debt jubilee

DEBT JUBILEE

Ah, good old hyperinflation.  You bought FLIR scopes and freeze dried yak spleen on credit, and with your advanced basket weaving degree that only set you back a hundred grand in student loans you are now working as one of the last executives at K-Mart, living in McMansionville in the classy part of town ( a whole Interstate between you and the ghetto ).  Things are a little tight after the misses got liposuction ( her and the pool boy look happier these days ), but with the way the economy is going the Fed inflating the dollar makes the debt easier to pay.

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As soon as Saudi Arabia goes full feral on us and embraces their new Sino Overlords, the day the PetroDollar Dream dies, why, a good dose of hyperinflation will wipe away most of our debts.  With a few good pay raises we can pay off our mortgage and be sitting pretty.  Because the Federal Reserve Bank loves us and wants to help, sort of an apology for the last century of taking a nice gold dollar and running it through the shredder.  Then stomping on the remains.  Then taking a crap on top on them. 

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Even if that fantasy came true, which I have a hard time believing, ask yourself this.  How are you going to pay off that inflation adjusted property tax?  We’ll come back to that.  First, a little history of hyperinflation.  They are generally over with pretty quickly.  That is the good news.  The bad news is, you never win.  You, the little guy.  Those in power always figure out a way to rig the game in their favor.  Do you recall the Weimar inflation?  Most folks remember the wheelbarrow full of cash being stolen, and the worthless currency left on the ground. 

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Do you remember the part about the postage stamp used to mail a pension fund being worth more than the check inside?  Do you remember the part about the unemployment that went along with it?  Sure, workers would take their pay at lunchtime and buy groceries, as the food prices would double by quitting time, but you still needed a job for that to be applicable, didn’t you?  The Nazi’s might have been the wrong horse to hitch your wagon to, but they got everyone employed, eating and having coal in the winter.

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The newly crowned Federals wiped away their war debts by hyperinflating the Continental.  As a bonus, a lot of veterans were hard pressed and sold their wilderness land grants to speculators.  The rich got richer.  So, your mortgage gets paid off by inflation, in theory.  You’ll sign it over to some rich pricks corporation in order to get some food, as soon as you get canned by another company belonging to that same corporation.  The more houses on the market the cheaper they get.  Food will be much dearer.  And hard pressed local governments will start jacking up farmland taxes.

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So forget getting filthy rich selling potatoes out your garden.  Remember the stories of the zoning Gestapo the day after the hurricane coming through and writing violations?  All those government employees with a need for a paycheck will be snooping out your backyard with drones, food production being taxed.  Even if you can afford the county property tax, how about the city food tax?  The one thing you can take to the bank, and win bets of jelly filled donuts on, is the ingenuity of the taxing ( and enforcing ) authorities.  They always think of something. 

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Those pricks in Oregon probably made water catchment illegal so they could fine you after the water plant went tits up.  Another thing they will change is the interval between non-payment of taxes and government seizure.  That will shrink drastically.  As the level of force escalates over non-vacating former owners.  The SWAT team is equipped and raring to go.  We cannot foresee the depths of depravity our “civil” servants will go to so as to clutch their iron rice bowls ever closer to their black hearts.  But they will.  Go back and watch “Michael Collins” for a few ideas on collaborator elimination.

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This last economic implosion, the bankers basically stole everyone’s homes, then instead of reselling them, they got turned into rentals.  That is more profitable, and they didn’t have to worry about them succumbing to the weather ( the property management team that got a cut was in charge of preservation ).  As you saw, these Mexican labor plastic wrapped hunks of crap deteriorated VERY quickly, so file that away in your salvage plans.  But this time around, with unemployment, who will be left to rent?  By that time, will the banks be happy to let you have the thing?

