at the top of the bubble to move away from just such a practice.  This is also affecting my parents, with more taxes than principle payment.

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Ah, good ‘Ol Nevada.  It REALLY matters where in the state you choose to live.  There are several different areas totally unlike the others.  Each one feels like a different state.  One is a Southern Good Old Boy Sheriff shake down, another is just like Oakland, California.  Some are still cowboy paradise.  Plenty are California Yuppie Scum Oasis.  Anyway, the point is you can no longer stake a claim and expect things to last at the same level you found it.  No place is like that anymore and the time it takes to go from Nice to Craphole is shrinking.

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Simply, you cannot bet on a conventional house and mortgage anymore, and expect it to STAY a good bet.  Next time, I’ll get into the actual shelters.

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