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Will the counties actually work with people rather than penalize them for being poor?  That didn’t happen during the 1930’s.  The poor were still ostracized, belittled if they resorted to welfare ( what existed back then ), and felt lucky to have a dangerous job at a factory.  But that was a wealth consolidation period.  This next time, wealth has already severely contracted.  The bankers might just leave you to your own devices.  You can have the house.  Which soon will not have power or sewage.  Those services cannot be provided by the broke counties unable to secure more loans as they default on the old ones. 

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So you might just see a two prong degradation.  Those areas with disarmed sheep will be squeezed and abused, the ones with some wealth left remaining on the grid-barely-but homeowners violently abused until they go under financially.  There will be your insane property taxes and SWAT raids.  Those counties still pay their loans to the banks.  Those rural areas full of pissed off armed folks will have most of their centralized services ( imported energy or power pipelines shut down, semi truck roads not maintained ) cut but the governments more cooperative.

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This is going to be how the energy and resources are triaged.  Those areas still paying back the loans get cut off last.  But they WILL get cut off, eventually.  That is what happens during decentralization.  The center cannot hold.  But be clear on what happens during that process.  The more tyrannical governments will see the most violent reactions.  Eventually, once the citizens break under the burden.  Those areas violently reacting FIRST, at the onset, will of course lose their beloved imperial swag, the bribes to pacify.  But they will also avoid the long term destruction.

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A good example might be Afghanistan.  They lost the benefits of a national government, going back to a pure tribal economy.  But they also lost the detrimental effects of a national government that was always broke and trying to exploit the people through taxes.  Towards the end, none of the benefits of centralization were delivered but all of the costs were still extracted.  It was cheaper to pay off the warlord ( who protected you ) in food than it was to sell food ( with prices forced down to benefit mechanized foreign growers ) and try to pay the taxes that got you no police protection. 

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Tomorrow, I’ll cover more of the benefits of forced decentralization, inflation strategies, etc.

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risk averse

RISK AVERSE

I’d like to thank the YouTube dude at Truth Never Told for the article  idea here.  He is the guy that sells unique design low volume silver rounds.  He sells through Golden State Mint.  He almost never has a bad video even if most of the time he covers the same basic theme which is that we are completely hosed financially.  Lately, it seems he has ramped up his fear and confusion, paranoia and angst.  Which of course makes his videos even better than before.  Nothing focuses the mind better than imminent danger, Will Robinson.

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One of his common listener questions is, “where do I safely store my silver”.  He related a story of when he was a child and their home was broken into during the last Silver Panic ( around 1980 when it went crazy at $50.  Adjust that for inflation, to around $150.  And remember, that is just the “official” inflation rate ).  The thief didn’t get into their safe, but not for lack of trying.  As such, he is NOT a big fan of having any silver at home ( except perhaps junk silver hidden in with other nickel clad everyday change ).

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That would be about like storing your firewood in rounds instead of split wood. It is too heavy to bother hauling off.  If you have a water jug full of dimes and nickels, who would try to swipe it to go through the thing looking for a few silver coins?  And remember to have one full of pennies.  Come the collapse you will have plenty of time to sort through for pre-’82 copper coins.  Personally, I don’t care for the Rawles Nickel Lottery Scheme.  Post-collapse, I don’t see any energy available for smelting, nor acceptance in trade.  But that could just be me.

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Truth Dude says, just bury your silver.  Be a pirate.  Okay, easy and widely known advice ( although repeating the obvious is always a good idea, as few folks listen past the voices in their heads ).  The interesting part was when he started going off on a rant.  Yeah, buddy!  You go!  He was getting aggravated that people were refusing to take responsibility.  They didn’t want to be responsible for safeguarding their own wealth.  Or take responsibility for their own health.  While this is true and he has a point, I’d suggest it is more a risk aversion.

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Which stems from a lack of self-confidence.  Which is a direct result of a lifetime indoctrination and lack of experience.  And massive nonstop distraction from bread and circuses.  And there is one more far more insidious aspect.  Self denial.  The less we admit we need to do things for ourselves, the more we can pretend that the time to do so will be after we die.  As in, oh, why worry, banks imploding won’t happen in my lifetime.  Blacks won’t actively hunt down Whites like dogs.  My job will always be important.  We still have plenty of time.

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We all know this is BS, because none of these things are true, already.  The Federal Reserve Bank steals your money every year, by inflation.  You think it is safe in the bank, but they don’t even have to touch it to steal from you.  Of course, no, total conversion to silver is a terrible idea ( Truth Dude acknowledges that his stash is for after “the Terrible Times”, a wealth transfer ).  You must keep some cash on hand.  But you don’t keep it in the bank.  The “bail-in’s” WILL come sooner rather than later.

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You’ll still pay the Inflation Tax, as long as you need to rely on paper currency for trade.  But don’t pay the Bank Closure Tax on top of that.  Burying silver, as long as it is Wealth Transfer silver, is LESS dangerous than keeping money in the bank or waiting for that paper to hyper-inflate.  But we have that lifelong indoctrination that your money is safe in the bank.  You don’t have to do anything, let the bankers do the hard work of keeping your wealth safe.  If the bank closes, there is the FDIC.  If it is robbed it will be replaced.

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We all SHOULD know that is a crock, but then there is the problem of Partial Compliance.  Since we need SOME cash money to conduct 99% of all our trade, we worry about keeping that safe and just begrudgingly go along with letting the bank “safekeep” it.  Even though we know better.  We accept the inevitable monopoly and just try to minimize the pain.  Which is still removing some responsibility, which can reinforce that bad practice.  I’m not saying we can avoid that, just that you need to be aware of the issue. How it might carry over.

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A big area most of us are risk averse is rejecting the medical industry.  If you think about it, it is largely run like a lottery.  There are a few winners ( say, cancer survivors ) who are media pimped, as the hordes of dead losers are ignored.  We are taught to fear NOT playing the rigged game.  “If you don’t go to the doctor you won’t catch that prostate issue”.  Yeah, and if he cuts me open now I can’t get wood, I dribble in my drawers and there is no guarantee the cancer will stay away.

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I’m certainly not saying you should avoid the doctors.  Me?  I choose to, as I feel my odds are better.  But I don’t blame anyone who relies on them when their life is on the line.  None of us know what we would do in that situation.  BUT!  By taking responsibility for our own health, by exercising and modifying diet, by trying to avoid doctors instead of relying on them, you are most certainly going to be better off.  The whole point isn’t to live longer, but to enjoy living the same amount of time ( quality over quantity ).

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Avoiding divorce is a classic risk averse scheme.  You know the bitch is going to get more than half.  Of course, by staying with her you get zero percent past a tiny stipend allowance, dolled out to you only if you behave yourself ( and get sex once a month if you beg enough for it ).  This is how you want to live?  What if you die one year before the child support would have ended?  You died broke and, effectively, alone.  You accomplished nothing.  Yet, if you take a risk, you just might find a much better mate.

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Not to say you will.  Which is why most refuse to take the risk.  They are refusing to take responsibility for their own happiness.  The same goes for your job.  I loved my last job.  I wanted to stay at it until I retired.  I got free exercise and I was doing something good for other people.  At first I was left to my own devices, doing a great job and saving the company money.  Which was intolerable for the corporate type boss.  I was happy, productive and independent, and that would NOT stand, by gum.

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I stayed at the job hoping to outlast the new junior boss, but the pig face fat ass is too lazy to ever work for a living and was bound and determined to die with a clipboard in her hand.  I didn’t even really want to work for myself, but did so out of necessity.  My literal sanity was at stake.  I finally took responsibility for my own happiness.  Just like I FINALLY left the ex-wife after ten long years too long.  I was risk averse to being alone ( I enjoy being married-sue me ).

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You may or may not be tired of hearing my personal problems.  So here is my point.  Once you give in to the temptation of avoiding risk, you slip deeper into that trap.  Conversely, once you start taking more responsibility for yourself, you find yourself dipping your toe into other aspects of freedom and happiness.  Either way, actions are contagious.  Every time I do a little something to improve my health, it begets other small changes.  It builds on itself.  After exercising more, smoking became more intolerable.  So I quit.  Another example is  constantly improving your spending/saving habits.  The “high” makes the next sacrifice easier.

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Do it.  Try one thing.  You’ll be amazed how contagious it is ( to be clear, smart ass, I’m talking of positive change ).  A little better every week, and you’ll find that the prospect of imminent collapse is less and less stressful.  Deep stocking is necessary, but don’t neglect Deep Satisfaction with the rest of your life.  Not material satisfaction, or wallowing in decadence and luxury, but “a life lived with purpose” satisfaction.  Doing what you love, and what you must to improve.  And you make yourself happy, it will help you make others happy.

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castles in ruins 3

CASTLES IN RUINS 3

California used to be a bellwether state.  What happened first in Cali then happened in the rest of the country ( fun filled fact-Sweden used to be the bellwether for California ).  Think about the Hippies, serial killers, immigration, PC, gun control, smoking bans, and etcetera.  They still are to some degree, but now there is far less control by the federal government ( somewhat, ironically, that trend might have started in California ), less money to bribe the states and far more Balkanization, so in effect less centralization and less following of trends.  The trend weakened, although still applicable.

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When the Industrial Age came crashing down with our economy in the 1970’s, the Rust Belt very quickly covered what was left of the once great global economic powerhouse.  That quick, the lack of growth in energy, just a stall in the increase, a levelling out, and we crashed and burned.  We then turned to debt to grow the economy, fueled the first “recovery” decade with Alaskan oil and the next with Siberian.  I won’t veer off into Peak Oil.  Just know that oil is the only thing the economy needs to function.  You have it, or not.

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The government was going to turn to deficit spending no matter who was president, so don’t hate on my Dawg Ronnie.  What choice did it have?  The oil supply ramped back up, but we had already dismantled the factory economy.  It was all consumption and debt now, driving the economy.  The Rust Belt at least had the option of mortgaging its future to slap the illusion of economic recovery on as a façade.  They engaged in the build-up of the retail economy.  There weren’t Union jobs but at least there were jobs.  The smart folks joined the computer sector. 

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The economy seemed to have almost fully recovered.  Sure, there were a lot more ghettos as the old factory cities were turned into Darkie Towns, the only economic activity CIA delivered drugs.  White Flight was almost complete and the suburbs filled up.  But this economic recovery was based on retail and finance and imported oil.  But hey, better than staying in the 70’s economy, right?  The thing was, it was only a temporary recovery.  And it was a One Off recovery.  We can’t go back to industry when there is no infrastructure behind that, and we can’t return to the post-industry economy.

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The PetroDollar has been under strain for some time, one country after another joining the new order under China and Russia.  The wags jest and poke fun at the minimalist militaries in both countries ( “nanner, boo-boo, we can kick their ass! ‘Murica!” ), as we sink economically and they control more and more resources globally.  So, short answer, there is no more imported oil for the next recovery.  There is no more debt fueled prosperity, as we cannot pay the debt we already have.  Just face it, there is NO recovery this time.

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Returning to semi-bellwether state California.  They started crashing harder and faster the last time around in 2009.  It is true that the liberal mortgage law states had the most bubblicious real estate sectors, but that alone fails to explain the crash.  Many cities went bankrupt.  The state had bloated on higher valuation property taxes.   More importantly to our discussion here, their suburbs gave us a glimpse into our future.  They fell just as hard as the cities if not more so, as they were cash cows and not maintained.  Crime became as much of a suburban issue as it had always been a city issue.

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All the near future suburban issues I touch have already been seen in California ( also in most overbuilt housing bubble areas nationwide, but Cali was hit the worst, seemingly, as they were the most out of kilter with debt, infrastructure decay, immigration, crime and etcetera ).  Now, I hate Californian refugees as much as the next guy.  They poison, subvert and destroy the target destination.  As Florida was culturally decimated by New Yorkers and Jerseyittes, the West was crushed under the heel of those fleeing Cali.  But we do need to keep that event in mind.

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( Yes, I fled the state myself nearly thirty years ago.  I also didn’t cash in real estate to go help destroy other areas economically like most refugees ).  Californians destroyed their safe haven suburbs, then fled to other suburbs in response.  But they cannot escape the economic forces that destroyed their state.  Namely, shrinking federal government stimulus and uncontrolled immigration bankrupting localities.  There are other factors, macro-economically, but those are the immediate and hardest hitting.  But let us focus on this: where do those in the suburbs flee to now? 

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For those of you who swear that socialism is the residual form of all that is evil in the universe, as if corporatism and crony capitalism never did anything bad ( cough, Enron ), you’ll note that California was largely built by defense spending.  Dust Bowl era Oakies were fleeing to an agricultural state.  Only during and after WWII did the state boom economically to what we know today ( well, at least until the fall of the Soviet Union ) and it was all because of massive federal government money flowing in.  Government money made it the paradise, then made it a hell.

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Take Florida.  Remove Miami, as economically it is more aligned with Latin America.  Remove Disney World.  What is left?  Social Security checks.  That is what floats the Florida economy ( as well as Arizona’s.  Want to see their future?  New Mexico, a Mexican run government with the last of the economy leaving with the mines ).  Many parts of the economically depressed South in the Appalachia’s with no more factories are only held afloat economically by Medicare disability checks and other welfare.  California is no different, the crash so much more obvious as they were living larger on the hog.

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Texas will be the next California on the immigration front ( despite delusional State Pride ballyhooing, Texas is a one sector economic miracle-oil-and when that is in trouble all their immigration woes crush them ), and Florida will fall as hard economically as Social Security has issues.  Social Security might be largely solvent but Medicare is certainly not and since the medical industry is so large a part of the economy the solvency will not last long.  Now, ask yourself, how much of those two states are suburbs?  At least the currently economically viable areas.

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I’m not claiming that the suburbs will be death traps like the old ghetto Rust Belt cities.  The death of the suburbs does invite increased crime, granted, but totally rural areas are still meth havens.  Unless you are off grid, off road.  Divorcing yourself from macadam and power poles will be a pretty good strategy to REDUCE ( not eliminate, obviously, as has become too clear.  Also quite clear is the new normal of ALWAYS being armed on you country property.  It is no longer paranoid, but proven ) your exposure to crime.  And for Christ sake, live in a better state.

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At a minimum, you need a Castle Doctrine, No Retreat state.  Crime is not as huge of an issue right now, as is economic collapse of the suburbs.  Crime WILL exponentially increase, granted.  But you flee now to avoid the economics of the situation.  You need to cash out while you can.  If you don’t, you are stuck with a tax pig in an area that will then turn into a “little Turd World country” ( little Saigon, little Tijuana, etc. ).  Then you will become an Internet Meme ( the White kid in the Black classroom, “this will be fine” ).

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Rural, with reasonably accessible village or hamlet.  NOT suburbs and not cities.  If needs must, a small town.  But give up on the suburbs.  If you aren’t serviced by a waterway or a railway, you’ll probably be one of the first to lose all trade.  After you’ve been financially hammered and surrounded by a ghetto.

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castles in ruins 2

CASTLES IN RUINS 2

Yesterday we covered how one must give up on antiquated notions of defense and anticipate the trend towards the next one.  And that suburbia was first a reward and then a honey trap the elites used against us.  Make no mistake, the war against Whites has been going on since the very beginning of our imperial collapse these last fifty plus years.  Hey, nothing personal.  We just had the money and in a collapse one group after another gets screwed as the pie shrinks.  That is why the system cannot be saved.  Resources are shrinking.

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It is really no more complicated than that.  If it takes surplus resources to grow the system ( remember those interest payments ), and stalled growth crashes the system, what do you think happens when we have an actual shrinkage of energy?  Which we have, in net energy.  Don’t look at gross liquid energy, but rather the BTU’s they deliver.  We are in energy contraction.  We cannot maintain the systems we depend on, let only find resources to get them back up to surplus.  That applies across the board-finances, military, governance.  They aren’t more greedy as much as more desperate.

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Perhaps this is what is occurring in New Zealand.  Using a fake movie to “prove” gun control is necessary ( and then banning viewing of the film so it cannot be questioned-shades of grassy knoll coverage ), after a generation of open borders for Muzzies, the females and soy boys trying to steal all the wealth and power are desperate now that there isn’t enough to steal.  They have to ratchet up the confiscation and don’t wish an armed reaction.  Look at the US areas with the worst gun control-those with any wealth left and the highest taxes. 

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Perhaps gun control isn’t about getting us on in the train cars, but just about going full retard on the taxes they are going to impose.  I could be off on that, as this is just conjecture ( well, what isn’t at this point? ), but doesn’t there seem to be a correlation to you, between those places already gone crazy on taxes, with out of control costs threatening far more taxes to come, as new gun control laws are passed to supplement the already heinous ones in existence?  Think of how we have already been harvested, and it not being enough.

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Look at how high taxes have been in the last decade when governments were borrowing money at one percent interest.  Now that their taxes collected are falling due to increased impoverishment and failing businesses, AND they have more loans to pay back, AND their pensions are failing ( you don’t pay pensions because of the political clout of those already retired, but to motivate and cement loyalty of those still working, especially the police as you need them for revenue enhancement ), what do you think taxes are going to look like very shortly?  Is that why socialism is the new “thing”?

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What if socialism is not about bribing new Democrats?  After all, Republicans AND Democrats both work for the same side, the Imperial Party.  Their differences might be construed as real by low information voters ( remember that one? ) and extra low intelligent politicians, but their pay masters are the same.  Differences are merely Kabuki Theatre. What if the new Siren call for “free crap” is just the way to raise taxes?  The promised benefits will make their way to the new favored lapdogs, fems and OtherColored and OtherGendered, but most revenues will be kept for other budget items.

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Rising property taxes are obviously ONLY about Mo’ Money, but in the very near future they will be used to deny UnFavored Classes ( White Male Deplorables ) any of the new socialist paradise goodies.  They tripled the value of your property, and your property taxes went up.  That new and improved valuation is then used to deny you any benefits.  Such as with Food Stamps today, your land is an asset that is counted as savings, hence you don’t need any assistance.  If you rented, you get bennies.  Own?  No bennies for your pale Casper ass.

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No one foresaw the double whammy of triple taxes and underwater home values which in one foul swoop stripped most of the wealth from the middle class, ending that groups very existence.  Sure, a lot of them deserved to be sodomized, being stupid enough to buy ten or fifteen years wages worth of house, rather than two to five years.  And yeah, that was fifteen years of BOTH wages.  Funny how that worked out, isn’t it?  Bad enough forty years ago mortgages were one persons wages for five years.  Now it is double.  The housing bubble doubled that doubling. 

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Even if they were stupid for buying at that unrealistic value, that was supposed to have been the middle class dream they bought into.  That is as ancient history as June Cleavers virginity as she divorced Ward and started slutting around for a new Sugar Daddy, never more than three martini’s away from lifting her skirt in the men’s restroom stall.  The middle class is gone, replaced by the 90% poor, the 9% strawboss class and the 1% Extractors Class.  Just because you are still living in the suburbs and haven’t gotten a pink slip yet doesn’t mean dingus.

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You violently resist me when I suggest shelter should be anything BUT a conventional home, but you must understand that a home is where they rape you on taxes.  You think now that $200-$400 a MONTH in property taxes is a relatively good deal, but will you really sing that tune when your wages are way the crap down?  Which is where this is all headed.  You WILL lose your job, and your pension.  The high property taxes will be used so that you lose your assets.  If you keep an income, here comes real inflation.

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How do envision a shrinking pie and the fight to grab a remaining piece looking like as it plays out?  White male Deplorables ALREADY lost 25% of their career wages ( the de facto retirement age shrinking ten plus years ).  Most of those allowed to work are paying a 50% ex-wife tax.  Most new jobs are college dependent as college tuition has become a lifetime debt.  Property taxes have doubled or tripled as wages are flat.  Medical insurance is so expensive it is a default Death Panel.  The opiate epidemic is more of a geriatric genocide.

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How do you think you are NOT a target?  Seriously?  How optimistic or delusional do you have to be to conclude you are exempt from the current ECONOMIC die-off ( the actual mortal one to follow shortly.  One would be advised to NOT give up their guns. Bury a ghost gun now, in case of Red Flag Law confiscation )?  The suburbs are a money trap.  As has already been proven.  Now, they WILL get much worse.  This coming, or already occurring economic implosion will absolutely decimate real estate.  ALL digital illusions of wealth will fall to near zero value.

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Those dumps in Detroit going for a few hundred bucks in back taxes?  Those used to be high dollar middle class Union member homes.  They are worth a few magazines of ammunition the gang bangers will shoot at you if you live there.  Real estate is NOT worth dingus if the surrounding infrastructure is not maintained.  Not just the street lights or water/sewer mains but the police and fire and factories for jobs.  Detroit is America 2030.  You want a real estate investment in Detroit?  I’ll continue tomorrow, as we talk more about how you will be violently encouraged to abandon the suburbs if you don’t get out now.

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castles in ruins

CASTLES IN RUINS

I ran across a movie ( on Amazon Prime ) I hadn’t seen in thirty years, “Flesh & Blood”, with Rutger Hauer ( I liked all of his early films, but actually never cared for him in Blade Runner [ still one of the best ever sci-fi films ] as I thought he was a bit too Nicolas Cage over-the-top ).  Overall a rather good movie, with no more than the usual amount of embarrassing Hollywood Fictitious Facts.  I thought the portrayal of how women coped in a war environment was pretty good ( at first viewing, of course, I only paid attention to the nudity ).

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What I noticed, more than anything, was the seeming overabundance of gunpowder and some cannon, and yet almost no damage to the castles.  Obviously, one doesn’t rely on Hollywood to teach history worth a damn, but you can view their version of history to figure out how people view history already.  In this case, I think the common misconception is that castles were invincible.  They touched on a few facts, accidentally, such as the biological warfare ( plague infected meat hurled over the walls ), yet never on siege and starvation. 

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But movies simply cannot duplicate history, can they?  They would be boring.  Our fables are supposed to be allegories, though, and you must view movies ( at least, those done well ) as our modern fables, not as a substitution for research.  The PC’ers understand this, even if you don’t.  But getting back to castles, or the myth thereof, one of the first sieges of a castle by cannon clearly spelled out the newly arrived paradigm.  Nobody of sound mind looked at that lesson and ignored it.  Castles cannot withstand cannon as they could catapults.  Rather quickly, earthworks took over from rock walls, as defenses.

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Not everybody was willing to completely abandon the old paradigm, of course.  Cannon required centralization, as did the defenses against it.  Feudalism was more of a decentralized way of organization, even as kingdoms did eventually start growing into larger areas.  Obviously, proto-nations were forming, and gunpowder was a niche weapon for some time.  Military doctrine was in extreme flux.  Things mixed and matched and took time to evolve.  But those quicker and more flexible had the advantage.  Those that identified the trend and moved WITH it, rather than those who fought it, won.

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The Darwin Award was given to those buried under the piles of rubble where castles used to stand.  Can you guess where this is going next?  Suburbia is the castles we used to live to defend ourselves.  They are still useful, but they are not the future.  The War Of Federal Usurpation was won by consuming the most energy.  One could argue, the first carbon fuel war.  World War Two was won the same way.  The Great Depression was “won” by wasting the most resources, which was probably the whole point of the war, more so than global colonialization.

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Suburbia was a continuation of the same economic principles.  Money was made by consuming the largest amount of resources possible, rather than husbanding them.  Not that this is anything new in history.  He who grows fastest, wins.  He who is “sustainable”, loses.  He who is pacifist, loses.  He who values money over violence, loses.  The Oil Age is different from history not in that resources are consumed as quickly as possible, but because so many resources were misused.  Instead of maximizing population, and military advantage, consumer consumption alone was encouraged.  Go back to centralization to see how the resources used to be focused.

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Since the Agricultural Revolution completely changed society, growth alone was what mattered.  You had to grow more crops to have more population to seize more land to grow more crops.  Ignore that, and someone else following that would defeat you.  The Dark Ages were the result of lack of resources after the fall of trade allowed by Rome’s military might ( coupled with the previous overpopulation stripping soil fertility ).  No one COULD grow.  Nomads gained the military advantage to a degree because their military was not tied to fertile land.

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When there are resources, he who uses them to gain trade advantage, population advantage ( domestically, better farming always gave the French a military advantage over her neighbors ) and military advantage generally wins.  When the rulers piss away those resources to only enrich themselves and give nothing back to feed that trifecta, collapse is baked into the cake.  American Empire, which closely followed the Oil Age in timing, spent its first half enriching its position by intelligently using its resources, and the second half wasting every bit to enrich the very few at the top ( allowing, gleefully it seems, all previous investments to implode ).

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The suburbs might have been a huge misallocation of resources ( to paraphrase Kunstler https://amzn.to/2OCgFJ0 ), but they were both an investment in cultural/social capital and an economic stimulus.  They were, basically, a reward to those that fought to secure half the globe as American Empire.  It was too late to live in the country, as most would prefer, and centralized manufacturing wouldn’t allow that, so suburbia was a stylized “country retreat” and a vastly superior living arrangement to cities ( immigrants arrived and lived in ghettos.  Those already established displayed their peacock feathers by living in suburbia ).

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I think we all forget that those of The Greatest Generation had to endure a Depression, starvation wages, and a senseless imperial war ( no matter how well they lied to themselves about it ), and even if they then pissed away the seed corn it wasn’t like it was really all that unjustified.  We would have done the same.  Plus, no matter how many of them joined the politicians in allocating that waste, ultimately it wasn’t their decision.  Blame the elites, as always.  Generational Conflict is just another arrow in their quiver.

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Only during the decline phase of the empire ( 1963 on.  1913 to start the growth cycle.  One could quibble 1863 was more like the beginning of empire, but I think oil and credit did more to start true empire than mere colonialization ) did suburbs go from reward and luxury to defensive works, as the Blacks were purposely allowed to revolt and burn the cities and White Flight commenced.  Don’t think OtherColor Fear was anything new.  It is ingrained in our psyche.  It has been for centuries, first from clearing Indians from the land and later from controlling immigration.

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Black Revolt was always feared, and not just from slave owners.  Many northern states had anti-residency laws to keep Blacks out.  The elites used that against us, herded us into the suburbs and turned that into a profit center for themselves.  Then they evicted most of us in 2009 and made us rent what we used to own.  We no longer owned the castle.  Not to mention that the new landlord was letting rooms out to those we had fled from ( Section 8 housing ).  No, the suburbs are certainly no longer a defensive structure.  Do you REALLY believe that? 

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Continued tomorrow.

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